To windy to rake

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Had some wicked winds today. Hard to communicate and the rope blowing at a good angle. The rake only worked one way. Good thing the yard was totally sheltered.

Must be some good or bad working in the wind stories out there lately.

I just had the thought a climber could take one of those wing suits and double crotch in a high wind and invent a new sport. Whose up?
 
it gets windy here in hawaii alot with on average 15-30 mph winds. in hawaii we dont even bother with the blower when its really windy. we use those HUGE red garden rakes and you basically tote a garbage can with you and rake into the bucket as you go. kinda work it in a grid pattern.

we were trimming coconut trees once and had to rig down the palm fronds. it was soo windy that the fronds were not comming straight down with the rope. the wind was blowing everything at an angle so, we had to set up a tag line to pull everything in to the LZ.
 
We got these big toothed clog free blue plastic rakes that are perfect for what we do. $30 regular price, gotta get the good ones that don't warp or their useless.
 
Went to do some 90ft. white pines today, did one this morning, then wind picked up to 20 25 mph, so I decided to call it a day. I was wondering when others consider it to windy to work.
 
yup i can raise my hand on that one john. we call it quits on really windy days. it gets too dangerous some times. especially when working a thin spar like white pines. we call it quits on the coconuts and such when its over 20Mph becuase that usually means for us gusts of 30mph. its not so fun when your swinging around.
 
A few weeks ago we had a major wind storm here, I was up in a 60' 24" sugar maple, it was a calm day but the wind seriously picked up right before I made the first cut. It was a 10" limb leaning at about a 40-45* angle, I notched it into the lean and back cut it, it jambed my saw straightend right up, and blew it right over my shoulder it landed about 30' from the tree 90* to the notch.


A few days later I heard that the wind made it up to 100 km/h(~60mph) with gusts up to 120 km/h(~70mph).

We kept working for a few hours only because that was the only removal and it was in the bush so there wasn't many targets.
 
I've done a few climbs with winds gusting into the 50mph zone. I had my back to the wind, and at times my lanyard was secondary to the wind pushing me up against the tree on spikes. It was also 10 below with the wind chill. That top sailed clear across the street......
 
That was quite the wind storm we had then (I'm in Peterborough). I was in the bucket doing an elm removal and it was getting really windy, I think my hard hat would have gone for a flight if my muffs weren't down lol. Anyways I was setting some rigging up and saw something move out the corner of my eye, so I looked and saw the neighbour's hydro stack falling to the ground. I did a double take then saw that a manitoba maple had fallen in the back yard, took out the customers service and the neighbours as well. Looking back I didn't think it was that windy but I think it was the gusting that put all the trees down??
 
The company I used to work for had us working in everthing. On one windy day probably 40 mph we were working and had top bust off a tree by the chipper and almost take out a groundie (I think that was one of our first and last day guys!) anyways called the boss to tell him and he LAUGHED about it! What a d*ck. Another time had a medium size white pine right on lake Michigan called the boss to tell him it was to windy to do, 50 mph gusts that day. His answer was "thats what you have a buckstrap and spikes for." I climbed up and popped the top right as a gust hit and watched it sail about 30 ft to the right and land across the hand rail on wooden walkway. Luckily must of been a good carpenter because it didnt bust the railing or anything!
 
Today I did deadwooding and limb removal off the roof on two Norway Maples,over grown with Lichen in a misty fog with an ocean breeze.. was like walking on ice...of course those Norway's don't have many laterals mostly upright growth... got out of the trees about 2 pm and the sun came out and dried the area up.. wind and mist on lichen..sucks big time...
 
A couple of years ago, my crew was wrapping up on a job we had been at all day. Pruning 2 large red maples. The sky started to darken and the wind was picking up. Looked like your average afternoon thunderstorm for our area. Within 10 minutes the sky is now blue/black and green. Not good colors.
As we were trying to pack up and get out, the wind goes from 0-60mph in less than a minute. Blows the tops out of the two trees we had been pruning. One landed on the bucket truck, cracking the boom. The other landed on me and the chip truck. The weatherman latter called it a "microburst". That storm kept us busy for another month.
 
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