Today....

Mick Dempsey said:
I look at a lot of photos of mucking about in trees, these are pretty epic, been thinking about these all day.
Great stuff, the views, the weather, but mostly the work…Wow!
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Our weather isn't much to desired this week, it was 112f at my house mon-tues, bit cooler up where he took those pictures but still pretty hot.
 
Smokey today! A fire started yesterday between @vincente and me. Quadrupled overnight, was at 4000 acres this morning and in rugged terrain, high temps, all the ingredients for yet another catastrophic wild fire.
 
Working at my place on a Sunday, trying to take advantage of the big excavator out at the property right now and the guy who will take the logs away for free. 140+ foot grand fir that needed to go for my shop build. It wasn't the plan when I started, but I ended up taking one of the biggest tops I've ever done, an 80+ foot top at 60 feet up. With just a little 261 and an 18" bar, haha, should have brought my GoPro, but here are a few stills.

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Chris Schultz said:
Always exciting taking a “top” that big!!! Fir too, YOWZA!! Wedged it too?! Goddam
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Yah, 140' is certainly on the high end of how tall our trees are so I don't work in them super often, when I do it is usually just pruning on an old doug fir. On removals, it's usually that there is room to fell something whole, or not this much space and things need to be taken in smaller pieces, 40' tops are very common to be able to fit.

These grand firs are very straight growing trees (usually) with smaller and lighter limbs, so the tops don't usually have much if any favor in one direction or another. Being next to other trees on one side, there was a slight difference in limb-weight to take advantage, but honestly with 80 feet of tree above you on the stem, you just can't see enough to judge a lean with certainty. What actually convinced me it was safe, was that I had a slight breeze in my favor, so that, plus the tiny bit of limb-weight advantage, then doing a face at 50% depth to slightly undermine the center of gravity and work with wedges let it go pretty easily.
 
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27RMT0N said:
Yah, 140' is certainly on the high end of how tall our trees are so I don't work in them super often, when I do it is usually just pruning on an old doug fir. On removals, it's usually that there is room to fell something whole, or not this much space and things need to be taken in smaller pieces, 40' tops are very common to be able to fit.

These grand firs are very straight growing trees (usually) with smaller and lighter limbs, so the tops don't usually have much if any favor in one direction or another. Being next to other trees on one side, there was a slight difference in limb-weight to take advantage, but honestly with 80 feet of tree above you on the stem, you just can't see enough to judge a lean with certainty. What actually convicted me it was safe, was that I had a slight breeze in my favor, so that, plus the tiny bit of limb-weight advantage, then doing a face at 50% depth to slightly undermine the center of gravity and work with wedges let it go pretty easily.
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Wind can be a big plus, sometimes you can sit up there for a few minutes waiting for a gust to finish your work.

Nice job.
 
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