Birdyman88
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- Location
- Arlington
Man, that's something reminiscent of Graeme McMahon. A lot of art, and some science, and some more art.
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Winchman
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- Location
- Southwest Georgia
If I were in a tree like that, the weird knocking would be my knees.
Serf Life
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Maine Island
Like a chihuahua is reminiscent of a wolf…
dmonn
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- Location
- Port Washington Wisconsin
My stepson had a tree that looked like that in his yard. I tossed a pull line up about 25 feet, and pulled it over by hand. No MA needed!
Fun project for one of my favorite regular customers. He just lets me do what I want in terms of tree work to beautify the multi-acre property, and even buys me lunch. When I left the other day, he asked to schedule two more days actually.
There is this group of spruce, right along the water at this tiny cove, and it's visible from every room on this side of the house. Spruce wind up with a TON of interior deadwood as the grow, and this cluster was like a solid black wall. The task here was just to remove that interior deadwood, to feature the structure of the trees and provide some filtered views of the water through them, removing as little live material as possible. In the entire day, I think I only removed a single live limb over 2". Shot a line from the ground in the tallest tree and from there used natural redirects to prune 6 of the 7 trees from that original point before running out of time/daylight.
There is this group of spruce, right along the water at this tiny cove, and it's visible from every room on this side of the house. Spruce wind up with a TON of interior deadwood as the grow, and this cluster was like a solid black wall. The task here was just to remove that interior deadwood, to feature the structure of the trees and provide some filtered views of the water through them, removing as little live material as possible. In the entire day, I think I only removed a single live limb over 2". Shot a line from the ground in the tallest tree and from there used natural redirects to prune 6 of the 7 trees from that original point before running out of time/daylight.
Jehinten
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Evansville
I was working near this job and stopped in to get some pics of the new carving. Turned out pretty good I think.
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chiselbit
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Dropping fire damaged trees over the canal on steep ground. Had logs laid alongside canal to keep the trees off the cement
Well right after @evo and I were talking about how madrones almost never uproot, here was one that did. To be fair it was growing up against a rock face, had literally NO roots on the entire tension side of the tree, was like 70' tall and was growing at a 60* angle.
Anyways, it very slowly tipped over and laid gently down on the house, with the top reaching about 25' beyond the other side of the building. Literally the only damage was like two dented wood shingles. It didn't even touch the peak of the roof, floating just about 4" above it where it stopped. Talk about lucky. Set a high climbing line in the big fir from the ground, made some redirects on the madrone so I could walk on the slippery roof, and lowered the brush off the water side of the house, basically down 2.5 stories to where the hot tub was. Given the wide roof and lack of rigging options I had to go small, and partly walk pieces down to the edge of the roof and help lower them over the edge by hand which was time consuming, but zero impact.
When it came time to lift the log off, I was going to use my truck but pull out the slack/stretch in the system with the 5:1 first since I didn't have a lot of room to move and waste. We started 'taking up the slack' and next thing I know, I look over and the whole log had already lifted off the house! For something as heavy and at as low an angle as this was, I did not expect it to lift off so easily! Between that, a second rigging line on a porty to control swing, and then facing it to fold away from the house, it popped off the stump and we simultaneously lowered it to the ground.
Cool project and excellent scenery. Didn't get any raven or eagle photos, but they were flying around as we worked.
Anyways, it very slowly tipped over and laid gently down on the house, with the top reaching about 25' beyond the other side of the building. Literally the only damage was like two dented wood shingles. It didn't even touch the peak of the roof, floating just about 4" above it where it stopped. Talk about lucky. Set a high climbing line in the big fir from the ground, made some redirects on the madrone so I could walk on the slippery roof, and lowered the brush off the water side of the house, basically down 2.5 stories to where the hot tub was. Given the wide roof and lack of rigging options I had to go small, and partly walk pieces down to the edge of the roof and help lower them over the edge by hand which was time consuming, but zero impact.
When it came time to lift the log off, I was going to use my truck but pull out the slack/stretch in the system with the 5:1 first since I didn't have a lot of room to move and waste. We started 'taking up the slack' and next thing I know, I look over and the whole log had already lifted off the house! For something as heavy and at as low an angle as this was, I did not expect it to lift off so easily! Between that, a second rigging line on a porty to control swing, and then facing it to fold away from the house, it popped off the stump and we simultaneously lowered it to the ground.
Cool project and excellent scenery. Didn't get any raven or eagle photos, but they were flying around as we worked.
evo
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- My Island, WA
Shake roof? Those always give me pause..
Serf Life
Been here much more than a while
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- Maine Island
Nicely done
The absolute worst. Fragile as hell, no grip (especially after rain), often in poor condition. And it's not like I climbed up onto the roof when I did the bid to inspect the whole thing, so that was a gamble. I specifically wrote into the bid for them to OK that I wouldn't be held liable for potential damage that came from the walking on the roof necessary to deal with the tree, and they were fine with that. Otherwise, I wouldn't have taken the job. And one dropped limb or stub, you can split a shingle leading to costly repairs.... so many shake roofs out here, always bid extra for working over one.
evo
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- My Island, WA
Nothin like some good black and whites! I like contrast...
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Glad you are progressing so well. My son had emergency back surgery this past wednesday and is in the hospital. He is my groundie which is going to throw a wrench in my side work. Surgeon said it was the worst case he had ever seen. Normal 90 minute surgery took 3 hours.
Here’s to a speedy recovery for your son oldoak. Make sure he is patient and take his time coming back.
