Today....
- Thread starter Mark Chisholm
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Another day of fir end-weight reduction (over cedar shake roof, one mistake and you'll break a shingle and have an expensive repair job.....) along with some visitors as the fog came and went. Did 4 firs over those shake roofs as well as some view work on the other side of the house.
Winchman
Carpal tunnel level member
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- Southwest Georgia
I think I see a new desktop image featuring deer.
Thanks, end-weight over houses is defiantly one of the more technical bits of climbing I regularly do (along with madrones and some of the serious hazard trees), but super important because on some of these firs the limbs just reach for light, growing longer and longer until they break themselves out when it snows, blows or just with gravity alone. Usually in the winter, when it's wet and you really don't want a hole in your roof. In two of the four trees, someone else had pruned them in the past but only near the trunk, guess they left all the hard climbing and rigging to me
@Winchman if you want a higher resolution version of either of those pictures let me know. They are just taken on a point-and-shoot camera and I did a little cropping and editing to post here, but if you want a bigger version to edit yourself I'm happy to provide it.
Third day in a row posting photos, I know, but had a kind of fun one today. Well, my idea of fun that is. Went to my new property to chip up the trees I'd taken down earlier in the week and got the truck and chipper stuck. It's officially fall/mud season. The driveway wasn't maintained in the many years up to my buying it recently, so it has a lot of decayed organic on it, not enough gravel and it rained all day today. The truck was full with about 12 yards, towing my BC1000 and even in 4x4 with solid momentum, right at the crest before reaching the good gravel road I spun all four tires, slide sideways and started to get towards a tree and into a bad place.
The traction boards saved the day for the most part and I think did most of the work (along with 4x4-low-range), but also had my service truck pulling upwards, and the neighbors truck giving some side-pull by utilizing some of my tree rigging gear, which kept it from sliding further downhill into the tree I was 12" from hitting.
(hoping to get some graphics on the truck this winter... tried when I bought it earlier this year and both companies I called and emailed never got back to me)
Winchman
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Southwest Georgia
Thanks, but with a little cropping the one with two deer is just right. I've been using one of your jobsite pictures from January as a desktop image until today...a record. I'd see a new interesting detail every time I looked at it.
Your link belt?
Not even all my SRT options, but I might actually be getting my first proper employee (keep in mind I live on an island of about 250 people....) and wanted to show him some of the 'tools of the trade'. Essentially treating it like a teacher/apprentice kind of situation, since he's young but wants to be a tree climber. It's more complicated here than most places given the small workforce, but I think this is going to work out well and be a game-changer for my business. Crossing my fingers and toes.
Basswood
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Long island
That set up far right, is that a suitable SRT set up on its own or is that a secondary line type of thing?
Basswood
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Long island
Interesting. Had seen it around but never really in use or fully understood it.
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