Today....

[27RMT0N]

Nice day on the shoreline, spent all day shooting lines and pruning firs and madrones. Another day or two on the site still to go. The house is very high end, with basically a two-story glass wall towards the water, screened with trees, and has an incredible feeling of being in the trees while inside of the house.

 

[Bendroctanus]

Nice day on the shoreline, spent all day shooting lines and pruning firs and madrones. Another day or two on the site still to go. The house is very high end, with basically a two a two-story glass wall towards the water, screened with trees, and has an incredible feeling of being in the trees while inside of the house.

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Too beautiful.

 

[oceans]

@oceans
I know Steve’s truck but who owns that other monster?

I thought it was Crane Man’s, but turned out that was a magnet on a tool box. Rick was running it, but it’s not his. Conjecture was it belonged to Splintered Forest. I don’t know for sure. (EDIT: Splintered was running it, but doesn’t own it.)

Boom is a PK110002, and the deck between the boom and cab holds the Vermeer SK mini.

 

[oceans]

Looks like you boys brought a nuclear warhead when all you needed was a pellet gun?

Believe it or not, the two k-boom trucks were almost undersized for a few of the trees being dismantled at the workshop event. There were 5 cranes total…3 sticks and 2 k-booms.

Overall, it was a great event for the climbers and trainers alike.

 

[Arb23]

Nice! I have found that the money hitch with the HHFX is the Arbsession hitch. I use 8mm cordage with 4 wraps (just like the vid). Amazing setup! Give a whirl if you can.

https://m.facebook.com/arbsession/v...t-the-waa-winter-conferencea/279316351001133/

Yeah - I like that arbsession hitch as well. Its working nicely for me.

 

[rico]

Walked into this mess this morning and told the HO’s we would handle it for them sometime next week. What the fuck was I thinking?



2 good sized firs laying on a 2.5-3 story house with zero crane access. Should be interesting?

 

[27RMT0N]

Yikes, I feel bad for the homeowners. Well, good luck and share some pictures of how you handle it!

 

[Fivepoints]

Walked into this mess this morning and told the HO’s we would handle it for them sometime next week. What the fuck was I thinking?

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2 good sized firs laying on a 2.5-3 story house with zero crane access. Should be interesting?

Large excavator as a lifting machine? On a plus it could also deal with the stumps.

 

[Njdelaney]

Walked into this mess this morning and told the HO’s we would handle it for them sometime next week. What the fuck was I thinking?

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2 good sized firs laying on a 2.5-3 story house with zero crane access. Should be interesting?

Sounds fun! The house is already a little smashed so you have some margin for error

 

[oceans]

Walked into this mess this morning and told the HO’s we would handle it for them sometime next week. What the fuck was I thinking?

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2 good sized firs laying on a 2.5-3 story house with zero crane access. Should be interesting?

Mill them in place with an Alaskan to get em out.

Seriously, that looks like a challenge. Lots of thoughts to weigh out before sawing anything. I’ll be watching to see how you get this one squared away.

 

[rico]

Large excavator as a lifting machine? On a plus it could also deal with the stumps.

The roads are extremely narrow, windy, and steep and just getting a pickup to the site is a fucking ordeal. As such the biggest excavator you could hope to get near the site would only be able to lift the smaller logs up near the road (top of picture), but that's about it. The reach and weight involved in dealing with the rest of these trees would eat an excavator of that size alive...Thankfully we have some decent sized reds and firs nearby that the can be used for rigging points and TIP's. Or maybe insurance will deem it a total loss and I can make a few cuts and let the firs finish the job? Hell, I'd do it for free just to watch the show! One can dream..

 

[Bendroctanus]

Hobbs, a high rigging point, and some maniacal advantage.

And probably some juevos grande, too.

 

[rico]

Hobbs, a high rigging point, and some maniacal advantage.

BINGO!

 

[Bendroctanus]

BINGO!

I think jobs like that make the milled lumber that much better.

 

[data farm 26]

Walked into this mess this morning and told the HO’s we would handle it for them sometime next week. What the fuck was I thinking?

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2 good sized firs laying on a 2.5-3 story house with zero crane access. Should be interesting?

Well that clearly demonstrates the risk of living amongst the giants.

I'm not in the industry but that seems like a total loss to me.

 

[southsoundtree]

Is the one tree suspended above, the house to a degree, above a divot?

 

[Winchman]

Maybe a helicopter logger could pick them up just for the lumber.

Even if the HO has to pay, it might be the least expensive way to get the trees removed. With a four man crew you're probably looking at several days of work if you can't get heavy lift equipment to the site versus two hours for the heli. Tell me if I'm way off in the WAG estimates.

 

[chiselbit]

Were the occupants in the house when it happened?

 

[rico]

Were the occupants in the house when it happened?

Wife and 2 kids were in the upper portion of the house when it happened, and the father was up on the road and watched it all happen. They were very lucky that these firs fell up hill and spanned the entire draw, which really lessened their impact on the house. Otherwise these firs would have turned this house into a pile of rumble and injuries/death would have been very likely.

One thing you can't see from the pics is the fir on the other side of the road that went down when it was struck by these 2 firs. That fir hit a neighboring house like a freight train and completely nuked it. Thankfully the occupants were smart enough to know that tall timber, 70-80 mph winds, snow, and buckets of rain was a recipe for disaster so they left town for a week.

 

[rico]

Well that clearly demonstrates the risk of living amongst the giants.

I'm not in the industry but that seems like a total loss to me.

Talked to the HO late last night and it's looking like insurance, the county, and a structural engineer are all gonna sign off on calling this a total loss. Fingers crossed.