Last tree job of the year

[Mark Chisholm]

Here's the last tree job I did this year. Nothing crazy, but something I can reflect on.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Here's the last tree job I did this year. Nothing crazy, but something I can reflect on.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

I took a wild spill down a cliff here trying to plunge the other side of this tulip and had to let go of my brand new 461! No harm done, but the guys said it looked real bad from up top of the hill.

 

[cory]

Big tree!

Look at that kboom eating up the work!

 

[macswan]

We had a good one today to. Job was billed for two bodies for a full day, we killed it by two. Then fit in an extra tree. Still clocked out at four fifteen. With forty five minute drives to and from.

 

[macswan]

Here's the last tree job I did this year. Nothing crazy, but something I can reflect on.

That half inch kmiii, or 11 mil. Looks fat there.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

11 mm kmIII max. I set it in the bigger tulip near two removals and srt up and swung into the 2nd. Easy breezy

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Big tree!

Look at that kboom eating up the work!

Thats truck was made for jobs just like that.

 

[cory]

Great shot.

Gotta love it when your equipment makes work disappear like magic. What are you going to do with those big tulip logs?

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Gave them to a friend with a mill for planking. Going to finish the inside of his garage.

 

[Stihlmadd]

had a emergency Euc removal on new years eve in 40C heat.

as you can see by 5pm I am really feeling the love



a neighbour took these shots from the other side of a small gully - the second shot I am approx 70 ft up and the tree behind me is 30 ft away but the perspectives are all screwy.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

That's a hot day. What was the emergency Ben?

 

[Stihlmadd]

Failed a decent leader onto the roof of the house , was still attached to the trunk when I rolled up on site.

it was a wee bit close to the house , ended up having to cross cut the rounds on top of the stem into threes so I could lob them into the small garden bed running along the house before it dropped down into the driveway . thankfully didn't lose one into the neighbours as the boundary fence had been removed before the xmas break .
these Eucs (citridora ) are fairly prone to limb shedding in hot and windy conditions .

 

[Stihlmadd]

Mark , by chance I was able to snap you these pics of a fairly fresh citridora limb failure at a local shopping centre car park.

it failed as per norm right at the collar join and nothing in the limb to indicate pest disease or previous wound.
just heat and some strong winds then a random limb shedding occurs.
once had a citridora do this while putting a throw bag in with the boss standing next to me all of a sudden pow - dropped a limb right down next to us.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Pretty wild. Is there and change in the wood fiber internally? Like, does it appear softer or dried out before it broke you think?

 

[Treezybreez]

Last job of 2015 there was an owl who showed up (pun intended). Didn't seem to mind the noise.

 

[Treezybreez]

It was a good size bird.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

They impress me for some reason?

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Owls?

Yup. Can't explain it easily, but they do.

 

[JeffGu]

There's a documentary on Netflix about owls that's amazing... especially when they used a high-end DAW to record their flight compared to other birds (I think they used a dove or something) and the recording equipment could barely pick up the noise from the owl's wings. The birds were flying right over the studio condenser mic. Just a great documentary... I'll look for the listing and report back on the title.