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  1. Oxman

    Seattle Landscape Symposium

    Elements In The Garden is a one-day Symposium at University of Washington's Center For Urban Horticulture from 10AM-4PM on January 29th, 2009. Presented as their annual symposium by the Washington Chapter of the Association of Professional Landsape Designers. Part of a national network, the...
  2. Oxman

    Giant Swing at Treehouse Resort

    Giant Swing This is a tourist trap down in Southern Oregon.
  3. Oxman

    Mounting a reel on a slingshot

    A good type of line behaves & stays put on the reel. There is a rather odd feature of comfortably broken in tools. By the time they're good & broke in, they're worn out. Fireline gets flat, like a ribbon, when its old. This can make it not feed off the spool reliably. Thats how you know...
  4. Oxman

    Mounting a reel on a slingshot

    Here's a suggestion. Take an old traverse curtain rod & use the angle section that screws to the wall. I found some at a thrift store for a quarter. Bolt that to the handle of the slingshot. Just attach a dowell to it with radiator hose clamps. In this case, we used the tubular steel...
  5. Oxman

    Traverse at 180'

    Traverse at 180\' Here's a video of a traverse at 180' above the ground. It's Kreg going from the Bogachiel Spruce into BSII. The tree on the right is about 225'. Click here for video.
  6. Oxman

    Big snow brings fun work

    Good observation. The gable over the porch cradled the base of the log securely against the main roof. If we would have started cutting the work, it would have begun to slide.
  7. Oxman

    Big snow brings fun work

    Heres the shot from halfway up a neighboring 150' Hemlock. The tiptie block was hung from here. Taken with the Nikon D90 SLR camera in D Movie mode. Up On De Rooof! video clip.
  8. Oxman

    Big snow brings fun work

    More video of the rooftop action. Does it look steep or slippery? Hauling up snow-encrusted 3/4" lowering line.
  9. Oxman

    Big snow brings fun work

    We knew the tip hoist line would have a lot of pressure on it. The night before we put a lot of lifting force on the butt end, but it wouldn't budge. Limbs poking thru the roof was a possibility, because the snow concealed the roof from view. To fully utilize the cranking power of the GRCS, the...
  10. Oxman

    Big snow brings fun work

    Here's a video of Roger knocking down the trunk with his hopped up Dolmar.
  11. Oxman

    A Fir Removal

    Close-up of the climber. All righty, let those comments about one-handing the 020 and the 046 fly. I tried to embed these stills in the video, but the Windows Movie Maker software crashed. Maybe it was because they are housed on an external hard drive. All these shots & video were taken...
  12. Oxman

    A Fir Removal

    OK, enough torture, heres the video, called Fir Topping Movie. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6509320898328126632
  13. Oxman

    A Fir Removal

    Here's some climber stripping off the limbs on the way up. Plywood on the roof kept the raingutter intact. The lawn made a nice drop zone.
  14. Oxman

    A Fir Removal

    Here's a shot of the base of the tree trunks. Don't worry, this is the Buzzbuster Video forum, and the video will appear after we see the preliminary stuff.
  15. Oxman

    A Fir Removal

    Takedown of a couple of Douglas Fir trees in Seattle. These trees were planted too close to the garage, knocking the foundation and roof off. Too bad.
  16. Oxman

    Big snow brings fun work

    Video
  17. Oxman

    Big snow brings fun work

    All done. Here's the after shot. Thanks to rbtree for engineering a smooth operation. Try to imagine the angle this pic was shot from. Remember we said there are lots of nearby trees? This one was on the side of the house, about 30 feet away. We hung a block halfway up here in this 150'...
  18. Oxman

    Snow in Seattle, Tree on Roof

    For more photos of this job, please go to the Rigging & Roping forum at: Big Snow brings fun work in the Rigging & Roping forum on the Buzz
  19. Oxman

    Big snow brings fun work

    Here's the crosspost of the Buzz Buster Video, taken with the Sony GC1 Net Sharing Cam. Handy little gadget. Oxmans video Here's the storm damage call that came in today, Saturday. Roger's truck is directly under the Hemlock top in the opening scene of the video. The broken section of...
  20. Oxman

    Snow in Seattle, Tree on Roof

    Here's the storm damage call that came in today, Saturday. Roger's truck is directly under the Hemlock top, which is lying horizontal on the roof. We walk thru a foot and a half of snow around the back of the house to the see the skinny hemlock broke off about a third of the way up. It's...

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