White Pine in White Bear Lake, MN

[TLHamel]

A nice Saturday job. Seamus Walsh won "Rock, Paper, Scissors" for the climbing honors.

 

[TLHamel]

Almost all limbs had to be lowered given the proximity of garage and fence. One, two, or three at a time. I think Seamus started to take it easy on me after I couldn't keep up on the ground...

 

[TLHamel]

Near the top.

 

[TLHamel]

The reason for removal. Advanced root, basal, and trunk rot.

 

[TLHamel]

Tall one. This pine was around 85'.

 

[TLHamel]

View from the driveway.

 

[TLHamel]

Some rigged logs on the ground.

 

[TLHamel]

Seamus workin' it.

 

[TLHamel]

That's a good sized piece of wood. (that's what sheee... , ah nevermind)

 

[TLHamel]

Fell the trunk.

 

[TLHamel]

We're outta here. All material stayed on site. Client may have a local guy mill the trunk.

 

[rangerdanger]

Sweet pics man.

Quick question, do you just contract climb or work for a company??

 

[jim454]

Great! hope you took the opportunity to shake Seamus up on those spar chunks!

Kind of a payback thing you know?

(I forgot to add this little guy

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[jim454]

[ QUOTE ]
Sweet pics man.

Quick question, do you just contract climb or work for a company??

[/ QUOTE ]

I can answer that for you Ranger, Taylor is a CC and works for many of us.

 

[rangerdanger]

Cool, thanks Jim. Seems to me like that would be a sweet job, as you have little overhead, just your gear, no worries about chippers, chip trucks, etc. Or am I off base here.

 

[TLHamel]

It has it's ups and downs (no pun intended). Working with different crews all the time can be interesting, but sometimes I'd like to have a regular crew. Also, someone to share the climbing! This job was a referal from one of my residential clients. Drop and leave! Contract climbing is where I do most of my work, but I also have a small residential client base and consulting gigs, too.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Why did the tree have to be removed?

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

[ QUOTE ]
Drop and leave!

[/ QUOTE ] The best type of jobs.

I love the White Pines. Too bad she wasn't gonna make it.

How long was he in the spurs?

 

[KevinS]

Great job with the pics and subtitles

 

[rangerdanger]

Thanks for the reply Taylor.