Today....

[chiselbit]

One that we worked around had a brush grapple on it, doing roadside hazard trees, he could reach off the road and gather the limbs and logs. their ground crew made an accessible pile of the limbs he couldn’t reach. It was very efficient.

 

[davidwyby]

I have borrowed and rented them many times for different things over the years, they will do just about anything, finally got one for ourselves.

It’s fun to drop big root balls from 50’ up to clean the dirt off.

And cars…

 

[davidwyby]

It works pretty well to slide another pair of forks on the bar, giant pitchfork.

 

[southsoundtree]

Beautiful jobsite.

Couple of recent random ones, including a decent size fir limb that broke as I was limb-walking over a house the other day. Luckily it hung on near the collar with the help of me wrapping my feet around it and didn't cause any damage. I had weight on my climb-line, as well as flip-lined into a limb above it, and it still broke on me when I got out to the end to do some reductions. Very unexpected, it's only happened to me a few times in like a decade.

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The buckled limb makes me wonder if some bored, vertical slots in a large fir limb would help it break over slower with a top-cut release... the type of thing when you're wrecking a tree in the woods and want to free-drop and slide a big big limb down the trunk rather than have it fall flat so as to avoid an obstacle... an experiment to try.

 

[oceans]

Don’t normally take this road with the log truck!

 

[davidwyby]

Looks like…oceans!

 

[oceans]

Looks like…oceans!

Yes. Leaving Block Island headed back to Point Judith. Retrieved a log from a sentimental tree. Gotta mill it up and provide any and all useable wood to an artist who will take it from there.

 

[Neill]

Doesn’t show much,
got this chestnut oak down today. Cleared the close limbs, then tip tied and cut it at the base. Plenty of lowering room.

 

[davidwyby]

 

[Matias]

I think I spent more time cutting blackberries than trees today, but I got to cut a few good ones

 

[SeanRuel]

Whats the secret message?

 

[Matias]

Whats the secret message?

inventory number.

I didn't wanna risk crossing some redtape, and I just wanted to err on the side of caution

 

[27RMT0N]

I guess a nail that was pulled out, the cavity filled with sap and then grown over. Nice views today, solo, mostly bucket, climbed the top.

 

[chiselbit]

Even after nails are removed the area still retains the unearthly power to attract sharp chains

 

[Bendroctanus]

Even after nails are removed the area still retains the unearthly power to attract sharp chains

That is so true…

 

[davidwyby]

 

[southsoundtree]

PW for the FD.

Big doug-fir canopy raise. 4' x whole lotta tall. Raising to 45' on the trunk to reduce the large limbs over the tanks / encroachment on the water tank.

My employee came to work but left early, unexpectedly. The show must go on, so I took care of it solo. PW fire dept job.





I also climbed a live DF to dismantle 2 dead trees. That one took 2 throws of the throw weight.
No cleanup.

Preservation pruning on a hollow oak ( no oak wilt) and a heart-rot doug-fir to dismantle.


The chief is very happy and is tripling the contract.

1.2 miles from my shop.

 

[Bendroctanus]

PW for the FD.

Big doug-fir canopy raise. 4' x whole lotta tall. Raising to 45' on the trunk to reduce the large limbs over the tanks / encroachment on the water tank.

My employee came to work but left early, unexpectedly. The show must go on, so I took care of it solo. PW fire dept job.





I also climbed a live DF to dismantle 2 dead trees. That one took 2 throws of the throw weight.
No cleanup.

Preservation pruning on a hollow oak ( no oak wilt) and a heart-rot doug-fir to dismantle.


The chief is very happy and is tripling the contract.

1.2 miles from my shop.

Lookin’ good.

 

[Matias]

Triple's really something more than a tip. Damn dude.

 

[southsoundtree]

An urgent job fir a new customer to keep trees off an existing customer's property.

Root- pulled maple at about 60⁰ pushing over a doug- fir.



Hit an 80' TIP, bumped up to 105' and kept taking off non- supporting branches to reduce mass/ leverage and size.

Used 2 Maassam rope- pullers and a 3:1. Should have added pulleys fir 2:1 on the pullers.


Leave it all in the woods, no chipping, no firewooding, no raking, again.