Bendroctanus
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- Thread starter Mark Chisholm
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Fine looking machine! What capacity and length?
Fivepoints
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Thanks. 30 ton with a 94 ft main. Also has a jib with a pull out section. I think 26 ft and 43 ft with the stinger out. It has 5700 lbs at 60 ft radius with 94 ft of main so it would certainly work to disassemble trees. It may not get much chance at that due to us having to hire someone with a lowboy to move it. Itll mainly be a yard crane for us.
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Fivepoints
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Already using the new crane around the shop. We picked up sterling 7500 parts truck the other day for the 3126 it had. It was easier to just lift it off the trailer d swing it around in front of the shop for disassembly.
southsoundtree
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VenasNursery
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Bendroctanus
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I have never put that together. But I have met Dan Krauss. The arborist who conquered the throwball. If you’ve never seen Dan use a throwball, I would highly recommend it. I didn’t know that such skill could be had with a throwball and line setting.
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Chris Coates is another throwline god.
A very useful tool in the right situation. Mine has been banging around behind the seat in my truck for 10 years and I think I pull it out once before today. Thank goodness cause I hate fire-wooding trees.
Removed this mature Sugar Maple for a friend, along with a large dead central leader from another larger Sugar Maple. This tree looked really bad but there was more than enough solid wood left to climb it. The entire tall spar had live growth on it. The back side, not so much.
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Here's the larger one I took the central leader out of. The decay pocket at the base of the leader I removed was huge and had created a whole ecosystem of it's own, including a Mountain Ash growing out of the Maple. It is almost 3" at the base for reference.
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Shadowscape
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That's cool. Be neat to see what things looked like in 50 or 60 years. We get a lot of birch growing out of maples around here, and when the maples succumb the root systems of the birch are quite amazing. When I was a kid I used one of those birch root systems as a fort that I could go inside of. I have one going just outside my front door at the present. Birch is about 4" in diameter and the maple stump it is growing out of is beginning to fall away. As the maple stump is about five feet tall the roots of that birch will be pretty neat. They have long since grown through the stump and into the soil below. Not likely to happen with your mountain ash so high up, but it would be fun to follow the progression of nature.
Got the tree through the house down to roof level today under some absolutely spectacular fall weather. Water and ferry views, plus breaks for fresh cookies, then bread pudding and coffee made the insane dust tolerable. At most, and as largely expected, there was about 1-2" of "good wood" in the whole tree, and it shook and moved like a tree with no roots does. I'll wrap it up tomorrow and share a few other photos later. They did an awesome job armoring the roof in plywood before we arrived (the person who built the house 40 years ago) and that was a big help.
Shadowscape
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The bread pudding alone looks to be worth the job.
Nice work!
