Work Photos

[southsoundtree]

Laminated root disease removals of doug-fir, and driveway canopy raising for the gravel truck access to tailgate spread.

 

[Birdyman88]

Beautiful Southern Red Oak split between codoms due to decay. Cavity visible through split halfway down trunk. Used chains and binders to keep it intact while disassembling. I urged customer to get a crane crew, but he refused and wanted me to do it. Had 2 fully equipped tree companies turn him away. Best part was, he wanted to give the wood away for firewood. I told him he was crazy, but the old country boy proved me wrong. 60,000 pounds of red oak GONE. He paid for it.

Right behind the tree about 75 yards are train tracks which used to be Brunswick station. During the Civil War, there was a confederate hospital right up the road, so we imagine soldiers probably rested around this tree during the stop. During WW2, this was one of the stops American soldiers used when transporting POWs to their destination. Some of the old timers in the area still remember the soldiers standing guard with their uzi's around the prisoner cars.

 

[Stihlmadd]

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Print-worthy.
Wall-mural style!

thank you - I will pass that on to the customer
He is an old friend and will appreciate the props being a mechanical engineer by trade.

 

[Reach]

It’s been a little dusty around here lately, with the lack of rain...

 

[climbingmonkey24]

Funny enough, I managed to get one pick out of that crane while it was on site. The word "overkill" comes to mind.

Imagine taking down a small fruit tree or something and you roll up to a suburban neighborhood with that and pick the whole thing at once and feed it into chipper while the crane blocks the whole street and there’s police detail.

Neighbor’s be like...this dude serious?

 

[southsoundtree]

More laminated root diseased trees in a greenbelt, dead and dying, in reach of the house.


Had a crispy, dead alder leaning decidedly at the corner of the fence.
I dumped one minor trunk to check the condition of it, and get some ballast logs. I base-tied the alder, and suspended the load midline, as I had interfering trees and the wrong angle to the anchor tree for a 90* retainer line.
Ideally, I would have had the load closer to the alder, not up to the rope-puller. Pulling the load this far still kept a load on the line as the alder fell, and bent the tree to the side somewhat... Even a total hinge failure should have only scared the fence.

Chained up tight to fight a barber chair danger.

 

[southsoundtree]

A couple removals in a very wet area, in reach of the house.

Homeowner pictures.
Material staying in the woods.

 

[chiselbit]

 

[chiselbit]

I’m just playing, trying to post pictures. This guy was in a big interior live oak we pruned a month or so ago

 

[JeffGu]

Did you and Granny Clampett cook you up some 'possum vittles for supper?

 

[Mark Chisholm]

More laminated root diseased trees in a greenbelt, dead and dying, in reach of the house.


Had a crispy, dead alder leaning decidedly at the corner of the fence.
I dumped one minor trunk to check the condition of it, and get some ballast logs. I base-tied the alder, and suspended the load midline, as I had interfering trees and the wrong angle to the anchor tree for a 90* retainer line.
Ideally, I would have had the load closer to the alder, not up to the rope-puller. Pulling the load this far still kept a load on the line as the alder fell, and bent the tree to the side somewhat... Even a total hinge failure should have only scared the fence.

Chained up tight to fight a barber chair danger.

Chain and wedges instead of ratchet strap eh?

 

[Mark Chisholm]

making the 90 ton a 110, 202’ of stick 159’ radius to the oak tree we removed weds

I drove the second crane with 20,000 lbs of counterweights

ended up doing 2 more trees. Took them in one and 2 picks. Farthest radius I’ve ever done crane work at and went smooth, we were still good for 5K at 159’ radius @Mark Chisholm since people have been claiming lately they invented your V cut I just went with W cuts to change things up


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Very clever

 

[GregManning]

Very clever

Excellent ! ! !

 

[GregManning]

making the 90 ton a 110, 202’ of stick 159’ radius to the oak tree we removed weds I drove the second crane with 20,000 lbs of counterweights
ended up doing 2 more trees. Took them in one and 2 picks. Farthest radius I’ve ever done crane work at and went smooth, we were still good for 5K at 159’ radius @Mark Chisholm since people have been claiming lately they invented your V cut I just went with W cuts to change things up
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Excellent ! ! !

 

[southsoundtree]

Chain and wedges work for small trees, and without risk of damage to a binder or ratchet strap's buckle. Easy to place, and remove from the log pinching it to the ground.

 

[Gorman]

Beautiful Southern Red Oak split between codoms due to decay. Cavity visible through split halfway down trunk. Used chains and binders to keep it intact while disassembling. I urged customer to get a crane crew, but he refused and wanted me to do it. Had 2 fully equipped tree companies turn him away. Best part was, he wanted to give the wood away for firewood. I told him he was crazy, but the old country boy proved me wrong. 60,000 pounds of red oak GONE. He paid for it.

Right behind the tree about 75 yards are train tracks which used to be Brunswick station. During the Civil War, there was a confederate hospital right up the road, so we imagine soldiers probably rested around this tree during the stop. During WW2, this was one of the stops American soldiers used when transporting POWs to their destination. Some of the old timers in the area still remember the soldiers standing guard with their uzi's around the prisoner cars.
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Who cut the log up for the HO?

 

[ARLO]

One of the students in my tree climbing class at OSU shot this video of some of the things that we did during Fall Term.

 

[Birdyman88]

Who cut the log up for the HO?

We did it. On the big stuff we cut to firewood length, then ripped into 80-150lb chunks.

 

[megadosevitaminc]

 

[Gorman]

We did it. On the big stuff we cut to firewood length, then ripped into 80-150lb chunks.

Christ. Must have taken hours.