The Official Work Pictures Thread

Hey Jed, gear talk!!-- What kinda boots, how do you like em, and how do you like your disc chipper?
 
All good questions! haha

Bugs are getting bad in the woods.

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Also dropped the transmission pan on my personal truck to change the A and B shift solenoids. The B one had gone bad and had it stuck in "limp home" mode. Nothing but 3rd gear.

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SeanKroll said:
For some reasons beyond me, the photo order and 'caption' is not working right. I've just added some details to the original text. Sorry its sorta crazy.









Fancy house with a treehouse in the back, hard to see through the fence. Fully suspended, $65K. Pool house, kitchen pavillion, 3 car garage/ shop/ apartment seperate from the 2 car attached garage, fountain in the circle drive.
40-50 ornamentals (many topped. Yay!...fixing other's poor work) to prune to get ready for a graduation party...just the once closest to the house, for now (wife came back in town and is happy!! husband should be, been out of town.)



This is the fanciest place I've ever worked, aside from subbing a day with Roger B on a sequoia removal at the Shoreline, WA home designed by some famous architect(s) (Olmsted Bros?). I met the husband and wife for 5 minutes apiece, and am working with their general contractor who keeps their places running.
The General Contractor is an interesting guy, came there 6 years ago to install the fountain, at a time when he was ready to retire, hasn't left. He's 71. Well-heeled.
Built a super custom Harley that he told me about...some custom shop that would let him build in their shop. The shop builds custom bikes for Seattle Seahawks, among others. 6'5" doesn't fit a regular bike, $100-150k. Big dude, rode it behind the shop once, a tiny bit...shop guys said from there it will just go into display/ storage, never to be ridden by the guy again. Have what you want, not want what you have mentality.


STUMPING
first pic is the AFTER of the 40" fir through the house, that had the two rakes on the stump. Found a Sub-contractor with a 40hp and 60hp vermeer stumper, working too cheap, and likes being tipped, as well as advice, he's 70, retiring from the State of Washington, getting into stump grinding. Respirators and sun hats...the underused PPE. A sprinkler really helps keep dry soil dust to a minimum.

A grass wildfire killed a bunch of trees along the back of numerous properties. This row of stumps was easy work, customer clean-up. Dahlia was home 'sick' from school, so she went with me. We played in the grass, colored pictures, etc. I shuffled plywood shielding a bit, moved the sprinkler a bit, etc.

Stump Sub doesn't think its worth $1000 for a radio remote control. I think he'll change his mind. He just fit down the side of the building/ carports and fence.




HYDROFOIL
The fancy house's shop gets used. The guy likes to race. A lot of guys buy hydrofoil kits...this homeowner built this from scratch, for his son. Little customer built Evinrude (Seattle area shop) goes on the back, with a 3/4-1 gallon fuel tank. Employee Greg in the picture. The Homeowner is a perfectionist type...there is a tiny run in the finish. After race season, it will be time to fix it. He uses a micrometer when turning the legs on a table.



CHERRIES
Cul de sac down the HOA's gated entry road, looking up the road to the house.

Neglected weeping cherries. The usual, headed back where it got too close to things, crazy deadwood, a couple vertical suckers.

This is the Maaco 1/2 and 1/2 comparison. The left side is two trees thick, the right tree, untouched.




Deodor Cedar needle dieback. Basic, manual RCX (kept Greg busy, nobody else is touching the pruning work here besides me) SGR pruning (me). All of the trees have been planted/ mulched poorly. Home is under 10 years old. EVER?YTHING is planted in a book-matched/ symetrical style, essentially. I think this property will push me to buy a good Air-spade/ Air-knife to fix other people's work. (cha-ching, low risk, ground level work). Not sure what's going on here, possible biotic issue??? Will look into it more. Meanwhile, some improved vascular flow can't hurt.



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I added some details in the original post #1768
I don't know what's up with the photo order. Not working right, that's for sure, so its a bit schitzo.
 
A 752? Nice machine.

Is it rocky soil down there? Wondering how tooth life is generally.
 
Sam: Super jealous of yer truck-wrenchin skills. I don't got any. Man I LOVE the grain on that Pondo. Looked like a really nice piece of wood. You guys have pretty cool pines over there. Tight stinkin grain... probably grew out of a really nice woods.

Man, this stinkin Maple today... well... I shoulda known better too, I guess, but, still... This stinkin Maple.... I put a tag line on this piece so it wouldn't swing into the house... the dang thing caught the piece up, swung it into the trunk, and a little nub of deadwood shrapneled-off and took out the guy's window...

The guy was so freakin nice... He goes, "Man, I never even go into that room anyways." :lol:

Boss was pissed. His emotions are always so wearisomely predictable every time I smash somethin.

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I betcha this pig's at least 40" on the stump all stinkin day. Sorry about the rotten pics... snotty day.

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Ohhh... Cory.... Man! Those are stinkin WHITE'S dude... The little lady picked em up at a yard sale fer 14 bucks. Dude those stinkin boots cost (i BEG you to believe me. I beg you, sir.) $469.00 brand-new. Man, i LOVE the little lady now and again.

Ohh... The disk chipper, uhhh? Yeah, I dunno... they,re aright. I think I'm a drumb-chipper guy though. Just makes way more sense to me from a design perspective, and ALWAYS seemed to produce a way finer product. (Nicer chips).

Ohhh... Who was askin fer a vid!!? Yup!!! I agree... I'm on it!!! Well... that's a boast... I gotta conquer the tech-upload stuff first which is no stinkin joak. No!!!!! I'll have my wife and little daughter help me...... Yeah!!! a little redneck top-handle "saw-off," type of a deal. Now, let us see.... how shall I begin??? :? Oh yeah!!!! "Top of the Mornin to Ya Boys and Girls... wherever you might be on God's Green Earth," and Etc. and etc.
 
14$??? That is insane!

Im with you re drums over discs.

Ya know, I haven't met the man, just read about him here from time to time, but your boss sounds like a douche and a half. Let him find someone else to TD the 140'ers. Could it be he is a cock knocking frig face?
 
Had a small crane in on Monday to work in a declining HC. The customer was offered to repollard or remove. They chose the cheaper option.

Made it easier for us as you couldn't get to the base of the tree for buildings. Luckily there was a breakers yard behind who allowed us access for the crane.

A couple of pictures.

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Rich
 
About as tight a set up as I have seen...only a deck around a tree is tighter. Big pick with the crane in the video...love to see them float away like that.
 
Cheers, it would have been doable without the crane but a real ball ache.

The crane speeded things up considerably. We didn't start till gone 10 am as traffic was a nightmare. The crane rolled out of there at 1315, after a couple of breaks. He could only lift about a ton at that radius. Luckily the stems weighed less so we could just do them one at a time.

That crane only weighs in at about 8 ton and is pretty small. You can get it most places you could get a lorry.
 
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