Work Photos

Serf Life · Mar 17, 2020

A long day with @SeanRuel . Oak tops were recently dead, pine was browning out, bug-holes at the top, and had all its roots opposite the lean stump ground out. We zipped the dying pine brush and top uphill, lowered the oak off the pine spar with a tag line. Good to work with a pro, and a mini.

rico · Mar 17, 2020

Nice work gentlemen.

Who ever though building as house around a tree was a good idea. When I was a kid my little brothers room had a 6ft Red growing through it. When the winds kicked up the whole house would move to the point where it was being pulled off the foundation in areas.

SeanRuel · Mar 17, 2020

A few more. Tight LZ to manage, but I'm glad I wasn't the one climbing!

chiselbit · Mar 17, 2020

Nice work! How did you contain the sawchips inside the house? Looks like you had to make at least a couple cuts inside?

Serf Life · Mar 17, 2020

Thankfully we didn’t have to. I cut it back to living branches/epicormics and we’ll be back for training, fertilizing, or cutting it all out if it dies. Had never emailed in a tree before: hi please give a call from Florida, I’m in your tree and the estimate is no good anymore.

CaPowell · Mar 20, 2020

Nothing too huge, but the deck and no skid access made things interesting. My groundman texted this morning that someone who was at his house two days ago tested positive for Corona virus, so he is self-quarantining and I got to rope the logs down solo.

southsoundtree · Mar 20, 2020

What does that height extension do on the arch?

CaPowell · Mar 20, 2020

southsoundtree said:
What does that height extension do on the arch?

It just allows you to lift things higher, like over the bench on that deck or onto a low trailer. It reduces the lifting capacity quite a bit though. I haven't needed to use the arch since I got a mini two years ago, but I just couldn't get rid of it and knew it would come in handy someday.

chiselbit · Mar 21, 2020

That looks like a tedious job with a crew. I applaud your solo treemanship

Brocky · May 3, 2020

Dead pine in my yard, no branches but about a dozen at the top. Could have used other nearby trees or spurs but decided to try Burinawa to ascend. Struggled at first, some of it was climbing through some low branches from the white pine. But once I got the procedure figured out, it became very easy.

southsoundtree · May 3, 2020

Easy root disease pocket job i worked on last week, solo, a couple short days. This snag-pull leased toward the neighbor's a bit, and had already broken out at 12".

Drain field under lawn.

Broke the top off the spar, hitting the tool box in the fender a bit... Better than the stairs.

Cracking over the log, the breaking spar popped a small hole (5") in the asphalt, but the client didn't care, offering that fixing it would give her husband something to do.

I have most of a 10 year old bag of asphalt cold-patch in my shop from when the tip of a dead conifer top snagged another tree, bring the 8" butt straight down into the driveway. I'll grab it and fix it.
First significant damage in a long, long time.

Coos Bay cutting long fir like to land flat, with butts within a handful of feet from the feed tray.

southsoundtree · May 3, 2020

chiselbit said:
That looks like a tedious job with a crew. I applaud your solo treemanship

Roping logs down yourself, over a deck, shows self-confidence.
No holes in deck shows skills.

How did you approach that rigging @CaPowell ?

CaPowell · May 3, 2020

southsoundtree said:
Roping logs down yourself, over a deck, shows self-confidence.
No holes in deck shows skills.

How did you approach that rigging @CaPowell ?

I didn't do anything fancy. It wasn't as bad as I thought when bidding the job. I climbed the taller spar first and set a block. Then, I rigged the back trunk down because it was bigger and leaning towards the house. Next, I negative rigged the last spar down until the point where I was concerned the logs would drop too far and hit the deck. I cut a handful of short chunks that I could manhandle and throw over the side of the deck. There was a lot more up and down than I'd like, but I got it down safely.