Tree felling vids

NHlocal said:
Here's a Poplar I took down last Saturday.....


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Damnedst thing I ever saw! Gawd that would make me nervous when the tree starts to sway!
How do you get the rope over the next limb? Do you have to tie off and then unhook?
 
I agree, strong work Nick.
Nice when it goes like its planed. The tree I tested on was a larger aspen. When my instructor/certifier asked where I was gonna put it I replied "yonder". He said "Bull$%#^! Put it between those two saplings!"
I've never had to fall a tree where I could wreck a house!
 
Ayuh,
good work Nick. :thumbup:


FireFighterZero said:
Damnedst thing I ever saw! Gawd that would make me nervous when the tree starts to sway!
How do you get the rope over the next limb? Do you have to tie off and then unhook?
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Thanks.
On this job I was alone, the home owner was there but you know how that is...... ;)
.....so I rigged down that one "big" piece of the top(had to leave it tied on)and either had to toss or run every thing else down the speedline.
 
I just found this thread and there's a lot of good videos on here. Workin my way backwards on pg 242 now so this will keep me busy for a while!
Randy good vids! I think its cool being able to watch you work from start to finish like that! Even seeing things like setting ur line and tips I think are unique to some of your vids which most guys leave out.
 
Nice work on that pine. Does that kind of pine hinge well? I would do exactly what you did on some trees around here. Some wont hinge long enough. So on the backleaners they require a faster pull then a GRCS. Not a "fast" pull. But faster. We have some Bradford pears that get large(for their species) now and again, and I once didn't pull a backleaner over fast enough. It stood up but the hinge broke before it was committed to coming forward. Went sideways and nearly took an awning off a house. Our white pines hold fairly well and will tolerate a slow steady pull up and over. Im assuming monteray pines are similar?
 
"It always stinks to cut down perfectly healthy, living trees"

Beg your pardon, but some of us are loggers.
That pretty much describes what I do for a living!
 
If nothing else, its a whole lot safer and easier to take them down perfectly healthy. Fortunately, they are a renewable resource. I wish the tree huggers in society could understand that. Maximize the use of wood products in the world. We can grow more. If done responsibly. Its mazing how much timber a woodlot can generate in the course of one persons life if harvested repeatedly and properly.
 
And provide us with useful oxygen as a by product.

And capture pollution.

And stabilise soil conditions.

And support an incredible diverse ecosystem.

Its natures natural battery too. It stores up solar energy in the form of solid cellulistic biomass.

Trees are incredible.
 
Tucker943 said:
If nothing else, its a whole lot safer and easier to take them down perfectly healthy. Fortunately, they are a renewable resource. I wish the tree huggers in society could understand that. Maximize the use of wood products in the world. We can grow more. If done responsibly. Its mazing how much timber a woodlot can generate in the course of one persons life if harvested repeatedly and properly.
Thor's Hammer said:
And provide us with useful oxygen as a by product.

And capture pollution.

And stabilise soil conditions.

And support an incredible diverse ecosystem.

Its natures natural battery too. It stores up solar energy in the form of solid cellulistic biomass.

Trees are incredible.
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:thumbup::)
 
stig said:
...Beg your pardon, but some of us are loggers.
That pretty much describes what I do for a living!
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Haha!! You stink, then!

In all serious, that was directed to our clients. Any tree guy get that sometimes a trees gotta come out for a whole variety of reasons. But that vid is going on our website. Though by percentages, we remove a very small amount f trees, some folks might judge us by that one video. I was hoping to quell anyone that might be turned away by the mere thought of a tree being removed.


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nick
 
You gotta play to your audience Nick & be flexible.
If they want the perfect tree gone - so be it - prune a dying tree same. Give the advice, quote accordingly & collect the cash. Being a tree service is not always compatable with personal morals.
 
The tree huggers are gonna LOVE me. We are getting ready to plant 26,000 pine trees on our farm in S. Georgia. We had it logged in 2010 and have 40 acres to plant now...well, we are having tree planting specialists plant them (motorized and all that).

We're gonna breathe a lot of good O-two there. :D (And Chris will be glad to know that I am considering planting a bit of Moso timber bamboo..:/:)
 
pete mctree said:
You gotta play to your audience Nick & be flexible.
If they want the perfect tree gone - so be it - prune a dying tree same. Give the advice, quote accordingly & collect the cash. Being a tree service is not always compatable with personal morals.
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Priceless advice right here.
 
Give or take, I planted something north of 6 million trees in my FS career...a thing I take great pride in. I'm with Ed and Chris all the way.
 
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