Fast Forward Pruning Part 8

bonner1040

bonner1040

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I know that episodes 1-3 were not the most popular. Considering all the great feedback on episodes 4-7 I am happy to present "Fast Forward Pruning part 8"

Thanks for all the kind words in the past and remember, it is extremely easy to be critical when you are watching @ 9,000% speed.

http://youtu.be/Z3JYOjUMrPE
 
I believe thats a side effect of the wide angle lens and the position of the lighting.

I use the Brinno TLC200, this was my 1st timelapse with the add-on wide angle lens. My guess its just the fish eye effect.
 
You missed a limb
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Looks good to me.Nice job
 
Ok, I'm going with the climber who was working the left of the tree getting thinned and deadwooded. Second climber in the tree I believe.

Nice video, Nick. The music matches up with the whole scene well. That's that contour from target?
 
That is my new Brinno TLC 200, which is a dedicated time-lapse camera, thats all it does. I also have the added wide-angle lens on there as well.

However I dont believe the TLC200 + wide-angle lens has AS wide of an angle as the Contour 1.

The Contour is capable of doing time-lapse like that with the same quality but it requires a LOT (hours) more editing. Where the TLC shines is in ease of use and battery life. ArborManLLC uses a TLC200 for some of his videos and he got over 25 hours, IIRC, of recording on one set of 4 AA batteries. The Contour only goes up to 3-4 hours at 1 second photo interval.

With the TLC200 you simply offload the finished AVI movie file right off the SD card. Without adding music or doing any color/temp/sat/etc edits you can straight upload to youtube, no editing at all required. The Contour, for timelapse produces folders of 1000 pictures each, you then have to compile those folders into clips and then compile the clips into video. Painstaking.

Obviously the TLC200 doesnt do any live video or have any helmet mounts, nor is it durable enough to mount if you could. It does have a tripod mount which I use, and plan to use in tree albeit carefully.

Camera
http://www.amazon.com/Brinno-TLC200-Lapse-Motion-Camera/dp/B006ICOKQ4

Wide-angle lens
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007PKG...87WZ653CDB17SJK
 
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who was using the pole saw Nick?

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I was the climber on the left. The climber on the right was my General Foreman. I used the polesaw for one or two cuts around 2/3rds through the video, aside from that the right side climber had it the whole time. Also towards the end I called for a chainsaw and made some powered cuts, other than that everything was handsaw.
 
Cause it was over the house I am guessing?

Further, not to sound like a smart-arse here, but I am just a trimmer. When the work order says "remove limb over the house", I don't ask the customer why they want it removed, I just remove it.

Talking people out of doing the treework that the salespeople sell is about the 2nd fastest way to quit your job where I work.
 
Work is more rewarding when you know you are doing the right thing. And if you aren't its chance for discussion and change.

Salesperson probably just doin what the ho wanted anyways.

From here I see a big wound that will become a large portal for decay and reduced tree vitality.

I've done it to. And will most likely do it again. HO's can be so fn ignorant even with the facts. I try my best to serve the trees best interests with the request respected.

I usually leave the HO with the thought that removing large lower limbs is a death sentence. Loss of money!
Some get it.

Cheers
 
I think thats a bunch of crap. Removing a branch going over the peak of a house is a legitimate request. I am not out to butcher trees but I am not on a tree hugging crusade either.

I work for a company with shareholders, my obligation is to contribute to an overall effort to produce earnings per share. Doing quality work and pleasing the customer, all safely and quickly is what I aim to do every day and thats plenty rewarding.

Suggesting that I, as an employee should inform, or infer to a customer that a course of action prescribed by my supervisor is wrong or carries the 'promise of negative consequence' is crazy. Think how you would react if a trimmer that worked for yo,u with 30 less years on the job, did that at YOUR company.

Anyone that talks themselves out of reasonable work is nuts. Topping, sideblasting etc is one thing, but if the homeowners request is reasonable why let a competitor have it because you dont agree simply because it isnt the absolute best choice?
 
If you had a problem with the prescription, you would take it to the salesperson anyway... Right? Just riffing here. It didn't look egregious from the video.

-Tom
 
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I think thats a bunch of crap. Removing a branch going over the peak of a house is a legitimate request. I am not out to butcher trees but I am not on a tree hugging crusade either.

I work for a company with shareholders, my obligation is to contribute to an overall effort to produce earnings per share. Doing quality work and pleasing the customer, all safely and quickly is what I aim to do every day and thats plenty rewarding.

Suggesting that I, as an employee should inform, or infer to a customer that a course of action prescribed by my supervisor is wrong or carries the 'promise of negative consequence' is crazy. Think how you would react if a trimmer that worked for yo,u with 30 less years on the job, did that at YOUR company.

Anyone that talks themselves out of reasonable work is nuts. Topping, sideblasting etc is one thing, but if the homeowners request is reasonable why let a competitor have it because you dont agree simply because it isnt the absolute best choice?

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I am just looking for a good reason why the limb needed to be removed other than "its over the roof"
 
Tom, you run your own shop right?

How would you react to a job, that YOU had driven to, bid, scheduled, and paid to have 4 guys and two trucks roll up on only to have the low-man-on-the-pole-trimmer say "You shouldnt do that, its a death sentence for your tree."?

I mean is this the twilight zone?? We are tree trimmers right?

And yes I agree that if I had a problem, which I didnt, I would go to the salesperson, but NEVER the customer.
 
Yes, self employeed for over 10 yrs.

If the man doing the work had something to contribute negative or postiive I hopefully would not be dismissive based on what I know and experience.
Tree trimmer, to me means non-selective. That is what some of the general public calls us or what a handyman does.

I hope you would refer to yourself as an arborist.

Removing the lower crown 25% OR more is not in the best interest of trees, the HO, society and many times the targets below.

Cheers
 
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Tom, you run your own shop right?

How would you react to a job, that YOU had driven to, bid, scheduled, and paid to have 4 guys and two trucks roll up on only to have the low-man-on-the-pole-trimmer say "You shouldnt do that, its a death sentence for your tree."?

I mean is this the twilight zone?? We are tree trimmers right?

And yes I agree that if I had a problem, which I didnt, I would go to the salesperson, but NEVER the customer.

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I was agreeing with you, not trying to be a smartass. I have had to intervene in the past when an employee was let's say, disagreeing with the prescribed work. Gotta approach that situation lightly. Until the customer is gone hahahaha!

-Tom
 
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