- Location
- Orange, MA
I live down in North central Mass, but have been in touch with a guy up near the Hampton/Rye area of seacoast NH the past few years that I go up and do tree work for when its available. At this point after the 90mph winds they had up there a few weeks ago I'd be financially wise to quit my job and spend a few months up there, but steady full time work is nothing to scoff at. 
Anyways, spent my last friday and saturday up there doing a few fun ones, plus just a bunch of cut up and chip type of stuff. Always like to get a few photos here and there!
These trees are spitting distance from the Atlantic, it was 50 feet on the other side of the street from the house, so kept things pretty squatty and stunted. Spruce had partially uprooted and came to rest on the Red maple, both were decided to come down as the maple was over the house to begin with.
Lifted root plate. Roots remained intact, no breakage, woo hoo!
Went up the spruce in the morning and backed it up with some 5/8" stable braid as I wanted to start with removing the maple so I didnt have to fight every limb of the spruce on the way to the ground getting hung up in the maple. Didnt budge all day, but better safe than sorry.
Maple gone, spruce made into a sweet toilet brush.
Everything went smooth, aside from the day taking WAAY too long, as my ground help was stuck dealing with the homeowners and having to help wrestle some big pine logs and stumps into a dump truck with the excavator on site, as some big pines uprooted and came down and took down a bunch of utility lines that ran through the back of the property.
Saturday was a fun one. 2 uprooted pines layed onto the house.
Roof was metal (and slick as hell with pine needles all over it!), and nothing directly over the house to provide support, so tossed my throwline over the house, ran a 1/2" line over the roof with a pulley set on the end and my climbing system set on that and secured to a tree on the far side of the house, and double crotched with that in conjunction with a tie in point another big pine in the back used as a rigging point for lifting the wood off the roof.
Everything went right to plan, cut everything off the roof and tossed it off, tied off the tips and had the line run up and into some of the bigger trees at the edge of the woodline, cut the trees off at the top of the hill to avoid having to lift the entire tree and rootball, and allow it to swing off the roof. A few cranks with a come-along and a pull line set, and they were lifted and swung off the house with ease! Love it when a plan works.
Ready for the roofers!
Anyways, spent my last friday and saturday up there doing a few fun ones, plus just a bunch of cut up and chip type of stuff. Always like to get a few photos here and there!
These trees are spitting distance from the Atlantic, it was 50 feet on the other side of the street from the house, so kept things pretty squatty and stunted. Spruce had partially uprooted and came to rest on the Red maple, both were decided to come down as the maple was over the house to begin with.
Lifted root plate. Roots remained intact, no breakage, woo hoo!
Went up the spruce in the morning and backed it up with some 5/8" stable braid as I wanted to start with removing the maple so I didnt have to fight every limb of the spruce on the way to the ground getting hung up in the maple. Didnt budge all day, but better safe than sorry.
Maple gone, spruce made into a sweet toilet brush.
Everything went smooth, aside from the day taking WAAY too long, as my ground help was stuck dealing with the homeowners and having to help wrestle some big pine logs and stumps into a dump truck with the excavator on site, as some big pines uprooted and came down and took down a bunch of utility lines that ran through the back of the property.
Saturday was a fun one. 2 uprooted pines layed onto the house.
Roof was metal (and slick as hell with pine needles all over it!), and nothing directly over the house to provide support, so tossed my throwline over the house, ran a 1/2" line over the roof with a pulley set on the end and my climbing system set on that and secured to a tree on the far side of the house, and double crotched with that in conjunction with a tie in point another big pine in the back used as a rigging point for lifting the wood off the roof.
Everything went right to plan, cut everything off the roof and tossed it off, tied off the tips and had the line run up and into some of the bigger trees at the edge of the woodline, cut the trees off at the top of the hill to avoid having to lift the entire tree and rootball, and allow it to swing off the roof. A few cranks with a come-along and a pull line set, and they were lifted and swung off the house with ease! Love it when a plan works.
Ready for the roofers!
