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Today's job
- Thread starter Mark Chisholm
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- healdsburg, CA
Re: Today\'s job
what were you doing to the Tulip?
what were you doing to the Tulip?
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Re: Today\'s job
Deadwood.
Deadwood.
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- healdsburg, CA
Re: Today\'s job
ahhh, thanks.
I have some big Tulips on my property and because of limb failure (and the fact they have not been pruned ever) I do some endweight reduction.
Thanks
Frans
ahhh, thanks.
I have some big Tulips on my property and because of limb failure (and the fact they have not been pruned ever) I do some endweight reduction.
Thanks
Frans
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Re: Today\'s job
We pruned the oak, the tulip a maple, a hickory and two other tulips in about 1.5 hrs with three of us. Then we had lunch and finished the rest(24 trees total with some dogwoods too). (this was our second job). I cheated and used the bucket to get up in the trees I did.
I threw the lines into those trees while the guys grabbed their stuff. The oak shot was around 95' (almost couldn't reach both ends of 180' zingit) and the tulip was about 85' or so. Then I said "good luck" and climbed into the 100' hickory from the bucket.
We pruned the oak, the tulip a maple, a hickory and two other tulips in about 1.5 hrs with three of us. Then we had lunch and finished the rest(24 trees total with some dogwoods too). (this was our second job). I cheated and used the bucket to get up in the trees I did.
I threw the lines into those trees while the guys grabbed their stuff. The oak shot was around 95' (almost couldn't reach both ends of 180' zingit) and the tulip was about 85' or so. Then I said "good luck" and climbed into the 100' hickory from the bucket.
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- Hawaii
Re: Today\'s job
cool shots mark, looks like fun. 1.5 hours is pretty quick for such large trees, I guess if you're just deadwooding and not thinning it goes quickly??
and being a badass climber doesn't hurt either I suppose...
jp
cool shots mark, looks like fun. 1.5 hours is pretty quick for such large trees, I guess if you're just deadwooding and not thinning it goes quickly??
and being a badass climber doesn't hurt either I suppose...
jp
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Re: Today\'s job
My guys are really good at what they do. Together we can get a lot of work done. And being bad-[censored] couldn't hurt.
My guys are really good at what they do. Together we can get a lot of work done. And being bad-[censored] couldn't hurt.
Lumberjack
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Re: Today\'s job
All the trees were climbed in that 1.5 hours? I know you took the elevator up, but they were climbed otherwise?
What was the deadwood spec? Them look to be some goodly sized trees!
Speaking of badarses, one of those 3 did the '05 masters climb in a touch over 6 minutes from the time he left the ground till he came back to tera firma. He spent something like 17 minutes playing with his single throw getting his line set, I was nervous as heck thinking there was no way he would be back down in time, got back down with 2 minutes to spare! After that was simply a tragedy.
One dead pine I set lines in yesterday (limbed one side using a rope to pull them off) requried my tying 2 zing-its together although my ham fist had shortened the orginal line by some amount. The pine was 105' tall, but due to heights I was throwing and the terrain, I was standing 30-40' from the tree, and down hill.
Here is the top getting pulled. Limbing it from the ground kept me from having to climb into that vine covered nonsense. First pic is poor quality, sun was behind me, camera darkened the shot considerably. Top was pulled using a GRCS with a 9/16 stable braid, preload cranked in, then Daniel took the pics from a neighboring hill.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/10mmsheepdog/IMG_8287.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/10mmsheepdog/IMG_8290.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/10mmsheepdog/topsbuttresized.jpg
All the trees were climbed in that 1.5 hours? I know you took the elevator up, but they were climbed otherwise?
What was the deadwood spec? Them look to be some goodly sized trees!
Speaking of badarses, one of those 3 did the '05 masters climb in a touch over 6 minutes from the time he left the ground till he came back to tera firma. He spent something like 17 minutes playing with his single throw getting his line set, I was nervous as heck thinking there was no way he would be back down in time, got back down with 2 minutes to spare! After that was simply a tragedy.
One dead pine I set lines in yesterday (limbed one side using a rope to pull them off) requried my tying 2 zing-its together although my ham fist had shortened the orginal line by some amount. The pine was 105' tall, but due to heights I was throwing and the terrain, I was standing 30-40' from the tree, and down hill.
Here is the top getting pulled. Limbing it from the ground kept me from having to climb into that vine covered nonsense. First pic is poor quality, sun was behind me, camera darkened the shot considerably. Top was pulled using a GRCS with a 9/16 stable braid, preload cranked in, then Daniel took the pics from a neighboring hill.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/10mmsheepdog/IMG_8287.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/10mmsheepdog/IMG_8290.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/10mmsheepdog/topsbuttresized.jpg
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- NJ
Re: Today\'s job
Nice pics there Mark. Those big ones are always real fun to do, my favorite actually. Noticed Rory stated up with his saw, but in the second pic I didn't see it. Guess he thought better of try to FL up with it slowing him down. GJ.
Nice pics there Mark. Those big ones are always real fun to do, my favorite actually. Noticed Rory stated up with his saw, but in the second pic I didn't see it. Guess he thought better of try to FL up with it slowing him down. GJ.
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Re: Today\'s job
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After that was simply a tragedy.
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Yeah, don't remind me.
I still hate to think of the frustration I felt that day. Funny thing is, I always am good with the throwline on the job. I hit that Tulip for Seth and Rory's oak in one shot each.
The Tulip and the Oak were the biggest trees we did in those 1.5 hrs. before lunch. I took the ride up the Hickory and climbed the top, slid into Rory's Oak to prune one large lead and then rapelled into the bucket. Then flew across the drive for two skinny tulips and climbed into one for a few cuts, bucketed the other, then flew into the top of a Maple to help Seth grab a broken top while he pruned the rest. They really were easier trees. I did a bigger Oak after lunch and a big Tulip as well. Rory's Oak was the biggest tree though.
Nice pics of the pine. Those vines look pretty tough though.
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After that was simply a tragedy.
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Yeah, don't remind me.
The Tulip and the Oak were the biggest trees we did in those 1.5 hrs. before lunch. I took the ride up the Hickory and climbed the top, slid into Rory's Oak to prune one large lead and then rapelled into the bucket. Then flew across the drive for two skinny tulips and climbed into one for a few cuts, bucketed the other, then flew into the top of a Maple to help Seth grab a broken top while he pruned the rest. They really were easier trees. I did a bigger Oak after lunch and a big Tulip as well. Rory's Oak was the biggest tree though.
Nice pics of the pine. Those vines look pretty tough though.
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Re: Today\'s job
I never really use the Big Shot. I just travel light most of the time.
Doug, Rory took his 192 the whole way up. Try blowing the shot up a litle and you can see it. He's insane.
I never really use the Big Shot. I just travel light most of the time.
Doug, Rory took his 192 the whole way up. Try blowing the shot up a litle and you can see it. He's insane.
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Re: Today\'s job
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He's insane.
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Your tell me. He's tiny like me, and I know I sure would notice the weight. But this just got me thinking. How about attaching the saw to the butterfly knot so that way the saw is ready and waiting for you and you don't have to waste the time or energy hauling the saw up behing you. Figure you could use a biner attached to the front handle to lessin the chance of it coming free. Just a thought.
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He's insane.
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Your tell me. He's tiny like me, and I know I sure would notice the weight. But this just got me thinking. How about attaching the saw to the butterfly knot so that way the saw is ready and waiting for you and you don't have to waste the time or energy hauling the saw up behing you. Figure you could use a biner attached to the front handle to lessin the chance of it coming free. Just a thought.
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