White oak (embedded pics)

His aux winch/cable is good for 13.5k, mainline over the stump I think he was good to the mid 40's, not sure what the line capacity was (guessing around 54k). We only used one semi of counterweights (around 40ishk lbs), I belive it can take up to 169l lbs, but don't hold me to that.

That job was about a year ago John.

Mark, it just depends on the situation. We stood the trunk up back over the stump using a notch/hinge. The self balancing setup was more for the added sling capacity (slings only good to 17.5k, didn't wan't any supprises in its weight).

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There it was a vertical pick so I used a snap cut setup to break easily (long back cut, short front cut, good overlap). Used the balancing sling act to be able to lift the crotch whole without having to take each section seperately (balancing) and for the weight capacity (slings good for the same 17.5k). I was in the (crane's) cab when the pick was made, watched the LMI dance up to 88% capacity plus the weight of the rigging/block.

The last pick was 18k with a single sling (2.8% overload) which is ok with me as long as it's not a common occurance. That cut ended up being a dang near straight through, came off very smooth.

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For some reason I can't see the pics....??

Anyway. Radio comm is key. I have a David Clark underhelmet headset VOX rig that I use for crane jobs. It always impresses the crane guys and makes them feel more comfortable even before you start climbing and cutting (which when you show that you know what you are doing P the tree makes them feel even better).

Every crane operator I have worked with has told me stories of flakes who didn't have radios which made the whole process frustrating which combined with poor tree techniques makes for a bad rep for the tree biz. The more professional you can be in all aspects of the biz the better the rep you will develop the more network referrals you will get.
 
I have my settings at 100 posts per page, the pics are on my first page, but not the first post (probably 70-80 posts down).


I've tried radios, haven't been impresed.

The only time I've liked them is when I didn't have a sight line to the operator. My perfered operator is 64 years old, doesn't say much while he is working. We have hand signals for everything I generally need to get the trees down. If we run into a snag I can call his cell and we can chit chat.
 
I can't see any pictures either, unless every picture is a little red X. What's up? I wanna see....

I read the first page. Funny, I just took down a big (at least I think it is big, maybe it's not compared to yours) white oak this week. It also had been lightning struck years ago. Still was solid though, I did tell them ahead of time that I thought it was still okay.

No crane. Didn't really need it and it would just take up more space. Just rigged it down and was able to drop some too. One day.

I'll post a pic or two, I'll start another post I guess.

Sounds like your tree was big, wish I could see some pictures.
 
hey, great, i went back and looked at all the pages this time and found that you re-did the links to the pictures. Cool. Got to see them now. so, just a word to others, first page doesn't have the pictures anymore, but just look in the later pages.

hey lumberjack,

was the crane operator telling you these weights I guess?

Good job by the way and nice pictures.
 
I'd estimate the weights, he'd tell me the actual weight, normally I hit it within 10%.

The big picks were what the crane's LMI said it weighed, minus the rigging.
 
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I only say it because all I ever see you use are HUGE cranes. That seems like a waste of money to me. I guarantee I could have that tree safely stripped to a snag in two hours or less using a substantially more economical, smaller crane. I did it today, and I'll do it again tomorrow.

I've never even seen an 8 grand tree before. The trees must be a lot different in Mississippi.

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i think you did great with that Carl.IMO theres no such thing as an overbid tree,but many underbid.
 
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