Today....

[davidwyby]

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[27RMT0N]

Ha, never seen that technique before! I don't know anything about palms, but seemed well controlled. Do they hinge and stay attached at the base for a while folding like that?

 

[davidwyby]

Ha, never seen that technique before! I don't know anything about palms, but seemed well controlled. Do they hinge and stay attached at the base for a while folding like that?

I just pulled it out of my rear…a little sketch. Too big of a tree or wrong angle I think it might tip the lift back? Maybe… 5,000lb ish tree 26,000 lb machine, but leverage.

They hinge better than the eucalyptus I’m used to but not as good as a green conifer. Huge gap face and high back cut so it wouldn’t slide back. I did two. The one on the left I didn’t video, it was tight between spigot and the outbuilding.

 

[davidwyby]

pretty miserable dusty cutting the spurs off. Chain choking fibers, nasty dust. Taking the trees out with any other method I can thing of would be lots of miserable hand work.

 

[Matias]

Tree house minus dead trunk.
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2-by floor will get patched.

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Mt. Rainier

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120' PSP took a handful of BigShot attempts. I was away from the collar with lots of backups and a Yates Screamer in my base-tie. I Wraptored up after bounce-testing and pruned of the conflicting branch that fought movement back toward the collar with ground manipulation of the rope.

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Mt Rainier and Puget Sound
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Tuesday's 125' pull down. I used a leather cambium saver. Alternatively, I might get a new ring and ring for knot blocking... long pulls can take a lot of force.
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That's an awfully nice branch at 120'. I can't see the top; how much was left?

 

[Matias]

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That was pretty slick.

 

[Treezybreez]

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That was a confident performance. Well played, I can imagine you saved a lot of time lowering it that way.

 

[Treezybreez]

I estimate that this Water Oak weighed around 33,000 lbs.

 

[davidwyby]

That was a confident performance. Well played, I can imagine you saved a lot of time lowering it that way

The only other way I can imagine doing it would be to slash everything off from a bucket and chunk it down. The fronds are a nightmare. It would take several times longer, with two people instead of one.

 

[southsoundtree]

That's an awfully nice branch at 120'. I can't see the top; how much was left?

50' I'd guess. I didn't stand back and measure below-PSP to above-PSP and calculate.

 

[Reach]

Finished putting a new bottom in an old skidloader bucket this morning, and dropped it off to have a cheap coat of paint sprayed on it.

 

[davidwyby]

Cut up a tree

Rescued a peeJ

 

[Matias]

Today I got an offer letter from a high end outfit in the South SF Bay area to be their sales arborist. I am at a loss for words.

 

[Bendroctanus]

Today I got an offer letter from a high end outfit in the South SF Bay area to be their sales arborist. I am at a loss for words.

“Well do bears poop in the woods?!?”

 

[Serf Life]

“Well do bears poop in the woods?!?”

Yes, but is the bear Catholic?

 

[oceans]

Yes, but is the bear Catholic?

I’m betting Pagan.

 

[Bendroctanus]

If a bear is catholic in the woods, can you hear its poop?

 

[davidwyby]

A friend came down to visit with his new bronco, so I recreated for a weekend instead of doing tree work.

 

[davidwyby]

 

[Matias]

what a truly magical place