Todays morning job

[tod_k]

I did a job for a military base last year. We were doing "vista prunning" for the generals mansions. We had to set an anchor between two trees at the top of the slope rap in and bomb the tops to the bottom of the slope and clean up from there. it seem like topping to me . It was super fun to put the ground guys onto SRT with grigris to get up and down the slope. And they loved it. They have been asking " are we going back there this year?

 

[pointer]

Tod,

Was that at Great Lakes Naval Base or somewhere else? Navigating shoreline can be a pain in the ars, but it definetely creates memorable jobs. I am currently looking for photos of a job that we had that required the felling of trees onto a pontoon boat so that we could haul them to a boat launch to be chipped. /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Mark Chisholm]

No, no heges, but our crews did prune or remove about 2 dozen other trees on the property while I fooled around in the hole.

 

[tod_k]

Pointer, it was a the great lakes naval acadamey. We had to do a job briefing with a seal team. They wanted to kanow how we planned on dealing with the steep slope. We basically had to claer cut all the small stugg and "prune" the larger trees. I will try to find some pics.

 

[tod_k]

Heres a couple of pics of the slope. We were clearing a 50' wide slath. All the men, climbers and ground men were on rope the whole time. They were connected to the traveling blocks. We got the rope as tight as we could with a 3 to 1 ma. and put another tope going to a tree on top of the slope to keep the bounce to a minimum. It all worked out pretty good.

 

[tod_k]

View of the lake.

 

[pointer]

That is some wild stuff. I would have loved to be there to actually see the set-up. I'm relatively new to arboriculture, and have never seen something quite that complicated. That's awesome. /forum/images/graemlins/applaudit.gif

 

[Norm_Hall]

Nice pics Todd and Mark.

TK, you definitely have to resize your pics. Is there any software you got with the camera that will "edit" the pictures?

Mark, please let us know how you like the "Blaze" after you get some hours on it.

 

[NickfromWI]

Tod- looking at that picture of the base of the trees at the top of the hill...all those ropes going every which way....is that the rappel anchor? From the perspective of a rock climber...WOW. Lots of rope.

Is that what the ropes were all for?

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Yesterday morning I got to prune this old Black oak.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

It was only about 65'-70' tall but pretty wide. It had a dbh of 53".

Here I'm selecting a tie in for the third time .

 

[Mark Chisholm]

The finished product.

When I was up pruning this tree I saw the client and one foreman talking. Her body language told me that she wasn't approving of something. I later found out that she was angry that I removed a limb with leaves on it. I was a little ticked about this because I didn't even cut one live watersprout from this tree.

I know the limb she was referring to. A limb with a dead tip. I cut it back to a lateral and then scratched the bark on the lateral and found it discolored and dry as well. Sooooo, I cut it out. No big deal, but it did bother me.

 

[tod_k]

Don't ya hate that.

 

[tod_k]

Nick, sorry I missed your post about that slope job. It is all one rope going from tree to tree rigged into a 3 to 1 to get it as tight as possiable. The crew then tied into the rope via a traveling block so they could work the 50' wide area. The slope is about 80' down so we went srt. via gri-gri to go down and a hand held grab to go up.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Today I was a topper. This 90 footer needed to be topped down to the wires.

What do you think about the root zone? Compromised any?

 

[Mark Chisholm]

The back lead (wear my line is hinging) was cake. This front one was close to the wires.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

I had to rope the top over on the lead over the wires, but the back lead only took three cuts and a pull line.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Here's the end result at lunch time.


I had three other trees I did before this one. They were across the road along the bridge. The reason for these removals was for a bridge repair. The land clearing company couldn't risk these few trees since they were over the road and wires.

I don't understand this (maybe cause I never asked,) but they re-route the road to the right in this shot and build a new bridge that is temporary? Then the re-build the existing bridge and then tear down the temp? Economical? It must be since they do it quite a lot around here.

The best part about this job was no clean up! I had two others with me. Tell me they didn't have an easy morning. /forum/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Kevin]

You could have left at least one branch on that one beside the pole. /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[tod_k]

Bucket work?