Today....
- Thread starter Mark Chisholm
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Winchman
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Southwest Georgia
Seeing that reminded me how much I enjoyed welding aluminum. Looks like first class goodies.
Enjoy!
Basswood
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Long island
Not a bad spot to finish off a long brutal week. Deadwooding, pollarding, shaping, clearance pruning and hedging all at this one property
Reach
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Atglen, PA
Beautiful property, and quite a variety of services! Looks like some fine work too, keep it up!
Basswood
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Long island
Thanks!
The beautiful jobsite of one of my regulars today. Yah, I remember back when I lived in the city; no amount of money would bring me back there.
Sunrise through a lichen-covered garry oak.
046 and 661 to buck and quarter a fir log for firewood.
From up a fir removal: Moss-covered bedrock with a few trees in the cracks.
The moon and a light dusting of snow on the higher elevations.
Sunrise through a lichen-covered garry oak.
046 and 661 to buck and quarter a fir log for firewood.
From up a fir removal: Moss-covered bedrock with a few trees in the cracks.
The moon and a light dusting of snow on the higher elevations.
Winchman
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Southwest Georgia
Thanks, that first picture is my new background.
Glad you like it. That's only 900x675 res, here is a higher resolution version that should work better:
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Serf Life
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Maine Island
Worked solo yesterday for friends in NH. 34”, 32”, and 25” double top. 7 hrs working, 4 hrs driving in chip truck, super beat this morning.
Reach
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Atglen, PA
That sounds like some crazy weather, but it looks like you have a great place to weather the weather!
treebilly
Branched out member
- Location
- N. Lawrence
another nice crane day
southsoundtree
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Olympia, WA
Three ropes to guide this funky, dead, leaning to horizontal, Madrona, hooking 90* to the right, chasing sunlight, over the garage and home.
I couldn't manually break the looong top off, and needed to keep it from rotating downward into the roof.
"Walked it down" off the stump, turning it 90*, one 16-20" chunk at a time.
I couldn't manually break the looong top off, and needed to keep it from rotating downward into the roof.
"Walked it down" off the stump, turning it 90*, one 16-20" chunk at a time.
Nice work, gotta love the crazy ways madrones grow, eh?
Edit: Yah, more toys for me today.
- Trying out Clogger pants for the first time. Been using SIP for a few years but just not happy with how much my leg gets picked and pulled apart by the climbing saw hanging on my saddle. I hope these hold up longer.
- A second port-a-wrap. Small size instead of the large size and GRCS I already have, since I've had some specific rigging situations where I'd have liked a second porty, and a smaller size so it would be easier to use in the tree.
- A Marlow 3/8" Soft Shackle (MBS 15,500 lb). Soft shackles seem to be the future in most situations as far as I can tell, have become common in slacklining and 4x4 recovery and I think it's time they came to tree work. Bought this as my first one and look forward to seeing and sharing how it works.
- RE al biner. Nothing exciting here, just looking to reduce weight in certain areas. I'll be swapping a steel I've been using on one of my flip-lines, and the weight goes from 258g all the way down to 84g according to my measurements.
- Sugi Hara 14" bar. I'm also on a light-weight bar kick, having converted my 661 36", 046 28", 200T 16" and 2511T 12" and seeing the huge benefits. This will go on my Husky 335XPT and look forward to testing it out.
- 5/8" loopie and dead-eye slings. These are for use with that small porty I just bought, much smaller and ligher than the 3/4" 20-footers I use on my large porty.
Aluminum Gecko spur also on the way....
Edit: Yah, more toys for me today.
- Trying out Clogger pants for the first time. Been using SIP for a few years but just not happy with how much my leg gets picked and pulled apart by the climbing saw hanging on my saddle. I hope these hold up longer.
- A second port-a-wrap. Small size instead of the large size and GRCS I already have, since I've had some specific rigging situations where I'd have liked a second porty, and a smaller size so it would be easier to use in the tree.
- A Marlow 3/8" Soft Shackle (MBS 15,500 lb). Soft shackles seem to be the future in most situations as far as I can tell, have become common in slacklining and 4x4 recovery and I think it's time they came to tree work. Bought this as my first one and look forward to seeing and sharing how it works.
- RE al biner. Nothing exciting here, just looking to reduce weight in certain areas. I'll be swapping a steel I've been using on one of my flip-lines, and the weight goes from 258g all the way down to 84g according to my measurements.
- Sugi Hara 14" bar. I'm also on a light-weight bar kick, having converted my 661 36", 046 28", 200T 16" and 2511T 12" and seeing the huge benefits. This will go on my Husky 335XPT and look forward to testing it out.
- 5/8" loopie and dead-eye slings. These are for use with that small porty I just bought, much smaller and ligher than the 3/4" 20-footers I use on my large porty.
Aluminum Gecko spur also on the way....
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southsoundtree
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Olympia, WA
I like weight on the end of my lanyard/ flipline...helps to advance it.
Different strokes for different folks.
Different strokes for different folks.
That's for the rope grab side that stays on the saddle, for one of my steel core fliplines. I realize I wasn't very clear where I'd be using it in that post. I also like a heavy end to swing around trees. I'd just been using a steel there for a while because it was the only one I had with a corner trap at the moment (which I like to keep it oriented).
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AdkEric
Branched out member
- Location
- Adirondacks
Dusted off the snowshoes and let my dog, Cedar, tow me about 4 miles this afternoon, breaking fresh trail as we went.
Milled up a bunch of Sassafras today at my brother's property. He has a grove of them down in a ravine on the edge of a swamp and the biggest of them fell naturally. A bunch of slabs 72" long milled at 2" and 3" thick, plus the outside slabs which I will make large bowls from. Cold and beautiful day here in SE Michigan but the heat is in the tools. Sweated through 4 layers carrying these out of the woods about 100 yards and up 40' of elevation change. I used a tow strap and girth hitched it to the slabs, then wore them like a backpack and carried each one out. About 15 total, and no wood smells as good as Sassafras.
