Ontario ice storm 2013
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Youngbuck20
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Get your rest Jeremy! Oh and bring your shovel and toboggan for tomorrow!
#1 tobogganer! I can go down on my feet and end up on my head!
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deevo
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Some pics from yesterday, last tree of the day-29 with the windchill! I toom one for the team, black cherry with tops blown out. Nastiest weather i've ever climbed in! We got er done though! Day started out around -2 and temps plummeted after that! Took today off -39 with windchill and a crapload of more snow!Attachments
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How anyone can use
How anyone can use a chipper without safety glasses is beyond me. I wear a helmet, glasses, gloves, ear plugs and helmet ear muffs over them. (I like my peace and quiet.)
Probably a landscaping company looking for some storm damage money and they rented the chipper. That`s my guess.
How anyone can use a chipper without safety glasses is beyond me. I wear a helmet, glasses, gloves, ear plugs and helmet ear muffs over them. (I like my peace and quiet.)
Probably a landscaping company looking for some storm damage money and they rented the chipper. That`s my guess.
squad143
Tree Guy
Took yesterday off from climbing (too cold and windy). Went and bid a whack load of jobs in the city. Back at it today, removing two damaged ash trees in Ajax. Worked into the dark. - noticed the daylight is staying later 
Up early tomorrow and heading to Woodbridge to do some removals and some more storm damaged trees for a builder. Should be there a couple of days.
Up early tomorrow and heading to Woodbridge to do some removals and some more storm damaged trees for a builder. Should be there a couple of days.
squad143
Tree Guy
I've seen a ton of them around.
Except when it's plowing time.
Can't believe the forecast for Saturday. 8C (46F) with 15-20mm (1/2-3/4") of rain.
Youngbuck20
ArboristSite Guru
Crazy eh! Everything is going to melt, plus the rain, then who knows Monday could be -40 again. It could cause A LOT of problems. Possibly more storm work?? Do we need more? Lol
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sgreanbeans
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Depending on the materiel,I will loose the petzl and grab the brush helmet. Have had locust and ash try to pull my glasses off. Also have had all PPE on and had a piece flip hard on me as it was going thru, hit me in da mouf and busted a toof. I like that screen as extra protection...............ya know, to keep looking as good as I do............... what a Joke huh! Those scaper/hacks have Iowa tags? I swear u guys keep posting pics of the locals!
woodenboater
ArboristSite Operative
Saw a crew working in a nice part of Toronto in the Avenue Rd/ Lawrence area. Beautiful tree dropped a bunch of big branches on the roof. So I parked the car and watched the climber as he moved around the tree. Always cool to watch professionals at work.
I always end up busting the plastic connectors that hold the screen to the helmet. So no screen here. But after thousands of hours on chippers, I`m pretty good at reading the wood going in and I can anticipate kickbacks and swings. That said, I`ve had my helmet smacked right off my noggin`more than once, and taken many a ka-thwack. And those little skinny ends of the beech branches that whip you as the piece feeds in. **** that hurts!
Weather-wise were up to +8 and tons of rain on Saturday. Not sure about freezing rain. We`ll see. So far the last couple of storms, including those with freezing rain have resulted in exactly zero emergency calls. Then again I should be careful what I wish for.
Half an hour and off to my next roof.
deevo
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Ha ha, yeah Tuesday and Weds were wickedly cold Chuck. There is no end to this storm work, could be over a year or more to get the GTA back to normal.Took yesterday off from climbing (too cold and windy). Went and bid a whack load of jobs in the city. Back at it today, removing two damaged ash trees in Ajax. Worked into the dark. - noticed the daylight is staying later
Up early tomorrow and heading to Woodbridge to do some removals and some more storm damaged trees for a builder. Should be there a couple of days.
deevo
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We were down there in that same area yesterday also, that's where I took that pic.
squad143
Tree Guy
Well the quoting we did on Tuesday is paying off. Got a approval on a few insurance jobs and picked up some other residential work as well.
I think the wife is actually starting to miss me
I think the wife is actually starting to miss me
Oak Savanna
ArboristSite Operative
My buddy works at vermeer and he said they sold every chipper in the yard in Brampton and every chipper from the new yard in London.
squad143
Tree Guy
Not my pictures, but ones someone sent me...
squad143
Tree Guy
More....
And a Canadian favourite.....
And a Canadian favourite.....
deevo
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Awesome Chuck! That sums up the carnage of trees! Unbelievable to say the least! This storm for sure takes the cake on anything I've ever seen for such wide scale damage. More devestating then any tornados, and the ice storm of 98 (didn't really hit any urban Cities like the way this hit the GTA) Continue on! Be safe!
Patrus Monk
ArboristSite Lurker
Yoyo continental/mental climate! Does a number to our roads and highways. Ottawa says they will need to fill many tens of thousands of potholes and that is just a start.
Late winter 2014. A few feet of snow on the ground outside my window. Temps going to the minus teens (*C) this coming week!
