Work Photos

[Muggs]

Sunday project, 1/2" manila

 

[data farm 26]

I probably shouldn't have been climbing in this tree but idk, I survived. I think it's called a swedish columnar aspen or something like that. Deader than a doornail. The little log in the back of the truck is the bottom, twas cracked like that in spirals all the way up. Tiny little postage stamp backyard.

 

[Winchman]

To avoid damage to the shrub I decided to drop the larger tree into the side yard. I secured a pulley to the base of a tree near the fence so I could pull with the truck in the front yard.

That got it down with clearance all around.

It's a little further to haul stuff to the curb, but it's all good exercise. There'll be a much bigger pile when I'm done.

 

[Njdelaney]

You're going to need a groundie pretty soon @Winchman Gonna have to start charging money for all this tree work!

 

[27RMT0N]

I had a good one a few weeks back. There was a maybe... 85' alder leaning way over a driveway towards a drain field and no place to put it on that side, felling or rigging it. But there was a huge grand fir on the stump side of the alder. So from the ground I set a line 2/3 up the alder, went up the fir, hung a block, then used two more redirects and the portawrap to attach the alder to the truck on the driveway. Faced the alder towards the high rigging point and backed the truck to stand up the entire alder, keeping it attached at the stump and pulling it into the fir. From there I went up the fir, used the battery pole saw to pick apart all the limbs, 201 for the trunk to the rigging line. Back on the ground, I finally cut it free at the stump, had the whole log on the rigging, then lowered and cut it the log one piece at a time until it was on the ground. Fun stuff, other than having to ascend 80-90' into the fir three times!

 

[Dan Thornton]

Faced the alder towards the high rigging point

Wow I love that plan and execution. I see the face notch. Were you able to pull it backward with no back cut?

 

[27RMT0N]

Wow I love that plan and execution. I see the face notch. Were you able to pull it backward with no back cut?

Yah, it has a back-cut and fat hinge that just doesn't show in the photo. Just like pulling over most things, it's a game of cut a little, pull a little, see how it moves. Cut a little more, pull a little more, eventually get it into the position you want without over-taxing the rigging gear. The other thing a fat hinge did for me was make sure a lot of the weight of the tree was still being transferred to the ground instead it it being 100% on the rigging, or being too thin and risking it breaking and shifting while I was having to climb and make a lot of cuts next to it.

 

[Serf Life]

Whole tree rigging, so good. Like 300’ of 5/8?

 

[Muggs]

@27RMT0N you did that whole thing solo? Nice work

 

[Muggs]

Span rigging today

 

[27RMT0N]

@27RMT0N you did that whole thing solo? Nice work

No way, had my employee with me as ground support. And took pictures along the way, you can see him running the rope in the last photo.

Whole tree rigging, so good. Like 300’ of 5/8?

5/8, amazingly my 200 footer was just long enough, since I did all of the up-travel by moving the truck back, then lowered most of the trunk by moving the truck forward again. It's always a place where mistakes can happen working with a truck, because it's not as easy to know how much force you are putting into the system and easy to over-do it and break something with inexperience. Because of the hinge and the angle of the high rigging point, it worked more like a side-pull to move the tree and pivoted off the stump with the hinge still attached. The system never had the full weight of the tree on it because of that setup, so the forces weren't huge and I was comfortable doing it with the truck knowing it wouldn't overpower anything.

 

[Winchman]

With several more climbs I finally got all the limbs the HO wanted removed from these two pines.

The heat and the gnats are brutal, but I'm getting stuff done.


The next job is a little different. The HO had a land clearing outfit clear the low-lying back part of his lot a year ago, but they left all the vines in the trees. He's been bringing in the fill with a compact tractor/loader. He wants the vines removed.


I think they used a pole saw to cut the vines. I've made an attachment for my extension pole to lasso the end of the vines one at a time, and pull them down. It'll be slow going, but I think it'll work.

 

[Matias]

I checked recently, and y'alls wet bulb temps were worse than ours by 10⁰. My helmet is off to you sir.

 

[Winchman]

I pulled down, broke up, and piled all I could with the lasso from this one tree. The lasso slips off the small vines.

There's still a bunch of small stuff hanging, and I set a line so I can climb through it cutting as I go. It rained later, so I'll have to put off climbing until it's not so muddy. I don't want to get that sticky sand on my climbing ropes. There's plenty I can do while I'm waiting.

 

[rico]

This young man is as legit as the days is long-

 

[Steve Connally]

Interesting lightning strike. Turned out to be a good training lesson for some younger Arbs about the use of binders on lightning stuck trees. In my experience so many hardwoods just fall apart after the cut.

 

[Serf Life]

So cool Steve!

 

[chiselbit]

Back in the roadside hazard stuff, fatty Jeffery pine

 

[chiselbit]

With some assistance from @urlocallumberjill

 

[chiselbit]