Work Photos

treebilly · Nov 26, 2017

It looked like a nice gentle ride. Enough shake to say yehaw but not enough to yell at someone. Good stuff Erik

Stihlmadd · Dec 11, 2017

chiselbit · Dec 11, 2017

Wow Ben, that is some nice work there. I really like the second one. You keep getting better and better. Pretty soon you'll be hanging up your saws and earning your money with your camera

Stihlmadd · Dec 11, 2017

chiselbit said:
Wow Ben, that is some nice work there. I really like the second one. You keep getting better and better. Pretty soon you'll be hanging up your saws and earning your money with your camera

Thankyou Dan,
yah I am working on my retreat strategy - would def be nice to have a fall back from climbing if the worst case came about and I was unable to get aloft again.

rico · Dec 11, 2017

Great Pics! Someones been Trippin' Balls.

chiselbit · Dec 11, 2017

You've definitely got a knack for it. Keep it up!

Steve Connally · Dec 11, 2017

Hell yeah Ben

Stihlmadd · Dec 13, 2017

Steve Connally said:
Hell yeah Ben

Thankyou Steve.

Raven27 · Dec 14, 2017

Reaching out

southsoundtree · Dec 14, 2017

Significant crown dieback.

Filled the truck with chips. Going two doors down to my original customers.

Two pickup truck loads, loaded by a friend with a firewood addiction.

Give some firewood away.

Horde burls and figured wood.

Not as dark as it looked, but using all available daylight.

Scheffa · Dec 14, 2017

Blocking down a monkey puzzle

Raven27 · Dec 17, 2017

Working on these 2 poorly cabled Silvers. The bigger one almost done, leaving it 1' above deck railing for a shelf. Both had cab8lng only about 1/4 of the way up the tree and installed choked around spare, and at angles. 1 cable was snapped, 1 was slack 1 had the hardware loose. Definitely should have been installed much higher in the crown. Think they were lazy and didn't want to put in the work. There is also a medium spruce to take out to along driveway, but it's nothing special.
1st day started off nice and clear, then turned to a nasty,snowy day.

evo · Dec 17, 2017

southsoundtree said:
Significant crown dieback.

Filled the truck with chips. Going two doors down to my original customers.

Two pickup truck loads, loaded by a friend with a firewood addiction.

Give some firewood away.

Horde burls and figured wood.

Not as dark as it looked, but using all available daylight.

nice re-topping
:cachetada:

southsoundtree · Dec 18, 2017

As hard a re topping as possible.

Raven27 · Dec 18, 2017

I hate dealing with the big wood bottoms, I don't have any equipment yet to assist, so it's a lot of cutting and chucking. That Silver in my post above is pretty big in the somewhat small section I do have to take out, about 50" and I have to take about 6' of it or so, plus I have to leave then a level shelf for their plans. Lol

oceans · Dec 18, 2017

Raven27 said:
I hate dealing with the big wood bottoms, I don't have any equipment yet to assist, so it's a lot of cutting and chucking. That Silver in my post above is pretty big in the somewhat small section I do have to take out, about 50" and I have to take about 6' of it or so, plus I have to leave then a level shelf for their plans. Lol

Buy a Chainsaw Mill. Easy to carry into the back yard and set up. You’ve gotta cut the wood one way or another...you can cut rounds and figure out where to dump them, or you can cut slabs and figure out who to sell them to! Until you get a means of handling heavy material, a Chainsaw Mill is an affordable purchase.

Raven27 · Dec 19, 2017

oceans said:
Buy a Chainsaw Mill. Easy to carry into the back yard and set up. You’ve gotta cut the wood one way or another...you can cut rounds and figure out where to dump them, or you can cut slabs and figure out who to sell them to! Until you get a means of handling heavy material, a Chainsaw Mill is an affordable purchase.

Have been thinking of this, are they fairly simple to use and set up. We certainly have a big enough saw, and can just get ripping chain.

oceans · Dec 19, 2017

Raven27 said:
Have been thinking of this, are they fairly simple to use and set up. We certainly have a big enough saw, and can just get ripping chain.

They’re a bit finicky if the chain isn’t really sharp and even. I’ve been having good results with a skip chisel chain. The first filing required I bring the faces square.

I built some brackets that screw into the log faces and support an aluminum ladder as a guide for the first cut.

Honest, the Mill has paid for itself over and over. Much more of a value added product to leave with slabs or beams rather than firewood.

I could derail Levi’s great thread a bit too easily if I don’t add some photos of milling soon...lemme dig around. One of the last Oak beams I cut was 6’ Long, 2’ tall, and 1’ thick, and used to support an old Paul Revere Bell that was found in Fairhaven. The local Voc School tooled it a bit further and mounted the Bell for display. It looks pretty rad!