Big tree Small LZ

Way to be. Thats the standard LZ here in San Diego lol these folks are nutz.
I hate tall spindly bean pole eucs,my least favorite thing I'd say,bigger stuff with a good g-man on my line;love it!like you said its my favorite too.
i was just mentioning today at work how much i just love rigging shit up .whatever it is.

looks like you spent alot of time gaffed up waiting for those pieces to get processed,how long we're up there each day ya think?
 
Sgriff said:
how long we're up there each day ya think?
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Thankyou Sgriff, only came down at lunch time and knockoff the first day, came down for lunch and felled the last section after lunch then stayed on to cut up the wood on the second day.
not too bad with those pfanner boots so well padded and the new big velcro wrap pads really help make the difference.
my biggest problem was the 660 dragged my cutter pants off my hips and were hanging down past my arse cheeks by the time I got to the bottom of the stem my bottom was well exposed :oops:
need a new harness and some kind of suspenders
cheers Ben.
 
Thats decent on the legs,i rock the gecko gaffs and 16" wesco,im always comfey. Yeah! The drawers issue I hate that shnit,saddle pulling damn pants of my ass. I made the mistake of buying the sherrill edge saddle and it hardly stays on me when a rope and tophandle saw are clipped to it! I know I could secure it in a snug setting but there are so many other things I don't favor i just want to replace it.its few months old and at $400 bones i can think of some other gear i want too!?!?
 
standard 7.5 hours contract on a day rate doesnt include packing up the gear at the end of the job but I like to sort it out myself before leaving site so I am cool with that. lunch time isn't paid time so normally 8 hrs on the clock.
Sgriff said:
standard LZ here in San Diego
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Eucs do really well over in that part of the USA I hear , only see vids with eucs coming from the west coast.
 
Stihlmadd said:
standard 7.5 hours contract on a day rate doesnt include packing up the gear at the end of the job but I like to sort it out myself before leaving site so I am cool with that. lunch time isn't paid time so normally 8 hrs on the clock.
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[emoji41] that's right lol,just checkin



Yeah the eucs runnin rampant over here,especially so-cal.not quite up to par with how they get in ?the native setting/forest? Im pretty sure,dont they push over 200' there? I have always felt confident saying that to anyone who has never been there themselves......[emoji15]
 
Great work Ben. Did the guy on the roof break and tiles walking on them? They are pretty brittle aren't they?

Can't wait to see a video with some international tree gear. Lol. My chipper went to Poland when I sold it an now some of my, well yours now, srt gear is in Australia. It's like the garden gnome people take pictures of all over the world. Lol
 
Stihlmadd said:
thankyou John I get into big rigging it is a bit of a passion. :)
those pieces were coming in close to the ton mark at the end and being snatched instead of run out is a interesting proposal in normal sites .
three other companies walked away from this one but it looked doable (y)
and so it was for the willing :D
Ben
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Hopefully the fact that three other companies turned it down meant that you got premium pay for the work.

Tim
 
I loved the filming and editing, Ben! The shot with the sawdust coming down like snow was epic.

Does the eucalyptus sawdust cause any type of irritation?
 
Stihlmadd said:
Thankyou Sgriff, only came down at lunch time and knockoff the first day, came down for lunch and felled the last section after lunch then stayed on to cut up the wood on the second day.
not too bad with those pfanner boots so well padded and the new big velcro wrap pads really help make the difference.
my biggest problem was the 660 dragged my cutter pants off my hips and were hanging down past my arse cheeks by the time I got to the bottom of the stem my bottom was well exposed :oops:
need a new harness and some kind of suspenders
cheers Ben.
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Ben I've found connecting the big saws to my climbing system like the ring or bottom of swivel or third hole of hitch climbrr works good for for supporting weight of saw instead of your hips and back . keep for depantsing you if nothing else . showing that white moon in front of that big ol Aussie sun . Groundies start thinking there's an eclipse or something!
 
Stihlmadd said:
Measuring the UC Berkeley Strawberry Creek Eucalyptus Grove
have you watched this one?
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I just watched some,my friggin internet is jankey.
thats what I thought though,nice,i would have to say that my guess of the larger ones here being in the 150' range is accurate,the highest measured tye in point that I've hit was 110';it had been reduced to that height on the trunk (to a 30" lateral)years before .i just measured it with my amount of rope used for the climb.
Definitely the kind of tree you eat your lunch in lol.
 
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southsoundtree said:
Good one , Ben!!

Sgriff, is that a sizing issue? I wore one before and liked it. Send like the Ergolite. My ErgoLite has become too big, and droops too much.
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Yea sizing issue from the factory,it says they run big so i got a size small,all my previous saddles were medium,still big on me.i also dislike some of the design but,that's another deal.
 
Ben there are people that do their job because they are good at it, and there are people that do their job and are good at it because they love it. i dont know you outside of how you present here, so this is just and assumption, but it seems you just love doing what your doing when your doing it. your videos are an add for your service, its just Ben doing Ben while doing work (and editing footage). its part of what makes Smashdown stand out as Smashdown.
keep bringing' it man.
still, one of the funnest / intense moments Smashdown pro. brought me was: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_W_bhwuI4c
 
Steve Connally said:
Great work Ben. Did the guy on the roof break and tiles walking on them? They are pretty brittle aren't they?
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thank you very much Steve, no as much as I would like to pin the young fella for it the tiles broke when I lowered the first piece out on the initial ascent, when possible I like to send down some fluff to get things going on and keep the crew busy while freeing up snags for later rigging and set my system in place if possible early on.:cool:
the limb above it had snapped then set and healed so when I rigged out the limb underneath it the shock factor tore the remainder of the cambium and the upper limb rode down on the rigged out piece then flipped off onto the roof pinging four roof tiles and thankfully nothing else. :whistle:
$30.00 AU and a trip to Big Leon fixed that up but with the weather being iffy we tarped it over straight away.

Steve Connally said:
now some of my, well yours now, srt gear is in Australia
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is that pink nail polish on the rapide? :) just asking....
 
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