The Official Work Pictures Thread

[BOTS]

Mostly good day wrecking trees. Then the newest guy dead centered another pine with the spar.

New guys theses days I tell ya!...or mabey have to get saw re-sighted in..lol

 

[sotc]

My fault for not vetting his falling experience. He's a good, productive climber

 

[stig]

Informative, Stig, Thanks.

Do you use skidders or just forwarders? Wondering why low stumps are mandated. Somewhere, I heard 12" or less is required here in logging.

Forwarders and skidders, both.

I think the low stump thing is a carry-over from back in the day when the machines had a hard time getting over them.

Harvesters make high stumps here, so why not manual fallers.

Sometimes I get the feeling the management simply likes pissing on the few manual loggers, that are left.

 

[squisher]

It may have been deeper, but I took the home owner at his word. The Tree Co owner was a CA, incidentally, another one.

Oh I believe you Reg. One of the pressures I really felt as a co owner was the inability to refuse a tree. I'd have loved to have had someone around I could hire in. Unfortunately that isn't the norm around here. Subbing or hired gun climbers.

 

[cory]

Cory, He's a true professional. Super polite and punctual....and a giant bag of tricks.

Too bad he doesn't log on here much at all!

 

[August Hunicke]

Cory, He's a true professional. Super polite and punctual....and a giant bag of tricks.

Stephen, Lawrence did all the hard stuff, I cut down a pine tree that had pockets of pudding...the spur would just sink in.



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Go Law.


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[Bodean]

It was a mini ficus forest.

Today we stump ground about 8 of the 12.

Then a crew is gonna come and remove about 10 roll offs of dirt.

On the 18th... we're gonna crane in 4 trees.

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Watched them set up to lift a house 4 inches....

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Looks like an alpine magnum stump job too

 

[CoreyYLTG]

Roll off as in dumpsters? That seems like a good sized project.

Eta: will you need to back fill better soil?

 

[MasterBlaster]

I fear no Ficus!

 

[Jomo]

I bet natural ficus forests are a trip.

I've heard tale of them being woven into living bridges over rivers in Malaysia or Indonesia or somethin.

Buddha likes ficus!

Nitida or Retusa Bode?

Jomo

 

[MasterBlaster]

Damn straight.

 

[Bodean]

Nitida...

The Alpine blasts them in about 10-15 minutes per. We do a lot of precleaning...looking for pipes and wires.

The 4 new trees will be 60" boxes...so we need to remove that volume and ammend the soil in prep.

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[Burnham]

Nightmare hole.

 

[sotc]

Nuts

 

[flushcut]

I hope you are not digging it out by hand.

 

[Bodean]

Nah. Ha. The next contractor has 10 days to do that....all by hand.

No machinery fits.
Kinda why the AM is so choice.




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[Grendel]

Holy cow Deva.

Had to remove this crazy headleaner from a gravel pit this morning. Bore cut and release.

 

[CoreyYLTG]

Looks like a black cherry? Always hollow it seems.

 

[cory]

The wood looks like some kind of birch, to me.

 

[Limbrat]

I'm sure someone in San Fran has a vacumn truck. Contractors use them to remove dirt/oil under leaky pad mount transformers here. Would be mighty handy to make a pit like that Deva.

 

[Grendel]

The wood looks like some kind of birch, to me.

It is a Birch Cory

Betula alleghaniensis: Yellow Birch. Heavy, difficult wood to split, that will melt your stove. Burns wonderfully once it's seasoned.

 

[Tree09]

Those vac trucks usually have a pressure washer on them to help it dig. They use them to found utilities here all the time, much faster than hand digging and you can run some hose to it too

 

[Bodean]

I bought an airspade for digging around utilities and funky spots.

I finished my end today. Those boys can dig and whatever....I'll try to swing by during the week and check their progress.
Feels good. They even paid me a week before the job started.

Before.

After.

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[Bodean]

Then I'll get a picture in a couple weeks after we install the 4 new trees.

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