The Official Work Pictures Thread

[stig]

Our new feller buncher would be perfect for that hedge job.

The bank finally got it's shit together and ok'ed the deal.

I don't know what took them so long.

The machine, cutting head, LED lights, Diesel engine heater furnace and all the other extras have been lind up at the daeler for 2 weeks.
They were just waiting for the OK to put it all together.

Today it happened....................................................................finally.

Banks piss me off big time.

 

[Tree09]

Yeah I hate banks too.

 

[Mick!]

Well, me too, but you have to remember it’s their money, you want it, so it’s on their terms.

Ps. Nice tree Patrick, glad the ivy died a way back.

 

[stig]

Mick, the Danish state had to bail the idiots out after the 08 crash.
Using my tax money to do so.
Now they've totally forgotten that and act like they are masters of the universe again, and can just piss all over me any way they want.

I own a house that would readily sell for 4 milion Danish kroner.
Mortgage is about 1 million.

I want to spend a million buying a feller buncher.

What is the Goddamned problem?

It is like they stall just to show they can do it.

Banks piss me off big time.

 

[Mick!]

You just had to wait a bit.

It’s not like you had to dance on a table in your underpants.

Edit. It’s changed a bit hasn’t it? It used to be “I’m not I interested in the FB”

Now it’s feller buncher this/feller buncher that..

 

[stig]

Sure has.

Like I said, comes a time where you realize that if you can't beat them, better join them.

I've been calling a bunch of foresters we have worked with or for over the years, trying to sell the new machine to them.

Most responses have been like " You've bought WHAT???" or " I sure didn't see this one coming"

 

[Mick!]

The converted always make the best preachers.

 

[stig]

I do feel kind of silly about this.
That'll pass if the thing starts making serious money.

 

[treebilly]

I kinda had the same thought Stig. I remember thinking that I’ll never use a bucket truck. Now I’m almost a bucket baby. I’ve taken an easier road like you are, but still maintain the ability to do the job if it calls for it. I want a feller buncher. Just to play with though. It would be a fun thing to have

 

[Bodean]

Evolve and plunder forward, don't and die.

Ask any dinosaur.

You're ripping it, Stig!

 

[SkwerI]

I kinda had the same thought Stig. I remember thinking that I’ll never use a bucket truck. Now I’m almost a bucket baby. I’ve taken an easier road like you are, but still maintain the ability to do the job if it calls for it. I want a feller buncher. Just to play with though. It would be a fun thing to have

I've said it hundreds of times over the last 20 years- The best way to ruin a good climber is put him in a bucket truck.

 

[cory]

The converted always make the best preachers.

Ha, great quote. Mick, great to see your new chipper kicking butt.

Evolve and plunder forward, don't and die.

Stigular, I trust you will be setting us up with mad pics of mad shiny machinery cranking out ridiculous production with ease?!?

 

[pantheraba]

Work pictures...not treework but some rigging work, for sure. The slide is too fast...the boys have used the word "terrifying". We are taking some of the terror out of it...lowered the top section from 34 degrees to 14 degrees. We also took out a short joint at the top section. Alex says it is still too fast...he did about 5 test runs as we adjusted the angles yesterday...pool is 54 degrees!

Hayden (13 yrs old) volunteered today for test dummy...he did 3 tests....way cold but he champed up and did it. I'll post some videos of tests in another thread soon.

We had to lower the platform straight down about 30 inches...secured it, safetied in, and lowered the whole deck like an elevator to the new level. That lower deck level let us lower the entrance tube to the desired slope. Looks like we will still have to raise the mid-ride corner joint and adjust the lower section to bleed off a bit more speed.

It sure is a lot of work modifying stuff...much easier to just tear things up.

 

[squisher]

This water slide is straight up ridiculous! I love it!!!

 

[cory]

Interesting pics. And also that you are wearing sandals

 

[MasterBlaster]

Terrifying? I'd raise it even higher!!!

 

[pantheraba]

Interesting pics. And also that you are wearing sandals

That is Alex in the rubba slippas. I told him I would at least want tennis shoes but.....meh.

Terrifying? I'd raise it even higher!!!

YOU might...I was the first to ever ride it. It monkeyflipped me at warp 9...I exited the tube backwards and upside down with no idea of how I did it.

Survival is important to the fun of the operation...throttling down.

 

[Tree09]

Hahahahahaha that thing is so cool Gary!!!!!

 

[Nutball]

I didn't think slides could be fast enough, but fast + sharp curves and ending toward the closer side of the pool could be scary. I can see there how you'd come out upside down and backwards. I think the middle bend sets you up for it, and the third flips you.

 

[Stumpshot]

Terrifying water slide (tallest in the US) here in KS just got decommissioned/dismantled after a state congressman's son was decapitated on it 2 years ago. In it, you ride rafts with a partner and there were safety nets above the first hump/jump to keep people from getting tossed out of the slide. Raft went airborne, caught the child in the netting at full speed. Lawsuits and criminal charges have been ongoing for the last couple of years.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I remember that.

 

[Stumpshot]

Even the name sounded evil -- Schlitterbahn is the water park and Verruckt was the name of the slide -- which means "insane" in German.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/27/us/schlitterbahn-waterpark-death-arrests/index.html

 

[MasterBlaster]

Oh hail yea!!!

 

[SeanKroll]

Birch dismantle at a jam packed gardeners house, manicured style.



















You know the rest.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Beautiful tree!!!