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- Home of the New Jersey Devils
Professional?
- Thread starter Mark Chisholm
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- Home of the New Jersey Devils
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- Lansing, NY
I would have loved to seen that if and OSHA guy came zipping by man in hoe bucket umm well, no ppe, and our day goes on watching the great people who believe trees are fine as you rip the poop outta it .
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- In the Mitten...
It also looks like they have a lemon-aide stand under the tree, man those guys really the need money.
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- Home of the New Jersey Devils
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It also looks like they have a lemon-aide stand under the tree, man those guys really the need money.
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Haha! That's not a stand. That's the boxes for the underground utilities. /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
It also looks like they have a lemon-aide stand under the tree, man those guys really the need money.
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Haha! That's not a stand. That's the boxes for the underground utilities. /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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- Central NJ
This reminds me of a story I heard from one of the hockey dads from my son's team (I won't use any names).
He works for (owns?) an excavation company. When he heard I was climbing trees, he told me he'd given it up 18 years earlier. Here's why:
He and another operator are working a job w/ a big excavator. The job is an old farm that's been sold off to a developer and I guess they're digging basements or something. Well, the farmhouse turns out to be of some kind of historical significance, so it can't be demo'd. Has to be moved.
Moving crew shows up unexpectedly and there's a big panic over who's going to remove this big tree that's in the way. His young partner takes off after the tree w/ the excavator and starts tearing branches out. But he can only reach up like 25'. So this hockey dad decides he'll ride in the excavator bucket w/ the chainsaw and cut the top out. First couple cuts went OK. What he didn't realize was that the big multi-pair telephone cable that the tree has grown into was putting a big side load on the tree. Care to guess what happens next?
Yup, his first cut BELOW the telephone cable releases that part of the tree, it shoots sideways, and it just cleans him right out of the bucket. Lands on his back where, fortunately, he'd removed a picket fence before going up. I guess we can give him credit for having at least a partial plan. Unfortunately, the 4x4" stub that remained fractured his arm.
But wait, there's more. Horrified by what just happened, the other operator jumps out of the excavator and comes running over to hockey dad (who's still laid out on the front yard). Remember the chainsaw? It's still running in the bucket. While the young guy is leaning over hockey dad, the vibrating saw falls out of the bucket and comes crashing down on his head, and then gives hockey dad a "duelling" scar right across his face. What a train wreck...
He can laugh about it now, but I'll bet there was minimal chuckling at the time. The two both survived (with minimal scaring from what I can see). Still digging holes, but subing out the treework.
He works for (owns?) an excavation company. When he heard I was climbing trees, he told me he'd given it up 18 years earlier. Here's why:
He and another operator are working a job w/ a big excavator. The job is an old farm that's been sold off to a developer and I guess they're digging basements or something. Well, the farmhouse turns out to be of some kind of historical significance, so it can't be demo'd. Has to be moved.
Moving crew shows up unexpectedly and there's a big panic over who's going to remove this big tree that's in the way. His young partner takes off after the tree w/ the excavator and starts tearing branches out. But he can only reach up like 25'. So this hockey dad decides he'll ride in the excavator bucket w/ the chainsaw and cut the top out. First couple cuts went OK. What he didn't realize was that the big multi-pair telephone cable that the tree has grown into was putting a big side load on the tree. Care to guess what happens next?
Yup, his first cut BELOW the telephone cable releases that part of the tree, it shoots sideways, and it just cleans him right out of the bucket. Lands on his back where, fortunately, he'd removed a picket fence before going up. I guess we can give him credit for having at least a partial plan. Unfortunately, the 4x4" stub that remained fractured his arm.
But wait, there's more. Horrified by what just happened, the other operator jumps out of the excavator and comes running over to hockey dad (who's still laid out on the front yard). Remember the chainsaw? It's still running in the bucket. While the young guy is leaning over hockey dad, the vibrating saw falls out of the bucket and comes crashing down on his head, and then gives hockey dad a "duelling" scar right across his face. What a train wreck...
He can laugh about it now, but I'll bet there was minimal chuckling at the time. The two both survived (with minimal scaring from what I can see). Still digging holes, but subing out the treework.
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- Lansing, NY
You are right about lucky on that one. I have worked near operators that get ansy in the panties and want that tree down now.
option 1 drop it on the deal going on
option 2 let us do are job and you can go with the work.
option 3 we walk away and you take care of it
We tell that to them and 10 outta 10 times they go with #2. I do not get in their crap for not digging faster so they have learned that tree work is not a fast and furios job unless it is a flop and drop.
option 1 drop it on the deal going on
option 2 let us do are job and you can go with the work.
option 3 we walk away and you take care of it
We tell that to them and 10 outta 10 times they go with #2. I do not get in their crap for not digging faster so they have learned that tree work is not a fast and furios job unless it is a flop and drop.
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- Home of the New Jersey Devils
That is a terrible thing to have happened. He is lucky and I hope he knows it.
Lumberjack
Branched out member
For giggles I have used an escavator to remove trees from around a building. Then I removed the building 
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- Retired in Minneapolis
Excavators, with the right operator in the seat, are a reasonable way to do removals. Add a 'thumb' to the dipper and they can really lift and grab some huge loads. No need to do stump grinding when they rip them out like an iron dinosaur!
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- Central NJ
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Excavators, with the right operator in the seat, are a reasonable way to do removals. Add a 'thumb' to the dipper and they can really lift and grab some huge loads. No need to do stump grinding when they rip them out like an iron dinosaur!
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Yeah, it's when the 'operator' climbs into the bucket that the trouble starts...
Excavators, with the right operator in the seat, are a reasonable way to do removals. Add a 'thumb' to the dipper and they can really lift and grab some huge loads. No need to do stump grinding when they rip them out like an iron dinosaur!
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Yeah, it's when the 'operator' climbs into the bucket that the trouble starts...
mdvaden
Participating member
- Location
- Beaverton. Oregon
The one thing I saw that would be nice to have a photo of, was a couple of guys "pruning" a massive weeping willow.
They had one extension ladder - long like 32' - strapped to the trunk at a slight angle.
Then, over that one, a second ladder was strapped up, along, and out a main scaffold limb. Probably 60' up and over there.
And one of the guys was at the top of the upper ladder, clinging with no harness, trimming branches off using an extended pole pruner.
They had one extension ladder - long like 32' - strapped to the trunk at a slight angle.
Then, over that one, a second ladder was strapped up, along, and out a main scaffold limb. Probably 60' up and over there.
And one of the guys was at the top of the upper ladder, clinging with no harness, trimming branches off using an extended pole pruner.
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- Bridgeville DE
Why not pay a climber for the day? some people are just outta control to save a buck!!! lol
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