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Thanks. I like these folks, in part because they are DIY on cleanup. We made it easy for them by processing it it easy to manage pieces on an hourly basis. We'll see them again. They are meant to grow ridiculously fast. Ever so light.
 
No photo and probably should have videoed. I’m storytelling this one. Use your brain and imagination… I’m cutting down more Tree-of-heaven trees today. I get a 100 footer 18DBH caught way up in the canopy. It doesn’t even pass the notch. Hum…how can I get that out? Skidder, yeah but, that’s no fun! Well the two others up the hill gotta go. Next one up the hill is bent over to the ground and wants to springboard you in the face. I notched and back cut but, let it stand. Go up the hill to the leaner, notched it in my favor. It falls hitting the springboard, which continues down the hill sideways and smacks the 100 footer sending it to the ground. Springboard laying down and uphill tree and 100 footer side by side. It was awesome. Ok old man bedtime. Craig
 
Matias, they are borrowed from my day job. The height isn’t so much an advantage as their lifting capacity. I often haul off logs mostly whole. Later I mill or firewood them at my yard. These got dropped in a hole for erosion control/fill. I’ve been running forklifts in the dirt handling stuff other than just straight simple pallets my whole life. Can get pretty creative with physics and experience. I did get stuck a little yesterday but not enough to need pulled out.

We also have a 1967 16,000 lb I’ve used to get logs a few feet in dia.

Oceans, I have used a 10k Telehandler for removals a few times, those get some work done! I go up in the towable bucket and tie off chunks to the tele. Off roofs too. They really should have sent a fleet of them in after Helene.

Buying one for the shop soon. Only sticky is they require a semi to move them. I guess I will put a gooseneck hitch on the back of it.


May years ago I worked for a small portable building company. We moved down the road and my boss rented a tele to move a display building that was up on a stand. We had planned two weeks cleaning out the new place before we re opened. Remove some small pines in the front, huge furniture storage shelves made of 2x6s inside, etc.

I asked if I could come in the next day, a weekend or holiday. I did it all in one day by myself with that tele and a big fire.
 
southsoundtree said:
Cool.

I've been thinking of making a lot of cuts at the final snag height with a pull line pretensioned a bit, with a guy line below the cut and ripping the last log off after descending.

Any experience trying that?
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If nobody else has tried this to report on, I have some perfect candidates for the experiment.
 
southsoundtree said:
Cool.

I've been thinking of making a lot of cuts at the final snag height with a pull line pretensioned a bit, with a guy line below the cut and ripping the last log off after descending.

Any experience trying that?
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I've never done that, but see how it could create a cool effect. When I look at natural fir snags in the woods, I see two typical types: the tree dies, weakens for a bunch of years, then the trunk snaps leaving a still standing trunk with the jagged top and that's what I usually try to recreate. The other one (much less common) is usually a live tree that has some structural weakness that causes a major failure and big tearout down the trunk. Making cuts to weaken it, then putting a lot of pressure on it with a rope from the ground could absolutely recreate that effect like you say. It would be fun to give it a try, just never had a customer ask for it so I haven't put in that extra work/time.
 
Went to town with the spade today. New England soil is not kind for digging, and to top it off, the trees we moved grew from seed in an old rock dump. At least the weather was perfect for the activity at hand. Each hole ended up being prepped with the excavator by getting close with depth, leaving plenty of width, and sorting out the stones to remove them from the backfill. Only the first plug was brought down to the trees. That nice soil proved too valuable to take away from the trees’ new homes, so we kept it for easier backfill. All the trees ended up requiring a pre-dig just outside the spade diameter with the excavator as welll to relieve the worst of the stones and allow cleaner spading. It was a fight, but one the client was willing to go through and we got 4 gorgeous Oaks from several thousand feet away across the property and off the chopping block for the view-shed. More tomorrow!

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oceans said:
Went to town with the spade today. New England soil is not kind for digging, and to top it off, the trees we moved grew from seed in an old rock dump. At least the weather was perfect for the activity at hand. Each hole ended up being prepped with the excavator by getting close with depth, leaving plenty of width, and sorting out the stones to remove them from the backfill. Only the first plug was brought down to the trees. That nice soil proved too valuable to take away from the trees’ new homes, so we kept it for easier backfill. All the trees ended up requiring a pre-dig just outside the spade diameter with the excavator as welll to relieve the worst of the stones and allow cleaner spading. It was a fight, but one the client was willing to go through and we got 4 gorgeous Oaks from several thousand feet away across the property and off the chopping block for the view-shed. More tomorrow!

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Wow we’ve never had to dig in rocks like that!
Doesn’t look very fun but looks like you got it !
 
VenasNursery said:
Wow we’ve never had to dig in rocks like that!
Doesn’t look very fun but looks like you got it !
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Only time will tell, but I’m still cautiously optimistic. Thankfully the client and I had a solid discussion about this being a bit exploratory, which was actually their words. If it works, they have a lot more to move in the years ahead.
 
oceans said:
Only time will tell, but I’m still cautiously optimistic. Thankfully the client and I had a solid discussion about this being a bit exploratory, which was actually their words. If it works, they have a lot more to move in the years ahead.
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That’s awesome I hope it all works out for you also I have a 90” Big John coming up for sale as soon as I can finish transplanting the last of my trees on my property.
 
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