Today....

oldoakman · Jul 28, 2019

Anyone have a match?

Reach · Jul 28, 2019

oldoakman said:
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Sure, and I’ll even throw in ten gallons of gasoline if you’ll bring the marshmallows!

oldoakman · Jul 29, 2019

This sucker would burn for years. There is even more on top that you can't see from where I was.

treebilly · Jul 30, 2019

Reach said:
Define “lift”. I was able to get it about an inch off the ground, but that was all. Just high enough to move it without tearing the ground all up.

An inch is as good as a mile

rico · Aug 2, 2019

Got some logs skidded and set up 2 new mill sites.

JD3000 · Aug 3, 2019

Trails today

rico · Aug 3, 2019

JD3000 said:
Trails today
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Beautiful terrain JD! Species of the large tree?

SomethingWitty · Aug 3, 2019

rico said:
Beautiful terrain JD! Species of the large tree?

Sycamore, I think.

JD3000 · Aug 3, 2019

Yep, path goes between the two trunks

rico · Aug 3, 2019

Thought it was a Sycamore. Beautiful tree. We have the Platanus Racemosa variety here. They grow down near the creeks, rivers, and riperian areas and are amazing trees.

JD3000 · Aug 3, 2019

P. occidentalis here. Low areas and the white bark can be seen from far away and is usually a sign that water is nearby

Finky198 · Aug 3, 2019

This monster fell down at a good Friend / neighbors house. The same one in my avatar...

I told him please don't touch. He's skilled guy but this stuff is dangerous and his wife would kill me if I let something happen to him.... Many other people stopped by and gave him the old "oh I'll help you out... this weekend" and I knew that wouldn't end well.

So off to cutting and lots of it...

It was a tangle mess lots of cracked and split limbs, even some huge ones. Tons of tension and compression all over. large overhead limbs. It's on a downhill with and 6' embankment at the end. and The trunk has a 25' long split in the stem. Oh and of cousre and its hung up on dead tree... Its the tree that keeps on giving....

Oak Trees aprox 48" in dia 90-100' tall over 100' crown and 10' wide 8' tall root ball
This probably the biggest and oldest blow down I've ever come across.

These pics are from the estimate we worked on the job
yesterday so I'll have more coming.

rico · Aug 6, 2019

Wrecking a back-leaning Fir

SomethingWitty · Aug 6, 2019

rico said:
Wrecking a Fir

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You're wearing a hat?!

rico · Aug 6, 2019

I've been known to throw the brain bucket on from time to time?

SomethingWitty · Aug 6, 2019

rico said:
I've been known to throw the brain bucket on from time to time?

Okay.

SomethingWitty · Aug 9, 2019

The limbwad that the saw is hiding in is the near side in the third picture.
I haven't had a removal with this volume in quite a while. We are two chip trucks and three dump trailers into brush and wood with only half of the canopy down.

Finky198 · Aug 9, 2019

We cut up most of this monster today... I got the dead stick that was tangled up removed. Then removed the tensioned limbs stuck in another tree with some notches and partial back cuts they hinged and snapped off as I cut the big leader off, Made my life much safer and simpler... The stuff is just huge... luckily for us everything stayed on site.