Mother of all Jobs!

NICE JOB! Was that an eastern cottonwood or prairie cottonwood? What size bar was that? Did it pull well through that ctnwd.? I know sometimes the softer the wood, the more it "puffs" up and pinches the chain (if i know i'm going to be cutting softwood i'll increase the top plate filing angle to help make a wider cut) Pretty woman too bro!
 
Hey Javi! How's the Wild Animal Park back home? The "Mother Cottonwood" was only 80' tip tops. The spread was easily 50'. Plains Cottonwoods have decurrent growth and can be good "spreaders."

The silver poplar was only 60' at the tips.

Other details I left out. There was a road about 10' from the base of the cottonwood. I had to hire traffic control with flaggers to block one lane of traffic. The overhang spread over two lanes on a two lane road.

I had a competitor say he could do it without traffic control. This guy's company is good at what they do and they have done big jobs near streets. So, I was surprised he said that. Because having that lane blocked was an asset to the job. There was stuff falling all over. Maybe he didn't understand the volume of cars passing by there? Maybe it was his pride? But, if he had done that job without traffic control, he would have got someone hurt.

Anyway, I did the job with my "ducks lined up" and I still got the job. Sometimes safety sells jobs too. Not just lowest price.
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Thanks Mike. She's a great woman.

The bar on the 880 was only a 41" bar. I grind the angle at 30 degrees. In that wood I notice it sets in and goes smooth. I get longer saw dust too.

It was a Plains Cottonwood. Sometimes it smells like septic.

The Silver poplar smells sweat like honey. Anyone else notice that? My buddy James thinks I'm crazy, but I think it smells like honey and I'm sticking to it.
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Different photo from a different day. This is Charlie Wagner. He did the climbing that day. He was efficient all day.
 

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Nice job, Jamin!

That thing wouldn't have stood much longer, judging by the wood (or lack of same) at the base. (Talk about a potential traffic problem!) I guess that hollow made the final cut and wood disposal a little easier than they could have been though.
Makes you wonder what you might have done had you found concrete in there instead of air.
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(Silver Poplar smells like Elmer's glue to me.)

Thanks for posting.
 
yup, that was a big one! Lucky goats! ;) looking forward to the video clips! You have quite a crew (your boys) there! (new chipper thread) Oh, thumbs up on traffic control. Why take the chance, smart move.
 
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Nice Work! you must have been aching that night...
Did you have the new chipper for that job?

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No I didn't have the new chipper then. I hauled the brush on a 20" gooseneck flat bed trailer and burnt it out in the country. I'm zone agriculture where I live and they allow burning in my county. I have been doing that for 2.5 years now to reduce expenses and build a customer base before I could afford the payments on a chipper. Now I am in that position to finance a chipper.
 
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cool pics jammin, thanks for posting. did you get any climbing shots??


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The climbing shots will come with the video after editing. Charlie Wagner is a great climber. He has represented the Rocky Mountain Chapter quite a bit at the Internationals. He worked hard and found center on a lot of big picks.

The crane operator works with arbos a lot and seems to have as arbo-type mind with the dismantling of trees. He understands the science and art of it well.
 
Thanks for the pics...I can smell that stinky wood right now all the way over here in Louisiana! Maybe I'm smelling the hard work that you guys put into the takedown.

Good to see pics of my Front Range buddies again!

Goat gymnasiums...hmmm...is there a market for the wood???
 
wow big tree. Always nice to have a use for wood or any other part of the tree once you have removed it. If the tree was 10 ft from the road did you not need an occupancy permit to work on it or was the crane and the rest of your equipment in the lot where the bobcat was. just wondering cause if you are going to stop traffic i thought you needed an occupancy permit.
 
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