Wolfy dead fir zip line and crane

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I agree. That was devastating. He got out of tree work a few years ago, as you may know.

He was on the TH for a while....and AS as well...mostly talked about issues and politics, I think.

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Yeah, that was heartbreaking. I wonder how that tree we donated to his family through AS is doing.

Hi Roger, Great picts and job. Seems you have recovered from injury.:-)
 
must be busy signin' autographs
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RE "wolfy"

Never really thought about it much. Reckon the way I used it was just to mean the tree was big....in my addled mind anywho.

We craned out two more big'uns today. Alive, and thus heavier...but the crane was cribbed up a fair bit to get level, so they used a different and much more conservative load chart. Glad they were able to get all but the appx 7500 lb butt log of the smaller tree which was about 45 feet away. I had room to fell it, the last 27 feet, but wouldn't have had room to fit it as one along with the next 21 feet. (That section could have been dropped from 27 feet up, I suppose.

That was with Image Crane's 38 tonner with 127 feet of stick. Earlier today, we used Mike with ACDEucy and his 23 tonner with only 92 feet of boom to reach out above a creek to access the top 30-35 feet of a leaning cedar, to reduce windthrow risk to the neighboring properties. He was a good 65-70 feet out, and wasn't sure he could reach it. But he did, and we took 6 picks from 3 tops, none over 800 pounds or so. That was a fun ride to the top, looking down to the stream below. So, call me a tree topper!!!

Then, we used the crane to end weight reduce all the long fir branches near and/or over a house. Cowboy Dave hung onto the limbs betwen his legs while Mike swung him to the drop zone right behind the chipper! What fun. Got $1800 for the two trees, which barely took two hours.

Hope to get some photos up eventually. But have bids to do tomorrow, and a really wide cottonwood to remove on Sunday. A few more dry days are coming, so I want to work as much as possible.
 
Been actually busy for a change, Dave. And dealing with yet another thieving (now) ex employee...dealing means closing a bank account--due to forged checks--and the police.

I've not bothered to speak online about the mess this spring....credit card and check forgery by two other guys, and 8 stolen chains saws by one of the two scumbags...at different times. I got 4 back. (but not the ehp nearly race ported 372, or the first 5100 Dolmar to ever be ported, also by Ed Heard. Haven't heard if the detective has actually charged him...well, or jailed the fool yet. The story is worse, workman's comp fraud for a faked injury...and more lies the drug addled prick tried to foist.
 
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Been actually busy for a change, Dave. And dealing with yet another thieving (now) ex employee...dealing means closing a bank account--due to forged checks--and the police.

I've not bothered to speak online about the mess this spring....credit card and check forgery by two other guys, and 8 stolen chains saws by one of the two scumbags...at different times. I got 4 back. (but not the ehp nearly race ported 372, or the first 5100 Dolmar to ever be ported, also by Ed Heard. Haven't heard if the detective has actually charged him...well, or jailed the fool yet. The story is worse, workman's comp fraud for a faked injury...and more lies the drug addled prick tried to foist.

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Sorry to hear that Roger. I could go on for hours on that subject but won't bore. Sitting right now with 4 broken windows on 4 trucks from metal thieves (stolen ld's etc inside) and a recent stolen dump trailer. Caught one guy and choked him out til cops came and they let him out the next morning.

Needless to say, he never showed for hearing.

Don't let it get you down. Plenty of good people still out there.
 
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