Langford, Fir Removal

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Reg

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A good sized Douglas fir removal from yesterday.

Had some help from Scot in the Bucket over the first 50 ft, as lots of long 30ft + limbs....so it was easy for him to sweep around hacking the ends off where he could.

Pretty much all the limbs on the tree had to be rigged. I used a 220 ft rigging line until we ran out of length, and then switched to the zip-line for the last 30ft of which the limbs were much shorter anyway.

The pic of the zipline was taken from the bucket while starting another tree on that site.

That’s Jared from the recent vids making the falling cut.
Long day, lots of wind, didn’t leave the site till 7.

20+ pics to embed so it'll take a while. Thanks
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Your attachment ain't workin Reg.

At least not on my IPad, says page not found.

jomoco

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Yeah I know Jon, just tried to upload on the second post and its not working either.

What a shame. Ah well. Short thread then.
 
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What a tease!

Yu scoundrel.

jomoco
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Well I'll probably try again late tonight Jon, see is it working then.

You try upload a pic if you can, anything will do....but I've never had a problem before, other than it takes forever.
 
That's an awesome set of pics Reg, sorry I did not head west when I left Toronto in the 90's. Stumbled upon treework down here in Barbados, nothing exciting but I do like the tropics for other things....no sense complimenting ya ( goes without saying )....
 
Very cool to see as usual. Thanks.

Just a question out of curiosity and ignorance - it looks like Jared cut a bunch of the outer bark away around his notch and back cuts...is that a logger thing? Does it serve a particular purpose?

Just curious.
 
I've watched pro loggers clear the bark away from all their felling cuts with an axe or POS saw prior to cutting into it with their good saw.

They told me the bark has dirt n stuff in it that dulls their chains.

jomoco
 
Dealing with thick bark like that, shaving it can help with bar length, as well as driving wedges. Some old growth doug fir bark can be 12" or so (never seen it that thick) but even if it's 4" that's 4" more saw in wood.

I'm impressed with getting er brushed out in a day, sweet work Reg.
 
Thanks.

Minus the time spent getting organised first thing, plus the lunchbreak, then you're probably talking eight and a half hours climbing time, give or take.

Ralph I've been in Victoria near 2 years now and we've never had to clear the wood from a site. Somebody always wants it.

There's probably 5 inches of bark around the tree, so it makes sense to see exactly where the dividing line is....especially on a back-leaner like this one. We actually pulled the tree with the truck-winch, the wedges you see in the photos were just to back it up as it lifted.
 
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