The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Burnham]

Post in thread '201t / 210tc face off'

Jan 1, 2021

Blocking and parking.

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[biggun]

Not posted in this thread for a while. Climbed and dismantled a decent sized spruce today. Had Haakon out with us helping in the ground.

Surprisingly sound timber as at that size they are often decayed round these parts.

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[biggun]

The squeals on the last clip were because the land dropped away towards a cabin. One of the lumps I knocked off rolled that way and wedged in between the trees and was a bugger to cut up. Hence the delight after we built a little catchers mitt to keep the log off the floor and rolling sideways.

 

[davidwyby]

Deadwood out of this (doomed) nice big Indian laurel.

 

[davidwyby]

@Trains @Bermy @Steve Mack thoughts?

Eucalyptus that was pruned too hard.

I think reduce the regrowth limbs length by 50% and remove the really poorly attached ones.

Thanks

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Also check out this large wound on another. Can’t tell what caused it.

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Today’s hackery.

thought they would have the fence down but had to do it. Couldn’t fit truck and lift in the side yard under the eaves, had to push it in by hand. I’ve not been feeling well, out of it…forgot gas for the lift and the 2511. Delays got the temp up. Cut the downed tree out of the way, pulled the root ball out when I departed. Neighbor wanted it all gone, just cut his side short. The weak regrowth I’m always talking about gave me my first real scare in the lift. I was up over the tree and down toward the pool and didn’t realize the lift has rested on a limb. It let go and I went for a ride. Thought I was going in the pool and had visions of drowning, being tied in to the basket. Got up to 100, first time working in the heat this year. I considered bailing out into the pool intentionally multiple times.

 

[pigwot]

Levitated a 55 ft tall dead one yesterday. Hollow at the base and up about ten feet, and the Pileated Woodpecker had blasted it halfway through about 30 feet up. Hung it from the hickory next to it and whittled it from the bottom up.

 

[Cobleskill]

Cool. I will have to look again at a tree I have to take down. Might work. It has a lean for a building. If I use the anchor available to pull, it has a 20 foot White Oak in danger. My bud planted the oak 20 years ago. Been pondering using two pull ropes. One to get it committed to away from the building and then take up the slack from an anchor that would keep it from hitting the oak.