VenasNursery
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- Michigan
Pooch looks happy too
Olympia, WA, various needs.
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Matias
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- Silicon Valley
I have tried multiple times to search for the "Pets of the Buzz" or whatever the thread was called, to no avail, so I am just gonna post here as a place holder til I find it. Meet Husqy and Stihl
They are sisters from the same litter, and they are nearly inseperable
They are sisters from the same litter, and they are nearly inseperable
data farm 26
Been here a while
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- the raft
Love to see it. Beautiful environment you work in! AND killin it for all these, props on the consistency.
southsoundtree
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- Olympia, WA
Hiring now.
38" ash dismantle with no cleanup for a neighbor. The central leader had broken out. Tricky climbing in a storm-damaged tree. Mostly self- lowered, some POWing from ground. Another habitat snag.
A lot more than just conifers in the Evergreen State!
All sorts of good work, shorter term or longer term.
Must be a good communicator, able to change between tasks well, and able to see both the forest and the trees.
The main drop zone was the dirt patch between the stump and the protective plywood next to the hardscape path.
we drift lined from one lead to the other.
Shorter half is brushed out over the drop zone.
Just had another HOA hazard management contract get fast-tracked. All material stays in the woods.
New chipper going into play for a customer in an that same HOA.
We're providing more small scale invasive holly tree management on forested parcels (hike, cut, limb, hike away).
I'm looking to expand into some basic trail clearing and management for homeowners like the half mile of trails at the holly project. Also, mixing in building a family campsite/ hipcamp site/ outdoor spaces for landowners. Nice changes of pace. Play with the mini-x, dump trailer, miniloader.
Emerald Ash Borer is almost here (small amount of ash near important assets).
Lots of variety.
38" ash dismantle with no cleanup for a neighbor. The central leader had broken out. Tricky climbing in a storm-damaged tree. Mostly self- lowered, some POWing from ground. Another habitat snag.
A lot more than just conifers in the Evergreen State!
All sorts of good work, shorter term or longer term.
Must be a good communicator, able to change between tasks well, and able to see both the forest and the trees.
The main drop zone was the dirt patch between the stump and the protective plywood next to the hardscape path.
we drift lined from one lead to the other.
Shorter half is brushed out over the drop zone.
Just had another HOA hazard management contract get fast-tracked. All material stays in the woods.
New chipper going into play for a customer in an that same HOA.
We're providing more small scale invasive holly tree management on forested parcels (hike, cut, limb, hike away).
I'm looking to expand into some basic trail clearing and management for homeowners like the half mile of trails at the holly project. Also, mixing in building a family campsite/ hipcamp site/ outdoor spaces for landowners. Nice changes of pace. Play with the mini-x, dump trailer, miniloader.
Emerald Ash Borer is almost here (small amount of ash near important assets).
Lots of variety.
southsoundtree
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- Location
- Olympia, WA
Let me know if people want/ need a corporate-style job listing.
Summer is coming. We work 90-95% of the time in a narrow peninsula, commonly near the water. Frequently, shaded by tall trees. Cooler than Olympia proper.
80s are Hot days here.
Coolvests, for the win on hot days, a handful of times in the summer.
I suspect that employees will be well-prepared to take the CA exam after working for a short time.
Most/ all employees regular employees who have previous experience keep asking me why nobody ever thought them things that I think are Week 1-3 knowledge.
If you want to learn to fell trees from a springboard (not W1-3), I've got one that comes out about annually for a trick shot. Last time might have been a large maple that cutting at 8-9' meant felling so it wouldn't hit the retaining wall instead of craning the dead tree and making a mess of dead material in the highly-landscaped garden bed. We laid old tarps on the clean gravel driveway (approaching the waterfront house), flopped it into bunk logs, easy and fast cleanup.
All the wood went to a retired career-Army friend of mine.
That was the day I found out that besides being a very respected doctor who runs a large organization at 80, after retiring twice, he's also a retired Army General. He is very modest.
Summer is coming. We work 90-95% of the time in a narrow peninsula, commonly near the water. Frequently, shaded by tall trees. Cooler than Olympia proper.
80s are Hot days here.
Coolvests, for the win on hot days, a handful of times in the summer.
I suspect that employees will be well-prepared to take the CA exam after working for a short time.
Most/ all employees regular employees who have previous experience keep asking me why nobody ever thought them things that I think are Week 1-3 knowledge.
If you want to learn to fell trees from a springboard (not W1-3), I've got one that comes out about annually for a trick shot. Last time might have been a large maple that cutting at 8-9' meant felling so it wouldn't hit the retaining wall instead of craning the dead tree and making a mess of dead material in the highly-landscaped garden bed. We laid old tarps on the clean gravel driveway (approaching the waterfront house), flopped it into bunk logs, easy and fast cleanup.
All the wood went to a retired career-Army friend of mine.
That was the day I found out that besides being a very respected doctor who runs a large organization at 80, after retiring twice, he's also a retired Army General. He is very modest.
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southsoundtree
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- Olympia, WA
Looking for quality, trainable, experienced staff or quality, experienced staff not needing training.
Newer climbers would definitely not be sent up a tree like this, with or without a remote TIP.
This seems to be the realm of experienced climbers that make $40+/ hr (aerial rescue and SRT/ MRS skills). A tree like this gets a bonus for the day.
Lots of trees are way healthier than this one that has been slowly declining since the house was built in the 80s. 15 rings+/ inch in the sapwood and outer heartwood
After limbing/ roping from well over the shop and topping.
The hinge on a 30' top, popped once I climbed above the conflicting branches from the adjacent tree (another day's removal in the future.
10' below topping height.
a good tree to make into a habitat snag. Rotten middle with a more solid shell.
We make way more snags than grind stumps.
Today RCX and SGR pruning on very small ornamentals.
Starting to research air excavation tools.
Tomorrow, preservation pruning of a hollow ash that is the only shade for a waterfront deck for a couple in their 80's. Trying to from a maple to take its place.
Water and mountain views while keeping a compact form for shade.
This year, I will likely double guy-line the tree to a concrete bulk head. It's in rough shape. It gets annual maintenance, along with lots of their other trees.
Experienced, solid Arborist's assistants (non-aerial) stay at $30.
I pretty much buy people what they want to use, within reason.
If someone brings their own personal gear, they are compensated.
That said, I've got 9-12 saws in the truck, 2000+' of ropes, shiny this and that, 3 saddles, 3 sets of spurs, 3 rope walkers, 20+ wedges,4 throw cubes, 3 POWs, 2 blowers and GRCS in a pear tree.
Newer climbers would definitely not be sent up a tree like this, with or without a remote TIP.
This seems to be the realm of experienced climbers that make $40+/ hr (aerial rescue and SRT/ MRS skills). A tree like this gets a bonus for the day.
Lots of trees are way healthier than this one that has been slowly declining since the house was built in the 80s. 15 rings+/ inch in the sapwood and outer heartwood
After limbing/ roping from well over the shop and topping.
The hinge on a 30' top, popped once I climbed above the conflicting branches from the adjacent tree (another day's removal in the future.
10' below topping height.
a good tree to make into a habitat snag. Rotten middle with a more solid shell.
We make way more snags than grind stumps.
Today RCX and SGR pruning on very small ornamentals.
Starting to research air excavation tools.
Tomorrow, preservation pruning of a hollow ash that is the only shade for a waterfront deck for a couple in their 80's. Trying to from a maple to take its place.
Water and mountain views while keeping a compact form for shade.
This year, I will likely double guy-line the tree to a concrete bulk head. It's in rough shape. It gets annual maintenance, along with lots of their other trees.
Experienced, solid Arborist's assistants (non-aerial) stay at $30.
I pretty much buy people what they want to use, within reason.
If someone brings their own personal gear, they are compensated.
That said, I've got 9-12 saws in the truck, 2000+' of ropes, shiny this and that, 3 saddles, 3 sets of spurs, 3 rope walkers, 20+ wedges,4 throw cubes, 3 POWs, 2 blowers and GRCS in a pear tree.
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Matias
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- Silicon Valley
This is how you advertise to get good help. Sounds like a dream boss.
southsoundtree
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- Olympia, WA
Searching for someone mentally sharp, safe, experienced, good communicator, trainable unless already fully competent in PNW trees. Call and Respond is a must. Strong, fit, with endurance.
$30-50 per hour.
Physically fit enough to keep up with us. I'm almost 53. Customers have called her a 'beast'. I call her the Ant, carries 10 times her weight, or the One-Trip Wonder (why take 2 trips when everything can be carried in). I'm no slouch. I avoid make- work and am highly- efficient, harnessing the strengths of the ground, friction and gravity
Corporate-speak job posting available, but not my style.
I'm posting from my phone, over coffee, before a storm-damage job on the hollow-as-a-drum ash tree that I've been preserving for an elderly couple for 12-15 years, then to chunk down a split-prone, hard- leaning alder spar.
Have you seen Gord's Spar Split Surprise video?
Grufrock's channel on YT shows other work from our region.
An IDEAL arborist candidate:
ISA-CA, TRAQ
Knows the trees, diseases, pests and abiotic factors in our area.
- can set 100' TIPs on occasion, and set remote-install/ retrieval points for rigging from the ground. Bigshot and APTA are regulars at our show.
-ropewalk, Wraptor ride, SRT pro
-wedge/ jack strong back-leaning trees
-prune Japanese Maples, other ornamentals, and orchards
-large conifer and bigleaf maple safety and structural pruning
-can handle large, barberchair- prone alders and maples.
- experienced with conventional, Humboldt, open-face, gap face, Coos Bay, Magic Cut, Golden Triangle felling cuts. Boring, hinge-gutting, reaming, back-barring.
-wedge large tops from trees as well as climb into small wood (4" diameter fir at 120'.
-Versed in grappling hook traverses (Eppel, Captain and RC on board here)
-Able tollow standardized tree- pulling protocol?
- able to 'walk down hung trees
- able to fold trees
- able to operate machines like mini- loader/ BMG and and root-grapple, mini-x, grinder, aerial- lift.
- used a spring board
-Cabling, bracing, propping, training
- able to help take care of and watch out for other team mates
-competently hitch trailers, drive and back trailers with an f350 crew cab/ long bed auto, 5-speed F450 and 5 speed F600 on tight, view obstructed, curving, steep slick roads and driveways.
- able to turn basic wrenches, perform vehicle inspections and top off fluid and full tires correctly
- basic computer skills/ written ability
- able to say what you mean, mean what you say
- able to keep things straightforward without overcomplicating things while performing simple and complex jobs.
-likely an analytical, able to top-down processor
- all the obvious punctual, reliable, honest things.
- be the kind of person I will invite to our family dinner table.
BTW, OlyWa is a very liberal city (State Capital) and very- LGTQIA+-friendly.
Coos Bay'ed 10-12" top popped into the adjacent fir.
If I'm climbing, can you catch a 40' alder top like butter, without coaching?
This alder was easier than the previously neighboring root-pulled alder of the same size that laid up in the hazard maple that we also dismantled during this project---double winched guy-lines and a lot of care and prudence for that 100'ish alder.
$30-50 per hour.
Physically fit enough to keep up with us. I'm almost 53. Customers have called her a 'beast'. I call her the Ant, carries 10 times her weight, or the One-Trip Wonder (why take 2 trips when everything can be carried in). I'm no slouch. I avoid make- work and am highly- efficient, harnessing the strengths of the ground, friction and gravity
Corporate-speak job posting available, but not my style.
I'm posting from my phone, over coffee, before a storm-damage job on the hollow-as-a-drum ash tree that I've been preserving for an elderly couple for 12-15 years, then to chunk down a split-prone, hard- leaning alder spar.
Have you seen Gord's Spar Split Surprise video?
Grufrock's channel on YT shows other work from our region.
An IDEAL arborist candidate:
ISA-CA, TRAQ
Knows the trees, diseases, pests and abiotic factors in our area.
- can set 100' TIPs on occasion, and set remote-install/ retrieval points for rigging from the ground. Bigshot and APTA are regulars at our show.
-ropewalk, Wraptor ride, SRT pro
-wedge/ jack strong back-leaning trees
-prune Japanese Maples, other ornamentals, and orchards
-large conifer and bigleaf maple safety and structural pruning
-can handle large, barberchair- prone alders and maples.
- experienced with conventional, Humboldt, open-face, gap face, Coos Bay, Magic Cut, Golden Triangle felling cuts. Boring, hinge-gutting, reaming, back-barring.
-wedge large tops from trees as well as climb into small wood (4" diameter fir at 120'.
-Versed in grappling hook traverses (Eppel, Captain and RC on board here)
-Able tollow standardized tree- pulling protocol?
- able to 'walk down hung trees
- able to fold trees
- able to operate machines like mini- loader/ BMG and and root-grapple, mini-x, grinder, aerial- lift.
- used a spring board
-Cabling, bracing, propping, training
- able to help take care of and watch out for other team mates
-competently hitch trailers, drive and back trailers with an f350 crew cab/ long bed auto, 5-speed F450 and 5 speed F600 on tight, view obstructed, curving, steep slick roads and driveways.
- able to turn basic wrenches, perform vehicle inspections and top off fluid and full tires correctly
- basic computer skills/ written ability
- able to say what you mean, mean what you say
- able to keep things straightforward without overcomplicating things while performing simple and complex jobs.
-likely an analytical, able to top-down processor
- all the obvious punctual, reliable, honest things.
- be the kind of person I will invite to our family dinner table.
BTW, OlyWa is a very liberal city (State Capital) and very- LGTQIA+-friendly.
Coos Bay'ed 10-12" top popped into the adjacent fir.
If I'm climbing, can you catch a 40' alder top like butter, without coaching?
This alder was easier than the previously neighboring root-pulled alder of the same size that laid up in the hazard maple that we also dismantled during this project---double winched guy-lines and a lot of care and prudence for that 100'ish alder.
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southsoundtree
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Olympia, WA
If a dream boss is super serious about safety and risk- management, clear communication all day, every day with the goal of "boring, lazy treework" where we are not surprised by foreseeable things and everything goes to a safe, well- communicated plan, who will not tolerate unsafe behavior or unsavory people.
When people follow the plan (good followership) and don't push back, second- guessing my plans (20 years of west coast cutting, 18 years climbing and rigging, 30 years trad rock climbing around the US) that are thought out about 5 steps ahead of where we are, and able to ask "What's the plan?" rather that asking if they are guessing the plan correctly ("Do you want me to do_____?), then things go smoothly, safely, and the predictably.
When we leave the words "just" and "real quick/ really quickly" at the door, and use thinking like "do everything required, in whatever time is required, to do the needed tasks thoroughly and safely, like professionals", its a win!
Every time I hire a crane, I tell the CO that I am in zero-rush, and want things to go very smoothly (billing me at $200-400/ hour).
Marathon, not a sprint. I've got at least 10 more years, if not 20, before retiring.
I'm hoping to rock it like RogerB!
southsoundtree
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- Olympia, WA
Here was my spar split mitigation.
We can hear/ I can feel the stem splitting as I cut... in this case only a bit... nothing like "Poppin' Maple Dave's" bigleaf maple tree (what is shown in Gord's picture).
P.S. Gord's Magic Cut was down in TB back in the day. This guy is the real deal B.C. feller and climber.
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southsoundtree
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- Olympia, WA
P.S.
Looking for people with good working memory.
Fixed the duplicate/ missing picture situation in the above post.
In more expensive Portland, I'm seeing ads for lead climber for $40/ hour.
I'll pay a serious assistant climber/all-arounder or a real deal power groundworker $40/hour.
Looking for people with good working memory.
Fixed the duplicate/ missing picture situation in the above post.
In more expensive Portland, I'm seeing ads for lead climber for $40/ hour.
I'll pay a serious assistant climber/all-arounder or a real deal power groundworker $40/hour.
