Maple Removal

rockettree

rockettree

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I rolled out the new camera for this fun job on a nice morning here in Boulder. The tree lost a couple of large limbs in a heavy wind recently, the utility got involved and insisted they'd have to remove the entire vertical lead that was only about 4' or so from the lines. Removing that lead would've left the rest of the tree compromised and nearly impossible to remove so they agreed to de energize while we removed the entire thing.

I ended up with a lot of choppy sections on this one. I have a top shelf memory card, the raw footage looks fine but the finished product is full of glitches, what gives?

It's fun making treeflicks, hope you enjoy!

 
Sweet work Ray. some decent ewok battering rams you sailing out into the neighbours yard there :rico:
as to the choppiness what are you doing to transition between the clips?
its snowing :D and a sunny day with dead wires , looked like fun.
 
Super fly! Loved it.

Ground support looked on point that day. Those battering rams were MOVING! I puckered up a couple times. It's always tough to gauge distance and angles in other people's videos.

The choppiness wasn't too bad, but I do wonder what caused it. I feel like that happened to me once in the editing, but it cleared up, and I can't remember why. That's helpful right...
 
Stihlmadd said:
Sweet work Ray. some decent ewok battering rams you sailing out into the neighbours yard there :rico:
as to the choppiness what are you doing to transition between the clips?
its snowing :D and a sunny day with dead wires , looked like fun.
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Thanks Ben. We were swinging some wrecking balls for sure.

I am using Windows movie maker, importing 5 or 6 clips at a time, editing, shuffling and splicing from there. No transitions between clips. It took 4 sessions to finish, seemed to get a bit worse after each save.
 
macswan said:
Super fly! Loved it.

Ground support looked on point that day. Those battering rams were MOVING! I puckered up a couple times. It's always tough to gauge distance and angles in other people's videos.

The choppiness wasn't too bad, but I do wonder what caused it. I feel like that happened to me once in the editing, but it cleared up, and I can't remember why. That's helpful right...
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They are a good crew to work with, definitely one of my favorites. I guess I was cutting it pretty close on some of those logs, came within 4 feet of the neighbors house!
 
It really shines on large spruce takedowns, which are really the only large diameter trees with fair leaning trunks around here. Moving the slider in behind your bar allows you to cut straight through the piece, then you just push it off. When it works it's so nice, but I sometimes get some saw bind as shown very briefly in that video.
 
rockettree said:
Thanks Ben. We were swinging some wrecking balls for sure.

I am using Windows movie maker, importing 5 or 6 clips at a time, editing, shuffling and splicing from there. No transitions between clips. It took 4 sessions to finish, seemed to get a bit worse after each save.
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That is the same system I use. It must be a system flaw. I think I had to reload the clips from the computer. I think I load them one at a time.
 
CutHighnLetFly said:
tight spot, hope the ground guys thanked you for the primo rigging point. they handled the swingin' well for sure.
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Thank mother nature, it was the ideal spot for me and them, fortune smiled on us all. I like to see pieces drop faster, all that swinging is time consuming, but the yard was super soft and wet and we'd have trashed it real bad.

My all time favorite rope man plays it so close to the line, he lets those suckers drop! But he never rocks my boat and always hits his mark so what can I say?

Speaking of playing it close to the line, I'm surprised nobody had anything to say about our little slip up. Did anybody see it?
 
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