No Crane No Problem

Roger_Barnett

Roger_Barnett

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Redneck Loggin' in Shoreline, Wa. 3rd windstorm in less than 3 weeks....


Now maybe if it had been a Ford 4x4, it could have been driven off to the mill with the log...Ya think??

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Got this response on another forum:

I wonder if he knows he's holding the saw wrong - left handed instead right. He's right over top of the bar.

To which I replied:

"Yawn. That would be me, buzz.... and I've been an arborist for over 40 years. I think I know how to run a saw..... but the video production guy in me said he wanted to see more of my pretty face.

I did edit out the parts where my plunge cuts went all wrong and the saw went over my shoulder, barely missing my helmeted noggin. I let you guess how many times I had to retrieve it from the forested flooor behind me..."
 
Roger_Barnett said:
Got this response on another forum:

I wonder if he knows he's holding the saw wrong - left handed instead right. He's right over top of the bar.

To which I replied:

"Yawn. That would be me, buzz.... and I've been an arborist for over 40 years. I think I know how to run a saw..... but the video production guy in me said he wanted to see more of my pretty face.

I did edit out the parts where my plunge cuts went all wrong and the saw went over my shoulder, barely missing my helmeted noggin. I let you guess how many times I had to retrieve it from the forested flooor behind me..."
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4o years of running a saw and that is what you displayed? I thought I was watching a greenhorn on his first day with a big saw. I guess everyone has those days.
 
roger,
i thought you had some video of that 2011 or 2010 100 yr old giant sequoia removal you posted somewhere. any chance its not a false memory, or was it all stills?
 
Speaking of "Yawn" Roger, I know you've got better things to show than cutting a log to fireplace length. You've got a reputation for putting up some tricky jobs .. get to the editing would ya please...
 
Of course, Daniel. Here's another recent storm job with no crane access, short of a 40 tonner due to the steep driveway which would have required an 80 foot radius. And, the trees weren't big or hard to do sans a crane. I did try a different way to do the task due to the angles of the trees on the house. It worked well enough. We propped up the butts, and also had them tied back as best possible to points behind the failures. (Because there were no good trees to support the butts let alone apply any lift, that is why we didn't limb them and cut them back to the house edge. It could have been done without climbing by using a stick saw and remotely set lowering line.) Butt hitched on either side of the cut in an attempt to limit movement....didn't do that right--should have used a portawrap or figure eight instead of trunk wraps, or wrapped differently,as the sloppy way I did it didn't keep the cut sections together. But it didn't matter, as the tops came down with a low impact force. And, we'd piled brush from the first tree under the second, as it had farther to fall...though it wasn't as long or heavy at the upper end.

I posted this elsewhere and got flak for not being tied in on the roof...yawwn...it was low pitch, and what to tie to besides the tree? And, there was no other way to make the cuts besides from an orchard ladder, which was positioned at arm's length from the cuts. Safe enough.....

 
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Here's another, from a last fall. A wickedly leaning cottonwood, worst I've ever seen.... and not from a wind event, according to the customer.


Another rigging challenge taken on. This one was a doozy! 22-24" cottonwood, with a lean starting at 10-15 degrees, and sweeping out to close to 80 degrees..... too large to lift or support the entire tree and cut it off at the base, even with the GRCS. So we tied it at about 60', ran the rigging into an only slightly leaning cottonwood at about 90 feet, one of several in the clump-- (a 30" had failed at the base some months ago) Tensioned it with the GRCS. Added a side pull line to help it to swing away from Patrick, when he made the rather ballsy cut. Added two trunk ties below and above the cut to prevent a possible barber chair.
Then Patrick got to have fun with a nice swing, as he had run his lifeline through a limb fork a good 25 feet out, while had allowed him to have better upward support while making the critical cut. Previously, he had worked out about 12 feet further to cut some limbs on the top that would be cut.
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And another......

I'd left the GRCS behind, because I didn't look close when I bid it, didn't notice the top had broken... thought it was balanced on the roof, which meant I could have cut the butt out a ways, where it would have just hit the ground.....and the top would have stayed put.

 
good that he didn;t panic when that piece started swinging towards him.. he's got a good mentality for the work.. never panic keep your wits about you... and of course having Obiwan as a mentor is always helpful...
 
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