Half day job...

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Sawdust

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I took a couple of pics of this job that was supposed to be a 1/2 day job. We made decent time of it but was expecting on the saturday before easter to have a 1/2 day hit. I have nothing to do with the ground guys. I sub for this guy. I can only mention things so much. Besides, we wanted to get out as soon as possible. So that means don't give me any flak about the number of safety issues. Not my problem. On with the pics...
 

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We split the tree so second climber works on second half while first climber gets ready to head up next tree on right.
 

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Climber 2 leaves this half the way it is to take the other tree. We pretty much just grabbed the limbs by the throat with a hard grip, cut it and threw them to the ground. Nothing pretty. Had the room. Just had to keep it off the slope on the back side and off the neighbors crappy lawn.
 

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Last one for tonight

This is about to be the third cut of the tree. One more cut after this and we can drop it. We almost home...
 

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Reduce the image sizes (dimensions) by 50% to get from 497841 bytes for the first one (the only one I can "afford" to fetch over a modem) down to 140976 bytes.

The "quality" level of the image(s?) is excessively high at "95", too. "75" is more than sufficient for Web display. Doing that in conjunction with halving the dimensions results in 64701 bytes. All that, and sharpening it up a touch (which increases file size) results in the 81915 byte file, attached.

I did it with the command line:
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>convert -resize 50% -quality 75 -sharpen 0x1 22362-DSCF1.jpg modified.jpg</pre><hr />which takes somewhat under a second to process on this lowly 1.4 GHz CPU and leaves the original image file totally unmolested aside from being read once.

The free "convert" program (package) and a batch file would allow someone to "automatically" process a whole directory of files at once. Holler if interested.

Glen
 

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That is one bodacious piece of wood you are lowering!! what size rope and what knot do you use for one that large? Any idea of the weight involved?
 
Sorry, but when looking at the picture i am making the reply on http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/download.php?Number=22375 , this is wat came in to my mind (I am not here to kick ass but I want my fellow treeman to live forever).

This picture is not giving a right picture of wat is happening there.

This is either a serious pro that knows his weights and has made a very good calculation on the dimensions of the "branch" he is lowering in comparison to the not that big anchor point ***OVER*** his Lifeline, himself and his groundsmen.

This guy is a serious ****** to play with his life and the life of his groundcrew.

You or your groundcrew are not here to win a few years and then DIE with a big branch and a broken away top rigging point in your neck.

Pleas tell me there was no one under the tree within 60 feet and that the topanchor was leaning away from you.

As I stated before I am not here to kick ass but I want my fellow treeman to live forever.
There is no need for MB to reply in a oneliner on this, I think we know he thinks he is the best and is never scared and makes these moves all the time. /forum/images/graemlins/ahhhhh.gif
 
Hi,

I am just wondering why you guys rigged that tree down? Was it a training object? As far i can see, with the space available below i would just saw the whole tree at once or just knock the limbs and top down if only under the tree is space. At a spot like that (as far i can tell from the pics) it seems to me not much damage can be done to the turf. Most times i just staple thinner branches to a pile and push the bigger logs on it to brake the fall and prevent the biggest damage.

For no particular reason i just dont like using ropes to lower wood if it can fall on a free spot.

Regards.
 
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