The Official Work Pictures Thread

[pantheraba]

Y'all do some really interesting work...good stuff.

 

[Burnham]

 

[treebilly]

Looking good Reg.

 

[squisher]

Cool stuff. Is he based on the island or Prince George maybe? Just curious is all. Wicked work you've been up to anyways!

 

[SeanKroll]

 

[flushcut]

It's nice seeing green things this time of year.

 

[SeanKroll]

I got tired of white really quickly.


This was the last climb of this job...broken up by snow, storm work, a concussion, additional clean-up work from the storm at this property... Customers are super happy. Cool folks. Husband just bought a big root grapple for one of his two Deere tractors. He also has a smaller Kubota mini-excavator. They have a long driveway through a root-disease pocket, and cedars dying from drought stress.

This alder overhung the water, starting up the steep bank about 20 vertical feet. Free air ascent on an alder, a poor compartmentalizer, that's been (surely spiked) pruned really hard. I don't think I'll need to climb it again...and I'm just fine with that. Next time I work on it, it will be broken off in the Puget Sound. It wasn't that bad now, but give it 10 years.

I'd considered setting a high-line in the big fir to the left, and throwline it through the big crotch, so I'd be compressing the stem into the hillside, rather than side-loading. An interesting free ascent, and them flip onto the high-side, perched with a choked climbing line and 540 wrap, prune a couple branches, reset climb-line and bailed off a choked climb-line with pull-down line.


A little heady, in part being sorta tired...the first wind storm of two, before the snow hit at Christmas. Was backed up before, and now, even more.

 

[Raj]

I miss climbing...
I really miss getting paid!

 

[SeanKroll]

Oh, I used the boat davit to winch up a bundle of brush from the beach (can't leave it... Creates hazards to boats)...

That's a new one for me.

 

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[Stumpshot]

I like how your shadow of the spar lines up with the pad logs and the chipper. Nice shot aloft!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Finally getting around to posting something about this tree. This was a Blue Oak we pruned and cabled last year. Got some pictures of it leafed out. Came out pretty. Just thought you all might want to see it. From this post https://www.masterblasterhome.com/showthread.php?20273-Work-Pics-Thread-2-0!&p=897193&viewfull=1#post897193

 

[MasterBlaster]

Man... such an awesome tree.

 

[flushcut]

Beauty indeed!!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Once in a while, trees like this give you something to look foreward to working on. Way better than playing undertaker.

 

[stig]

You did a great job on that one, Stephen.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Thanks Stig.

 

[Bermy]

Ohh...gorgeous!!

 

[squisher]

Hell of a tree. Looks real nice.

 

[pantheraba]

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Thanks all. Glad I could share it with you.

 

[greengreer]

Our new(ish) guy going after it! Tip reduction on an over extended oak limb.

Dropped this big pine for the local University last week. Had to rope out most of the brush (house/powerlines, etc) but got to flop the rest and leave it, thank God. About 110-120' and 34"dbh. The top needed to push through some limbs on the way down without disrupting the intended lay, hence the thick hinge. Left a bit too much wood on my far corner but it didn't foul it up. Had about a 20 vertical embankment on that side so it was a bit hard to get her just right.



That blue oak is a beaut! Nice work!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Our new(ish) guy going after it!

I don't miss that!!!

 

[greengreer]

Yeah, poor guy went out past where he needed to make the cut before I realized. I was definitely impressed. It was an intimidatingly long limbwalk for a newer climber

 

[SeanKroll]

Good pics.