davidwyby
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VenasNursery
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Happy Father’s Day!
davidwyby
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Those two ~20,000 lb logs should be coming to my place and eventually slabbed or milled
davidwyby
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A job for later this summer
Lady Luck was my friend today. Noticed this between heavily loaded trips up/down mountains.
Logs to be trailer decking for @chiselbit
BTW they don’t have paperwork for that trailer. That’s prolly gonna be fun.
Lady Luck was my friend today. Noticed this between heavily loaded trips up/down mountains.
Logs to be trailer decking for @chiselbit
BTW they don’t have paperwork for that trailer. That’s prolly gonna be fun.
Stuff I couldn’t post yesterday…
When this thing failed, it hit the ground and started to roll into the side of the neighbor’s garage. After freeing up all the loose pieces, it was apparent to have way more side pressure against the garage than downward pressure. It turned the entire back wall into a parallelogram. We had to avoid it rolling further into a different garage when cutting the last support against the gutter.
We spared the new Rhododendron and the other garage by cribbing up the bridged pieces before cutting any other supportive sections out. It worked very well and things ever so gently settled into the cribbing as we whittled it down to the tear.
When this thing failed, it hit the ground and started to roll into the side of the neighbor’s garage. After freeing up all the loose pieces, it was apparent to have way more side pressure against the garage than downward pressure. It turned the entire back wall into a parallelogram. We had to avoid it rolling further into a different garage when cutting the last support against the gutter.
We spared the new Rhododendron and the other garage by cribbing up the bridged pieces before cutting any other supportive sections out. It worked very well and things ever so gently settled into the cribbing as we whittled it down to the tear.
Today’s mighty Beech trunk dismantle per spec of an artist who will work these pieces into a display at the school. I’ll have to post up when his installation is complete. My forearms feel pretty shot working off the crane handling the 660 all day.
A bit of a temporary Wood Henge going on…
A bit of a temporary Wood Henge going on…
Serf Life
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Monday maple. Side stay and slanted sizwheel for the 35' peg. Doubt it would have held w/o the sideline but who knows.
ClimbingTN
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I’m curious about how you did it since I can’t tell the drop zone. Did you top and drop or pull it back or just wedge it. A little explanation please. Craig
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Rigged out the brush and a few logs over the shed. Pulled the stem backward with mini, put a side line at about 90deg to the lean to help hinge integrity.
ClimbingTN
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southsoundtree
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We dismantled these two, tangled tall trees, maple (left ) and cherry ( being climbed), over a bunch of closely spaced 10 year old ornamental conifers.Green with green and more green in the drop zone. Yellow caution tape on a couple of the dozen keeper trees.
Two days of minimum cleanup/ no chipping at this waterfront home (repeat customer). A big hanger and view pruning the day before yesterday.
She's headed up the cherry as it was way easier to spur up, then swing to where I had preset lines in the maple.
She's never been in a big, tangled , 1/3 dead maple before. It was an experience builder to spur up there and do some climbing and cutting, then watch me for a fewe downe down minutes from an equal height perspective. Dialing in her spur climbing set up. Going to get some pole spurs to replace the Gecko Euro hybrids or file down the Euro gaffs.
We haven't worked side by side in a tree in too long. It's a great way to observe.
I took a rope, but we (mainly me) were able to slot everthing in between the ornamental conifers without using it.
2/3s height
No cleanup! All hidden.
7 hours onsite. 5.5 in the tree for me.
2500t, 200t for aerial work, ms 362 with a 20" bar for about a 24" diameter felling cut. Light is right!
For the butt log, I put a pull rope in, with a truckers' hitch pulling in a truckers' hitchbut was able to undercut the cog, instead. Extra work to cut the rope out from under the felled log.
Could spent 2 days ropng things down clearing working space and pulling logs off with 2 people on the ground. No thanks.
I'm guessing they have upward of 300-400 square feet of dahlias in 10 beds. They've been there 47 years and need me to keep getting more sun for there extensive gardens. The gap in the forest behind the house is from the cherry and maple, due South.
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Beautiful jobsite.
Couple of recent random ones, including a decent size fir limb that broke as I was limb-walking over a house the other day. Luckily it hung on near the collar with the help of me wrapping my feet around it and didn't cause any damage. I had weight on my climb-line, as well as flip-lined into a limb above it, and it still broke on me when I got out to the end to do some reductions. Very unexpected, it's only happened to me a few times in like a decade.
Couple of recent random ones, including a decent size fir limb that broke as I was limb-walking over a house the other day. Luckily it hung on near the collar with the help of me wrapping my feet around it and didn't cause any damage. I had weight on my climb-line, as well as flip-lined into a limb above it, and it still broke on me when I got out to the end to do some reductions. Very unexpected, it's only happened to me a few times in like a decade.
davidwyby
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Borrowing trailer to buy Telehandler tomorrow, had to dump the scrap first.
davidwyby
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10k when it was green. To be slabbed
davidwyby
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Took a 'personal day' today, to... buck and winch logs for the winters firewood. These are trees I took down and limbed last year to widen an airfield; pulled uphill in 12' and 24', the skidding cone helped a lot for some of the pulls. To be loaded into a truck another day when a buddy comes over with his mini excavator.
davidwyby
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My inner child is giddy
chiselbit
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Nice. Those things are actually quite handy for tree work, like getting failed trees off houses and loading logs. I’ve worked around a couple of them over the years and was impressed
You’re going to love that thing! Next you can look at a Woodcracker head for it.
Partial joking aside, I’ve seen folks do a lot with chains/slings off the boom. I wonder if there’s a rigid jib attachment for something like that?
