Daniel
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- Suburban Philadelphia (Wayne)
two tulips across driveway
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easyphloem
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- Location
- Louisville, KY
Those looked like two very dangerous unhealthy poplars. Good thing you dispatched them on video.
I love the squeaky skidsteer in slow motion.
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I love the squeaky skidsteer in slow motion.
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bonner1040
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- Boston
Hey, so I have a question. If you had to cut a tree down in say like a backyard, with a fence.. Assuming you couldnt get the skidsteer back there, do you not take that job?
Daniel
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- Location
- Suburban Philadelphia (Wayne)
no skid steer access on 1/6 of the jobs. I personally do not drag brush or move much wood.. we take a lot of fences down!
- Location
- Orange, MA
That doesn't seem like a very good way to be an effective leader.
robinia
Participating member
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
See, this is why you aggrevate people Daniel. Decent drops, everything went as planed, and then you say "5 minutes" like an idiot. You really think we're all believing you parked all the equipment, set lines, cut notches, arranged the logs in the yard, and pulled them over in 5 minutes? We're not clients Daniel, we do this everyday. Just drop the chest pounding exageration.
easyphloem
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- Location
- Louisville, KY
I think he was referring to the length of the video.
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Daniel
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Suburban Philadelphia (Wayne)
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See, this is why you aggrevate people Daniel. Decent drops, everything went as planed, and then you say "5 minutes" like an idiot. You really think we're all believing you parked all the equipment, set lines, cut notches, arranged the logs in the yard, and pulled them over in 5 minutes? We're not clients Daniel, we do this everyday. Just drop the chest pounding exageration.
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Where is the love???? or at least who's the idiot?
See, this is why you aggrevate people Daniel. Decent drops, everything went as planed, and then you say "5 minutes" like an idiot. You really think we're all believing you parked all the equipment, set lines, cut notches, arranged the logs in the yard, and pulled them over in 5 minutes? We're not clients Daniel, we do this everyday. Just drop the chest pounding exageration.
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Where is the love???? or at least who's the idiot?
robinia
Participating member
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
Aha, "5 minute" video.
My apologies Daniel. I can certainly admit when I'm wrong.
My apologies Daniel. I can certainly admit when I'm wrong.
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- Longmont, CO
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I think he was referring to the length of the video.
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Aha, "5 minute" video.
My apologies Daniel. I can certainly admit when I'm wrong.
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I can relate. I stick my foot in my mouth often.
I think he was referring to the length of the video.
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Aha, "5 minute" video.
My apologies Daniel. I can certainly admit when I'm wrong.
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flyingsquirrel25
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- South East, PA
One thing everyones got to remember about Danial's skid steer. He does have a nice one. Its even got those tracks that dont hurt turf. O and no compaction of root zones either... It hovers.
Nice drops Dan. Gutsy dropping over the drive. I would always opt for the $100 truf fix over the possible $????, driveway fix. But keep it up you'll get unlucky one of these days.
Nice drops Dan. Gutsy dropping over the drive. I would always opt for the $100 truf fix over the possible $????, driveway fix. But keep it up you'll get unlucky one of these days.
marlinspiker
Participating member
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- Pennsyltucky
You could have roped those trees down with your 75 foot bucket pretty quick and made clean up a lot easier. Why not use a larger diameter rope on the pull line? Why take the risk of breaking the driveway? I like to eliminate the "what if factor".
Daniel
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- Location
- Suburban Philadelphia (Wayne)
No luck or "what if" involved.. log loader rolled up right on schedule and took big pieces from where they lay.. clean up couldn't have been easier.. skid loader took most everything else out to the chipper.. its a different game with that machine.. you'd have to see it to understand.. the entire approach to clean up changes.. also would have had a hard time setting up those padding logs by hand.. Might have been easier to rope the tree out if that was the case..
flyingsquirrel25
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- South East, PA
Oh I'm sorry. I forgot you are Daniel... luck and "what if" doesn't apply in your case, cause you are the best that's ever been. And you know all. My apologies.
TreeCo
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I think bridging the drive is an good idea and have been doing it myself for 25 plus years. Even when the log cracks or breaks almost all of the shock loading is absorbed by the bridge wood. I've never had driveway damage from it but sometimes the support wood gets pounded in pretty good so make sure no shallow utilties are right under it. Many times the sequence of a job will go so the smaller trees done first can be moved with a front end loader to make the bridge wood for the larger drops. No rocket science.
- Location
- Orange, MA
I did that with a granite bench and dropped a 40" pine across it. Worked slick, was the only direction the tree could go and the bench weighed easily 3-4tons.
good job Daniel.
I bridge over driveways all the time too, nothing wrong with that if you can drop a tree in the right spot.
I think I would have done the same thing with those two trees. Well, would have landed on the mats of course.
Good for you to show that too though, no big deal missing the mats of course. If it was a big deal, you would have put down more mats I'm sure.
Robinia, good for you not deleting your posts or editing them. I thought he meant five minutes to do the whole job at first too.
I bridge over driveways all the time too, nothing wrong with that if you can drop a tree in the right spot.
I think I would have done the same thing with those two trees. Well, would have landed on the mats of course.
Robinia, good for you not deleting your posts or editing them. I thought he meant five minutes to do the whole job at first too.
Daniel
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- Suburban Philadelphia (Wayne)
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Oh I'm sorry. I forgot you are Daniel... luck and "what if" doesn't apply in your case, cause you are the best that's ever been. And you know all. My apologies.
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The laws of physics alays work the same.. so far at least!
Oh I'm sorry. I forgot you are Daniel... luck and "what if" doesn't apply in your case, cause you are the best that's ever been. And you know all. My apologies.
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The laws of physics alays work the same.. so far at least!
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- Retired in Minneapolis
If there are personal things to be said...wudja take them private? These threads go off to mudslinging so quickly it seems. I've got more to do than deal with the aggravation.
