The Official Work Pictures Thread

[biggun]

Spruce dismantle today.

Bit of a hairy bugger.

@lumberjack Carl, I keep getting server error when trying to got upload pictures?

Any ideas?

 

[Mick!]

Saw that elsewhere.
i had a similar (if smaller) one last week, dozens and dozens of branches, half of which were above a building.
Technically easy, but painstaking and quite tiring if I’m honest.

 

[SeanKroll]

When I've done similar, I used a butterfly in the free end, then hauled it up with the standing end.

This was a pull down, set at the TIP

 

[lxskllr]

This was a pull down, set at the TIP

Maybe I don't fully understand what you did. Here's what I did step by step...

Throwline into tree, weight's on the ground
Tie off climbline to throwline, haul it up and over.
When I get my climbline end, I tie a butterfly on the part that's on the rope pile side(not the end I just pulled up)
Put the end in the butterfly, and start hauling.
If I have enough rope(I did), that left me with a climbline, and a retrieval line.
If I did not have enough rope, I'd have tied my throwline to the retrieval side to get the whole way up.

 

[lumberjack]

Spruce dismantle today.

Bit of a hairy bugger.

@lumberjack Carl, I keep getting server error when trying to got upload pictures?

Any ideas?

Yeah it’s a current issue. I’ve emailed and tagged @Brandon about it.

 

[davidwyby]

I guess I will have to paint a word picture, sorry I’m not as good a wordsmith as @Kaveman…and I’m falling over tired. Hot tub time.

Burnt conifers. Last time I was up here (cencal mountains) it was a playground ready for felling after the caldor fire. Now, Brush taller than my 6’ head plus helmet….bushes not so bad other than seriously impeding movement but interspersed with blackberry vines. I thought I’d knock over 20 trees or something today…only got several , and a bunch of limb tied burnt saplings that were always in the way that I had to cut paths to thru the brush. I was reminded of my previous post about proper swamping…cut brush too low and you risk the chain. Too high and you have tripperstabbers.

I only took one vid and a few pics.

 

[davidwyby]

The dreaded knot in the hinge

Didn’t matter in this case

Had to wedge the thick hinge pretty good…might have made it thinner but glad I didn’t.

Recently dead ironbark…brittle

 

[davidwyby]

Today....

Volunteer mesquite, growing like a weed. Only 3-4 years old. Hacked it to keep the tweakers away.

www.treebuzz.com

 

[cory]

Keep the tweakers away via removing cover/hiding places/living spots?

 

[davidwyby]

Keep the tweakers away via removing cover/hiding places/living spots?

Yeah

Bunch more of my pics over there too

 

[flushcut]

Today....

Volunteer mesquite, growing like a weed. Only 3-4 years old. Hacked it to keep the tweakers away.

www.treebuzz.com

How can you sleep at night knowing you are destroying tweaker habitat, poor defenseless tweakers. Tweakers have rights lol

 

[davidwyby]

I put a cable on that pine to be sure , but like I expected it didn’t need it. I wish everything would hold like that 😒 it’s crazy how brittle, springy, and wedge-spitting everything else is.

(Three more vids after that if you swipe 😉)

 

[davidwyby]