todays job
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Here's a link to some video of the silo falling. Bill (usually the crane operator) using the chop saw and James (Classictruckman) watching carefully over him. Does it remind you of a tree falling!!
http://www.yourottawaregion.com/news/local/article/882340--silo-falls-onto-dairy-barn
http://www.yourottawaregion.com/news/local/article/882340--silo-falls-onto-dairy-barn
countryboypa31
New member
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- PA
Wow that was awesome to watch. Feel bad for the farmer though.
classictruckman
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- Location
- Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada
ha, I knew somebody would have a camera in that crowd.
Just kidding ! we are checking our 4000ft long zip line at work today , we were testing it for next wks project on the cable . I'll be coming down on the cable next wk on 2000ft of rope next wk , we have to measure the cables ware , and I'll have a machine that goes around the cable and it needs to go down w / me on a trolley I'll post some pic's
Later in SO-CAL
Later in SO-CAL
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southsoundtree
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Olympia, WA
that's wild. Is the zipline for personal or commercial use?
southsoundtree
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- Location
- Olympia, WA
Two small trees in two tight dropzones.
Employee Ben was in San Francisco for a big music festival, so I did a solo birch removal in a tight spot. Was able throw all the brush so the butts would hit the path between some landscaping, ready to drag out.
Birch is pretty supple. A top-cut with a handsaw will often hinge over without breaking, allowing the climber not to have cut and catch dynamic loads. I've kept some stubs so that I can hang a long branch by a crotch, then cut it to size, and throw into the dropzone, allowing no ropework for the brush. Trying to save time, I didn't want to come down to clear brush since it was all landing in the dz, and it was a little challenge to keep it interesting to brush it out in one go.
Natural Crotch rigged one trunk off the other, pretensioned, then cut from the ground with a diagonal cut, letting the butt slip off the stump and dig into the ground. Minimal rigging loading, as the energy was transferred to the ground. I lifted the butt, and brought it down the trail, simultaneously lowering the top, keeping the strain on the rigging point as vertical as possible, until the top hung over the fence, where I could cut it apart.
Cleared the brush, then climbed up to clear out the top, chunk down the stem onto the brush pad so pieces wouldn't bounce into the fence or landscaping, and not crack the cement stepping stones on the trail.
Dropped the spar.
Did a similarly tight maple in the back. Again, a fun challenge can help the solo day a bit more interesting (of course while preserving self and property), since I don't have anyone to crack jokes with.
Employee Ben was in San Francisco for a big music festival, so I did a solo birch removal in a tight spot. Was able throw all the brush so the butts would hit the path between some landscaping, ready to drag out.
Birch is pretty supple. A top-cut with a handsaw will often hinge over without breaking, allowing the climber not to have cut and catch dynamic loads. I've kept some stubs so that I can hang a long branch by a crotch, then cut it to size, and throw into the dropzone, allowing no ropework for the brush. Trying to save time, I didn't want to come down to clear brush since it was all landing in the dz, and it was a little challenge to keep it interesting to brush it out in one go.
Natural Crotch rigged one trunk off the other, pretensioned, then cut from the ground with a diagonal cut, letting the butt slip off the stump and dig into the ground. Minimal rigging loading, as the energy was transferred to the ground. I lifted the butt, and brought it down the trail, simultaneously lowering the top, keeping the strain on the rigging point as vertical as possible, until the top hung over the fence, where I could cut it apart.
Cleared the brush, then climbed up to clear out the top, chunk down the stem onto the brush pad so pieces wouldn't bounce into the fence or landscaping, and not crack the cement stepping stones on the trail.
Dropped the spar.
Did a similarly tight maple in the back. Again, a fun challenge can help the solo day a bit more interesting (of course while preserving self and property), since I don't have anyone to crack jokes with.
southsoundtree
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Olympia, WA
We had some dead doug-firs along a fence line to remove today.
Cut the logs to double trailer length, then rolled them out on the hand-truck and the first half into the trailer, reposition hand-truck, cut in half, and roll and slide the second log into the trailer.
Easy peasy. Dead wood is so light, especially when you aren't manually lifting it.
Cut the logs to double trailer length, then rolled them out on the hand-truck and the first half into the trailer, reposition hand-truck, cut in half, and roll and slide the second log into the trailer.
Easy peasy. Dead wood is so light, especially when you aren't manually lifting it.
southsoundtree
Been here much more than a while
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- Olympia, WA
What did you all get up to, today?
robinia
Participating member
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
Chipping brush all day.
Meh.
Meh.
tomthetreeman
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- Location
- Rhode Island
Yesterday I removed two river birch trees planted in the absolute wrong spot, growing at about a 45 degree angle out from where a large maple used to be (the person who planted them told them they were small trees, the larger of the two was about 16"X50'). Replaced with two 8-10' Himalayan White clumps, pruned a big old inkberry...
Did EWR and cabled a 20" almost hopeless Bradford Pear, structural pruned a couple ornamentals also.
Later on we removed a Norway maple with an un-fixable girdling root (the top of the tree was dying back, that's how bad it was), and pruned another one with some bad forks in the crown. Did some weight reductions on those portions. Replaced the removed tree with a 2" Zelkova... It's going to be awhile before the client gets their coverage back, but that's the replacement size that they could afford. Also rehabbed a medium sized Japanese maple that had been treated like a shrub for most of its life.
-Tom
Did EWR and cabled a 20" almost hopeless Bradford Pear, structural pruned a couple ornamentals also.
Later on we removed a Norway maple with an un-fixable girdling root (the top of the tree was dying back, that's how bad it was), and pruned another one with some bad forks in the crown. Did some weight reductions on those portions. Replaced the removed tree with a 2" Zelkova... It's going to be awhile before the client gets their coverage back, but that's the replacement size that they could afford. Also rehabbed a medium sized Japanese maple that had been treated like a shrub for most of its life.
-Tom
robinia
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- Location
- Ontario, Canada
tomthetreeman
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- Location
- Rhode Island
Try to skip the fusion Jazz this time.
classictruckman
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- Location
- Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada
for those on here who like country music, I spent all day working across fron Carrie Underwood's new house.
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