Olympia, WA, various needs.

Routine.

No place to let it run.

Tried to slow it down by rolling it off the doug-fir limbs.

Running through a natural- crotch square rig set- up and execution for my growing climber who hasn't had a rigged top, herself, yet.

When possible, I catch and lower my own pieces.

 
We've had storm- damage. Looking for some talent.

You don't have to be an Ace. You do have to be serious about safety. The rest is just eating big elephants, one bite at a time.

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Phase 1 complete, aside from one or two small dump trucks of wood, and some dirty rakings.

We mitigated the immediate concern. Waiting on a removal permit from the county for the oak, as oaks are critical habitat for Douglas squirrels, I believe.

There may not be any more rigging. I think I can drop chunks in spaces without buried utilities.


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My summer employee is back to engineering school. He safely perform his first production canopy raise climb overlooking the Puget Sound in his last week.

Looking again.


I am about to put a bid in on an entensive removal job. Light touch work.

Backed up with work.

Routine customers have lots of work.

Weather is turning.



Gotta run...Dr. George needs us to put a bunch of trees and pruning material on the ground so he can destress with his machines in the forest on the weekends... he liked my Mini-loader so much over the years that he bought a big, new Kubota miniloader to add to his iron Arsenal.

I haven't run my chipper in about 2 months.
 
Not every day means big tree climbing. We prune 3' tall Japanese maples, fruit trees (hurray for local, organic food!), ornamentals, small native trees, etc. Some days we even build a bit of forest trail.

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About 70' up
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only 8-9', though I scared rather than crushed a keeper cedar. Spar top will get roughened up.
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I have found a kerf is a great saw holder in the end of the spring board. Sometimes, being 3' higher is great. I would have gone a bit higher but this tree had lean, meaning cut and hop down as the tree commits to the lay.

Like many tools and tricks, springboards are rarely needed/ wanted, though in occasional situations, like a low co-dom, people often jerry-rig something to step on (ladder, machine, I've even cut steps into a 45⁰ log propped against the butt) rather than having the right tool..



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Feeding my neighbor Chatlie's cow excess fruit from our trees... makes for extra tasty Charlie beef. This cow is about to birth a calf (next year's freezer filler).

 
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