Cant get pics to work so well tonight, so, had to do it over several posts. last one
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So, what's up with the little trees......?!!
I'm bidding on a young sequoia.... but it is prolly over a truck load of chips, and the last 20-25 feet is big with the typical swelled butts sequoia develop. Right by a road, no crane access, and will have to rip the chunks to get them down..... and either build a wall of already cut rounds, or do a vert speed line, as the small drop zone slopes toward the road...then roll the wood into a roll off container, so little lifting required..... I am going to suggest ringing the tree and waiting till winter to do the whole job, or at least the last 25 feet, to reduce the weight. Green sequoia, this time of year, weighs around 70 pounds per cubic foot!! Heavier than oak or madrone! that's arbutus to you, you new born Canuckian....
Just a couple blocks away, Pat and I are starting a four fir removal job, plus lots of small bushes to remove, tomorrow. Close to 5500 board feet in four trees. Room to drop the two largest butts, which will save us lots on crane fees, as now a 40 ton crane will do the rest..... the radius is 70 feet for the two largest, and now we won't be picked anything over 5000 lb..and for the third largest tree, the radius is about 50 feet, and that butt log will probably be about 8000 lb.
Crane coming Thursday, but we're doing a solitary fir on Wednesday with ACDeucy Crane, which will help fill up the second log truck load. It several miles away, but well worth the appx $100 extra in trucking for the two trips. I'm loving the good fir prices here that the domestic Buse Timber offers, even on 16-24 foot logs, unlike Formark, which primarily exports timber, and wants long logs or pays like poo for shorties...
Sean, I'd say bring your mini up here, but I don't think it could move one of the butt rounds.... a two footer might weigh 3000 lb!
