The Official Work Pictures Thread

[cory]

One with Trees.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Guesses on stump weight?
Picked the whole bloody thing one pick.
I was a nervous nelly......

 

[flushcut]

12,700 lbs

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Maybe the whole pick( what was on the deck) Rajan.

 

[Burnham]

Lotta rot in that root system. How did it stay up???

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Wing and a prayer. Today, the whole family would have been having a gtg on that deck under that tree. It just finally gave up last weekend

 

[flushcut]

Maybe the whole pick( what was on the deck) Rajan.

I thought we were guessing what the whole chunk weighted. Was I close?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yes on the whole pick.

 

[treesmith]

10,750#

 

[CurSedVoyce]

What was in the dump came in at 4600 and change. Surprisingly light due to the rot. The bad cut on the side of the stump was cracked and rotting.
Tell you what though, you could feel that sob behind the truck on 8% grades to the dump

 

[davidwyby]

I was gonna say 10 (hard to scale pics) but when I saw it in the trailer I was gonna say 5

 

[CurSedVoyce]

My guess before he picked it up was 3-4 ton on the piece loaded in the trailer.
Really is suprising how that thing even stood up.
Every lead had been topped. That larger limb cut off the side at one point as you knew it ewent over the house. Planted next to a coy pond (no longer there) in a rock pile basically. On the end of a leach field. I can just imagine what was used to help a root issue.
She had called a "tree expert" when she purchased the property and was told the tree was quite "healthy". I have a feeling I know who it was. 😉 🤣

 

[Maximalist]

One of the trees I cut down today -

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[davidwyby]

They gave the avenue of giants in Ramona a haircut

I understand the fear but don’t like it.

@Trains @Bermy

 

[SeanKroll]

Probably too much shade, huh?

 

[Maximalist]

Nothing interesting today - I split a broken birch tree, and then, as always, continued the endless struggle with dry branches -

 

[Bermy]

Meh...probably worried about sudden limb drop?
Cuts look well placed, they'll be fine.

 

[cory]

We had a lot of sudden limb drop last week in the high heat in my hood, including my back yard!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Going to finish out a black oak Monday that dropped one leader (about 2/3s of the tree) onto a propane tank. Broke the valve and pipe. Sudden limb drop.
Fire dpt came out and secured the tank. Had to use an air bag to upright it. Could have been an explosive situation. Situation was found by one of the adult children coming home from work.

 

[flushcut]

Yikes that could have been bad!

 

[SeanKroll]

Everyone imagines a big boom explosion. I'd that real or Hollywood? Would there be a source of ignition?

 

[Cobleskill]

It has to be contained to be a major boom. If it settled in a hollow, then got ignited it might make a mild boom. Gasoline will do that. I guess a massive leak, like at a plant would go boom. Would not want to test the theory.

I never knew, unlike propane, natural gas is lighter that air til I worked installing a natural gas stove at my sisters. She swore she smelled gas in the kitchen. I soaped all the joints. No leaks. Finally found a pinhole in a chinese cast elbow.

 

[friedrich]

finished removing a half dead pine and some pruning… it was fun lowering all the larger wood into the dump-truck.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Everyone imagines a big boom explosion. I'd that real or Hollywood? Would there be a source of ignition?

It was down in like a creek basin. One smoker or spark would have made big boom

 

[CurSedVoyce]

And since tank was leaking, it would jet fire into many dry burnable things. Then, if the tank gets hot enough, big boom