Today....

Neill · Sep 8, 2023

Damn great photos

I got lucky today/ calculated low risk

Matias · Sep 8, 2023

@Niell Nice babyface. Any pull rope, or just a suggestive lean?

Treeaddict · Sep 8, 2023

Neill said:
Damn great photos

I got lucky today/ calculated low risk
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Should have used a low to ground humbolt and gutted the hinge to maximize board ft. to get a bigger check from the mill.

Neill · Sep 8, 2023

Matias said:
@Niell Nice babyface. Any pull rope, or just a suggestive lean?

Yes, a pull line that was also at an angle to suggest a guy line too. Had about 3-4 feet of lean towards the willow oak that is t the left of the neighbors driveway

Treemuel · Sep 8, 2023

Hollow, cracked, heavy leaning maple made for a very noodly climb; glad to have a high TIP in another tree

Shadowscape · Sep 8, 2023

Treemuel said:
View attachment 90024 View attachment 90025Hollow, cracked, heavy leaning maple made for a very noodly climb; glad to have a high TIP in another tree

That looks like all the large maples around here. Hollow. Anything over about 9 inches you can count on it being hollow.

rico · Sep 9, 2023

42” fir-

Mick Dempsey · Sep 9, 2023

Slowly slowly catchee monkee..
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Treemuel · Sep 12, 2023

Dead red maple with ocean views

Shadowscape · Sep 12, 2023

Treemuel said:
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Nice stump cut.

Treemuel · Sep 12, 2023

Shadowscape said:
Nice stump cut.

Thanks. Surprisingly solid at the base still, major sapwood decay up the stems and bracket fungi galore

Njdelaney · Sep 12, 2023

Treemuel said:
Thanks. Surprisingly solid at the base still, major sapwood decay up the stems and bracket fungi galore

That sounds right for a Northern woodland Red or Sugar Maple. Standing firewood ready to burn!

Steve Connally · Sep 13, 2023

Colonial Williamsburg job

Treeaddict · Sep 13, 2023

I don’t work on many softwoods but we raised the canopy on this Norway spruce to get it away from 2 roofs this evening. I hit a pocket of sap. It was being flung out by my battery saw and the saw cut out a few times. It was flowing out like syrup and landing on my climb line. I didn’t want my groundie to move it as he had to hold the rigging line and it would have placed him under the load had he moved in.

I’ve never experienced such flow before. Is it a common occurrence?

Matias · Sep 13, 2023

Ha! Last Thursday my buddy was telling me that he was out logging and cut down a ponderosa that did that out of the whole log and spewed a couple of gallons of sap. Q

Shadowscape · Sep 13, 2023

Treeaddict said:
I don’t work on many softwoods but we raised the canopy on this Norway spruce to get it away from 2 roofs this evening. I hit a pocket of sap. It was being flung out by my battery saw and the saw cut out a few times. It was flowing out like syrup and landing on my climb line. I didn’t want my groundie to move it as he had to hold the rigging line and it would have placed him under the load had he moved in.

I’ve never experienced such flow before. Is it a common occurrence?

Now you know why Akimbos are not good for softwood work. You would be stuck up in that tree still. They bugger up with a bit of balsam sap.

Treeaddict · Sep 13, 2023

Shadowscape said:
Now you know why Akimbos are not good for softwood work. You would be stuck up in that tree still. They bugger up with a bit of balsam sap.

I nearly had my Unicender sent up! I love the dexterity of the Akimbo but enjoy the invulnerability of the Uni. Fortunately it was second to last cut before the job was complete.

27RMT0N · Sep 13, 2023

Right as my shoulder was about ready to let me return to work, my back started acting up again... Ugh.

But I've used the time to finally repaint my homemade truck box. Now that it no longer looks like crap, was thinking about finally making a video tour/explanation of it.

New employee is doing great so far. Part time only and can still count the number of trees climbed on one hand, but did great today on an alder removal as I gave instructions from the ground.

Shadowscape · Sep 14, 2023

Not tree related but this is what I did today. Last race of the year and time to call it quits for winter. Was a tad cold with the air temp around 50 during the race. Water temps about the same. I'm the one in the blue life jacket. Terry on deck and Joel next to me are my teammates. We came in first, as always. Old man, my ass.