jomoco
Tree Freak
I have about 20K worth of cabling to do before xmas this year in less than 5 trees.
These are large historic trees here in San Diego, the bulk of which are repairing amateurs screw ups in trees that should never have been cabled in the first place. But as all journeymen know, once a tree has been cabled for more than 5 years, removing that cable becomes a liability no sane arborist will risk.
The bulk of this cabling will be in two giant torrey pines right on the beach here in PB. The cables were installed by amateurs decades ago improperly, the angles of cable to hardware were so far off that the prevailing ocean breeze torqued and twisted the main leaders to the point that one of them failed. This high traffic pedestrian area of beach boardwalk being subject to 24 inch lateral branch failure from these two giants are what led to my involvement on this project.
I am somewhat astonished that the HOA is willing to pay me 15K to cable these trees properly when removing them with a 120 ton hydrocrane would only cost 13K.
I want to video this contract along with another similar cabling contract involving an historic moreton bay fig with a time lapse video camera on a tripod.
Any suggestions on the best camera to video these cabling jobs with would be appreciated. I won't be starting till mid november.
Any suggestions Ekka or others?
Why would a cabler need a Hobb's device in the contracts described above?
jomoco
These are large historic trees here in San Diego, the bulk of which are repairing amateurs screw ups in trees that should never have been cabled in the first place. But as all journeymen know, once a tree has been cabled for more than 5 years, removing that cable becomes a liability no sane arborist will risk.
The bulk of this cabling will be in two giant torrey pines right on the beach here in PB. The cables were installed by amateurs decades ago improperly, the angles of cable to hardware were so far off that the prevailing ocean breeze torqued and twisted the main leaders to the point that one of them failed. This high traffic pedestrian area of beach boardwalk being subject to 24 inch lateral branch failure from these two giants are what led to my involvement on this project.
I am somewhat astonished that the HOA is willing to pay me 15K to cable these trees properly when removing them with a 120 ton hydrocrane would only cost 13K.
I want to video this contract along with another similar cabling contract involving an historic moreton bay fig with a time lapse video camera on a tripod.
Any suggestions on the best camera to video these cabling jobs with would be appreciated. I won't be starting till mid november.
Any suggestions Ekka or others?
Why would a cabler need a Hobb's device in the contracts described above?
jomoco
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