Sorry bout this sideways video, i forgot and held the camera wrong again. This is the third tree, which was added on today, by the neighbor. We had to go home and get the chip truck. This is Edwin's first ever crane pick! 50 feet of tree above him, limbs and all. We had to talk him through it a bit, but he did well!
Notice the crane operator had a bit too much tension applied, so it jumped off the cut. But that was a good thing,as he got the limby stick up and away from Edwin quickly. I had tried to estimate my weights closely and tell the operator, so he could apply correct line tension. I was off quite a bit, but all went smoothly anyhow. After listening to wiley, i'm gonna work on getting this down better.
The three trees probably will scale out at close to 5000', and weighed 44000 lb. 8 picks total, which we made into 9 logs and some firewood. Lots of really bad wood, but I'm crossing my fingers we make enough $ from the logs to get a few hundred extra after crane and log truck fees of $1200. A couple logs were pretty good. Plus the customers paid $2900. About 32 manhours over portions of three days.
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