Winchman
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Southwest Georgia
Accessory dwelling unit, perhaps?
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- Thread starter Leroy
- Start date
I recall a while ago working in broken White Pines for 3 weeks. I wanted to burn all my gear when we finished, even after washing it in the hotel every night. Ugh. I can totally relate. Nice view, though, and speed linking is usually pretty satisfying. The negative rigging must have been fun that close to the ADU.
ClimbingTN
Branched out member
- Location
- Columbia
I had to untangle this mess today. The owner wanted to save all the other trees around these two. I climbed the RH tree and dropped 4 limbs (Topped it) to keep it from hanging. The LH was a tree of heaven at about 34 inches. They killed it last fall and I wasn’t keen on climbing to the top. When I got about 30 feet I decided I could drop it. I had a rope in another tree. Yes some risk but the owner was cool with collateral damage. Good 3 hr day.
Attachments
- Location
- Leeds
heyyy new to this forum I work for Morris Brown Arborist here are some photos of a HUGE hedge we trimmed up the other week, shining in the sun after we trimmed it up!
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- Location
- Leeds
some height !
The last few days of work, pretty nice weather quite frankly.
Serious chipping.
Felling a big fir on a dangerous slope close to a deck, chain for safety.
County approved removal on the shoreline, to improve safety on an airfield approach.
County wanted a tree hanging over the shoreline.
55' top at the airfield.
Friday, so as I joked to my employee, "take big tops, go home early."
And the scenery.
Serious chipping.
Felling a big fir on a dangerous slope close to a deck, chain for safety.
County approved removal on the shoreline, to improve safety on an airfield approach.
County wanted a tree hanging over the shoreline.
55' top at the airfield.
Friday, so as I joked to my employee, "take big tops, go home early."
And the scenery.
Serf Life
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Maine Island
Solo Saturday at an elementary school. They noticed an opening-closing crack on both sides (90deg to lean), and few days later one opened up 180 to lean. Set a stay line, climb line was in a separate tree, @southsoundtree chain trick with wedges. Tree felt crazy bad to work in.
Todays job: removing a madrone way over the house with a hollow and failing base, along with the large fir with all limbs over the house. Ran up and stripped the big fir, lowering most limbs and the top given tight space and wind, used that stick as a high spar for my climb line and rigging, threw the Captain Hook into the madrone and shifted gears to that tree, swung that material out to the side of the house with a little haul-back line, then chunked out the fir. Not bad for two people in a day. No cleanup.
Mick Dempsey
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- France
Good work.
Nice to have a roof you can touch.
Most dwellings over here are tiled with very brittle clay.
Even a relatively small noggin can send you off to the builders yard for replacements.
Nice to have a roof you can touch.
Most dwellings over here are tiled with very brittle clay.
Even a relatively small noggin can send you off to the builders yard for replacements.
Dan Thornton
Participating member
- Location
- Smithsburg
Would you explain the haul-back line?
Good roofs are wonderful. This one was low slope, totally solid and has a tie-in point at the top edge (per building code) so you can move around the roof safely attached. For the lowest limbs (and some trunk wood) I passed material down to my ground guy who could then walk the brush to the edge and toss it off. I'd never do that on a two-story house without attachment points. We have a decent number of cedar shake roofs here which are similar to tile I imagine, fragile and can be VERY expensive to repair if you so much as drop a stub and crack one. I've turned jobs down due to fragile roofs underneath the trees before.
Just a simple way to get the lowering line back to myself in the tree.
That red line is a 75' piece of 3/8 stable braid, with a caribiner attached to the actual lowering line (blue 1/2" stable braid). Because the block/rigging point is up in that fir spar a long ways away from me horizontally, which helps swing the pieces over and away from the house, it is impossible for me to reach the lowering line at that point (its like 20, 25' away), and no way for my ground guy to swing it to me either sinces he's two stories down and the edge of the house is in the way. I have the haul-back line just passing through a crotch in the tree, it doesn't affect the piece being lowered at all, and once the piece is detached on the ground I can just grab the haul-back line and get the lowering line back to myself to tie-on the next piece.
Oh, and on some of them once I cut it free, I can quickly grab and use that haul-back line to help reduce the wild swing of the piece being rigged, especially when swinging pieces of wood over the house.
Edit: Here is a video by climbing arborist where you can see it being used:
Dan Thornton
Participating member
- Location
- Smithsburg
Thank you very much for the explanation.
Treetopflyer
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Coastal N.J
Typical no drop zone job we frequently encounter build the deck and put the shed in then call us to remove the trees oh and ya gotta love that white vinyl bullshit everywhere
VenasNursery
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Michigan
Keeps our pencils sharp lol
did you doublewhip that piece? looks rather small on the picture..
Treetopflyer
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Coastal N.J
The whole cluster of the 3 trees. Why do you ask?
Another good one this week, a cedar with a deck built around it to remove. The new owners of the house are fixing it up and the entire deck needs to be rebuilt badly. Understandably, they didn't want a tree through the new deck, overhanging the house by like 25' and making it very dark inside.
Rented the lift from our local shop, only 45' of boom, but it saved like a day of roping limbs over the roof and deck which was awesome. Being able to plug this thing into a standard outlet and run it silently is AWESOME by the way. Climbed and speedlined the rest of the high stuff, chunked wood off and chipped all the brush, which fit in one truck load since I removed the pole-took compartment recently. The trunk was seriously squeezed in there and that portion stayed wedged in, even after cutting the bottom of it (that is a 661 36" for size reference) and pounding on it with a sledge. Once I cut the trunk free, the deck sure got wobbly since it was actually doing quite a bit to support the rotting and poorly built deck. Rebuilding it will be the customers summer project. Did the whole thing, plus a small pear removal and other pruning from the lift in less than a day and a half, just me and my one employee.
In the next few years, yah, I'm probably going to buy a CMC 72HD+ lift....
Rented the lift from our local shop, only 45' of boom, but it saved like a day of roping limbs over the roof and deck which was awesome. Being able to plug this thing into a standard outlet and run it silently is AWESOME by the way. Climbed and speedlined the rest of the high stuff, chunked wood off and chipped all the brush, which fit in one truck load since I removed the pole-took compartment recently. The trunk was seriously squeezed in there and that portion stayed wedged in, even after cutting the bottom of it (that is a 661 36" for size reference) and pounding on it with a sledge. Once I cut the trunk free, the deck sure got wobbly since it was actually doing quite a bit to support the rotting and poorly built deck. Rebuilding it will be the customers summer project. Did the whole thing, plus a small pear removal and other pruning from the lift in less than a day and a half, just me and my one employee.
In the next few years, yah, I'm probably going to buy a CMC 72HD+ lift....
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