First tree job.

[boreality]

OK I just thought of another fun thread. How about your first tree job you can remember as a kid.

I can't forget mine. My dad asked me to remove a 4' tall dead spruce in the yard. I imagine he thought I'd get a shovel. Nope, I had equipment for that. I grabbed my first bike and a length of rope. You know where this is going. I gave it about 20' feet of slack and hit the pedals hard....the spruce and the handlebars won, my balls lost. But like any good logger the job was completed shortly after with the shovel.

Good thing there was no youtube then.

 

[Worthaug]

I was 9, clearing land for our families' cabin/ camp in northern Maine. Dad and I flagged the trees to be dropped and planned the drop zone. I watched Dad felling the first poplar, he went over the notch and back cut sequence, I stepped back to observe the second one when he gave me the saw! I couldn't believe it, Dad was so much cooler when Mom wasn't around . My 40' 8" dbh (best guess from memory) poplar went where we wanted it and I had a smile on my face the rest of the day.

My Mom and I used to love to log standing dead by just pushing it over, and my brother and I used to love to deadwood lower white pine branches by smacking them with a bigger stick.

 

[boreality]

Ya, I still like pushing over dead trees the bigger the better. It's best if the client is watching.

 

[treehumper]

Pushing over standing deadwood in the Albion Hills north of Toronto. We then snapped pieces off to make firewood. It felt very primal!

 

[cbugg]

when i was 10 removing 1 of 2 stumps with my dad in the front yard. he is a financial adviser not a tree guy so it was electric chainsaws getting run in to the dirt, lots of shoveling rounded out with a broken bumper on the family minivan trying to pull it with a chain. The next week they were repairing our road so, my mom took some fresh baked cookies to the track ho operator and asked him to grab the other stump.it took him 3 minutes including repositioning. that was my first lesson in right tool for the job.

 

[Sam Hodgson]

I was about 10 and my dad brought me into the woods while he cut down ash trees and bucked them up, I had to carry the logs to the truck and stack them.

 

[marlinspiker]

i had to split wood as a youngster. our house runs on wood 100 percent of the time and still does. my dad bought a splitter after I left home, and a snowblower and bigger mower. hahaha

 

[lickitysplitter1]

i was probably about 7 or 8 holding chainsaws (sitting on)like a vise while my father sharpened them with a file for the next days job..homelite 55 and 66 super wiz,ez,s and XL 12s..glad we dont run them anymore..

 

[theXman]

I don't think I can remember my first tree removal job.

I was 4 years old I think. three foot diameter dead red oak; so I have been told.

Then I got into technical rope removals by the age of 6.

Did my first proper crown reduction at age of 7 years old.


By 8 years old, I was doing crown restorations on previously topped silver maples.

 

[jim454]

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I don't think I can remember my first tree removal job.

I was 4 years old I think. three foot diameter dead red oak; so I have been told.

Then I got into technical rope removals by the age of 6.

Did my first proper crown reduction at age of 7 years old.


By 8 years old, I was doing crown restorations on previously topped silver maples.

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[jim454]

I remember cutting firewood with my Dad and brothers when I was maybe 5 or 6. I was on my first logging job when I was about 10. I always loved being in the woods, lots of excitement going on.

 

[JeffL]

I dont think I was allowed to touch a saw until it was at one of my first jobs as a teen.

Although I do recall my uncle clearing house lots for family members and on one occasion he dropped a pine through the cab of his Tacoma, and another time they dropped a tree on the neighbors long service drop that ran across their property and knocked out power to the neighbors, first transformer I saw blow up too! lol

I learned the right way to start using a chainsaw! No chaps, no eye protection, no head protection, but at least I had the foresight to use ear plugs!

 

[Maui Palm & Tree Care]

my first was a 60 foot tall travelers palm removal. my uncle owns a landscaping company and got the job. i think i was like 10 years old. i still own that poulan chainsaw too!

 

[Adkpk]

My first tree job had to be back in the woods with the hatchet cutting saplings to build a tree house. I used to like to cut maples the most. Those woods now are a development of course.

 

[theXman]

"my first was a 60 foot tall travelers palm removal. my uncle owns a landscaping company and got the job. i think i was like 10 years old. i still own that poulan chainsaw too! "

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yeah, because you are only like 13 year old now, right?

 

[theXman]

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I don't think I can remember my first tree removal job.

I was 4 years old I think. three foot diameter dead red oak; so I have been told.

Then I got into technical rope removals by the age of 6.

Did my first proper crown reduction at age of 7 years old.


By 8 years old, I was doing crown restorations on previously topped silver maples.

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[Maui Palm & Tree Care]

LOL xman i think your about 8 years off buddy. i guess your so old that everyone in their 20's is just a kid to ya huh???

 

[jim454]

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LOL xman

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Better address him as "X" man, you don't want him against you.

 

[theXman]

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LOL xman i think your about 8 years off buddy. i guess your so old that everyone in their 20's is just a kid to ya huh???

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I'm not old and it will be a long time before I think that I am old.

 

[Maui Palm & Tree Care]

im just joshin ya man. no worries