The Official Work Pictures Thread

[SeanKroll]

Wildfire and a maple dismantle on a slope...6 branch and 2 wood piles...homeowner added a miniloader/ grapple to his mini-x and tractor and pto chipper and power wheelbarrow and...

No chipping for us.

 

[friedrich]

i kinda like chipping

 

[Mick!]

I never tire of it.

 

[SeanKroll]

Are you serious or joking?

Is fast prefer to climb/ fell/ prune than process material especially the chipping.


I have about (1) 23' grapple truck- bed worth of material to be hauled from the last few months. In the past it was $500 a load. Now 550, 600 on Oct 1.

He smashes a lot in.

 

[friedrich]

i‘m not joking. when i started working for myself last year (almost no contract climbing) i was able to borrow a friends grapple truck and hauled brush… since than i bought a chipper (and chipped into big bags in my van… horrible idea) and later a dump truck.

now chipping is a lot of fun…also dumbing 10m3 without effort is now a beautiful thing to me. knowing how hard it is to pull two full big bags out of my van…

 

[Maximalist]

Today I cut down 4 birch trees, made cabling 4 birch trees -

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[Mick!]

Are you serious or joking?

Is fast prefer to climb/ fell/ prune than process material especially the chipping.


I have about (1) 23' grapple truck- bed worth of material to be hauled from the last few months. In the past it was $500 a load. Now 550, 600 on Oct 1.

He smashes a lot in.

Yeah, serious(ish)
I spent a few years loading and unloading brash by hand.
Feeding either of my chippers with sharp knives and anvils, watching forks get crushed and chip getting launched into the tipper truck doesn’t really get old for me.

 

[Mick!]

Yeah, serious(ish)
I spent a few years loading and unloading brash by hand.
Feeding either of my chippers with sharp knives and anvils, watching forks get crushed and chip getting launched into the tipper truck doesn’t really get old for me.

 

[davidwyby]

I have a small chipper I can borrow. I will have to try it. I want to build a deck of chips in my yard where I can buck wood and not worry so much about hitting the dirt.

 

[SeanKroll]

I don't know what percentage of material I chip versus haul brush versus leave to the homeowner.

I run a one-ton pickup as my equipment truck on all jobs.

Chipping with hauling means a second driver for the chip truck being available all day, which isn't always available, or a chip trailer. I almost always work 5-10 minutes from my shop which makes 2 solo trips to trailer equipment practical.

Most customers keep chips when I chip (or they go into the woods). I'm chronically short on chips at home. I chipped some brush this summer for planting mulch.




I don't mind machine-feeding at all. Hand-fed chipping isn't bad. My body doesn't like long drags.

I find it loud and dusty (not unlike many tree work things, particularly removals). I wear a respirator to chip when the conditions are dusty.

One or a couple big grapple bites empties my trailers of most things. I'll have a grapple truck come before too long.



I'd far rather do technical work than chipping.


Different strokes for different folks.

😃

 

[friedrich]

I don't know what percentage of material I chip versus haul brush versus leave to the homeowner.

I run a one-ton pickup as my equipment truck on all jobs.

Chipping with hauling means a second driver for the chip truck being available all day, which isn't always available, or a chip trailer. I almost always work 5-10 minutes from my shop which makes 2 solo trips to trailer equipment practical.

Most customers keep chips when I chip (or they go into the woods). I'm chronically short on chips at home. I chipped some brush this summer for planting mulch.




I don't mind machine-feeding at all. Hand-fed chipping isn't bad. My body doesn't like long drags.

I find it loud and dusty (not unlike many tree work things, particularly removals). I wear a respirator to chip when the conditions are dusty.

One or a couple big grapple bites empties my trailers of most things. I'll have a grapple truck come before too long.



I'd far rather do technical work than chipping.


Different strokes for different folks.

😃

for sure it‘s a balance thing. wouldn’t want to chip all day

 

[davidwyby]

I really don’t care for handling branches. Always looking for tricks to avoid like long chokers.

 

[SeanKroll]

for sure it‘s a balance thing. wouldn’t want to chip all day

Just sold 2 full days of work with no chipping. Lots of climbing.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Sold some tonight as well. Stage for burning. Looks like another delay though at the high country job. Weather issues at 7500 feet and have to go over 8k to get there. Aint doing that in hale a t storms, sorry no.
Might have to schedule it for next year

 

[Mick!]

Zero burning of arb waste here in France.

 

[Mick!]

I like tree vids, felling, dismantling, rigging etc. but without the clear up with a chipper and tipper truck it’s just making a mess.

I like some closure, the whole story, the narrative arc if you like.

 

[SeanKroll]

We can have residential burning in the country of material generated on site. If I prune my trees, okay to burn, if I bring in customers' waste, it needs to be dealt with otherwise. (Grapple truck for me).

 

[Maximalist]

Zero burning of arb waste here in France.

We have the same thing—it's prohibited. Now it's clear who's causing the ozone holes!)

 

[Maximalist]

Today was another day of endless routine pruning. I made 28 trees. The inscription on the birdhouse: "Take care of the person inside you."

 

[treebilly]

Fun pin oak today. Someone topped it maybe 15-20 years ago. Bushy bastid. 2 full loads of chips

 

[Maximalist]

I have some questions about Biggun work on September 14th. Do you think this was the right decision? P.S. I think I was fired from my job as the Top-arborist in St. Petersburg right after that! )Or the next day, for sure!) P.S. After this, as a radical arborist, I must commit hara-kiri with a chainsaw and die in agony, thinking about the irreparable damage I caused to defenseless trees!) Of course, this is all fantasy, but I'm interested in any opinion...

 

[Bodean]

It can take up to a year for carbohydrates to leave large wood, so kinda like temporaly wringing the towel.
Also large aspect ratio cuts like that have far less sap wood for wound closure.
After not too long the tree will begin showing a more defined branch collar and begin closing on its own, like deadwood in the forest.
Later can take the stubs off….

Or maybe they are intentional heading cuts to produce sprouts, or had to take the limbs for a new building…

I think of large stubs as a decay fuse……. Far from the trunk…. Cause big wood is more heart wood than sap wood and depending on sps can have a tough time closing.

Or maybe knot.

 

[Bodean]

Local guy in lava tube

 

[flushcut]

I think I’ll take ground wasps over a lava tube.

 

[Nutball]

I don't know. I might stake a claim and turn it into a man cave. Build a tiny house over the hole and have a half mile of basement. Or a line of tiny houses, connected underground could be fun.