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From a few weeks ago, never got around to posting till now. A climber a year or 2 back limbed up the tree, took out a top and left a ~120' stick covered in ivy. Couple of other crews turned it down between the first climber and me. Crappy terrain, crappy ivy, and I underbid by quite a bit to top it all off. Good lesson though.
 

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Some of my recent projects
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The scarring on this partially dead cedar...
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extended into the stump, which split apart as I was making the back cut.
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And this morning I set lines in two trees for upcoming dead limb removals.
 
Good reminder. I just had the thing into the dealer for a full service and top to bottom inspection, they found $4k of work to do (just wear parts plus shop time) but managed to neither notice or fix the non-working turn signal....
 
27RMT0N said:
Good reminder. I just had the thing into the dealer for a full service and top to bottom inspection, they found $4k of work to do (just wear parts plus shop time) but managed to neither notice or fix the non-working turn signal....
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Just a tip: they will always find four grand worth of work if you let them. For them to change a air filter is $500.00 not worth it. Just saying.
 
This cedar in my neighbor's yard was getting choked by vines that were impossible to get to through the lower branches, so I did some pruning and removed as much of the vines as I could.
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Just beyond and to the right of the cedar are two young blueberry plants. Now he'll be able to mow under the cedar to keep the vines in check.

To make the weekend even better, the new neighbor wants me to remove dead limbs from several pines and some live limbs that are too close to the house from several others. That's going to be a bunch of climbing to keep me busy for a while. I've been wanting to work in that yard for a long time, but the previous owner wouldn't let me. To top it off, it's right next door.
 
Before and after removing a limb that was hanging over the roof.
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The limb split several feet out, so I cut it into two pieces there so I could lower each piece by hand for better control. I certainly didn't want to hit the power meter, the heat pump, or the roof.
 

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Dropped this big spruce today, and thanks to a combination of it being WAY more rotten than I thought it was along with massive limb-weight in the wrong direction, it went about 20* off where I wanted it to go, landing on an underground waterline. I did get someone over right away to look at it and he thinks it is undamaged, but most stressful day I've had in a while.... certainly bruised my ego a bit. Buried 661 36" at about 6.5 feet up to get out of that massive root flare.

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It would be interesting to see how much the stump was rotted below where you cut. I prefer to cut standing up so I can get away quicker. On several trees I've found hidden rot lower down, and that makes me glad I made the felling cut high.
 
This was hanging over my new neighbor's house until this morning. I really wanted to get it down in smaller pieces, but just couldn't get a decent TIP for that. Fortunately I had a good anchor for the speed line, and it cleared the roof by a comfortable distance on the way down.
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