Todays morning job

[ArborX]

Mark,
I did a few Pin Oaks and a Red in similar shape this season. No bucket here hense no choice. Take it slow and small and hope for the best. Someones gotta do it and its never the boss. It gets a little scarey but its worked out so far. Hey, is that the multi lead Silver (earlier in the thread) we cabled last fall in the other side of Freehold. You gave me a ride ,I climbed the other lead.
Shame if it was that was a real nice shade tree, I remember it well.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Nope, it was a different maple.

 

[tod_k]

Hers a dead burr oak removal. I have been at the clients property for the past 5 days with a 4 man crew. His property has amazing Oak trees on it. It is also about a 2 hour drive from our shop and one and a half from my home. All of the work was prunning except this oak. The tree is on his neighbors property and he was tired of looking at it.

 

[tod_k]

Under the tree are a ton of small trees and shrubs that are very valuable to the client and the nieghbor. It was rigged to another large oak via lift and then drift. We would tip tie everything with a butt rope at the cut. Lift it up and lets the butt drift and have to lift more to get the material to clear the plants. Some of the pieces were 30' to 40' away from the rigging point.

 

[tod_k]

Now lets get to work.

 

[tod_k]

another

 

[tod_k]

One of the tops

 

[tod_k]

On the ground. This removal needed to be zero impact. We landed just about everything onto alterna mats.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Here's yesterdays morning job. It was to re-gain this view of the Navesink River with vista pruning. Here's the first group of five or six b locking the view.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

And this was the hardest one of the job. A poplar on the right property line.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

This doesn't seem like much of a job right? Well, here's the slope that we had to navigate to get to the trees.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

It was high-angle tree work. I anchored off to a Pin oak by the patio and away we go.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Here's a pic of me working the top of one.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

It was about a 150' rappel to those trees. After this group was done, we had to rappel another 80'-100' to the river edge, over this 20' drop off of stickers!

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Hike along the beach.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Cut a hole through this sticker and vine patch.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

To get to these two Poplars. Hard to believe from the first view that these were over 75' tall.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

And to make things worse, they were covered in grape vine.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

And here's the end result. A clear view of the other side of the river, which happens to be Rumson- The home of Bruce Springstein for one. I'll post some pics of the afternoon job tomorrow.

 

[Eric_E]

Mark,

Nice pruning job on the hedge in the last pic. I don't think you did that or...did you?


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