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Working at a lakeside camp the last couple days. Love my job! :)IMG_3961.jpeg

Tried to convince them to leave this snag for the critters, but alas:
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Didn't care if I hit the rock in this case, but that would have been some precision felling if I intended it, haha!
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Some serious white rot in these red maples. Didn't take much of a backcut to release them! I didn't see any fruiting bodies, but anyone have an idea what fungus that causes white rot in the heartwood would be commonly found in red maples? I see similar decay in a lot of Acer rubrum around here or often failures due to the rot progressing into tension wood. I'm definitely no expert on fungal decay though, so could also be multiple different culprits...
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Treetopflyer said:
What’s this mek I see?!
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That’s my bud’s truck. He got into a monster co-dominant Tillia and a 4 stemmed Sycamore Maple beneath. Good sized deadwood tops had fallen out and hung up across separate trunk sections. It would have been a whole day just to whittle apart the top of the Linden alone, so he asked if I would sling them apart with him.

The spinny grabby thingy was still attached from the prior day when I got there, so I kindly asked we grab/hand cut a few sticks and then take that darn thing off so we can get some work done with slings! :)
 
oceans said:
That’s my bud’s truck. He got into a monster co-dominant Tillia and a 4 stemmed Sycamore Maple beneath. Good sized deadwood tops had fallen out and hung up across separate trunk sections. It would have been a whole day just to whittle apart the top of the Linden alone, so he asked if I would sling them apart with him.

The spinny grabby thingy was still attached from the prior day when I got there, so I kindly asked we grab/hand cut a few sticks and then take that darn thing off so we can get some work done with slings!
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I Agree as an operator and climber I prefer sling setting to that mekkin Stuff. It’s like old school cool laid back work. Mekkin makes my eye sockets sweat lol
 
Treetopflyer said:
I Agree as an operator and climber I prefer sling setting to that mekkin Stuff. It’s like old school cool laid back work. Mekkin makes my eye sockets sweat lol
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CLIENT: “Is that crane op crying uncontrollably?”

NEAREST GROUND WORKER (puts his smart phone and e-cigarette away): “No, no, no. That’s actually his eye sockets sweating.”

CLIENT: “That’s a thing?”

OTHER GROUND WORKER (doesn’t look away from his smart phone): “We see this all the time ma’am.”

CLIENT: “So do you all actually expect to finish today?”

CRANE OP (begins convulsing): “There’s no way…”
 
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Emergency job for older couple with grandkids coming to visit. The fractured limb was six inches in diameter, so I had to finish some cuts with the handsaw. Just couldn't one-hand the little chainsaw into the right place.
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All that kinda got lost in the huge pile of storm debris from other properties at the street.
 
Serf Life said:
@KTSmith any shortlist of fungal agents for red maple heart rot like above?
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Sorry for late reply!
Of course there are a bunch of white rotters that can occur on living red maple. But the image definitely looks like the white stringy rot produced by what I learned as Polyporus glomeratus and which has been variously placed in various segregate genera including Inonotus and Rigidonotus.
The kicker is that it just about never fruits on living trees and only rarely on standing snags. The decay is common but the fruiting on dead and downed trees is usually missed.
 
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