Maximalist
Treehouser
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Maximalist
Treehouser
I was working outside the city today. I cut down 5 trees. This chestnut was the most interesting -
Treeaddict
Treehouser
Trimmed a Japanese maple and cherry blossom today. Get away from home and clean up the cherry’s tips. Took down a dead and unidentifed softwood with a maple hanger above it. Kept enough tree for the ninja course. This was for my sister. Brother in law helped load the trailer and it was nice working with him. Our kids all played together. Spring break and the kids are wanting activities.
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Maximalist
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I removed a dangerous tree this morning -
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Maximalist
Treehouser
If I had the opportunity, I would love to do it. But in this case, other trees may be affected.
Maximalist
Treehouser
I'm having fun downtown this morning.-
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Who eats well, works well! Today I have a classic Russian lunch for lunch - borscht, French meat, salad and compote -
After lunch, I cut down a couple more stunted elms -
That's how fun and relaxed the working day was)
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Who eats well, works well! Today I have a classic Russian lunch for lunch - borscht, French meat, salad and compote -
After lunch, I cut down a couple more stunted elms -
That's how fun and relaxed the working day was)
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Patrick A
Treehouser
Yesterday s black and red oaks. Kept them at the same level to make two bench "legs" with a white oak slab on top. The ideal oak trifecta.
Kaveman
Treehouser
Free hand or Granberg for the slab, Mr. Patrick? Either way very nice. Most of my customers just want the wood to dissappear, it's nice when someone appreciates their trees enough to want to keep them around, even if only in part.
Patrick A
Treehouser
Granberg like alaskan sawmill. I mostly cut in firewood length unless it is white oak and will likely get a call in 6 months to move the firewood out.
Patrick A
Treehouser
Oak firewood pile
flushcut
TreeHouser
Just make sure to charge for the removal of the chunks and have a buyer lined up. Double dip! Lol
Patrick A
Treehouser
I often price the removal option in the quote. This way I can refer to it later or use it as a starting point if it is years later.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
I probably posted pics of this tree last time I cut the dead out. Belongs to one of my welders, his wife’s grandparents place where they now live. Was going to be a removal but she had us stop here. We’ll see…Lots of targets to miss.
Cobleskill
Treehouser
Nice. Why such a big tank?
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
I dunno. Houses in the country get their water from canals. They feed a cistern and the cistern has a pump that feeds that pressure tank.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
Don’t drink it. Drinking water is trucked in.
The history of water here is pretty crazy. Well water seems to be only good for geothermal energy.
I didn’t see a video about it at a glance but the flume in Yuma is pretty crazy too. Canal tunneled under a river way back when.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
This thread doesn't show up when I press New Posts!
This is a black locust after, what I call, Topping Restoration Pruning, last spring, for some new homeowners.
They decided it is not the right thing for the location.
A greenhouse, instead.
Tight rigging today into sucker growth with no room to spare, pictures starting halfway through the dismantle:
Table for the back yard
The logs will go to local woodworkers. Chips for onsite mulch.
This is a black locust after, what I call, Topping Restoration Pruning, last spring, for some new homeowners.
They decided it is not the right thing for the location.
A greenhouse, instead.
Tight rigging today into sucker growth with no room to spare, pictures starting halfway through the dismantle:
Table for the back yard
The logs will go to local woodworkers. Chips for onsite mulch.
Kaveman
Treehouser
Maximalist
Treehouser
I did a great job today. I'm the only one sawing trees, and a whole crowd is cleaning it all up)
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
That’s how I like it.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Half live-half dead maple that belongs to the custy's neighbor. Large dead trunks are out of frame.
Glove at the base.
I had a dead hemlock dismantle to finish my run of work before Spring Break... homeowner cleanup.
KISS...one three-strand, 3 sling and biner combos, and wedges and a topping ax.
It was growing up into the maple so it started at 26" dbh, went to about 40' normally, with some normal-big limbs, then very quickly became spindly. Climbing to start at about 6-7" diameter, I snap cut and hand-lowered, then threw the top, leaving lower limbs as dampeners.
Worked down, dropping limb tips onto other limbs, then throwing them until I got into 8-9" wood for a TIP to work the lower limbs. 2 slings and a biner to hang, then throw when they were to big to cut and hold, easily. One double-whipped limbs.
Four 4-foot chunks, then used a munter to rappel on the pull rope (spurs and lanyard still on the spar), then the felling cut, with gas to spare in the tank. Used a natural crotched, pretensioned 3:1 with a gutted hinge and a couple wedges for an easy tip onto the brush pile.
About 2 hours, at a leisurely, but focused pace. Happy customer, ready to refer me.
I was aiming for one trip from the truck, and one trip back, but remembered I had to chunk up the spar, so needed a bigger saw than my 193t.
Glove at the base.
I had a dead hemlock dismantle to finish my run of work before Spring Break... homeowner cleanup.
KISS...one three-strand, 3 sling and biner combos, and wedges and a topping ax.
It was growing up into the maple so it started at 26" dbh, went to about 40' normally, with some normal-big limbs, then very quickly became spindly. Climbing to start at about 6-7" diameter, I snap cut and hand-lowered, then threw the top, leaving lower limbs as dampeners.
Worked down, dropping limb tips onto other limbs, then throwing them until I got into 8-9" wood for a TIP to work the lower limbs. 2 slings and a biner to hang, then throw when they were to big to cut and hold, easily. One double-whipped limbs.
Four 4-foot chunks, then used a munter to rappel on the pull rope (spurs and lanyard still on the spar), then the felling cut, with gas to spare in the tank. Used a natural crotched, pretensioned 3:1 with a gutted hinge and a couple wedges for an easy tip onto the brush pile.
About 2 hours, at a leisurely, but focused pace. Happy customer, ready to refer me.
I was aiming for one trip from the truck, and one trip back, but remembered I had to chunk up the spar, so needed a bigger saw than my 193t.
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Maximalist
Treehouser
Today I cut down a pretty thick fir tree -
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davidwyby
Desert Beaver
I forgot to get a before pic. So google will have to do. Ash on the right had one top break and fall to the right on the Indian laurel. Another was hanging down in the driveway.The other smaller tree to the West had a bunch of dead limbs in it. I suspect too much sun. Knocked the dead out and gave the big one a reduction.
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