whadja do today?

[sgreanbeans]

Went up yesterday on a skinny blue spruce, about 70', de-limbed it on the way up, we were getting 30-40mph gust, they would hit and push me over into the other tree, WOW! never been moved around that much before, 10ft back and forth, was making me sick to my stomach, like vertigo. I wont lie, it was also making me real nervous. Tree has a big lean toward the house. Set a line and came down, will finish this AM. Not much wind today!

 

[MarquisTree]

Demoing a 115hp allwheel drive bandit stump grinder in a few mins.. anyone have any input on these grinders?

 

[arborpros]

It recently died, rope. A tad of missing bark, but only due to peckerwoods goin' after bark beetles. So, Dave even speed lined the top...but it was small and light, and we kept the line plenty slack.

Here's a slide show of the whole job

Savory Dead Fir

Drew, the Image operator we used was excellent... Dale it was....and Dave had just worked with another operator when they craned some quite large redwoods. He had nothing but good to say about that crane operator also. Dave, however, has issues with Mike. I kinda sorta do, as Mike doesn't seem to comprehend how the load will react relative to where it's choked and how the cut should be made. The problem arises when he'd boomed out a fair ways and wants to bring it in quickly. I know what to do, and how to work with him on this problem.

Next time ya see Mike, ask him about the septic tank.......:eek2:

How did you drop the top on that one? Seems really high to crane it off.

 

[treeclimber101]

The main ingredient for cheap **** talk has been taken out of this forum. Now that treevet is gone this place runs pretty smooth. To bad the old man couldn't stick around he had a wealth of information, just didn't know how to share it.
Rode a crane all day got a few pics learned a few tricks ill try to post em

Treevet is hardly the reason .... but if your gonna name names your not always the most cohesive.. Just Saying

 

[BlackOakTreeServ]

How did you drop the top on that one? Seems really high to crane it off.

AP, He zipp lined it, like the branches..

 

[treemandan]

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You be nice to my bud Mike!

Craning two wolfy fir sticks Friday morning with Image Crane, close to 3000 board feet. Not level, gonna be sketchy getting the crane setup safely. Then using Mike to reduce a hazard cedar above a stream.....woulda been a pain to top the three stems, then somehow yard the brush out manually. We may be @ 55-60 foot radius, but can go small with 750-1500 lb picks. ~8 years ago, we picked a small fir at maybe 65-70 feet with Mike's 23 tonner, over a house kinda, well between. 1200 lb butt log, an outrigger started to lift...yikes. I was ready to cut 4 feet off the butt, but unflappable Mike coolly sucked it in..... Then, I'm gonna ride the ball to end weight reduce a fir over a house...will make that job a lot easier.

Here's Cowboy Dave from last month's big fir...2500 board feet--a full short log truck load, 50 foot radius, over a house....butt log was 8100 lb!! over crane's limit at that radius, but no alarm went off, and he got it.....
We zipped the brush over the house. Dave's at about 125', with 30' above him:

8100 lb right over the roof.

Maybe you should verify the alarm is working? You aren't going to cut the rope to size are you?

 

[treemandan]

My goodness man watcha pullin over the moon

Not this time. The load was light after I stripped the limbs. The 3strand was the backup line which I installed from the advise of my friend Justin Case. If I listen to what my friend Justin Turkowski said I would have used a pipe bomb.

 

[treemandan]

Demoing a 115hp allwheel drive bandit stump grinder in a few mins.. anyone have any input on these grinders?

Input? Yeah, stand back, way back. 115 sounds pretty dam big. And if you buy it ask for a lot of free swag. When i buy boots I say " yer gonna toss in a pair of Smart Wool right? "

See, I'll bet Murph paid for his American Arborist T shirt.

 

[treemandan]

That's the thing that takes place of the seventeen pulleys and whatknot you got going on in that pic down there.. lol.

uuuuuunnnnnnggggh!

You are making me so tired. What? Do I have to come up there, put my foot in yer ass, burn through yer stash and holler at you for a straight answer?

 

[tree MDS]

I don't know if it's this site, or my laptop, but I can't imbed pics anymore. Grrr...

 

[tree MDS]

uuuuuunnnnnnggggh!

You are making me so tired. What? Do I have to come up there, put my foot in yer ass, burn through yer stash and holler at you for a straight answer?

I thought you were kidding me. It's a logging winch...

 

[tree MDS]

Looked at this chubby white oak today as well. We would definitely need a crane on this one.. lots of storm damage hanging over the roof, huge ass wood to deal with too!
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[treemandan]

I thought you were kidding me. It's a logging winch...

I don't recall ever seeing anything like that other than some homebuilt contraptions that looked way to cumbersome for what we do. Lets get some close ups. And I am saving a slow dance for you at the Treeman's Xmas Ball.

 

[tree MDS]

I don't recall ever seeing anything like that other than some homebuilt contraptions that looked way to cumbersome for what we do. Lets get some close ups. And I am saving a slow dance for you at the Treeman's Xmas Ball.

Sorry, I don't travel well, so I'm gonna have to decline that invite.. you guys knock yourselves out though, by all means! Lmao..

 

[MarquisTree]

Input? Yeah, stand back, way back. 115 sounds pretty dam big. And if you buy it ask for a lot of free swag. When i buy boots I say " yer gonna toss in a pair of Smart Wool right? "

See, I'll bet Murph paid for his American Arborist T shirt.

... I was looking more for brand comparisons.. but I hadn't thought about swag, I wonder if bandit has any nice hoodies...

Its actually smaller then u would think, fits thru a 36" gate, remote controlled, sneaks around yards nicely

 

[jefflovstrom]

Demoing a 115hp allwheel drive bandit stump grinder in a few mins.. anyone have any input on these grinders?

Is it like this?
Jeff

 

[tree MDS]

Nice pics Jeff! That thing is badass looking! Green too and I like the trailer!

 

[treeman75]

We trimmed 7 locust today and by the way it sucks chipping locust on a cold morning. Then I buried the power pruner under a quarter load of chips in the chip truck!

 

[MarquisTree]

Is it like this?
Jeff

That's it just the wheeled version, we already have two tracked grinders.
do u like it? We have always have ran Vermeer before

 

[treeman82]

I demo'ed a 2900 once, HATED it. That machine tore up every yard I took it on, and I felt as though the wheeled machines did better in the rocks than that thing did.