whadja do today?

[beastmaster]

Had to reduce some oak limbs back to suckers because removal wasn't an option. Had to use 200' of line and redirect myself over 3 unions of another tree. I wish i was doing push ups this winter before this. Needless to say I'm a big sore myself this morning.

Don't know if it of worked in your case, but I sometimes shoot a line right where I need to be and SRT up. Easier then those long limb walks at times.

 

[gorman]

Don't know if it of worked in your case, but I sometimes shoot a line right where I need to be and SRT up. Easier then those long limb walks at times.

You mean a second climbing line? The spar was too sketchy for me to climb on alone

 

[beastmaster]

What kind of stumper, Wade?
Jeff

An old rayco 625 . slow but steady. About a half inch a pass.

 

[beastmaster]

You mean a second climbing line? The spar was too sketchy for me to climb on alone

I see. It looked a little sketchy in the photo. Yeah in that case SRT is the last thing you'd want to do.

 

[beastmaster]

I just picked up a job in big bear . I don't watch football anyway. It's a beautiful day here in Riverside(know what I mean Jeff)but they got snow on the ground up the mountain. I may of got the job through default as no one wants to work on Superbowl sunday.

 

[gorman]

I see. It looked a little sketchy in the photo. Yeah in that case SRT is the last thing you'd want to do.

Oh yea I was climbing srt. I just had to use the other tree. But it would have been nice to set another line at the tip and use it to hep me get out there

 

[beastmaster]

I just picked up a job in big bear . I don't watch football anyway. It's a beautiful day here in Riverside(know what I mean Jeff)but they got snow on the ground up the mountain. I may of got the job through default as no one wants to work on Superbowl sunday.View attachment 484174

Went up Sunday to do that tree in big bear. It was way more dead then they said. The top 20 ft. Was white, barkless, and full of woodpecker holes. No way I was going out on it. Only thing holding it up was two branches stuck in another tree. I climbed a pine near it and put in a pulley and ran a bull line to the tree being removed along with a tag line. On the ground I tagged line the base. Long story short, we gently laid her between the house and fence

 

[sgreanbeans]

So anyone catch the first episode of Deadliest Job Interview on Discovery. One of our old friends make a guest appearance. Good old Doug at his best View attachment 482727

That show is horrible! The 2nd episode was too much, they should really learn to shoot a line.

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

That show is horrible! The 2nd episode was too much, they should really learn to shoot a line.

I think with those kinds of trees shooting a line is not exactly the safest... or most productive.

 

[sgreanbeans]

Ur probably right, but I still think they could get a line over a decent lower branch, that way getting to part of the trunk that is smaller.

 

[scheffa]

Removed a 100ft red box, removed two dead 70ft eucs, removed 9 50ft dead black woods and missle toed a huge redbox over hanging a dam

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

Finished cutting all the junk out of the fenceline, bunch of trees were growing into the lumber sheds. Took out the old Jonsered 50cc weedcutter and cut all the mini-trees around the one side of the shop and along the other property line, then got a weedwacker off the shelf and cut all the 3+ft tall dead "grass" at the rental house.
The led to jacking the porch up on the place, the blocks it was sitting on had fallen over or sunk.
Oh, also helped cut a mantle and a bunch of 1x6s, hauled some sawdust, sold some too.
Tried to fix the lights on the sign out front but the buried wire is FUBAR somewhere so will have to wait till summer to dig another one in.
By then it was dark so I fixed a customer saw, sharpened some chains, cleaned off 2 workbenches and most of 1 toolbox, swept and washed the showroom floor, took out all the trash (involved hauling the dumpster over to the shop). Probabyl a few other things too, doing paperwork at home right now (0100) and have a Doc appt in a few hours.
Oh yeah, cut abotu a cord of firewood too. Have to stack it later today and keep cutting.

All in all a slow but steady day.

 

[sgreanbeans]

Went outside, felt the cold, went back inside. Each year, I become more of a sissy.

 

[Pelorus]

No love for cold weather, here. Winter is for rich people.
The longer the winter is, the more desperate things get.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Last 2 days have been 88 to 90 degrees.
Jeff

 

[treebilly]

18 now and 22 for a high tomorrow. Beautiful weather. Loving it.
Being subbed out to a company that under bid us and can't handle the job. They have to do the cleanup. It was a beautiful day

 

[jefflovstrom]

Beautiful and hot here,, one of my climber's says 'hi',
Jeff

 

[jefflovstrom]

And yes, he used that stub for rigging the co-dom stem.
Jeff

 

[scheffa]

35c here today.
Removed a 130ft manna gum and two 100ft peppermint gums before 12

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

Crawled under a house repairing water pipes that had froze and blew apart. Apparently an ongoing issue, the 8ft run to the kitchen sink has 7 sections of spliced in copper!
I came close to just ripping it all out and starting fresh but copper is 3xpensive!