Today....

Bendroctanus · Jul 25, 2023

No messin’ around there. Bravo!

VenasNursery · Jul 25, 2023

oceans said:
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That’s flipping awesome

Serf Life · Jul 25, 2023

What he said^

Shadowscape · Jul 25, 2023

Very cool.

oceans · Jul 25, 2023

Bendroctanus said:
No messin’ around there. Bravo!

Apparently there was…wooden bunks were originally thought to be quick and easy to set up for hauling mountains of brush out of back yards. They are not adequate, and I meed to switch to steel. Had a minor casualty today with one of them. But Thank you! The concept is there, I just need to make a couple adjustments.

oceans · Jul 25, 2023

Thanks y’all. I suddenly seemed to have a decent amount of work lined up in this vein so I had to get away from the bucket/thumb arrangement. So far, so good. I gotta say that a mini ex is perhaps the most versatile piece of equipment.

Bendroctanus · Jul 25, 2023

oceans said:
Apparently there was…wooden bunks were originally thought to be quick and easy to set up for hauling mountains of brush out of back yards. They are not adequate, and I meed to switch to steel. Had a minor casualty today with one of them. But Thank you! The concept is there, I just need to make a couple adjustments.

I’m still impressed. Nothing like dialing in a sweet process. I like it. Looking forward to seeing more.

96coal449 · Jul 26, 2023

oceans said:
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That's not work. You're just hangin out in the A/C.....
Yunck. yunck, yunck.

Vicente · Jul 26, 2023

Some pics from today due a couple sugar pines took some pictures from the top of the first one pretty sure those are the Sierra buttes out there in the second picture. Stripped both sugar pines out to 90ft and topped them in just under 2.5 hours.
We're working on the same site as my friend who's a gc and he said I could use his mini ex so I spent some time figuring out how to run it managed to get the really big pine limbs from mondays tree sorted out and stacked off to the side so we can finish cleaning up the brush.

Fivepoints · Jul 26, 2023

oceans said:
Thanks y’all. I suddenly seemed to have a decent amount of work lined up in this vein so I had to get away from the bucket/thumb arrangement. So far, so good. I gotta say that a mini ex is perhaps the most versatile piece of equipment.

We use ours daily. We have a vio35 with a farma grapple. Feeds the chipper nice. We made a rope bollard for it as well and a tree pusher.

southsoundtree · Jul 26, 2023

Solo job, finish up.

With my good TIP broken out by the failure, I needed to get a high TiP at about 130' in the fir behind the maple, 40' lateral to the climbing point, to get this long trunk down.

A great time for htp!

No cleanup...my friend has a tractor with a grapple and a kboom/ grapple with dump bed.

southsoundtree · Jul 27, 2023

Dead and crispy madrona that was growing across the ridge a hair. First pic is after working from the roof and tall orchard ladder, before climbing.

Pruned the redwood off the other side of the carport.

Chipped onto the ground for homeowner to spread as mulch.

Njdelaney · Jul 27, 2023

Removed a sickly Norway Maple yesterday and had to finish the cleanup in a crazy storm. I got soaked and on the way to the transfer station I came across probably 40 trees down. In the road, on houses, everywhere. Ypsilanti, MI got hit pretty hard and currently on day #2 with no power here in Detroit. Here's my double base tie for this three-headed craptastic tree. Too pretty not to take a pic!!

cory · Jul 27, 2023

Eutypella canker there, eh?

Njdelaney · Jul 27, 2023

cory said:
Eutypella canker there, eh?

I don't think so. That was just a spot with dead cambium that I pulled bark off of because right behind it there was a huge "pruning" cut. A very large flush cut that never came close to being compartmentalized and likely played a large role in this tree's decline. No canker visible anywhere else.