A morning hike....tall tree.

Terrific job on the tree and video Gord, thanks for taking the time ...and keep em coming!
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Who do you have taking the pictures?
 
yo Gord....cool....I was wondering if i guessed a little short! Wish I had pics/vid of the tallest tree I've removed...maybe 12 yrs ago. It was only about 38" on the butt, but scaled out at 2600 feet or so...and some broke, or it would have been close to 3000. I topped the last 30 feet, then dropped about 76 feet from 78 feet up, with branches on. Landed flat, and broke. We also did about 6-7 hemlock. It was a no haul, split the proceeds with the customer, and made plenty, as fir was paying $1100 or more per mbf back then!

I just looked into a nice flash memory card based Canon HD camcorder....sweet, and under $700....top rated consumer cam.....then i can get a helmet cam! Great for tree work and skiing....Now that I can get hi speed 16 gb SDHC cards for $75, which is what I paid for 4 gb ones a year or so ago, that's now the way to go with camcorders, it sounds like.
 
Great hike.
I showed it to my apprentice, and it totally blew his mind.
We got to discussing something though:
Is there a reason why you cut all the limbs off? Wouldn't it have been easier to leave a few on the side you wanted the logs to fall towards. That way they could have pulled the logs over and you would't have had to use wedges.
 
Hey Stig I suppose there's reasons to do it either way, for me I choose to cut off all the limbs on my way up and not have to get around them using alternate lanyard method. Also I fold the limbs away from me to keep them from snagging my climbing line (they jerk pretty hard if they fall from 100' feet or so) which would be bothersome if I was leaving some on the one side.

I suppose another reason would be the limbs would slow the rotation of the log and make a flat landing more difficult to predict. (not that the logs landed entirely flat, but I was being greedy.)

I suppose it's a matter of preference. I don't mind tapping a wedge a little.
 
That is pretty much what we had figured out, except the part about saving the logs.
Thanks for answering. We were just talking about how great the internet is for stuff like this. We wondered about your way of doing things and so we thought: "hey.let's just ask him".
Not too many years back, that would have been impossible.
 
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