southsoundtree
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Olympia, WA
Yesterday, went back after recommending reduction 6 months ago, to see a neutral-plane fracture 6+' long. I wish I could have done some significant, lighter reduction to prevent the crack than hard reduction to prevent large failure.
This is a friend's daughter's home and preschool site.
I scratched my various plans for the day and started some significant reduction at noon. At 330, my groundworker came for 3 hours.
Friend Gary will be there today to cut firewood and chip brush as possible, with his homeowner chipper.
I turn many people into building a converted-pallet sawbuck. For limb wood.
I haven't consulted the Cable and Brace bmp about hardware sizes (on my desk, waiting for me to look for a smaller, split maple 36"x100+, that I haven't found out if it's going to be preservation or removal).
I'm going rock climbing today, back to the oak, tomorrow.
I reduced long, long horizontals, then started on the biggest trunk coming from an old topping-cut 'hydra's head" that contributes lots of load, particularly toward the house/ school parking area. and many long, long-dead branches. There are also several long-dead upright trunks that many would call trees within themselves (12"x60'+).
If only photos could be posted to the internet in the regular direction.
I talked 70-some y.o. Gary out of cutting hard-leaning, barberchair-prone alders and maples.
They lean the right way!
This is a friend's daughter's home and preschool site.
I scratched my various plans for the day and started some significant reduction at noon. At 330, my groundworker came for 3 hours.
Friend Gary will be there today to cut firewood and chip brush as possible, with his homeowner chipper.
I turn many people into building a converted-pallet sawbuck. For limb wood.
I haven't consulted the Cable and Brace bmp about hardware sizes (on my desk, waiting for me to look for a smaller, split maple 36"x100+, that I haven't found out if it's going to be preservation or removal).
I'm going rock climbing today, back to the oak, tomorrow.
I reduced long, long horizontals, then started on the biggest trunk coming from an old topping-cut 'hydra's head" that contributes lots of load, particularly toward the house/ school parking area. and many long, long-dead branches. There are also several long-dead upright trunks that many would call trees within themselves (12"x60'+).
If only photos could be posted to the internet in the regular direction.
I talked 70-some y.o. Gary out of cutting hard-leaning, barberchair-prone alders and maples.
They lean the right way!
