Pics from the day at work.

[Anthony_Va.]

So I have never posted any pics of my work or anything. Never could think to bring a camera with me. So here's a few from today. Just some before and after pics of the damage we did.

Old fence before pics.

Here is my workmates.

 

[Anthony_Va.]

Few after shots. New fence up and trees pushed up in piles. Was'nt too hot today. But i did bout get took out by a big widowmaker. Scraped my back up pretty bad. :censored:

Just wanted to share my typical day with everyone. I'll try toget some more pics sometime. Most of the trees we're 30"-40" two we're around 50" and a couple we're 20" or less. Used the 660 for almost all of it.

 

[PARTSWOODCHUCK]

Your gonna spoil them kids lettin' them ride in the back seat! LOL

 

[Hedge Hacker]

looks like heaven to me!!

 

[Anthony_Va.]

looks like heaven to me!!

Definetly I nice farm the man owns. The man who owns it had us build one of those big gate openings like you see out west. Used telephone poles. It's about 14ft tall. He hung a sign in the middel that says second chance ranch.

He named it that because a few yeasrs back he was mowing hay and had a heart attack. Luckily some neighbors seen him and got him to the hospital. Guy is prolly 55 yrs old. Healthy.

 

[MacLaren]

Great thread. Excellent pictures!! Gotter made man!

 

[Anthony_Va.]

We had to notch out the biggest stump to run the fence thru the middle of it. They don't like it when you get the fences outta line

You can see it in the next to last pic.

 

[OldDeadOne]

Man that farm with those hills are almost like my wife's parents had up in West Union WV brings back memories

 

[Hddnis]

Good days work there.

What do you do with all the wood?



Mr. HE

 

[chopperfreak2k1]

awesome pix brother! looks like a great time was had. thanks for sharing.

 

[Anthony_Va.]

Good days work there.

What do you do with all the wood?



Mr. HE

I will prolly have my hand in some of the wood there. Since it's closer to my house. Most of the time we just pile it up for the landowners to decide what to do with it. They usually just give it away. There is alot of good wood there.

We did a job last year. Bout 13,500 ft of fence. Had to clear out around 1000 trees. Cut on them for almost a month. i'm the only cutter on the crew so they wear me out usually. We went back this spring do finish up and about half the wood was gone. Said some guys with a dump truck had cut on it all winter and hauled over 150 dump loads out already.:jawdrop:

I wish that job had been close enough to me to have gotten all that wood.

I think that stretch came out right at 300 ft today. had another 600 ft stretch done also, but no cleaning out on it. pretty good for a three men crew I reckon.

 

[Zombiechopper]

Man that's some nicely groomed land

Is it all page wire or do you use any barbed at all?

I helped fence 6 miles last summer. Not my calling given a choice! But it looks like we do it a little different here

 

[Hddnis]

Fencing here means stacking rocks in a wire cage or using a rock drill. There are some areas where you can drive a steel T-post, but not too deep.



Mr. HE

 

[Anthony_Va.]

Man that's some nicely groomed land

Is it all page wire or do you use any barbed at all?

I helped fence 6 miles last summer. Not my calling given a choice! But it looks like we do it a little different here

We do mosty woven wire like in the pics. Whatever they want we'll do it.

We do barbed wire, high tensile smooth wire for electric fences, chainlink every now and then. Do some board fencing also.

It is all I can handle in these hot summer days. We can bust out some good production in Spring and Fall though. Cooler weather is just around the corner. Can't hardly wait for it. I came home and mowed 5 acres of hay today after work

 

[Anthony_Va.]

Fencing here means stacking rocks in a wire cage or using a rock drill. There are some areas where you can drive a steel T-post, but not too deep.



Mr. HE

They make a diamond embedded auger. WE seen a guy around here with one. Says he can punch a perfect hole right thru a rock. Boss been thinking about looking into one. We get into places like that sometimes. Makes it a long day. Mostly pretty easy drilling though as long as the augers are worked up right.

 

[Hddnis]

The diamond rock drills work well. I know some guys that are using bits with carbide bullets on the nose. They punch holes pretty fast. I was looking at an old rock drill mounted on a WWII tank running gear a couple of days ago. It is cheap, but still runs according to the owner. He is charging the battery and then I'll see just how well it runs. I might get it to put a new fence around my place here.



Mr. HE

 

[Anthony_Va.]

The diamond rock drills work well. I know some guys that are using bits with carbide bullets on the nose. They punch holes pretty fast. I was looking at an old rock drill mounted on a WWII tank running gear a couple of days ago. It is cheap, but still runs according to the owner. He is charging the battery and then I'll see just how well it runs. I might get it to put a new fence around my place here.



Mr. HE

I'd like to see him grab one of those diamond bits.

We drill with skidsteers. Can get them into some pretty tight places. Theres been times when we had hooked the chain from the boss's skidder back to mine and hung him over stuff so steep you could call it a cliff. If you ain't got tracks on one they won't go for sheit though.

 

[Hddnis]

Tracks are the only way to go. I've run alot of Cat skidsteers with 24" and 36" augers making holes to plant trees. Very productive machines. A good operator can make them move like thought, like music in motion I always said.

We also ran the rubber tracked version with brush mowers. I scared myself several times working on steep ground, but those Cats always got me out alive.



Mr. HE

 

[Anthony_Va.]

EDIT: double post.

 

[brisawyer]

Where was that job? Land looks exactly like around here.