Treezybreez
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Lancaster, SC
Nice cuts and that timber is beautiful!
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chiselbit
Been here a while
And it didn’t look like this after it hit. I’m envious 
Yah, no thanks. This was the one that kicked up the most dust:
My old boss was a logger on the Oregon/Washington coast and worked after the Mt Saint Hellen's eruption, used to tell stories about cutting in 3 feet of volcanic ash. Tell you what, his Silvy square-ground chains are probably the sharpest things I'll ever cut with, he had that dialed!
My old boss was a logger on the Oregon/Washington coast and worked after the Mt Saint Hellen's eruption, used to tell stories about cutting in 3 feet of volcanic ash. Tell you what, his Silvy square-ground chains are probably the sharpest things I'll ever cut with, he had that dialed!
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Two big nearly dead madrones today, solo work. First one was the biggest, climbed to take the weight off that wanted to pull it towards the road below, then fell it side-hill with an uneven hinge, fat on the tension side. Second was a lot more climbing and taking smaller pieces all the way down.
Cereal_Killer
Branched out member
- Location
- Ohio
Crane jobs all week, Ethan (crane OP) brought his good camera to a couple so i have really good action shots of me!
Monday was the sugar maple behind the house (climbing) and bombing the dead Ash into the woods tied into the crane with both manual extensions out at about 112' side reach. Tuesday was the cemetery.
Wednsday was a manual removal with very interesting rigging standing pieces up on its self, Thursday Kyle took over running the crane, work was a silver maple over a house with brand new garage & driveway so the crane had to be in the alley. Today was a couple mulberry lifting over the house. All lift work so not as cool as Monday but still awesome stuff.
Schedule for Monday: another big crane job!
Also in there is a photo of me after getting a flat on the trailer, I think I'm getting this foreman thing down...
Monday was the sugar maple behind the house (climbing) and bombing the dead Ash into the woods tied into the crane with both manual extensions out at about 112' side reach. Tuesday was the cemetery.
Wednsday was a manual removal with very interesting rigging standing pieces up on its self, Thursday Kyle took over running the crane, work was a silver maple over a house with brand new garage & driveway so the crane had to be in the alley. Today was a couple mulberry lifting over the house. All lift work so not as cool as Monday but still awesome stuff.
Schedule for Monday: another big crane job!
Also in there is a photo of me after getting a flat on the trailer, I think I'm getting this foreman thing down...
Cereal_Killer
Branched out member
- Location
- Ohio
Hit the limit, rest of the pics from last post
Kyle breaking out the 395 to fell the silver maple spar followed by 2 hours of grinding while I did 2 deadwood prunes on remaining trees.
Jeremy (company mechanic) saving the fucking day with hand tools in a random back yard and then a photo of the rarest sight I've ever seen: Jeremy doing tree work (one single push with the broom)
Finally, why I always ALWAYS track with my outriggers out on the low side, thank you baby Jesus.
Kyle breaking out the 395 to fell the silver maple spar followed by 2 hours of grinding while I did 2 deadwood prunes on remaining trees.
Jeremy (company mechanic) saving the fucking day with hand tools in a random back yard and then a photo of the rarest sight I've ever seen: Jeremy doing tree work (one single push with the broom)
Finally, why I always ALWAYS track with my outriggers out on the low side, thank you baby Jesus.
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VenasNursery
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Michigan
Really nice pics
VenasNursery
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Michigan
So is that a stand on articulated loader?
zahn?
Nice work. How are you liking that battery Husky? I've had one on backorder from Bailys for 3 months now.... wondering where it is.
Reach
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Atglen, PA
Don’t tip the Omme over! That would be a very expensive oops!
One of my favorite features of the CMC, is the telescopic tracks, you can set one lower than the other to keep the machine upright when tracking across a hill. It also has sensors that stop you from driving on a hill near the rollover point.
Cereal_Killer
Branched out member
- Location
- Ohio
I love it, it's actually a personally owned saw I use at work. I've let a lot of the guys run it and everyone loves it, they're all pressuring the boss man to get them for us!
Yep, mechanic brought it as backup incase he couldn't fix the giant. Everyone hates them lol.
Cereal_Killer
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- Location
- Ohio
I don't risk it, even on the slightest grade I have the outriggers out whenever tracking! The only reason all 4 wernt out here was the headstones so I just kept the downhill pair folded out.
I had one track sink one day on completely flat, level, dry, hard ground to the point it started to tip just as Adrian swung the #3 leg out to catch it. After that I never tried again.
Time to bump this thread up with an interesting tree I got to work in today. Quasi-old growth western red cedar, at least 5' DBH, and VERY healthy. Probably one of the nicest cedars I've climbed in years actually. A gravel driveway is going in beneath it, so it was time to get up and remove all the 'low' deadwood. On this tree, 'low' is still around 35 feet.
As you can see, this tree is thick with limbs, and literally every single one is downward sloping in the extreme. That meant setting a line was going to be especially challenging and... different... from what the textbook teaches. No wide, upright 'y-crotches' here. I got my first throwline stuck between two parallel vertical limbs, so had to switch to the backup kit. Nailed a good shot around 55' that wasn't against the trunk and largely out of sight, but I knew was over a ton of strong, flexible limbs that were forking beyond my line, and between that and wrapping the trunk in my favor, was able to create a safe and strong tie-in I could trust. It is kind of a trip ascending a line through the middle of 20-30' vertical, dead limbs, but my shot was perfect, got the stuck throwball out, took all the dead limbs back to the trunk and was out of the tree within 20 minutes. That said, the 35 before that were spent missing throwball shots, tangling the throwline, untangling it, getting it stuck, getting the backup and finally setting the rope
As you can see, this tree is thick with limbs, and literally every single one is downward sloping in the extreme. That meant setting a line was going to be especially challenging and... different... from what the textbook teaches. No wide, upright 'y-crotches' here. I got my first throwline stuck between two parallel vertical limbs, so had to switch to the backup kit. Nailed a good shot around 55' that wasn't against the trunk and largely out of sight, but I knew was over a ton of strong, flexible limbs that were forking beyond my line, and between that and wrapping the trunk in my favor, was able to create a safe and strong tie-in I could trust. It is kind of a trip ascending a line through the middle of 20-30' vertical, dead limbs, but my shot was perfect, got the stuck throwball out, took all the dead limbs back to the trunk and was out of the tree within 20 minutes. That said, the 35 before that were spent missing throwball shots, tangling the throwline, untangling it, getting it stuck, getting the backup and finally setting the rope
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Alright, back to back posts. It's a bunch of photos, but good before/during/after shots I think.
Today was all about clearing invasive/noxious english ivy on the shoreline. This property honestly needs a crew of guys for a few days to rip it all out and then keep it knocked back, but I was hired for a day on the more technical work of freeing the trees, some of which had already been totally overwhelmed and killed by the ivy as well as a lot of the low limbs which I would have otherwise kept. The battery Husky 540i really shined today on this small stuff. (Husky, want to sponsor me??
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I couldn't address everything in my 8-hour timeframe, especially the upper ivy in the crab apple and in the top of the pine, but I got all of the biggest issues addressed and only got lit up by wasps once! Great way to start the morning....
Today was all about clearing invasive/noxious english ivy on the shoreline. This property honestly needs a crew of guys for a few days to rip it all out and then keep it knocked back, but I was hired for a day on the more technical work of freeing the trees, some of which had already been totally overwhelmed and killed by the ivy as well as a lot of the low limbs which I would have otherwise kept. The battery Husky 540i really shined today on this small stuff. (Husky, want to sponsor me??
) I couldn't address everything in my 8-hour timeframe, especially the upper ivy in the crab apple and in the top of the pine, but I got all of the biggest issues addressed and only got lit up by wasps once! Great way to start the morning....
Serf Life
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Maine Island
Taking 30’ off the top and leaving a limbed snag for aesthetics in some manicured woods. High tie-in with a few redirects but still sketchy.
Oooooooo. How much solid wood was inside that powdery coating of deliciousness?
climbingmonkey24
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- United States
Alright, back to back posts. It's a bunch of photos, but good before/during/after shots I think.
Today was all about clearing invasive/noxious english ivy on the shoreline. This property honestly needs a crew of guys for a few days to rip it all out and then keep it knocked back, but I was hired for a day on the more technical work of freeing the trees, some of which had already been totally overwhelmed and killed by the ivy as well as a lot of the low limbs which I would have otherwise kept. The battery Husky 540i really shined today on this small stuff. (Husky, want to sponsor me??
I couldn't address everything in my 8-hour timeframe, especially the upper ivy in the crab apple and in the top of the pine, but I got all of the biggest issues addressed and only got lit up by wasps once! Great way to start the morning....
Do you work by yourself or do you have someone helping you? Just curious.
Serf Life
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Maine Island
Was pretty good at 40ish feet, 18” or so. Had that weird knocking feeling super dead trees have.
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