Working On A Slope

[Jamin_Mayer]

I had a fun job 2 Saturdays ago.

It was in Raymond, CO. It is a tiny town (if you could call it that) in the mountains. The house was at the bottom of a valley near a creak. Since I am used to working on flat ground this was a challenge.

To avoid logs and limbs rolling down to my customer's garage and home we had to pull out some tricks.

Some of you guys probably do this quit a bit, so bear with me. I don't get to zip line stuff often, so some of this was a learning curve for me.--Enjoy.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

One of the necessary techniques was using a balancer with the zip line... Fun, but time consuming to set up.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

A couple of times when I was in to 5"-6" diameter branches I was concerned that these would bounce and roll to the garage, so I used slings...

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

We only had three trees to bring down, but the locations were making things go slow. So, the second tree I fell perpendicular to the natural lean (toward the detached garage)...

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

"Birds eye" of the tapered hinge.--It always works!

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

Spectators!

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

The tallest tree we measured was 80'.--Not bad for a Blue Spruce in the area I was in. The slope was another 20' in height.

Here is a photo of the 10' top that came out.

Go ahead...Look at my gear. Critique some things...
I know some of you will want to...

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

GRCS for pulling the wood into the grass. I liked the technique. My goundie (the one who had to do all the cranking) didn't.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

Did you notice the brown tarp? My customer wanted us to try to collect as much saw dust on the tarp while cutting firewood lengths.--He didn't want his driveway full of saw dust.

Oh well, I didn't have to buck wood.

The photo is my goundie Bill showing his stuff.

 

[Colin]

I would tell that customer what he could do with his tarp.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

I wanted to, but they were the folks who were going to write me the check.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

It was getting late, so I had to put the Spruce down. I fell the tree slightly up-slope between trees. I had a very little gap to aim into. I am glad to say I didn't damage a single branch or the trunks of the 2 trees.


The guy sitting on the log is Ivan (pronounced E-bon in spanish). He is the best goundie ever! He is worth 2 men!

Notice I had to weave the re-direct between the trees. You can see the yellow block in the distance above Ivan's right shoulder.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

A different view of the fall. You can see the re-direct line on the left side. Bill pulled it over with the GOOD.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

That was it...

Here was a fun shot of a open faced notch witht the backgound of the mountains. The sunsetting was a little bright for the photo, but you get it.

 

[jf1962]

Looks like a NOTCH IT! and WATCH IT ! cut ........
nice view.. nice job ... well done my friend,, speed line cool pics...

 

[SirTreeRat]

Looked like a really fun job, great work Jamin.

Very nice pics,

any more of the skyline?

 

[brendonv]

Nice job, sweet pics.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

I have one more photo of the skyline, but I didn't want to post it originally. I FUBARed my back cut.

But, I am not perfect, so here is a good photo of the view...

Notice how steep the slope is? They actually had a avalanche burry their detached garage back in December. And it stopped about 6' short of their home. So, the large logs pinned between the trees will help (hopefully) be a avalanche break. However, it is not good for the fires.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

I found a closer shot of the slings. You can see a orange strap and a blue one. I used this technique 5 times or so.

 

[Stumper]

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Go ahead...Look at my gear. Critique some things...
I know some of you will want to...

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