Stumpsprouts
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I’ll take some photos tomorrow… This will be a whole week. I’ll take some photos of the pipes too, they look pretty vintage.
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Serf Life
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What a unique project! Wicked neat
Lovely pics bro.
Only the hardcores do work like this. Nuff respect.View attachment 93611
Easily one of the strangest and most fun jobs I’ve done. We are at the Biltmore estate pruning back 100 year old Wisteria vines to 2” and greater. The metal support should probably be condemned which is partly why the haircut is so extreme- the last time they really cut it like this was in 2005, maybe @Tom Dunlap did it? I think my metal arbor tie in point energized me a little?
Not my usual kind of work, but I'm currently doing a land clearing project to transform this rather overstocked and unhealthy chunk of forest into an eventual meadow/orchard/garden.
Felling trees all day and letting an excavator handle all the material is a ton of fun, and the customer took out his drone and got some cool footage yesterday. Too bad I look kind of fat in it
Felling trees all day and letting an excavator handle all the material is a ton of fun, and the customer took out his drone and got some cool footage yesterday. Too bad I look kind of fat in it
Stumpsprouts
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Today was day 3 of 5 for the Wisteria / Trumpet creeper prune of a lifetime. The crew has varying levels of allergic sensitivity to the material and unfortunately I am not as sensitive to it so I had the pleasure of climbing and chipping both yesterday and today. It is pretty fun to get to know the scaffolding and play Tetris working around vines that hang low, irreplaceable statues, limestone that we can’t even rake on let alone drop a branch, and a flow of pedestrians under part of the drop zone that starts at 8:30 and never stops. Also all the material got tossed off the balcony to the chipper 30’ below.
My friend Andrew Link who I’m climbing for came up with some great work plans and really thought out of the box with it and it really has been a joy, even though my body feels like shit right now. He got all the scaffolding lined up as well as lots of sheets of advantech we kept moving around to give us a place to drop the material and something to keep us from making contact with the limestone.
Here I am above the structure, actually standing on the vines for a while.
Here’s a photo of an insane rat’s nest:
Same spot, after exactly 1 hour of pruning:
A closeup of the ironwork, some vines being vines. There were wires in conduits, exposed electric wires (seemed to be low voltage, pigtailed with electric tape), coaxial cable, fishing line, and in addition to the metal support structure, a wire support every lateral 2’. I bumped my Sena as many times today as I have in probably a year of tree work.
Here’s a look at the end of today, we are roughly 2/3 done, sadly I won’t be on the project to complete it but also I’m pretty happy to take a break from the toxic material.
My friend Andrew Link who I’m climbing for came up with some great work plans and really thought out of the box with it and it really has been a joy, even though my body feels like shit right now. He got all the scaffolding lined up as well as lots of sheets of advantech we kept moving around to give us a place to drop the material and something to keep us from making contact with the limestone.
Here I am above the structure, actually standing on the vines for a while.
Here’s a photo of an insane rat’s nest:
Same spot, after exactly 1 hour of pruning:
A closeup of the ironwork, some vines being vines. There were wires in conduits, exposed electric wires (seemed to be low voltage, pigtailed with electric tape), coaxial cable, fishing line, and in addition to the metal support structure, a wire support every lateral 2’. I bumped my Sena as many times today as I have in probably a year of tree work.
Here’s a look at the end of today, we are roughly 2/3 done, sadly I won’t be on the project to complete it but also I’m pretty happy to take a break from the toxic material.
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That’s some incredible work! I can hardly imagine the patience required to get through a specimen of that maturity. I’ve done my share of Wisteria going by the same plan (leaving “Highways” and cutting off “By-roads”), but nothing that thick. Really impressive to have so mitigate the damage to so many constraints. Great job!
Stumpsprouts
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Thank you.
I forgot to mention, the whole time I was thinking of Catherine Zeta-Jones in that scene from Entrapment where she weaves in and out of the lasers..
Treemuel
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Just a little Norway maple I didn’t want to drop on their lawn
Matias
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Those are always fun pictures
This is very stupid.
So I needed a new 16" bar for my new ported 201T (hope to finally use it next week, will report back after some time with it) and ordered one from the shop since they were out of stock. What came in was the new 'light 04' model, same specs (16", .050, 3/8p), exact same part number, but even if only by a few grams, is certainly not 'light' compared to the old model, plus, its very ugly....
So I needed a new 16" bar for my new ported 201T (hope to finally use it next week, will report back after some time with it) and ordered one from the shop since they were out of stock. What came in was the new 'light 04' model, same specs (16", .050, 3/8p), exact same part number, but even if only by a few grams, is certainly not 'light' compared to the old model, plus, its very ugly....
Matias
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The weight difference is probably from the missing paint and worn off metal. Seems like the exact same bar
Agree, but the 'old' and used bar, even though I blew it off with the air compressor, still has a coat of oil and debris on it which probalby adds a few grams compared to a never used bar. Probably evens out, but point being, if something has "LIGHT" written on it, it better be noticibly lighter than the old 'non-light' bar......
Plus, what the heck does '04' mean??? a 20 year old car model?
Chipper’s down waiting a couple days for parts. Had to stuff the back yard until the subcontractor bails us out tomorrow AM with his chipper. Access is -3’ on one side and 5’ on the other. So many service drops on the street I can’t even raise the boom on the log truck until going down to the next block. Youch!
southsoundtree
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Craning piles or loader-carried to the street?
Any tricks for craning brush piles?
Any tricks for craning brush piles?
Preset an eye to eye sling, or endless round, on the ground. Pile the brush on top and cinch it up.
southsoundtree
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- Olympia, WA
That was my thought. I'd consider tying some up out of rope.
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