Impressive looking property, and certainly a photo-worthy face/hinge as well!
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Impressive looking property, and certainly a photo-worthy face/hinge as well!
southsoundtree
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- Olympia, WA
Hand-fed?
The place didn't look very "clean" before you started.
Sometimes they do, if it's not too hard often I'll drop all the smaller wood, let them clean it up and comeback to do the big stuff so the piles easier for them to deal with.
Very good way for them to deal with it, if you’re accommodating enough to make more than one visit.
Big piles of brush, no problem.
Big piles of brush with big wood dumped right on top of it, no thanks.
Reach
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- Atglen, PA
We don’t make return trips, but we will offer to leave the last log standing, to make things easier for a customer who can handle felling one overgrown stick.
And we do get calls about a third of the time when we do a no cleanup, asking us to return to clean up. They are rarely willing to pay for it though, as it costs more than it would have if we had done it all at once.
Yea I don't mind it still a high pay rate for the job without us having to do the really hard labor part of it, I'd rather do that than have to take all the tiny crap out of a lawn.
Yep. I normally don't do thinning jobs because it's too much labor, but this was as easy as it gets. 1 acre, totally flat ground I could drive the truck and chipper through, most of the work was 6", 20' tall firs. Easy to move about, easy material, ideal access. Me and a helper over 3 modest days of work.
Stumpsprouts
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- Asheville
Humbling day in an ancient tuliptree. Growth rings on deadwood are insanely tight. A large decay at the base has the HOA worried and I convinced them to let me just do a retrenchment, remove some of the leveraging weight at the top. We think the cavity has been there for a very long time and is probably what saved it from being logged.,The before and after photo of the canopy shows the treatment (not extreme). No previous pruning cuts on the tree. I would say at least 200 years old. An amazing specimen, and a hell of a fun climb.Attachments
misfit
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- Baton Rouge
@Stumpsprouts, I marvel at the ability of you professionals to get "way out on a limb" like you did in that first picture. I do a good bit of climbing, and I'm a decent climber, but I am not a pro and would be very hard pressed to get out that limb as far as you did. Your climbing line is essentially horizontal which makes for a deadly swingback, but, of course, I know you are tied in with at least one other unseen rope to prevent that. But with nothing above you or to the left or right, I wonder how you guys manage to get out there safely and in a controlled manner with no anchors higher than foot level. I would welcome any instructional tips, secrets, or principles for that.
Stumpsprouts
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- Asheville
Oh thanks. Needed to hear something positive on the day my chipper is down, and had to bail on a climb that will need to be a crane removal… chainsaws down… new job box lid broken… tractor not running… not a great day
How to?
Faith helps.
Knowledge of species, what tiny sprig or little bump qualifies as a foothold and what does not.
Start low and climb it like a ladder. Keep tension on your rope and face towards it, or 90 degrees to it. the folcrum pulls you up.
We descended from apes- your body knows what to do somewhere in there.
Mick Dempsey
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- France
Trust the process.
southsoundtree
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- Olympia, WA
If concerned about a long swing, a person has an option for a belay rope with a ground person.
Never done it.
Never done it.
Serf Life
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- Maine Island
I had a dead oak branch snap while transferring to another tree a few years back and took a solid swing into the stem, knocked the wind out of me pretty good. Lessons can hurt, especially at the end of the day rushing. Slow is smooth…
southsoundtree
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- Olympia, WA
Worse than that is swinging back into a jagged stub.
I always clean stubs throughout the potential impact zone.
Once I launched for a tension- traverse between trees, missing or losing my purchase, swinging back toward the first tree. Would have been completely uneventful if I came back feet first, but I was horizontal and rotating. A bit of a bang.
You realize how useful having a big tail like a cat would be to help orient oneself when you're largely helplessly trying to correct a swinging spin on a rope in clear air.
Easy to have a groundworker pull you toward the tip in some situations.
I always clean stubs throughout the potential impact zone.
Once I launched for a tension- traverse between trees, missing or losing my purchase, swinging back toward the first tree. Would have been completely uneventful if I came back feet first, but I was horizontal and rotating. A bit of a bang.
You realize how useful having a big tail like a cat would be to help orient oneself when you're largely helplessly trying to correct a swinging spin on a rope in clear air.
Easy to have a groundworker pull you toward the tip in some situations.
I always clean stubs incase I gaff out or slide down trunk so I don't rip a teste, also they get annoying with snagging ropes and hanging limbs up when lowering.
I have the ground guys give me a buddy pull every so often when there's nothing to grab near my rope, they had to swing me over about 20ft on Friday.
I have the ground guys give me a buddy pull every so often when there's nothing to grab near my rope, they had to swing me over about 20ft on Friday.
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