The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Marc-Antoine]

Frankly, I prefer the sturdiness of the crane than the spiderlift's.

 

[treebilly]

What size Rajan?

 

[PCTREE]

Rajan are you doing that for your company or are you helping someone else do it ??

 

[flushcut]

Rajan are you doing that for your company or are you helping someone else do it ??

My show renting the crane for the day. The operator was green, two years doing construction and six months doing trees. Comm units were key.

Rich, 30 ton 130’ with jib but stick was 94’. Most of our chart was within 5100 lbs but the landing zone was small so picks were smallish 2700 was our heaviest.

 

[flushcut]

Frankly, I prefer the sturdiness of the crane than the spiderlift's.

You get used to the sway of the lift. I liken it to rolling ocean, slow metronome sway. I was still feeling the sway in my head for a few hours after the lift was folded up for the day.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

I take your words for it, but it seems odd to me. But surely very useful.

 

[flushcut]

Useful is an understatement. But yes there is movement.

 

[lxskllr]

I was on a tire lift once with a flat tire. I wasn't digging that at all. Might have been alright for the height/extension I was at, but between the wobble, and me eyeballing the tire, I was happy to get down.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

One more apple to go. The first one took me 2.5 hours. I was like WTF. I do better than this. Now granted, I was also cleaning it up and loading it. She had let them go pretty bad. SO I also got the Plum, 2 cherries, a pear and apricot done. Bear did some damage last year. A mess.
I've never pruned these for her before. She normally takes care of them herself. But getting older. Pretty was not what this was about. She does not do well on a ladder. So retrenched lower in stages for harvest.

 

[pantheraba]

That's impressive. I think I have progressed when I can get as much appreciation out of seeing these fruit trees getting rehabbed as I do seeing one of Jed's stump pictures. Excellent before and after shots.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Impressive that what I got done about filled that 12 foot dump trailer. Just kept packing it in. Maybe could have fit the last tree tree in there. But it'll keep. I was plumb tuckered out and had all my other duties to fullfill.

 

[Maximalist]

Now I'm a TV star, but in the background

 

[Rooted]

Todays job, pine through the porch roof, went well. It was a beautiful day here.

 

[lxskllr]

Wonder why they wanted it gone? Looked healthy, they already committed to having it there.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nice shot. Goal posts.
Lucky you could fell it.

 

[Treeaddict]

Rooted, removed fence section and dropped it whole?

 

[Rooted]

Rooted, removed fence section and dropped it whole?

Yeah, removed fence, took off a piece of fascia. I

 

[Maximalist]

I'm resting today. Cut down trees is much easier than improving
their geometry

 

[Bermy]

That's quotable Lol 😂

 

[flushcut]

We got the rest of the big chunkies down and sort of decked for pick up. Pole for scale.

 

[lxskllr]

How is maple for firewood? I've burned a little of it, but not enough to get a feel for how good it is.

 

[flushcut]

Silver is ok but not great. Sugar burns real nice hot and slow but needs two years to cure, can be tough to split even with a splitter,

 

[Nutball]

My sugar maple split very easily, and dried over the summer, cut in the spring.

 

[treebilly]

Sugar maple makes good charcoal according to Patrick (educated climber). I’ll also venture to say it’s the best firewood out of the maple family

 

[ruel]

Yep, sugar maple is a treat to burn. It can pop a bit but mostly lovely.

Worked Saturday ay the local school got there at 8, and the parking lot looked Like this by 9. Basketball games, oops nbd.

Short brushy field grown white Pine, luckily all on pavement two dump trailer loads of just rakings, bucket was so Good, only scooped like 4 shovels worth