The Official Work Pictures Thread

Had a local kid, climber, kept not following instructions about loose things and long hair while working. Cutting a top, the saw somehow found his chain aound his neck, climbed the chain to his neck and gave him a proper gash. He lived. But sported shorter hair, no jewelry from then on.
He knew and all us locals reinforced how lucky he really was.
 
Finished deadwood this big fir over an outbuilding that's been laid on by a maple whose big, burly butt lays in my work yard awaiting milling. Miriam was around a

Used a 100'+ trunk choke and a second climb line in another tree to work down a dead madrona top over an old shed (getting demo'ed so I could hit it a bit, but mind the fig tree) and next to the well pump house

Previously, a down-only dismantle off the neighbor's crusty, crusty maple on the other side of the rotten shed. He hires a portable mill. Send to be a fine wood worker.

in December, his shop got rained on by 50' for limbs from a 4.5' dbh fir and the 12" diameter top Speared through the roof between rafters, floor between joists and stopped at the concrete slap, next to a project kitchen cabinet.

One dead trunk that was only 4' through the roof needed to come out. I covered the hole in the roof, which was slick like ice, and got on the tree house deck at dusk.

I used a leather sleeve for this long pull-down. It worked great.

Leather friction savers are under- used, I think.



fir on right of building first. 20260209_151258.jpg


arching dead (evergreen angiosperm )madrona top to the right
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double SRT for crusty madrona top

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couple rounds cut and chucked with 2511t, so I didn't cut ALAP.


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very, very crowded with my Protos, respirator and ms362. It was a challenge to get these down heavy rounds onto the shelf without dropping any onto the built-in bench or floor. I ended up unbolting the bar and chain as the saw was trapped behind the ladder with about 200 pounds of short rounds on top.


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SRT SRS trunk choke pulldown (leather tube up top at this moment...I used the sewn eye to retrieve).


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I use Fusion steel D biners from Wesspur. Heavy and wide. Good for advancing the rope up/ around the tree with or without a weight, wide enough (I think) to pass an overhand stopper knot for retreival of the leather tube.


I often clip my steel termination biner to the throw line weight ring if I can see that I have a non-jamming branch configuration and need to do some further rope positioning relative to the tree (e.g. getting up to a collar or under/ over a branch). Idk if that's a common trick.
 
When I cut the top of the stump off after, I could hardly move it. Once dry, airweight, like a sponge.

That whole tree is probably a few thousand lbs. A while back I removed some that I picked up whole horizontally once felled with a regular 6k forklift. I think that's about the height and weight limit for the tele though. The tree was wanting to tip the tele back if I didn't keep the angles right. I wonder if choking onto the top and lowering would be better. All hang, no push.
 
Everyone's welcome!

Another PNW get- together would be cool.

Willie spearheaded the last one.
At home, I've got 1.75 acres for camping and a base camp house amenities..

There is a county park on the water with 150'+ trees all day.

My neighbors' firs are 150'... surely with views of at least the Olympics if not also the Cascades.

Miriam and I canoe'd to Hope Island State Park and climber a 100' maple to about 70'.

The Olympic National Park's Staircase entrance is 1.25 hours from my house.

The Hoh rainforest and Lake Quinault (monsterously big spruce) 0.3 mi from the car. Fallen largest cedar 0.2 miles.
 

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