Boss had two crews on a job so rather than stand and watch I had three climbers aloft. Crane took care of five trees while they brushed out two.
second pic is my lay down area. Lovely looking into that dogwood all day.
Company. We’re looking for an actual log truck next. That truck is more like a debris truck. The loader capacity isn’t really high enough for what we do. It does save a ton of time though
I think it’s an Apex but I’ll have to look tomorrow. I’ve only run it once so I haven’t paid much attention to it @cory “Lightly used”. Kinda how he has been buying most of the trucks lately.
Went to a tall, spindly, broken forest maple today at 9.
2 leaders split off from a stump- sprout base of 5 leaders; the second broke on Thursday, coming down right next to where the homeowner was, in his music studio, only damaging 2 gutters and killing a weak Japanese maple. He saw it coming. Landed 15' to the side of the studio. I pulled the material out with the mini. Could have been bad. He said the winds were swirling the trees.
Climbed it to the top, piecing it all out to minimize the dz impact.
Almost came down, as the wind came up, but it dropped off, so i dropped the tops, and chunked it down.
Left without pics at 2p.
Got home at 230, stopping by my neighbor's to tighten my loader tracks with his 1 5/8 socket and ratchet, say hello, see what he was up to.
Three jokes in, with retired logger Charlie, retired logger Ken, and Darin, who were installing a heat pump, and Charlie noticed a gap in the Lombardi poplar crown next to his house that shouldn't have been there.
Luckily, the wind was blowing across the open hay fields ...and the ganoderma- infested tree was waving in the wind, "breathing". A rind, split into the ground.
First time the 200t had been out in months, possibly last year.
Put on a show.
The tree on the right was oriented with a big, intact inclusion oriented right at the house. Stripped it out on one leader, getting a stuck throw line free, and a high TIP to swing into the cracked tree. The crack was growing. I was anxious to get some weight off.
Finished at 530.
Charlie's 14 year old grandson is going to make me some tree videos. His house is the one not getting squashed.
The three of us went to the local tavern, recently changed ownership, for dinner, and the grandson, Colton, started playing the piano.
Ladies at the bar complimented his playing, bring him $15 in tips!
He had been trying to buy a piano with his mom, but they only have $100-200 that they can scrounge up.
The new owners are renovating, and posted the piano for free, per the ladies at the bar.
We're getting Colton a free piano tomorrow after school!!
He can get it tuned with the money he has.
I wonder if you can tune a piano with an electronic tuner.
I found out I have a lot of Lombardi in my future.
Trunks from one half, the vast majority of the other Co-dom from today. More than half of the tree on the right from today, plus the biggest, on the left.
And 1.5 other big Lombardis in either side, for when I'm bored.
Plugging away on this big red oak. Mini ex down in the hole, 28t boom truck on the driveway up on top of the retaining wall to get everything out to the road. Took out 16-18t of wood today and 15 yds of chips. Still have the big part of the stem and a bit more brush for tomorrow.
Home owner got some pictures of me pruning her black oak the other day. Nice tree with good scaffolding. I usualy enter it via a deck 2nd story and swing over.
Left us a nice review on FB page.
I think I fixed my camera though. Just not much time these days. I have some I need to post of a tree I pruned years after. Kinda cool. Boring, but cool.
Fig 8, few crabs, FC/FS (also doubles as a redirect for SRT), pruning sealer (for mistletoe removed by carving out of cambium), SAKA, positioning lanyard, hand saw, chain saw, water bottle. Pretty basic kit for the task at hand. So Yes.
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...and the ganoderma- infested tree was waving in the wind, "breathing". A rind, split into the ground. 
Time for a haircut to trim the curly locks.
