The Official Work Pictures Thread

[biggun]

Nice pictures Stig.

It doesn't rain that much around Oslo. But when it does it has a capital 'R'.

Total contrast today, weight reduction and cobra bracing in a couple of Maple. TBH they were ready for the knackers yard but for some reason the guy wanted to keep them and brace. We had a MEWP on site but it died in the cold so I climbed it. My fingers stuck to everything I touched that was metal.

Made me realise the 150 ported exhaust is a great portable finger warmer.

Rich

 

[Bermy]

Wow, with a split like that is Cobra sufficient? Would some bolts right through at the bottom not help?

 

[cory]

It had enough lean to barberchair, which beech is prone to do.

I can't recall ever seeing a beech barber chair, we have a lot of em around here. ?!?

$450/ for that tree, no cleanup, wow that is righteous bucks, good on you

 

[Raj]

Good jobs!

I only got $80 for chipping branches from this beech. HO did the cutting, and had the brush sitting around for more time than they liked, and I squeezed my way into the clean up. Chips blown into flowerbed.

 

[squisher]

Son of a beech! Looks like they'd have been better off to pay you to do the whole thing.

 

[JD3000]

Not much of a root flare either. RCX is a valuable service to offer.

 

[SeanKroll]

A little maple pruning.

Topping it about as hard as possible.



Nifty 50 tow-behind lift, yesterday. Two setups. Staged "grapple piles", due to logistics. Cut and toss, or self-lowered to groundie.

Today, filled the chip truck. Mini fed mucho.

All risk to the asphalt, well and light has been cut.
Had one close chunk that overly-scared the well's power box on a 4x4, next to the well cover.

For some reason, they have a large dug-out "well-house".

Tomorrow, dump chips, load 4 tarps of moss and dirty rakings, cut some wood, finish the big butt, load it, and load up.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

A prune, cable and bolt job we are working on currently.
Pruned out the tree yesterday and today. Then set up the rigging to pull the leads together tomorrow.
We had to move this one forward in the schedule, but the parts ordered came in today for aloft. Already cabled the limb over the gate. Lady of the house insisted it done. Great tree to work in. Was pretty loaded up with dead and crazy crossing ones. Been a while since anyone touched it. 10 years, and I did not see much in the way of cuts higher up. Z rig in the tree driven by the Hobbs with 9/16ths rope to pull them together.
Some fodder.
Before


After

 

[SeanKroll]

Very Cool. I bet they like the shade.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Two trees cover that area next to the pool. The pool is in the full sun. Come summer, that shade is most welcome.. Whole sitting areas under them both.
I'll be pruning and crown raising the other tree as well this week. It is about 2/3 - 3/4 the size and single trunk. You can see the crown to the left of the gate.
The fire wood processing takes place under the twin stem as well.

 

[BOTS]

Great job on the prune Stephen!

What type of tree is it?..I was thinking canyon live oak but not really sure..

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Canyon Live oak (golden cup) spot on.
(Quercus chrysolepis)

One of my favourite species to climb

 

[BOTS]

 

[SeanKroll]

How's your crew doing, Stephen?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Slim and nasty.
Mike and I are on this one. I gave the week off to Rob so he could go mill.
Don't need 3 guys on a prune and cable.

 

[biggun]

No Fiona. I don't believe a Cobra system would do any good with that tree.

I was just carrying out the work and not prescribing it.

Great pics Stephen.

 

[SeanKroll]

Stephen, is that Mike that traveled up to work for you, previously, on dead pines?

What's the work like now that so many of the pines are gones? How many are left alive or dead?



Its good to do some good preservation work. Been lots of killing or undertaking lately, here, leading into winter storms.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

No. This Mike I worked with back in the day of being a restaurant manager. Good bud.
All the guys I had left or got left behind. I subbed people like Dave (thattreeguy) and Deva where we came up short. Some of the companies handling the bigger contracts offered climber/faller up to 500.00 per day. Not a wage I could match. Now there are many little companies that were formed due to the gold pine rush that were subs for the bigger guys.
If they are willing to travel, they make good money. Right now they are chasing fires. Gone for weeks at a time.
Ones that don't travel arm wrestle for the work here.
Plenty of dead pines left and they are not all dead yet. Just not as many in critical spots anymore
Mostly felling them now. Hell, did 5 the other day. Climbed one and felled the others. Staged and decked.
200,000,000 dead trees. Do the math.
More dying now.
The line clearance guys are busy. Fires, dead oaks, standard ROW.
Clean up is gangbuster. Self loaders and big trailers with loaders making per tonnage. See a lot of them broke down and broken. But they struggle on. Bound to make money.
Whittled it down to just three of us counting myself.
We did not need dead trees to keep busy. We are an established tree service that has a solid client base.
We are mostly a referral business. I don't have to scramble much for work. Just wish we could charge more and stay busy.
Beetles are still hatching. Oaks are dying too. Still not much rain. We are currently on red flag warning. Place is a tinder box.
Plenty of fire clean up and restoration work to do.
Love pruning and climbing live trees.
Give me that and the complex rigging jobs no one can manage. frig nasty crispy dead rotten risky pines that have sat too long and are breaking in half in 20 plus inch wood. The idiots can have them.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hella post!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Oh, and still no bioplants. All approved. Sort of like Gerry Browns Fast Rail. All talk, no ground broken and where did the money go?

 

[biggun]

Reduced a stand of 9 willow trees this morning at a kindergarden in Oslo. Lots of up and down and very slippery with the snow. Probably removed 2-3 metres of the height and brought the sides in to shape.

They were probably planted as a nice feature or hedge and then 30 years later someone decided to do something about them.

Kind of enjoyable in a strange sadistic way.

Then this afternoon deadwooded 4 small ash trees. No pictures from the ash trees as the drag was uphill and the weather was snowing most of the day.

Rich

 

[Mick!]

What sort of willow?

And just to save time, why frig about fannyfarting like that with them?

 

[biggun]

Goat willow.

I just do what's on the spec sheet mate. Apparently that is the best thing for them, said an arborist one day.

Personally I would have halved them and saved the fannying as you put it but it wasn't my job. Took just under 3 hours, the snow was getting on my tits a bit.

But I enjoy the challenge, climbing in the snow keeps it interesting as I was pretty bored with tree work in the UK.

 

[Mick!]

Ok cheers, I did wonder, snow is better than rain though right?

And as it goes, it was nicely executed work.

 

[biggun]

Cheers,

Definitely. Snow is better than rain. It is generally pretty dry round these parts but when it rains it proper rains.

They also have this phenomenon over here. Freezing rain. Falls wet and freezes as soon as it touched stuff. It literally turns driveways and paths into black ice. It isn't sleet either, definitely rain, yet it should be bloody snow.