Is it easy to install a line in a euc? I have all kinds of trouble with southern magnolias - the twigs catch throw lines and balls. Those eucs look like they would be easy.
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CutHighnLetFly
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- Cape Cod, MA
Pignut hickory
Treezybreez
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- Lancaster, SC
Good size White Oak. 70" diameter.
Bendroctanus
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- Springfield
The victorious pose. Nice work! Looks like a fun one.
Treezybreez
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- Lancaster, SC
It took a day to lower out the top and half a day to drop the trunk and cut it up. Only had one guy on the ground too. You're right, it was fun.
Bendroctanus
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- Springfield
Haha, I do that to my one groundie too. Very grateful for him.
Stihlmadd
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- Location
- Adelaide South Australia
yes on a smooth bark Euc like that spotted gum - bonus points are gained for a smooth crotch allowing for easier manipulation of the bag.
Having said that I had a crappy run yesterday with a lemon scented gum (same family as the spotted gum)
narrow crotches combined with dead wood and stubs with a tight branch spacing for shooting through really rained all over my parade.
That spotted gum in the pic I nailed my anchor point on the second swing
niiicceeee.....
treebilly
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- N. Lawrence
Throw line. It’s awesome some days, other days it’s my nemesis. 3 hand tosses and then 3 big shot launches. If that doesn’t work I get mad and drink some coffee. I’m drinking less coffee lately but I’m sure I’ll be back to a pot before long
VenasNursery
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- Michigan
Bendroctanus
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- Springfield
We live and die by the throwball...
VenasNursery
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- Michigan
2 Guys in the sky today
And a pretty cool shadow shot!
Rigged down an 80’ Red Oak with a tree house platform around it today. The HO drilled the supports in August of ‘19, and it wilted out last July. It was the tallest tree in the stand, quite difficult to get the pieces through the surrounding canopies. Blocked it down to 45’, cookies down to the platform floor. Adjacent Oaks are being treated.
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Sfoppema
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- Central MA
Big white pine leader fell on garage. Very windy.
Serf Life
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Maine Island
Too bad no mill log there. Bigleaf can have some outstanding figure, saw some quilted maple furniture in CA which was stunning.
Yah, they can get some beautiful grain and are spectacular trees, one of the few big splashes of color in the evergreen filled pacific northwest. Unfortunately they are very decay prone, even a 3" proper pruning cut tends to not seal over well and introduce decay which then works its way down. They also tend to grow with structures that create massive limbs that fail in big ways and huge tops will die off, so living around them requires early intervention in the form of end-weight reductions.
Here is a different tree, huge, old, required big reductions due to near by construction. Look at that 3' section that broke off on the right:
Edit: somehow I'm always called to deal with the worst of the worst, here is another 'classic' big leaf maple that was left for waaaaay too long:
Here is a different tree, huge, old, required big reductions due to near by construction. Look at that 3' section that broke off on the right:
Edit: somehow I'm always called to deal with the worst of the worst, here is another 'classic' big leaf maple that was left for waaaaay too long:
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ConeCollector
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- Northern California
That shake shed in the backgrounds really sums up the PNW for me! Love it!
