Ottawatree
ArboristSite Lurker
Craned a double leadered 22" Manitoba maple, a 44" sugar maple, two 8" sugar maples, an 8" balsam, and 13 trembling aspens ranging from 16" to 24" today.. They were at four different sites.. Crane bill including travel time was 9.5 hours, log truck came to 2 1/2 hours, we did all the chipping and it took 12 hours off and on through out the day.. All in all pretty efficient.. Filled a truck and a pup with logs and produced around 40 yards of chips..the issue I have is the raking.. Tomorrow I'm going back to all the sites to cut stumps lower and rake up.. Ill bring one guy with me and the mini loader.. We kept stuff fairly clean in the removal process but the fact is by the time its cleaned up nice ill have another ten man hours into the job and the bill for labour raking up will cost me more than it did to pick up and remove fifty 16' logs.. There has to be a machine to speed this up, make us more efficient and save me money.. Honest to god if something was around to clean up that was as efficient as all the other equipment we have I'd give $50,000 for it..