Bid that tree!

[southsoundtree]

I've heard from an adjuster that they want the customer taken care of, And make sure the invoice says $500 for disposal, with the other side more open-ended.

 

[Serf Life]

Rotten pine removal ~24" 70', house side has a long old rotten crack but tree is in decent shape to climb/rig. The tape measure is laid out 8', septic line/tank/cleanout in the way so machine access is debatable with matting on the edge by stairs. Water side has a shear cliff and no trees 180 deg away for rigging use.

 

[southsoundtree]

What are the dimensions and job specs for processing/ hauling/ disposal?

Skidding or carrying material?


Is it a speedline or straight down rigging scene?


Acceptable ground impact?

 

[evo]

Is there a way to land the material, set a redirect and yard brush up the slope on the side of the path?

 

[Bendroctanus]

Helicopter it out.

 

[Neill]

sounds suspiciously like a hand carry situation. Dibs on climbing
$2400/3600?
Have you sent a proposal already?

 

[Serf Life]

What are the dimensions and job specs for processing/ hauling/ disposal

All hauled

Skidding or carrying material?

Heck no are we carrying by hand or cart!

Is it a speedline or straight down rigging

Tree is leaning towards house over the deck and no trees 180 to rig off, so speedline options are not great but possible.

Acceptable ground impact?

Good question, given the lack of access I said to expect some damage

Is there a way to land the material, set a redirect and yard brush up the slope on the side of the path?

that's my plan, the right angle 140' dotted line I marked has a spruce to redirect off.

 

[Serf Life]

sounds suspiciously like a hand carry situation. Dibs on climbing
$2400/3600?
Have you sent a proposal already?

I did yep, and we have stopped accepting hand carry projects of any trunk/substantial volume. One payday followed by days out with back pain I've learned too often. Fool me once shame on you, fool me ahh ya can't get fooled again...

 

[evo]

I’d probably figure x2 days one for the brush and the top 1/3 or whatever is chip able. A short day for the wood, winching it up and machine loading.
Take the rest of the day off recovering.
So $3600ish
If the winch is on a chipper maybe try to hump it all up and chip brush on day one, stage wood and come back later for the wood.

 

[oceans]

Rotten pine removal ~24" 70', house side has a long old rotten crack but tree is in decent shape to climb/rig. The tape measure is laid out 8', septic line/tank/cleanout in the way so machine access is debatable with matting on the edge by stairs. Water side has a shear cliff and no trees 180 deg away for rigging use. View attachment 100146View attachment 100147View attachment 100148View attachment 100149View attachment 100150View attachment 100151

Spider crane in the driveway fairly close to the septic covers. Outriggers full square, foot under the porch if need be. LZ in front of the house if feasible or on ground protection mats. 3 Hands. Crane. Chipper. Log truck later. $2,750 ~ $3,250

 

[oceans]

Oops. “There may be new posts in this thread”.

Climbing and no assistance from any machinery would definitely be a much different scenario.

Still 3 hands. Rent a gas winch for the day? Gonna go with $3,500.

 

[southsoundtree]

I don't understand the comment about no trees 180⁰ for speedlining.


Power wheel barrow?

Winch an Arbortrolley?

 

[Njdelaney]

Send that thing off the cliff in big pieces and go home! Underwater structure fish habitat.

 

[Neill]

Send that thing off the cliff in big pieces and go home! Underwater structure fish habitat.

Sounds like a dream. What would you charge for that? 450?

 

[Njdelaney]

I'm guessing it would need to be limbed up in order to do that so probably more. How much does it cost to get there? What are the risks? Lots to factor in. If it could be felled as a single tree over the cliff with some great wedge action or creating pulling, yeah $450. Tie a huge rock to some Manila rope that's tied to the top and throw the rock over the cliff to pull it in that direction and then fell it. Now THAT would be fun!

 

[27RMT0N]

I was just looking at a job yesterday, tall fir snag between the house and shoreline, one of my ideas was have a boat on the pull-line... never done it but heard of others doing it. The real question is how to handle cleanup after that, especially with saltwater and sand.

 

[Njdelaney]

Is it a big no-no around your islands to tie rocks to a log(tree) and just sink it, providing your in deep enough water to avoid contacting the bottom of watercraft?

 

[RogerM]

I want to see a boat pull a tree over. please document

 

[Matias]

I want to see a boat pull a tree over. please document

For real though. I am imagining a strong tug boat or something very large, and some kind of "running start".

 

[Bendroctanus]

Anybody seen “Big Timber” on Netflix? Oh yeah. They do it.