Serf Life
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Maine Island
Speed line brush, self neg rig then controlled speedline, neg rig chunks to make barrier, push chunks, carry/roll chunks uphill and over stone wall to drive, two tired people.
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- Thread starter Leroy
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Speed line brush, self neg rig then controlled speedline, neg rig chunks to make barrier, push chunks, carry/roll chunks uphill and over stone wall to drive, two tired people.
chiselbit
Been here a while
Nice job. Did they build the house around the tree? Gotta love that mentality. or maybe they just let a volunteer grow in a bad spot until it was a problem? Either way it keeps folks like us entertained. Did you have an aerial friction device up in the tree with you for the control line?l
Serf Life
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Maine Island
I think it was a volunteer they let grow. The eighty year old owner said “wish my father cut it down,” lol. Yep, I used a small porty aloft and Sean used the mini to tension the speedline, nice to have Reg’s videos to learn from.
VenasNursery
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- Location
- Michigan
Awesome work!
Looks like a FUN 1
Great work! Lots of care taken to keep things straight. Sweet rig!
southsoundtree
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- Location
- Olympia, WA
Getting my strength back after being sick, starting a week ago.
Started this cracked into the Lombardi poplar for my neighbor on Monday, when he spotted it. Luckily, it was windy.
Crazy thin shell.
I wanted to pull the last leader, but will go back up and pull off pieces leaning over the fence. Way to rotten.
Started this cracked into the Lombardi poplar for my neighbor on Monday, when he spotted it. Luckily, it was windy.
Crazy thin shell.
I wanted to pull the last leader, but will go back up and pull off pieces leaning over the fence. Way to rotten.
chiselbit
Been here a while
I like your choice of trees for a nice break in, back to work tree.
Z'sTrees
Branched out member
- Location
- Hartsel CO
Helping @Keeth and his son last Friday with these two oaks. The bigger one had to rig alot of the limbs down, blow a big top then pull the stick off the lean (about 10' in 35-40'). The rotten one needed a stripped up then pulled backwards into the woods. The rot was a bit of a surprise. Looked and felt solid as can be.
A somewhat rare in-town job, in a tight city-style yard. Fir was maybe... 130-140', first real limb about 90', so brought out the 300' climbline and lowering line for this. It had two dead limbs and a good number of long limbs with a ton of end-weight, the kind that like to break and fall on the house, garden or fence. The dead ones were the the only things removed, otherwise it was just tip weight. The tree had been prune by someone before, but they obviously just did a deadwood/cleanout near the trunk, and left all the harder and more skilled tip reductions to the next person.... which was me. Still, kind of fun and nice weather.
Reach
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- Location
- Atglen, PA
Looks great! And good to know we are not the only guys who do that kind of tight space work, although we don’t get telephone poles that tall around here, we mostly get to battle giant sprawling trees.
Thanks, this was a lot more like the work I was doing back in Seattle than the majority my work these days, which is more in the woods than landscaped spaces like this one. Back then I was the guy on the ground though!
VenasNursery
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Michigan
Awesome shots as always Sir!
Some nasty trees solo including chipping, a few hours each on separate days. The cedar lost its top naturally decades ago and was just a weak tree in a bad place, was like 5 mini removals on a pedestal, the pine cracked in recent wind as they tend to do but stayed mostly upright. The line in the neighboring tree wasn't very good, but it was better than nothing, and with the straps plus getting some heavy limbs off, felt totally safe and solid to climb.
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Pics from a cool job we did early spring. It’s a veterans memorial park built after
“The World War” in early 20’s. This monoculture of Tulip Poplars is thriving 100 years later. The for site the architects had is impressive to say the least. These are East Coast Giants. My bucket truck was useless on this job. Only detail slightly overlooked was the entrances into the circle of monuments. It was a 12’opening of a high curb with a Tulip in the middle flanked by sidewalks. After 100 years the root plate became to wide and elevated to allow entry from surrounding blacktop road.
“The World War” in early 20’s. This monoculture of Tulip Poplars is thriving 100 years later. The for site the architects had is impressive to say the least. These are East Coast Giants. My bucket truck was useless on this job. Only detail slightly overlooked was the entrances into the circle of monuments. It was a 12’opening of a high curb with a Tulip in the middle flanked by sidewalks. After 100 years the root plate became to wide and elevated to allow entry from surrounding blacktop road.
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Treezybreez
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Lancaster, SC
Cut down a dying white oak that was 150 years old, so a seedling in 1868. I believe Oak wilt got it.
