Lumberjack
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Lumberjack
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Re: Fun with Tom
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Way cool and nice pics.
Any chance of some video on this job?
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Yep, going to buy another digi cam that has video and sound capabilities, my cheapy only takes vid the relic camera only takes 30 second vids with sound.
MB your right, fun easy money just rushed a good bit!
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Way cool and nice pics.
Any chance of some video on this job?
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Yep, going to buy another digi cam that has video and sound capabilities, my cheapy only takes vid the relic camera only takes 30 second vids with sound.
MB your right, fun easy money just rushed a good bit!
TreeCo
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Re: Fun with Tom
Great luck guys. Carl it looks like you've got some cool clients. Nice collection of plants too.
Make sure Tom wears his PPE.
Great luck guys. Carl it looks like you've got some cool clients. Nice collection of plants too.
Make sure Tom wears his PPE.
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Re: Fun with Tom
I picked up a brand new yellow Ecrin last week! This will be a good job to break it in on...the helmet knot my head
I picked up a brand new yellow Ecrin last week! This will be a good job to break it in on...the helmet knot my head
Lumberjack
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Re: Fun with Tom
I bought a white vertex vent, dont really care for it, perfer the Ecrin by far due to the enlarged size of my noggin.
I bought a white vertex vent, dont really care for it, perfer the Ecrin by far due to the enlarged size of my noggin.
RogerM
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Re: Fun with Tom
WHy are they taking them out?
WHy are they taking them out?
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Re: Fun with Tom
The tree in the left foreground was the first takedown. The trees are Loblolly pine. This was the first time that I had ever cut Lobs. That is some tough wood! very little hinge is needed to get them to move where I wanted them.
The job started out as a zero impact job. There is a pool with plantings on the house side of the tree. In the foreground is a Japanese Maple.
To get the limbs down without doing damage I set up a high rigging point and made up bouquets with slings and biners. There's always a trade-off when using bouquets. If the ground crew can move the bouquets off and de-rig it puts the wood on the ground faster than single limb drops.
The large wolf limbs were tip tied and lifted using the GRCS. On one I went out towards the tip and set two slings choked about four feet apart on the limb. Then I made an undercut and topcut. This left the tip hanging from it's own butt. Then I set the rigging rope at the new tip and used the GRCS to lift the two pieces up.
When the trunk was stripped it was left standing for a flop.
There's a tree directly behind #1 that is barely visible. The next day the job changed. Now it wasn't zero impact. We could ding the yard but not the landscaping. Things started to roll. Carl went up the smaller tree behind #1 and was able to drop lots of the limbs. Others were taken out one at a time and laid aside for the groundies. Spar was left to flop.
Tree in right rear was the next removal. I went up part way and stripped off the lower third of the limbs. Bombed all of 'em. Went to the top and worked down. Left the spar standing.
The tree in the right foreground was a double top. I set a pullover line in that which was tied to a tractor. Carl felled in in one piece.
The crane picked out the chunks. Some of the pieces still had limbs on. Others were stripped and the groundies loaded them onto a trailer for offsight disposal.
Like I said, getting used to the hinge characteristics of Loblolly pine took some getting used to. The wood that I think it most resembled is elm or white oak. Being more used to white and Norway pine or Blue spruce it was nice, sometimes, to have hingewood.
The tree in the left foreground was the first takedown. The trees are Loblolly pine. This was the first time that I had ever cut Lobs. That is some tough wood! very little hinge is needed to get them to move where I wanted them.
The job started out as a zero impact job. There is a pool with plantings on the house side of the tree. In the foreground is a Japanese Maple.
To get the limbs down without doing damage I set up a high rigging point and made up bouquets with slings and biners. There's always a trade-off when using bouquets. If the ground crew can move the bouquets off and de-rig it puts the wood on the ground faster than single limb drops.
The large wolf limbs were tip tied and lifted using the GRCS. On one I went out towards the tip and set two slings choked about four feet apart on the limb. Then I made an undercut and topcut. This left the tip hanging from it's own butt. Then I set the rigging rope at the new tip and used the GRCS to lift the two pieces up.
When the trunk was stripped it was left standing for a flop.
There's a tree directly behind #1 that is barely visible. The next day the job changed. Now it wasn't zero impact. We could ding the yard but not the landscaping. Things started to roll. Carl went up the smaller tree behind #1 and was able to drop lots of the limbs. Others were taken out one at a time and laid aside for the groundies. Spar was left to flop.
Tree in right rear was the next removal. I went up part way and stripped off the lower third of the limbs. Bombed all of 'em. Went to the top and worked down. Left the spar standing.
The tree in the right foreground was a double top. I set a pullover line in that which was tied to a tractor. Carl felled in in one piece.
The crane picked out the chunks. Some of the pieces still had limbs on. Others were stripped and the groundies loaded them onto a trailer for offsight disposal.
Like I said, getting used to the hinge characteristics of Loblolly pine took some getting used to. The wood that I think it most resembled is elm or white oak. Being more used to white and Norway pine or Blue spruce it was nice, sometimes, to have hingewood.
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Wow, there must really be some weird high-density formations underground to the right to get those trees growing all leaning to the left, and to keep that water contained on the slope like that!
And how did you guys get that buggy from tipping to the left having tires only on the right side?
Hahaha!
Hey, looks like it was a fun job.
Pseudo-hijack:
I did a "good Samaritan" deed this afternoon. I was taking an alternate route home around the lake when I saw an older guy with a ladder against a large half-dead multi-stemmed maple, some limbs on the ground, and some wickedly-bad hinge-free stubs. I stopped, stopped him, got my safety gear and junker 044 out, and put the three large remaining stems on the ground for him with two chest-height-and-less felling cuts. As I was putting my gear away he asked me what he owed me. I told him I did it as charity but would accept charity. He gave me $20. That's very quite cheap, but for no cleanup beyond shaking out my shirt and not having to actually go specifically to the job site, I guess a buck a minute off the books ain't worth crying about. And I know I won't have to read about him in the paper...
Wow, there must really be some weird high-density formations underground to the right to get those trees growing all leaning to the left, and to keep that water contained on the slope like that!
And how did you guys get that buggy from tipping to the left having tires only on the right side?
Hahaha!
Hey, looks like it was a fun job.
Pseudo-hijack:
I did a "good Samaritan" deed this afternoon. I was taking an alternate route home around the lake when I saw an older guy with a ladder against a large half-dead multi-stemmed maple, some limbs on the ground, and some wickedly-bad hinge-free stubs. I stopped, stopped him, got my safety gear and junker 044 out, and put the three large remaining stems on the ground for him with two chest-height-and-less felling cuts. As I was putting my gear away he asked me what he owed me. I told him I did it as charity but would accept charity. He gave me $20. That's very quite cheap, but for no cleanup beyond shaking out my shirt and not having to actually go specifically to the job site, I guess a buck a minute off the books ain't worth crying about. And I know I won't have to read about him in the paper...
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Re: Fun with Tom
God for you...and him...Glen
Pay it forward...that fella is someones Dad or Grampa. You gave him back to his family.
The picture is the first attempt at a gridwork photostitch. The program that I'm using is the freebie that came with the camera. I just found out that it was made in 2001. I've got a better stitch program on order.
God for you...and him...Glen
Pay it forward...that fella is someones Dad or Grampa. You gave him back to his family.
The picture is the first attempt at a gridwork photostitch. The program that I'm using is the freebie that came with the camera. I just found out that it was made in 2001. I've got a better stitch program on order.
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