House built around elm removal

[Toparboring]

Nice work Norm thatwas a good combo with the porta and GRCS cool pics on a job well done.

 

[glens]

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The overhang ... was designed not to let the summer sun shine into the house ... but let the sun shine in during the winter months when the horizon drops further South.

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Hey Norm, doesn't the southern horizon rise in the winter?

 

[Jesse]

That knotless lowering system looks like the way to go in a lot of situations. I have never used or seen it used before. Looks like a spliced eye in the lowering line, with a heavy duty biner hooked through it, girth hitch a sling to the piece to be cut, hook the sling to the biner, and cut away. Is that how it is set up?

 

[Norm_Hall]

Jesse, check out post on page 1. A locking ladder snap from Buckingham Manufacturing spliced onto a 3 strand rope. The loops are not girth hitched, just snapped on.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

The Knotless System works Sue-weet! You can clip many small branches into the snap and make one lower. Care needs to be taken to not shock load beyond the systems capabilities.

Anytime a rope is tied onto a limb the knot will end up underneath the limb when it's on the ground. that makes it hard to detach. At least that is my luck with the KS the snap is up in the air and the slings can be unclipped and ungirthed most of the time without getting under the limb. Saves LOTS of time and aggrivation too.

 

[moss]

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..But I do take notice of minute details in the yards of the yanks.

The roofs are different.

That one is flat! How does that work? I even saw like damp and wet spots coz it didn't drain off right?!/forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Be a bugger if it was a steep roof though.

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That's not a typical house design for northern U.S. climates, I'm sure during the winter there can be problems when snow builds up on the roof, both with weight of wet snow and water working its way into the roof material. The design is "high-end modern" but not practical.

Cool detail about cutting out the fascia board, I was wondering how you were going to get the lower trunk section out without cutting into the house. The answer, cut into the house! Looks like the architect anticipated that the tree would have to be removed eventually and didn't "contain" it with anything structural.
-moss

 

[tnttree]

Hell I kilt a tree and put it in my house.

Great pics Norm, Nothing like a GRCS and a flat roof! Love that knotless system - slick! That obstacle picture was set up well. Nice of the homeowner to let you walk on that roof -- some flat roof owners get real testy about work'in on em good job!

 

[moss]

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Hell I kilt a tree and put it in my house.

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I hope you apologized to the tree

That is so cool. I did something like that smaller scale with a boned out limb from a cottonwood for my cat and birds to play on. Never thought to do something that big indoors, nice!

Plan on tying in to the tree when you finish off the sheetrock?

 

[glens]

No longer akimbo. (not really the right word, but it's a cool one to use)

 

[pantheraba]

Good deal, Glens...I tried to do that in my brain but IT got akimbo.

 

[Colin]

That danged Kimbo! I don't even open the door when he knocks!

 

[tnttree]

what the fa is Kimbo? /forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[glens]

http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=akimbo

 

[tnttree]

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Hell I kilt a tree and put it in my house.

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I hope you apologized to the tree

Plan on tying in to the tree when you finish off the sheetrock?

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The woods where I hunted her is being developed -- better art in the house than mulch. The Grandkids, nephews, nieces, love it you can climb it to acess the tower room. /forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Sorry Norm I'll move this story over to cranes or overflow after ISA

 

[tnttree]

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http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?F orm=Dict2&Database=*&Query=akimbo

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.......Thanks /forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif I'm still clueless.

 

[glens]

I didn't really have a point. The picture being oriented the way it was (rather, the camera when the picture was taken) caused a bit of mental instability while trying to right it internally to make better (not the best word) sense of it. I merely rotated the image and used the word "akimbo" in the sense of "wildly (in a psychedelic sense) out of position". The rest makes less sense as it goes.

The tree makes a fine addition to the structure. Has the fiberglass insulation been all covered by now? I believe there would be a constant "rain" of miniscule fibers otherwise.

 

[tnttree]

Now I get it . . makes sense.

Yeh the house is 95% done turned out well I think, I'll run a thread on my Ironwood in the house sometime when my life slows down . . . I know I'll try a zip file!

 

[Oxman]

Here's a shot of TNTTREE in his element.

 

[moss]

Cool shot, not many can climb a tree inside their house. The interior looks good all finished up.

 

[glens]

Ditto.

How do you have the upper room outfitted?