southsoundtree
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- Olympia, WA
Today....
- Thread starter Mark Chisholm
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Bendroctanus
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- Springfield
Good luck with that...
That’s a badass mill! I will be wanting one like that in another year or so. I’ve been looking at Cook’s Superwide 4449, but most likely will go with their 3238. I can save my big Alaskan for the wider stuff.
Bendroctanus
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deevo
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- Horseshoe Valley, Ontario, Canada
New chipper day. Winch is on the way they somehow forgot to put it on at the factory ! This is a 1621, baby bro to our 18 R she chips
, some of the crew including Jimmy on the end he’s 82 comes out and gets our wood he sells it for firewood, good old dude
, some of the crew including Jimmy on the end he’s 82 comes out and gets our wood he sells it for firewood, good old dude
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Nice looking machine. For whatever reason, I don't think I've ever seen a Morbark brand chipper in my life.
Might be combining forces with some other folks on a 25+ acre forestry thinning job. The entire property is steep slope, even vertical cliffs in places. Material will be chipped and broadcast back onto the forest floor or into trucks to be sold, bigger logs will be run through the firewood processer and sold and the best will be milled with a mobile dimensional for building on site. Nothing burned, all material stays on the island. That's the plan at least.
Might be combining forces with some other folks on a 25+ acre forestry thinning job. The entire property is steep slope, even vertical cliffs in places. Material will be chipped and broadcast back onto the forest floor or into trucks to be sold, bigger logs will be run through the firewood processer and sold and the best will be milled with a mobile dimensional for building on site. Nothing burned, all material stays on the island. That's the plan at least.
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This happened earlier in my hometown. Smashed two houses.
I’m not a crane guy, have zero experience with them for rigging trees, but my guess is it was parked too close to the house so the outriggers had no room to be extended right?
Hopefully nobody got hurt. That blows, they got a decent reputation around town.
Reach
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- Atglen, PA
Wow! That’s a bad day, for sure!
Working with the outriggers at half-span or no-span like they are is permissible, but only if there’s no other possibilities at all. If you go half-span, you must use the correct chart and reduce the lifting capacity accordingly, or you risk a rollover like that.
My guess is that they probably either lifted a piece too heavy or somehow accidentally pushed the radius a little too far and overloaded the crane. The outriggers appear to be where they belong, so I don’t think they found an underground surprise, like the company in our area last year that did the same thing when they punched an outrigger through an old cesspool nobody knew was there.
southsoundtree
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- Olympia, WA
Or dynamically loaded it.
Boom looks well-extended and set up steeply.
Boom looks well-extended and set up steeply.
Reach
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- Atglen, PA
Good observations. I saw the boom length, but not the boom angle. The log also hit the house much closer and there’s a lot of cable out, so it could have been a swinging log that exceeded radius and pulled the crane over. Or they lifted a questionable-weight butt log and it was just a little too heavy when they swung over the side.
AdkEric
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- Location
- Adirondacks
While removing this rotting and hollow leader that's top had previously broken out of, we encountered a racoon family. 5 kits and a mother. Our guy in the bucket was able to get all the kits out and lowered to the ground, but mom wasn't having it. We ended up cutting it further down, below the hollow, and lowering it to the ground slowly. She jumped from about 10 ft off the ground and scurried to some nearby shrubbery. The kits were "re-homed" to a hollow cavity lower in the tree. I'm sure the mother will find them, I don't imagine she went far. 
Reach
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- Atglen, PA
Must be raccoon day, we found a family of four in a tree today too. Didn’t know the tree was hollow, one of the crew cut a notch and when the wedge fell out, out popped a baby raccoon! No injuries, but getting them and their angry mother to move out of the tree before we felled it was quite a challenge.
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Basswood
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- Location
- Long island
Started a PHC program on one of the late night show hosts homes. A full 8.5 hours at one property. Interesting place for sure and they want to preserve all their bigger trees, which is a nice change. Most people around here purchase a new home and want any large trees within 100yd of the house removed
Reach
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- Atglen, PA
They sure are! We had no idea it was hollow, but it sure cut nice! Same job had a surprisingly hollow Ash that hit the ground with a big crash and discharged a crowd of angry bumblebees. Two guys got stung, first time I’ve ever seen someone get stung by a bumblebee.
southsoundtree
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- Olympia, WA
That axe looks pretty bulletproof @southsoundtree
Happen to know the maker of it? I can’t make it out in the pic.
Happen to know the maker of it? I can’t make it out in the pic.
