Grand old maple/media coverage!

[Roger_Barnett]

We're removing this old big leaf maple today. About 7 feet in girth....declining, likely VW. Q13 will be there. Dan, who turns bowls, and Eric of www.gogreendesign.biz will be there and bring some of their finished product. Pete is bringing his Lucas Mill to mill one log. The head of Seattle DOT may show up, as will TB member Scott Baker. One topic of discussion will be Seattle's new tree protection ordinance....b

The tree is quite easy, actually. big drop zone, a couple laterals to swing clear of either house. No need to crane anything but the butt. Mike of ACDeucy will be there around noon....so we gotta fly to get most or all of it brushed out before he gets there. Thus, we'll use two climbers as much as we can.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/sets/72157622967138743/

 

[guymayor]

Thanks Roger. Hate to see a grand old tree go, but love to see it go with honor, and use the carcass wisely.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

Roger. When you embed photos, can you make them 600 pixels wide please?

 

[Roger_Barnett]

Sorry Jamin....are you on dial-up?...that's too small to be effectively viewed....

Channel 13 was there filming and interviewing for a couple hours....The segment ran.....no mention of my company name.....but they may add to it and run it again.

I shot about 14 gig of photos and video...then drove out to Pete's and filmed him milling a log...which turned out to be a birch that we'd given him last spring. Didn't have time to get the big crooked maple logs on the mill. Then, I ran the vid files down to the station, but on a flash drive, and she didn't have anyone there that could take them off the card.....waste of time...though they want the footage.

Cowboy Dave had the tree brushed out in 2 hours or so...we had close to an hour break before Mike showed to crane the sticks.

Another bid was $3800. We did it for $2200..crane fees $300, labor $875.....we were done by 2 pm.....Reckon I'm a happy camper.

They did air me making a butt cut with the 13 horsepower 3120...

I'll search their website for the clip link....

Gonna be a while before I get my photos edited.....and the video is HD....I have to build a new computer (Intel i7 processor needed) in order to edit the video, even to view it properly...and my puter is a dual core AthlonX64 3800....with two video card....

 

[Roger_Barnett]

Here's the story link. I'm sure the video clip will be up, but it doesn't appear to be as yet.




http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-21810-mapletree,0,3798513.story

I can't seem to get the whole link hot, so copy/paste it into your browser web address window....

 

[Roger_Barnett]

I did a quick edit and got some images up..

Off to work!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/sets/72157622967138743/detail/