Today....

I’m just a timber faller that owns a tree service. I do both. Usually 2 days a week we cut timber for a logging company and the rest of the week we do tree work. Thats not carved in stone, sometimes we’ll do tree work all week. Or vice versa, lately the logging units were too small to accommodate their regular full time cutters as well as myself and my employee so we haven’t been in the woods for awhile. This is yarder logging in a recent burn, steep ground.
 
Still crazy busy, my only employee has been out with back problems for the last few days and ships off to the Coast Guard in February, meanwhile work keeps rolling in as fast as ever. I'm starting to consider turning down jobs I can't do solo going forward. I did get a ported 2511 and ran it for the first time yesterday, it's a great little saw. So at least I have that going for me! Some beautiful fall colors too, sprinkled into the evergreen forest.

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Ya, I definitely scope the solo possibility of jobs when bidding, conceivably with a rental bucket or crane, if needed, but that is rare.



Do you have an Awah (sp?) drill-powered ascender?
 


An off-the-cuff video at dusk. Final day of this phase at a frequent customers' house on Puget Sound.

They're managing the risk of root- disease infected doug-fir and dying-tops in 2 western red cedars near their shop. Various other dead trees near their buildings and driveway.

New planting come spring!
 
southsoundtree said:
Ya, I definitely scope the solo possibility of jobs when bidding, conceivably with a rental bucket or crane, if needed, but that is rare.


Do you have an Awah (sp?) drill-powered ascender?
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Just this evening I was looking at a like 4 day job, that's a bunch of zero equipment access rigging removals next to a house. No way to do that solo...

I do see where a powered ascender could be very helpful on solo work: going up and down to swap to a bigger saw when it's trunk wood time, etc. Been waiting for the Awah Z3 to get the updated wheel that works with 11mm+ arborist ropes (and ideally PPE, ANSI certified) but so far it says it's only for 9/10/11mm ropes.
 
I have been Wraptoring up big trees a lot lately, with a ground worker.


Without a ground worker, i anchor a rope out of the drop zone for a controlled speedline. I bring a lowering line for the Wraptor, then throw both ropes clear after landing the (cold-muffler) Wraptor.
 
Atmospheric river and a bit of wind...more calls will come, already farther out on jobs than I want as I have a decent Prevailing Wage job that should come in for a 135' barrel of a doug-fir with schweinitzii, plus a row of cedars.
 
oceans said:
That is 100% a Hoeflon C10. I might know who that is but would have to get into my contacts to get his name. To my knowledge, there’s still little more than a handful of those units in the States.
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sort of my dream but than again i enjoy rigging trees of themselves. might look different when i payed of my loader in 4 years ;)
 
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