Meanwhile, back in New England...

[TMW]

Started the day working with a crew clearing the road in Epsom, NH, where a civilian was killed the day before in the storm.

(Brief details on the storm: The tornado was an EF2 tornado in two or three towns, the NWS said. That means it had winds of 111 to 135 mph and was capable of causing significant damage.)

Received a call at noon that there was a tree burning in the wires down near Boston (Winchester/Woburn area). Grabbed a bucket crew and met our crane operator at the site. Power company didn't get there until after 6 p.m. so I pulled the plug and we rescheduled the removal for the morning.

The bucket crew had worked 18 hours the day before and we would have been working on the tree until about 10 p.m.

The tree had obviously been burning for a few years. I'll post details and more pictures tomorrow.

See some of you in St. Louis next week!

 

[TMW]

The utility company was late again, but we were done by noon. Good thing we didn't start it at 6:30 last night.

Not much room to move, but we got out in 5 picks, the biggest was about 2500 pounds.

 

[TMW]

The tree had been burning quite a while. Here is the burned ared with a Husky 372 for comparison.

 

[TMW]

It had been burning at least twelve years. It would have been nicer, and safer to do the removal a few years ago...like 12 maybe.

 

[BostonBull]

nice work Tim! soon as I leave all the fun starts.

 

[chris_girard]

Great work and awesome pictures Tim. You're right, that removal should have been done awhile ago.

Did you take those pics with that new lens of yours?

 

[TMW]

Actually, I used my older lense on those.

 

[Kman]

Nice job Tim. Do you work for Lucas or rent their crane? I noticed a lot of Lucas guys at the crane workshop. The picture of the burned area is a good one for the OSHA people: is it safer to climb above that or ride the load line up...