The Official Work Pictures Thread

You go down with the ship most likely Butch. I've heard of guys using key rings as breakaways, but I doubt even that would be practical sliding around on something that big.

Sweet sweet pictures guys. Reg those shots were amazing. Awesome TIP 8)
 
Some seriously bad ass big wood slaying going on!!!
We took out a big oak today 48-50" DBH probably more many years earlier when it still had its co-dom. Fairly easy just big and not amazingly tall.
 
MasterBlaster said:
So what is the point of tieing into another tree???
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In this instance it was way easier and safer than trying to climb the fir from the bottom. A good way to test the water too....I was able to grapple across and get the feel of the tree before I tied in. I also had to come down a couple times throughout the work, so having the cedar beside was like having a ladder back up.
 
PCTREE said:
Don't you worry about the back push from the top going over pushing the stump out or breaking the stem lower? Kinda seems crazy to put someones life at risk for some freaking woodpeckers IMO
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The stem was solid where he cut and below the cut.
The branches he cut off below himself in the picture had started to leaf out this year, then gave up and died.

So cutting where he did, there was really no danger at all, we weighted the top so it went over nice and slow, no drama at all.

The reason they so much wanted that one done that way was that about 200 meters from it is one I did about 10 years ago.
Last year a mycologist found a fungus in it, that has only been found twice in Denmark.
They are hoping that it might spread to this one.
 
That is a hard way to make money, Reg.
Better you than me.
Did you have a break-away on your lanyard?
 
I keep three zip ties on my bridge ring.



Good show, Reg. Bet your really needed that mask.

I find the ~$30 cartridge respirators to be very effective for things like grinding, chipping dead stuff, blower-ing lots of dusty stuff.





A pendulum swing in rock climbing, like if the leader (first climber) goes horizontally across the wall from a corner, and falls before setting any anchor pieces is dangerous. They say that a swing into a corner from 10' away from the corner is like fallin10' onto a ledge.

It would be easy to be impaled by breaking a branch or on an existing stub.
 
Was on vacation for a few weeks, then got a call to fell hazard trees in a camp ground in the Sierra Nevada Mts off of Bowman Lake rd.

We got down between 50+ firs, cedars and black oak that were very dead and rotten as they get...

Here's the Lake at the Camp Ground
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Bad leaning Cedar with fat hinge...
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Mikey doing clean-up
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A mile up the road to Blue Lake after work for some fly fishing
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I see you found some holding bark, dirt and splinters :lol:
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Sure 'nuff! Good to see you back Scott, missed you Brother, hope you had a great vacation. I just PM'd Stephen to see if he knew where you'd slipped off to. Great pics. That one fir was just a tad rotten.
 
Bruce (Goose) wanted to fell the big white fir of the week...he did a great job!
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Jesus, that's some nasty gash right there.

Thought I'd share a really bitching tree protection zone I saw on a bid....looks like they did some concrete work....
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Limbrat said:
Sure 'nuff! Good to see you back Scott, missed you Brother, hope you had a great vacation. I just PM'd Stephen to see if he knew where you'd slipped off to. Great pics. That one fir was just a tad rotten.
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Hey Big Brother Ray!!

Thanks for the concern, just finally getting in some vaca ;)
 
Saw this old beauty 4 door Ford 4x4 on the way in to CG...I felt like a creeper taking the pic..lol
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I will have to catch up with the last run of pictures.

We have had a few storms the last few days and had a call out after the day was done yesterday. Ash tree with a codominant stem with included bark split out and was teatering in the wind with each gut opening the crack to about 4-6".

Scrambled up quickly and knocked more than my body weight out to compensate for me. After one or two scaffolds were off it was stable and an easy dismantle. 45 mins start to finish, which was a decent end to a 12 hour day.

Up again early in west London to remove 3 ginkgo trees on a development site.

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And this mornings works. 1 tree to go.

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Rich
 
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