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Re: \"big\" white oak

treesandsurf,

Yes I have been to Costa Rica several times. But never lived there.

however I think you are refering to another user on this forum. xman

Originally I thought he was mocking my name, was a bit confusing. Then other users on here corrected me and told me that he had that ID name years ago on another forum.

That person xman is still in Costa Rica working I believe. He gets on here now and then.

I named myself theXman on here because of our company's name is Arbor-X Inc and kids years ago (in one particular neighborhood) used to refer to us as the X-men.
 
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oh and thanks for the info on the camera setting, I'll look into it

i do have a new version of photoshop CS2, so I'm sure it should have some nice tools to lighten them up.

thanks.

Cyrus. I dont have any dumping fees, but yes I'm looking forward to chipping with the 1890. I can't believe how fast it gets rid of a tree, the high horsepower is awesome, sometimes the autofeed doesn't have to even pause it, it gains RPMs as the diameter is getting smaller. I wish it had the wider feed wheel option. It does have the huge top feed wheel option with those 2 huge hydro motors and gear reduction with chains on the top roller. It has the winch, yoke lift, and powered shoot pivot and powered jack. only 177 hrs on it at the moment.
 
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oh great, if you have photoshop CS2 you're stoked. At the toolbar select image and then scroll down to adjustments and then to auto levels, which will automatically adjust the levels for you. If that isn't exactly how you want it to look, sometimes I'll go into the levels adjustment (below auto levels) and you can manually change the levels the way you want it.

jp
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here's a pic I fixed up a bit.

couldn't see anything at all before, was all black except for sky.

I used two snatch blocks in this tree for the rigging. Cause I new we were going to take some big stuff. Two reasons, the lowering point was about 10-12 inch diameter, which was probably okay as long as nothing was shockloaded. But it curved out a bit and I put in a second to direct the pull down itself better. the second one directs the pull better plus I always figure if someone screws up and snaps off the lowering leader the second one would catch the load and broken leader keeping them from falling to the ground (climber just better watch out).

The big logs were always notched, hinged and cranked up to vertical before releasing them. No bouncing or sudden movements. Lowering limb never flexed much that whole day. Justin and Nate did an awesome job on the Hobbs. (yeah, I don't have a GRCS yet, buy one soon cause it would be nice to have two LDs on some jobs anyway).

used the 7/8" bull rope on this job. my 3/4" would have been okay, but that rope is a little short.
 

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Re: \"big\" white oak

Back light in tree photos, especially viewing toward the sky,will always present exposure problems, the camera generally sets the exposure for the back light and the tree detail becomes silhouetted, or black.

Correcting, or compensating, for backlight can be accomplished by several means.

1. Set the camera shutter/apeture on manual and then set the exposure looking straight on toward the tree. Like for example a view of someone standing beside the trunk. Keep that setting and then take your skyview shot.

2.Bracket your exposure towards overexposure, one, two and three full stops.

3. Elevate the camera as high as the subject to elimate the sky. In other words shoot from another tree or from a lift rig.

4. Using a photo program like Adobe you can further adjust light levels and contrast to improve on the image. However, image programs are not always the saving grace of bringing out the detail in backlit photos. The real saviour is in compensating for it in the begining. The image programs can then have something more suitable to improve on.

Jerry B
 
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Thats a pretty big tree in my book. I've done a few that size & they're not fun when you have a house on either side of it. How does the F550 pull that 1890?? Before reading your post I thought that was your main chipper & was thinking, this guy is crazy. lol
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That's some good camera advice there.

I wouldn't expect any less from you though Jerry.

thanks.
 
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