Bucket Truck - Tree Takedown Vids

man im not a dubstep guy but some of you guys find the dubstep songs that get me going! hopefully that sticks in my head all day while working.
thanks for postin bix
Edit : maybe its just dubstep behind a treework video...
 
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I'm envious of you Bix, you're so positive all the time. I love dubstep and tree action but I cant get behind one handing, lack of ppe, bucket work and removals/ heavy pruning of living trees... know what i mean?
 
Thanks guys, yeah that dub-step type music is nice to edit to and flows with tree work for whatever reason. I don't go around listening to much of it, or go out of my way to listen to music in general... more of a talk-radio listener... or, silence is the best. The truck radio is usually tuned to classic rock. Music is cool, I should get more into it someday.

Worthaug, I appreciate that. I hear ya, it's tough for some to look past, I understand. I look at the tree work, it's real and honest work. Our industry is quickly moving towards workers wearing PPE on the job, all to evolve at a different pace.

I like bucket truck footage, I really want a bucket truck.(y)
 
Production ...you take whatever shot the tree gives you and you use whatever gets her down or pruned quickest while being safe...move on...make more money, buy more tree stuff. Bucket, crane, wraptor, speed=no fat. Now an all day bucket op on a road crew...different aminal. (fat one). But if you have no dependents, or are fine just getting by with your family forget the bucket, forget the one handing, forget the take downs and just prune, and maybe your kid doesn't need to go to college anyway. Its your perceived morals that really count anyway...isn't it?
 
I actually wish I had a bucket many days but the comment was an off handed complement/joke to Bix. In all seriousness, it's best to have all the toys you need to do the work. I did gain a few lbs when I did moistly bucket work.
 
I appreciate that Steve, for me, a bucket truck is about production. I like to see where these guys set it up, and how to keep the bucket/boom in a safe location while working.

But yeah, aerial lifts are the dream, seems like they are still very pricey...
 
Bixler said:
I appreciate that Steve, for me, a bucket truck is about production. I like to see where these guys set it up, and how to keep the bucket/boom in a safe location while working.

But yeah, aerial lifts are the dream, seems like they are still very pricey...
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gotta leave yourself a target free drop area if one is available ...or you might as well do a climb td and where the bucket was is the drop zone
 
i love working with a bucket. i do enough climbing to get my fix, and our rear mount has bailed me out of climbs i wasnt really trying to be doing. and it doesnt take up as much LZ space as a forestry model.

working out of the bucket, i feel like i can learn more about rigging. although you still have to consider work positioning and being out of the way of your rigging, i can focus more on learning/observing/assessing from what im seeing doing or what my work plan is, as opposed to when climbing.

i have plenty of opportunities to do some rigging, it seems all i do is Take Downs. i wish i got to do more...Keep Ups?
 
My progression has been all climbing to mostly bucket to sometimes bucket to all climbing. It totally depends on the situation if productivity will increase with the bucket. The truth of all the space being taken up is on point. Also to make a good day out of it you usually need a chip truck there anyway because the chipper is either always in the way or in a bad spot creating more work for the groundies. I like the fact that I wouldn't have to argue anymore on what's safe to climb and what isn't. I think my outfit is going to buy a 55' rear mount this winter that only I or one other guy can use. Seeing they dropped and entire tree on the last truck. I personally wouldn't waste the cash on a 55'. I'd get the mack daddy with the lift on it. That's what a previous employer had and once I got used to it, that lift is amazing!!! Anyway, not to derail.
 
Steve Connally said:
My progression has been all climbing to mostly bucket to sometimes bucket to all climbing. It totally depends on the situation if productivity will increase with the bucket. The truth of all the space being taken up is on point. Also to make a good day out of it you usually need a chip truck there anyway because the chipper is either always in the way or in a bad spot creating more work for the groundies. I like the fact that I wouldn't have to argue anymore on what's safe to climb and what isn't. I think my outfit is going to buy a 55' rear mount this winter that only I or one other guy can use. Seeing they dropped and entire tree on the last truck. I personally wouldn't waste the cash on a 55'. I'd get the mack daddy with the lift on it. That's what a previous employer had and once I got used to it, that lift is amazing!!! Anyway, not to derail.
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The ideal set up imo is first the rear mount 55 (cheaper, fits anywhere, faster, did I say cheaper...) this lets you afford into evolving into the 75' for obvious reasons (keep both) then evolve into a rear mount crane and with the 75 next to it on biggies...you need NO drop area...you make your own, flying to the chipper and then into the wood truck.

During that you need to evolve into a bigger chipper, chip truck, wood truck, saws, .....

 
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