MasterBlaster
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Oh it works just fine!
Just danged heavy! ;>p
Just danged heavy! ;>p
The Official Work Pictures Thread
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Mick!
TreeHouser
Polesaws in trees are difficult for sure, good pics all.
flushcut
TreeHouser
We have been in dead ash for three years now. I can't wait until the species is all gone! The dust, the mess, the none existent root system just plain tired of ash. I feel your pain brother!
MasterBlaster
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ftfy
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Pretty much how I feel about dead pines right now.
Jed
TreeHouser
Rich: Would you believe me if I told you that you can hardly even GIVE chips away over here. Now and then... sure.
Gary: That was really cool. Thanks.
Jed
TreeHouser
Yeah, but his looks different... not as steep. For us, the Swanson is supposed to break off the holding-wood right away and then shoot the butt straight down. I'll try to get a shot of a proper one that actually works. I've done em before, where they've worked an absolute charm.
SkwerI
Treehouser
Jed, I used to use a truck exactly like that when I worked at Davey twenty years ago. Some days we even used the chip cap so we could chip into it then load the logs on the back. Our office only sent out 2 man crews and my foreman didn't have a license so we had to make do with one truck. I hauled many loads of logs in that old beast. Lousy brakes so it was scary with a full load.
MasterBlaster
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Been there. You have to treat every streetlight like a stop sign.
Sometimes the front tires would bounce off the ground! Lordy!
Sometimes the front tires would bounce off the ground! Lordy!
pantheraba
More biners!!!
MasterBlaster
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Well, that was from being overloaded, not bad brakes, but...
Done the bad brake thing for sure!
Done the bad brake thing for sure!
flushcut
TreeHouser
Maybe we should switch locals for a month or two. lol
Jed
TreeHouser
Still mostly 2man shows Brian... Sounds like not much has changed... the "not having a license thing,"... we've only JUST started cleaning up our act in that department. Ten years ago (do you remember how they make everybody stretch in the morning?) my foreman would be so stinkin drunk in the morning, he wouldn't be able to stand on one foot for, "Thigh Stretch."
These guys (managers) pissed me off pretty good today. I'll probably just drink it off tonight, but it wouldn't surprise me if I manned up and quit a month or two down the road. They strike me as a pretty good company to quit. I dunno... problems everywhere ya go, eh?
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Who needs those???
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
Take time to think it out Jed. Same boat different ocean here. Have a good plan of action in place first.
PCTREE
Treehouser
Shit wish you guys weren't so far away, just fired my "left foot man". Figured out he is doing meth, his car broke down a month ago and he has been bumming rides from us , doesn't bring any food or water to work, always wants advances.... Done with that shit. We had a new guy starting monday morning, called at 8-30 (we roll at 7) and said he could meet us on the job by 10 ??? Really on your first friggin' day???
What I wouldn't give for an employee without his head up his ass!
What I wouldn't give for an employee without his head up his ass!
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Thankfully, there are machines.
Jed, have you thought of starting your own legal business on the side? Do you work for D with mandatory overtime every week? You get to charge more for making a mess in some's yard, and walking away when you have GL insurance, plus so many good business expenses.
Jed, have you thought of starting your own legal business on the side? Do you work for D with mandatory overtime every week? You get to charge more for making a mess in some's yard, and walking away when you have GL insurance, plus so many good business expenses.
RegC
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RegC
TreeHouser
Swanson is at 14:10
https://youtu.be/X1hHzJYUUSc
https://youtu.be/X1hHzJYUUSc
Burnham
Woods walker
Names for felling cuts run the gamut...what a name means one place means another elsewhere, or means nothing at all...even so little a distance as west or east side of the Cascades right here in northern Oregon, less than 100 miles apart.
RegC
TreeHouser
In this case I always guessed swanson was named after a faller who publicized its characteristics, historically. Maybe Stig will know.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
If you watch a little further in that vid on the Swanson part. You'll see they talk about executing it as Jed has described. A modified Swanson. a humboldt is made and then a steep snipe is cut off of it to make the opening equal to the depth.
