The Official Work Pictures Thread

[gf beranek]

Nice, Patrick! What a beauty.

 

[ruel]

Highly valuable black walnut! looks like a tight job

Super Interesting uprooted tree Gary, nice job

Jed, what a pig! 880 on hooks, some serious tree work!

 

[BIGTWIG]

 

[lxskllr]

What do you do exactly? Clearing jobs? Logging? Everything? That looks like a big ass tree muncher.

 

[cory]

Hella machine

 

[gf beranek]

Mulching head.

 

[Mellow]

Highly valuable black walnut!

I'll bet he did that one for free just to get the highly valuable black walnut wood!

 

[Nutball]

He's lucky the homeowner accepted. I would have settled for no less than a highly valuable sum of money for someone to cut down my quadruple walnut tree.

 

[TreeMuggs]

No way, that was a crap ton of rigging... back half of that tree was brutal!

 

[Jed]

Yer a man Patrick... that’s brutality this time of year.

 

[treebilly]

Good to see ya again @TreeMuggs
Nice work

 

[SkwerI]

Good to see ya again @TreeMuggs
Nice work

Ditto!

 

[cory]

Tritto!

 

[Husky D]

My brother's hedgelaying he completed just before Christmas. I can knock trees over but at least someone in the family has some skill!

 

[flushcut]

Lots of baby trees! Looks awesome! What’s the life expectancy of the hedge?

 

[cory]

Great pic.

I know next to nothing re hedge laying, can you 'splain some? Thanks

 

[lxskllr]

Hedgelaying - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[gf beranek]

Beautiful images, and great skill. Thank you for sharing!

There's actually a few youtube videos showing the process step by step. And some such hedge rows persist for hundreds of years. Legacy.

 

[lxskllr]

Yea, it's a cool thing to do. If I had more property, I'd give it a try.

 

[ruel]

@Husky D

That's beautiful work!

I'm Absolutely fascinated by natural hedge laying. Are there any trainings that you know of? If you can recommend some resources or contact people id really love to study the process with some skilled folks

 

[gf beranek]

A big part of the success is picking the right species. and second is continuing with a regular program of keeping it hedged down. At least every 10 years you should hedge it.

If you do nothing at all, after the hard work, the most vigorous individuals will go apical dominate and you'll end up with broken treeline instead of a hedgerow.

 

[lxskllr]

Yea, that's what I'd likely have. Scrub trees and greenbriars :^D

 

[cory]

Thx for the wiki, Lxs

Very interesting, I had no clue.

One Q I had from the pic is did he do all that with no saw? From wiki it sounds like maybe no saw but from the pic I think I see a few small stumps. But maybe those were hacked off in one axe-swipe.

 

[Husky D]

Lots of baby trees! Looks awesome! What’s the life expectancy of the hedge?

In theory they can go on forever due to the ability to coppice it and having new growth to go on. This hedge was particularly thick and laid well for him. Working over the years with him, it's always surprised me how much you cut out but not so in this case. Management is required to stop the growth getting old and brittle and then breaking off. The ditch/brook line is a boundary between two counties hence the picture of him with a foot in each!

 

[gf beranek]

Thank you! It's good knowledge.