chiselbit
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Gator! With a dragonfly sidekick
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Winchman
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- Southwest Georgia
Yeah, I can see that now that you mention it. I was seeing a dagger right off, though.
Shadowscape
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Looks like a surfaced submarine that just launched a missile.
Winchman
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- Southwest Georgia
I'm surprised I didn't seen that. Many years ago (in what now seems like another life) I was a lead engineer in a Navy facility that assembled and tested submarine-launched missiles, and then loaded them on the subs. On a typical day I'd be surrounded by several hundred thousand pounds of high explosives and other nasty stuff guarded by young Marines armed with assault rifles and sawed-off shotguns.
Climbing trees seems pretty safe compared to that.
Winchman
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- Southwest Georgia
Spent a pleasant evening doing a dead limb removal from a wonderful big oak tree.
Rigged it from high up and further out, cut it with the razor saw, and lowered it well clear of everything while I was in the tree.
I was planning to use the chainsaw, but changed my mind when I wasn't able to get my lanyard around something suitable for chainsaw work. Cutting the part that wasn't rotten yet was a good workout.
Rigged it from high up and further out, cut it with the razor saw, and lowered it well clear of everything while I was in the tree.
I was planning to use the chainsaw, but changed my mind when I wasn't able to get my lanyard around something suitable for chainsaw work. Cutting the part that wasn't rotten yet was a good workout.
This one is a little picture heavy, but thought it was an interesting project to share the steps of. A bit of a fight to be honest.
A 130 or so foot tall doug fir uprooted and hung up in the fork of a big leaf maple, with it's top near a grand fir and hanging over the main road on the island. I ascended the grand fir, tied off the top of the uprooted doug fir and cut a massive top, hoping to swing it away from the road and drop it back in the woods. Instead it caught and hung a maple below, but the line still kept it away from the road and kept it from crushing other trees which would have also ended up on the road. With that much weight off, I climbed out on the leaning fir trunk and took pieces off until it was to the fork in the maple, and came to the ground. The hope was to just make a few easy cuts at the base to drop it out of the maple crotch until the stick fell on the ground, but it ended up taking a few salami cuts, face cuts, pinched the bar once, and two different winch positions to get the stick out. Lots of awkward forces on trees like that, and had to work pretty hard to keep it from falling into an even worse position in the multi-stem maple. Worked out well though and was a nice project under perfect weather. The customer also fed us sandwiches and strawberry shortcake, so that was great.
A 130 or so foot tall doug fir uprooted and hung up in the fork of a big leaf maple, with it's top near a grand fir and hanging over the main road on the island. I ascended the grand fir, tied off the top of the uprooted doug fir and cut a massive top, hoping to swing it away from the road and drop it back in the woods. Instead it caught and hung a maple below, but the line still kept it away from the road and kept it from crushing other trees which would have also ended up on the road. With that much weight off, I climbed out on the leaning fir trunk and took pieces off until it was to the fork in the maple, and came to the ground. The hope was to just make a few easy cuts at the base to drop it out of the maple crotch until the stick fell on the ground, but it ended up taking a few salami cuts, face cuts, pinched the bar once, and two different winch positions to get the stick out. Lots of awkward forces on trees like that, and had to work pretty hard to keep it from falling into an even worse position in the multi-stem maple. Worked out well though and was a nice project under perfect weather. The customer also fed us sandwiches and strawberry shortcake, so that was great.
Winchman
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- Southwest Georgia
I'm in awe of the skills and self confidence you and other people on this forum have to take on something like this and get it done so well.
Winchman
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- Southwest Georgia
This leaning Leyland pine was just tall enough to hit the house in the direction of the lean.
I rigged it to the tree to the left so it wouldn't land hard on the Gardenia bush when I made the cut.
I was able to remove the limbs that might damage the Gardenia before lowering it all the way.
Then I cleaned it up with no damage at all.
I rigged it to the tree to the left so it wouldn't land hard on the Gardenia bush when I made the cut.
I was able to remove the limbs that might damage the Gardenia before lowering it all the way.
Then I cleaned it up with no damage at all.
Treezybreez
Been here much more than a while
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- Lancaster, SC
Big Sweetgum...
Treezybreez
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- Lancaster, SC
I’m likin how close that first half hitch is to the block. Nice work. Looks like some good pretension in the rig line by the way the block is poking out as the piece is coming over. Undermined COG on that face cut?
There was a time I would leave my positioning lanyard under the block like that. Now I reset it above after tying off the block.
There was a time I would leave my positioning lanyard under the block like that. Now I reset it above after tying off the block.
Treezybreez
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- Lancaster, SC
Thanks for the complement Oceans. I've been doing deeper face cuts on larger diameter pieces for a few years now. I think It's easier and faster to let gravity tip it, then to expend a bunch of energy attempting to push a chunk over.
I prefer to have my lanyard under the block sling for two reasons: it won't pop off if there is a violent shock load and it sequentially makes more sense.
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That's some nice photography! Beautiful day!
Serf Life
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- Maine Island
Sweetgum wood good for milling/firewood? Nice work!
Treezybreez
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- Lancaster, SC
My client and friend Andrew Sims is a very talented individual. He even got some nice video too.
Treezybreez
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- Lancaster, SC
Sweetgum is a pain to split. Some folks mix the branch wood with other hardwood firewood. The grain twists so milling it is a waste of time. I've heard it's good for turning on a lathe.
Treezybreez
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- Lancaster, SC
Sweetgum trees do have some good uses. They can survive livestock damage to the cambium. So they make a good shade tree for horses and goats. I've seen beaver chew all the bark off a two foot section all around the trunk. The tree was still alive and growing wound wood!
I have a 90' sweet gum at the front of my house and I HATE cleaning up the prickly balls it drops. I was going to take it down this year, and replace it with some river birches but a hawk decided to set up camp in the canopy, so the tree will get another year of life raising a hawk family. Next year, it's firewood!
