Thread: Some pics

Here is a 44" Soft Maple that we hammered down over a house. Not much for pics, but somethin's better than nothin.

The guy didn't want us to back the chipper up to the tree so we drug all the brush skidder style out to the driveway behind the fourwheeler. We took all the wood out with the wheeler and a trailer and threw it in the 30' gooseneck.

I did all the climbing and used a jib pole with 2 blocks in separate leads and a floating tagline to bring down the wood over the house. 3 trims and a removal tommorow, maybe I can get some more shots.

Here's some pictures of me, my dad, and bro, some shot's of my dad in his gear too.

Good job. Nice to see someone else wearing shorts besides me.

edit: That must be you're dad. What lake is that?

GREAT pics Nails! Thanks for sharing again!

It's good to see yall tied those stems together with the pull rope. I've heard storys of guys not doing that when notching and dropping a co-dominant stem with included bark and it wasn't pretty. Nice pics.

Thanks dudes. That's the old man in the shorts, he's quite stout. You can see in the one pic what happened to the stems when they hit the ground. The tree had water running out of the seam when I started the climb. The guy wanted to keep it, but the wife overulled. I got 5 facecord of wood off that tree, not bad.

The best part of today was my second job. I went to the local Stihl dealer after the first job to get some safety shades and got talkin to a guy about tree cuttin when he saw the load of wood on my trailer. I ended up taking down a 25" Sugar Maple for him on my way home. Climbed it, pieced out 2 leads, and dropped the rest from the ground. It was a nasty dead, rotten old beast that had one good size lead completely torn down. This really made my day!

Ear protection for dad?

Originally Posted by Treetom

Ear protection for dad?

What?

as per the norm nails you get some pretty good pics! thanks.


is that the garden hose your ol man is about to climb on? i knew he was a rugged dude!


lol

Good job and nice photos.

Nice work.
My dad taught me and my bro to, now my bro does most of the residential work while I have taken over more of the loggin/land clearing. Last time I climbed out of a tree in town a month ago I tore my acl. Everytime I help him out I am amzed at how much patience it takes and imagination, been cuttin all my life and have half the talent he does and i'm older, have all the respect in the world for what you guys do.

Originally Posted by kennertree

It's good to see yall tied those stems together with the pull rope.

I mighta put a truckstrap on before pulling over

Originally Posted by oldirty

is that the garden hose your ol man is about to climb on? i knew he was a rugged dude! lol

Looks like TruBlue good stout rope for the price. I like it for light to medium rigging.

and a floating tagline to bring down the wood over the house.

Nels, did you order The Winch from Charly? (GRCS)

Put that on your tag line with a block and you can crank the load over, we call it a "drift line". The lowering line goes on a Port-A-Wrap, or second Winch if one is at hand (I have one and most of my clients have one. The most I've used is 3 on some monster removals) Having the option to crank up on the rigging line in case it is let out too much is a good thing.

Quite often, with a pulley, one can use The Winch as a ratcheting bollard and just pull in on the drift line to move the load to a good LZ

Originally Posted by oldirty

as per the norm nails you get some pretty good pics! thanks.


is that the garden hose your ol man is about to climb on? i knew he was a rugged dude!


lol

Garden hose climbing is cutting edge right now, thats the true blue prototype right there. When you're thirsty just hit the valve, also opens you up for the portable arial shower option. Nice for the hot days.

Thanks Oldirty, I'm all outta BS.

Originally Posted by John Paul Sanborn

I mighta put a truckstrap on before pulling over



Looks like TruBlue good stout rope for the price. I like it for light to medium rigging.



Nels, did you order The Winch from Charly? (GRCS)

Put that on your tag line with a block and you can crank the load over, we call it a "drift line". The lowering line goes on a Port-A-Wrap, or second Winch if one is at hand (I have one and most of my clients have one. The most I've used is 3 on some monster removals) Having the option to crank up on the rigging line in case it is let out too much is a good thing.

Quite often, with a pulley, one can use The Winch as a ratcheting bollard and just pull in on the drift line to move the load to a good LZ

Yes John, True Blue is our go-to line. We like them cause they are so smooth to climb on yet knots hold well. Also, like you said, very strong.

We thought about strapping the trunk, but we didn't put much pull on that lead and the wedge brought it over so it ended up alright.

The GRCS is in the works yet, Charly wants me to send him a picture of our treegear trailer and we'll talk about some prototypical designs and such.
He sure seems like a cool guy, he said he started in the bis at 14 and is now 66 or something. That's cool.

Yes the GRCS will be the shiznitz.

Originally Posted by huskystihl

Nice work.
My dad taught me and my bro to, now my bro does most of the residential work while I have taken over more of the loggin/land clearing. Last time I climbed out of a tree in town a month ago I tore my acl. Everytime I help him out I am amzed at how much patience it takes and imagination, been cuttin all my life and have half the talent he does and i'm older, have all the respect in the world for what you guys do.

Sounds good HuskyStihl, hey that's my kind of name, I like it. That ACL sounds like a biatch. Get well soon and don't push it.

I like that you used the word imagination, you have to be creative and resourceful cause every tree job is different in certain aspects. Helps to know all you can and use what you have to to make it safe and efficient. Thanks for the respect man, appreciate it.