Biggest/Most Memorable Tree
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Does this count as a removal ?
TaoTreeClimber
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"There are few problems in life that cant be solved with a suitable application of high explosives."
Who set the charges in that thing?????
Who set the charges in that thing?????
bigremovals
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They had specialists doing the explosives. They blew up maybe 8 trees dead trees or something like, some over 200 ft tall. All part of a big hazard tree removal job at the park. I was just hired for 2 days as a contract climber, by tree company undertaking the work. Wasn't hard work, but memorable, as the title of the thread suggests. Here's a other short clip from the job topping a tall skinny one, maybe 230 ft or there abouts.
Use the HD setting on YouTube.
bigremovals
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I would be so sketched out if i climbed that high i get scared even climbing 120' cottonwoods haha
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That's a nice thing to say, thanks. But, I wish I could say the work feels amazing in the undertaking. ...because it doesn't.
And, if you want to follow in someone's footsteps in treework then it's the guys on here and alike who have built an run successful businesses. Sincerely.
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cypress macrocarpa twas bout 1987 it took me 2 days mostly by myself climbing logging hoggin
Biggest tree was monster cottonwood growing on the edge of a creek 3/4 of the limbs growing thru the canopy of the other trees sideways 7' at the base. Not super tall, boss drove me there and offered me 1000$ cash and my pay and whatever equipment I wanted the cheapest bid was 17,000 I turned it down told him I'm not dying on the job and your gonna loose money. The backyard was graded for walk out basement couldn't get a big crane there bucket wouldn't move thru canopy. Couple weeks later I come back to shop early see no climbing experience foreman truck sitting with back window gone. Skid steer with Hyd oil everywhere I asked the boss what happened. That foreman thought we were pussys and rented a 80' genie boom to do the job. Drove it off the road it sunk to the frame no rain in a week they tried to pull it out with truck skid steer combined broke chain blew out window blew skid Hyd line then waited for 1000$ big rig wrecker to pull it out. Drove the truck towing skid to shop in defeat and realized drive shaft was ruined. They never even started a saw and lost I laugh my ass off every time I'm in that neighborhood and see that tree it's still there 15yrs later. Ha.
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Lots of memorable trees (especially dead ones) but my current doozie was about a week ago when my boss sent me with one ground guy to a 170ft fir removal with 60 years worth of ivy growing 120ft up. Day one I was in the tree for 6 hours, 12 ft flipline maxed out the entire time made it 70ft hacking through the jungle of ivy with vines as big as my waist. Day two, was able to shoot a line past the ivy and srt past the remaining ivy and work from the top down. That moment when I realized the ivy was all gone but I still only had one ground guy was hard, I wanted to kill that tree so bad poor Dj had filled the truck twice chipping all that ivy and no amount of persuasion would wipe that icy glare off his face when I mentioned how bad ass it would be to finish the tree. Could barely sleep I was so amped to kill that tree after two days of fighting that ivy. Had that pig stripped and chipped in an hour, the kicker is that there was no room to stage wood and I ended up bucking the entire tree down. Not the biggest or most sketch but that tree sure put up a fight. Bet it was happy to be alive one more day free from years of oppressive ivy.
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I thought I might run out if bar length pretty soon after topping the tree. My line was 200 but was way off the ground still. The 550 i was using doesnt weigh much either.
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I love removals and I've done some tricky ones, but the tree that stands out in my mind the most was a huge ponderosa pine it was 66 in dbh along the highway in wrightwood, about 80 ft up it schoolmarmed with two tops, they though it died from salt they said. I took a massive top below the spot the two tops started. It was almost 80 inchs there. Had to double cut it with a 084. Just starting that saw in the tree was work,this was before compression releases.
When I did my back cut and that massive piece started to go over in slow motion it seemed, face cut at eye level, I watched the face close as it shot out into space mankind a whooshing sound all the way down landind flat, I then chunk rest it down. I've done harder tree,more technical trees,but I don't know if there's any pondoroas that big left in so calif. It was massive
When I did my back cut and that massive piece started to go over in slow motion it seemed, face cut at eye level, I watched the face close as it shot out into space mankind a whooshing sound all the way down landind flat, I then chunk rest it down. I've done harder tree,more technical trees,but I don't know if there's any pondoroas that big left in so calif. It was massive
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