Storm work

[Norm_Hall]

We did this oak limb removal last week. The limb landed on the clients chimney, causing it to shift from the impact. The limbwood has already been removed. It was still windy and we wanted to reduce weight before taking any pics.

 

[Norm_Hall]

This pic shows the rigging set up. We wound up using 5 Porty's and 2 lifting devices.

 

[Norm_Hall]

To prevent climbing 2 trees, we set up 'static retrievable false crotches'.

 

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Both lifting devices were mounted on the damaged tree.

 

[Norm_Hall]

This is a video explaining the rigging.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6aG2cG9yFc
2 minutes 48 seconds

 

[Norm_Hall]

My memory card ran out of memory, so I quickly deleted some stills and took some more stills.

This pic shows the limb with the side branch removed.

 

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This pic shows the tip end just touching the wooden deck. We cut off 16" logs (the client wanted firewood) and switched off the 2 tip lines to prevent putting excessive weight on the deck.

 

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This pic shows the deck and firewood behind it. When the 1 limb split and rested on the chimney, another fell and took out the decks railing.

 

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This pic shows how we finished the cut and applied wound dressing.

 

[Norm_Hall]

The next pics are of a different property. This guy had 13 trees in his back yard fail.

 

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These 2 we hoisted with a 40 ton Terex crane. Four picks with the crane.

 

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This is a catalpa that was mangled.

 

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More of the yard and trees.

 

[Norm_Hall]

Another view. The 3 on the left the crane was able to hoist, in pieces, with the jib on. The 2 on the right, we had to rig manually. The GRCS came in real handy.

 

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Last 1.

 

[Colin]

Cool video. Ya'll had your work cut out for you that day!

 

[Norm_Hall]

Lines identified.

 

[easyphloem]

Norm that rigging is transcendent.

When the limb is lifted over the chimney with complete control, I wondered if the homeowner had the guts to watch that happening!


Great job as always, and thanks for sharing!



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[Kathy_Holzer]

woah. norm, you so rock. i'm in rigging preschool compared to you. nice job, very creative!

check your pms.
k.

 

[arboriststrong]

Great pics and video! Could you share a little of the bidding process? Did you price the job right? Anything unexpected that you didn't account for? What would you have bid differently looking back?
Thanks