Work Photos

[chiselbit]

 

[chiselbit]

3 years after the fire. some of these trees are getting sketchy. Starting to fall apart.

 

[oceans]

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Down goes the goose pen. Nice work!

We call that decomposed wood ”canopy compost” when we find it up high in a crown. Looks like a solid cubic yard in that stump.

 

[Serf Life]

What’s starting to grow? Bear grass? Any trees make it or 100% mortality? Seeing your pics it doesn’t look much different

 

[chiselbit]

What’s starting to grow? Bear grass? Any trees make it or 100% mortality? Seeing your pics it doesn’t look much different

Lots of little firs, bear clover (mountain misery) and grasses, but the ceonothus and white thorn is really taking off. It is very difficult to move around now, can’t run away very good, it tangles you up and holds you back. It’s a struggle just to get to each tree. Right now we’re just doing roadside hazard, everything that can reach the road gets cut. The fellerbunchers cut all but the really big trees on the ground that’s not too steep and those guys can cut 4’ trees if they can get around both sides with the machine, we are cutting all the trees on the crappy ground and also going back to cut whatever the machines can’t cut. There are random pockets of trees that survived the fire and the post fire pests, and large areas that were untouched but it was a couple hundred thousand acres that burned. Caldor fire.

 

[AdkEric]

Vista prune and some deadwooding along the lake. Bank was much steeper than it looks, and loose. Kept most of the brush better than half way up. The rest got thrown to the beach and a neighbor was kinda enough to allow me on his access road to retrieve it.

 

[oceans]

Vista prune and some deadwooding along the lake. Bank was much steeper than it looks, and loose. Kept most of the brush better than half way up. The rest got thrown to the beach and a neighbor was kinda enough to allow me on his access road to retrieve it. View attachment 96216View attachment 96217View attachment 96218

What a gorgeous day today eh?

 

[oceans]

Got into some Oak removals with the C10 and a fellow Buzzer. Had a very productive day with his crew. 4 good sized trees done and dusted by 15:30.

 

[27RMT0N]

Nowhere near as sketchy as @chiselbit tree, but a good sized dead and rotten hemlock along a driveway to get down. Shot a line (hit my first shot!), base tie, redirect and then faced and pulled over with the chipper winch. Took me about 3 hours (solo) to clean up the brush...

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Roadside lombardies on Friday, last one to do tomorrow.
used the new 540ixp (battery saw with the clutch) big thumbs up from me.

 

[Neill]

One flopped walnut, amoung a bunch of other stuff. Good headlean so I went with the bore for kicks, wide open lay.

 

[Winchman]

Limb and debris removal yesterday.

 

[chiselbit]

 

[chiselbit]

 

[chiselbit]

 

[chiselbit]

There was another tree growing up tight in front of it that made the high stump necessary, it was tangled up in the crown of the big tree and I couldn’t cut it first , had to go above the “Union”.

 

[Winchman]

Dead limbs and gut-rippers removed on a drizzly morning.

 

[oceans]

Dead limbs and gut-rippers removed on a drizzly morning.
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There are drizzly mornings on which I need to climb a very large Beech or Maple, or Tulip. Those days are hard to look forward to. Climbing “rope” in a tall single stemmed tree could be much more doable.

You keep this up and pretty soon, all the trees in your general vicinity will be well manicured!

 

[27RMT0N]

Well I did end up using the bucket extensively every day this week as hopped. After it being down for a bunch of electrical repairs shortly after buying it I was pretty frustrated, but I'm finally starting to trust it works now and will be very useful. Most jobs I do are still not around roads/access and will be climbed, but sure is nice when the bucket can get to them.

Two days of alders that would have been very hard or dangerous to climb, a day of sketchy firs and two days of pretty standard fir removals to widen a road. It's a trip floating up to ~50+ feet, taking 30' tops and then dropping logs from the bucket instead of on spurs. A few were too tall so I just climbed out of the bucket, climbed out the upper portion, then got back in the bucket once it was within reach again. Good times.

 

[Winchman]

Two short climbs to remove more unwanted limbs. The TIP was over two limbs, so I moved my climbing gear to the other side to get in a better position for making the second cut.