Work Photos

[Winchman]

Well, that made a difference. Without all the leaves I was finally able to see a decent TIP, but it took a lot to isolate it with my weight getting caught in the vines.

The TIP is high enough that I may be able to do a redirect to clean up the smaller tree to the left. The rope will be on the right side, so I don't have to worry about peeling the limb off, but the tree might not stand the side-loading. It was really moving around as I was working.

 

[Winchman]

The redirect worked fine, and I got most of the vines removed.

That leaves one vine-covered tree right at the edge of the lawn (above the stump). If I can get a line through that crotch in the upper left corner of the photo, I'll do another redirect to clean it up.

 

[Winchman]

Here's what I was going after today...

but a lot of it turned out to be the tree itself.

But there was a decent pile of vine debris.

Here's the redirect setup.

 

[Matias]

Here's what I was going after today...
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but a lot of it turned out to be the tree itself.
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But there was a decent pile of vine debris.
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Here's the redirect setup.
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It used to freak me out how much a tree can seem to shimmy around when you're up there, but after getting blown around in the wind a bit while aloft, and then seeing them blow around in high winds, I don't worry too much anymore.

 

[27RMT0N]

Tons more bucket work recently, this one was a large madrone leaning over the bathhouse of a summer camp. It was was fine and safe enough on its own, but they are going to be using a crane to lift a pre-built addition to the back side of the building, so this tree had to go in order to make room for the lift. Would have been a ton more work to have to climb a tree like this, me and my employee did it (no cleanup other than staging material to the side) in one day.

 

[27RMT0N]

More recent bucket work. This spring/summer when it's actually dry enough, I plan to fix the paint on the top of the chip box. It's previous lifetime in the Nevada sun didn't do it any favors! (but it meant there is no rust on the important parts of the truck)

 

[Steve Connally]

Little work-ation for a couple days to do some pruning. Was a great experience. This Hickory was deceptively tall.

 

[Winchman]

A nice straight up climb and a short climb on a springy (not quite so direct) redirect to remove dead limbs today.

Getting the throwline through both crotches and over the small branches on the first shot for the second climb made my day. When I get so old that I can't climb, I'll just play with the Big Shot.

 

[Winchman]

A hanging dead limb was hiding in this pine. I cleared out two additional dead limbs on the way up.

I couldn't tell from the ground that I'd be three inches shy of being able saw off the gnarly break, so I had to wag it around until it finally broke off.


I spotted this climbing project yesterday while walking with the sweet gum lady and her blind daughter, so my disappointing afternoon wasn't a total loss.

 

[27RMT0N]

After a week and a half off for cold weather and icy, dangerous roads, I'm finally back to work today. Dropped a like... 80' grand fir snag and a 130-ish' recently dead grand fir near a drain field. Lots of these trees dying these days, thanks to climate change.

 

[Serf Life]

That’s a bummer @27RMT0N , are you dealing with the laminated root rot with those or other something(s)? Guessing they have some dusty, resinous goodness when chipping too.

 

[Winchman]

HO wants this largish limb over his house removed. I've been thinking about it for a while and finally got started by using a redirect to remove part of it.

I used my lanyard to pull close enough to rig it so it would swing and hang, made the undercut, then backed away before making the top cut. Then I cut off the branches on the way down, cut off chunks on the way back up, and lowered the rest in one piece.

I've made a plan to remove the rest, but I'd like to lighten it up more before carrying it out.

 

[Serf Life]

Solo day on a 100+’ 36” white pine, 29” at 24’ where I took the last log. Crazy low taper. Took pics to see how long each part was, for giggles.
1.5hr later wishing it was no cleanup
2hrs to organize brush and mound rakings
2 hrs taking logs: cut with 550 until big wood then down to clear drop zone (measured stick on way down to avoid a shorty). Bigger saw and left 3 log stem

Another 30 min of moving logs and raking for 6.5 hrs with lunch. Back tomorrow with the Bandit, then trailer for rakings. Working solo is so much more work!!

 

[Winchman]

Here's my setup for getting rid of the last large branch today.

Another successful speed line op, this one controlled by the top dragging on the ground.

Note to self: Don't leave bookmark cord on ground under speed line.

 

[27RMT0N]

Solo day on a 100+’ 36” white pine,

As others mentioned, heck of a job solo. How's the sap in freezing temps? When I worked in the occasional white pine in Seattle, never in cold temps, I always found myself with a sticking hitch cord, throwing away ruined shirts and tearing out sap-filled clumps of chest hair

 

[Serf Life]

Not sticky which is a nice change, was low teens for the morning but when it warms up no dice!

 

[Winchman]

What is this?

 

[Matias]

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an old trampoline frame?

 

[Treetopflyer]

Working solo is so much more work!!

Homeowner watching you in the window

 

[Winchman]

Two trees side-by-side with two dead limbs in each. Two nice climbs and an addition to the yard debris pile