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CutHighnLetFly

CutHighnLetFly

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This is kind of a footage dump of some recent removals. Swifty removing an Oak all over the corner of a house, and ya boy running ropes. There is also some clips from dealing with a couple uprooted Spruce trees from the spring, and dealing with a Sycamore Maple that has a pretty nasty looking stem.
In retrospect, I probably could have tied into the Maple on its own instead of running a climbing line and speed line out of a neighboring tree, but at the time it seemed like the smart way of dealing with it in a controlled manner. Couple other clips of the log truck doing what the log truck does.

I post stuff in hopes of getting constructive criticism so if someone has input or suggestions or anything please chime in.
Enjoy, hope these clips are almost up to par with what some of you guys put out there.

 
Sherwood that little truck is great. not too many people in this area have one of those ALC short whee base buckets, so we get to a lot of stuff that others cant with a truck.

I swear i do more than just removals, its just not too often. Sometimes i feel like some sort of coroner, showing up to deal with a carcass. My confidence is growing with it, but i dont like feeling like im pushing myself to do something i wasnt comfy doing the last time i was in a similar situation, but then again isnt that one way we get better? i get treated great where I am and im moving up and its all good, but the pace of work is becoming a bummer.
The stem towards the end of this video where we were pulling pieces up a hill with the log truck, that tree sucked. The guy waited like 2 or 3 years too long to deal with it, so it was, in my opinion, waaaaay unclimbable, so i had to set up our bucket in sketchy spots, anchoring it to the chip truck, having someone watch the out riggers. i had to make a 4-5" cut with a pole saw for the last piece of brush because the bucket just wasnt even close to reaching and there was not where else to set, and im simply not that creative i guess. not to mention the time budget was based on making it happen with the bucket truck. sometimes people forget it has a certain amount of reach, and cant go further just because you need it to.
i wish i was needed for pruning and inspecting trees or anything other than doing a decent sized removal job as fast as we can so that we can move on to the next removal project with the same angst. part of that is probably in my head, me wanting to get done at a reasonable time to get home to my family, and not wanting to be the guy that "buries the jobs" in time.
Maybe its just August and i got that summer burn out feeling. whatever it is, im kind of over it right now. at least the gopro and making videos keeps me interested in the moment sometimes.
Dont mean to go (stihl)Madd on my on thread. Please tell me someone's gotta be able to relate!
 
hey buddy I hear ya! ;)
it got to the point when I was automatically spiking jobs that were prune ups when I was not even wearing them, just would automatically go through the spiking motion without even thinking.
so embarrasing.
being a takedown king gets old after a while, but you gotta pay the bills.
keep up the filming and editing I enjoyed watching you go at it (y)
 
CutHighnLetFly said:
This is kind of a footage dump of some recent removals. Swifty removing an Oak all over the corner of a house, and ya boy running ropes. There is also some clips from dealing with a couple uprooted Spruce trees from the spring, and dealing with a Sycamore Maple that has a pretty nasty looking stem.
In retrospect, I probably could have tied into the Maple on its own instead of running a climbing line and speed line out of a neighboring tree, but at the time it seemed like the smart way of dealing with it in a controlled manner. Couple other clips of the log truck doing what the log truck does.

I post stuff in hopes of getting constructive criticism so if someone has input or suggestions or anything please chime in.
Enjoy, hope these clips are almost up to par with what some of you guys put out there.

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Great opening shot panning up into the rain and dissolving.

Work through the little bit of summer burn out. You'll be fine.

Oh, someone made a portawrap like you are using and I was a little stumped (tree word for ignorant) on how to rig it. Thanks!
 
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