Bur Oak

tod_k

tod_k

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Did some line clearce for the utulity yesturday. The tree is 49" DBH. Tons of odsticles. We were hired to get 10' clearance. Line kill was required with grounds. Here's the tree, Dustin getting ready to rig the first cut. Everything had to be removed except the limb he's tied into. He did all the climbing and rigging untill lunch.
 

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Lots of long horizntal limbs needed to be balanced, Dustin having at it.
 

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3 cuts were made with in 6" of the primary. Even with the line kill and grounds I still find it very spooky.
 

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Some cuts were quite tough to rig and judge. This cut could not move after it was cut. Very close to the pole that is very old and decayed the wires are also very fragile. especially the open secondary. I find it challenging to get these rigged. It was very important that there was no rotation.
 

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Horizonal wood right over the wire. 6" away. The line kill was scheduled for 9:00 till 3:00. They did not kill the wire untill 9:30, we were done with the aerial work by 2:30. Another hour of clean up. Fun day.
 

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Very nice job, and great pictures! Congrats on the spider leg rigging. Calculating multiple slings attachment points on a limb to make sure there is no rotation/flopping can be a challange. Looks like you did just fine.

Takes alot of skill to know the weight distribution of a limb. Seems like I get it right sometimes and other times misjudge it just a bit! Not alot of room for error on your job there.
 
Nice job TK and DSG. What happened to Dusty after lunch, didn't have a diaper change? Git that boy up there.
Spider legs R O C K.
Looks like the rigging was blowing in the wind (in the 1st pic). Nice windy day for a crane job. All the more reason to use "legs".
You "R" da man.
 
keeps those pics coming tod, always stoked to see you've posted pictures of your jobs, very informative... thanks!

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How can I be the man when your arleady the man. Dustin was very willing to countinue but we were under tight time restrictions with the outage. If we ran out of time I did not want to blame anyone but me.
 
Tk, nice pictures , you guys have the squad. Are your Spider legs Tenex ? it seems that rough bark trees like that tear those tenex slings up. I used them on a Hickory a couple weeks ago , and my slings I was all happy about are all pickled . I have endua braid ordered , do they get all messy too ?
 
Great pix, climbing, cutting, rigging.

Why no bucket?? at least maybe for the lower big wood?
 
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