whadja do today?

[ropensaddle]

Pulling, a pull line with a truck was a fireable offence when I was coming up, back in the 70's. Also you don't know how much damage your doing to the rope for later use.

Beats heck outta not having enough pull. I have pulled countless trees over with rope and truck but you got to have a feel and strong arse rope! Now I use my winch which bar none is better than any rope puller or grcs made

Note when I used truck it was usually to pretension then when have around 1 inch of hingewood left, men would try to finish by hand sometimes not able too! Then I would finish with the truck slowly easing forward however using 3/4 inch stable braid.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Sounds like a good way to go. If I keep doing this I'm getting out of residential..

I do very little residential plowing. I have a few that I get to them when I get to them.

 

[no tree to big]

What? Which thread is that one in i gotta see this. Speaking of Murphen stuff, spent close to 8 hours in a large oak friday that was hanging over a road, fence, and hv lines. Brushed it all out and had a 25' spar left, about 42" DBH. Thought to myself hell ill just pull this thing over. Face cut, bore cut, back cut, stuck a wedge in just cuz. Pulled the saw out and told my guy in the truck to pull ahead. It was headed over when my 5/8's 16 strand rigging line snaped. Said outloud: Self, this is no good as the spar sat back on my wedge and stoped. Long story short i got it on the ground and said F Murphen stuff down. Do it the right way from here on out. I will admit i wouldnt of had a problem if i didnt leave so much hinge wood but still...

throwing a big pine top.mov - YouTube

we have a 1" double braid for pulling BIG stuff I think its good for like 40K we never pull with a 5/8 unless by hand we use 3/4 with a 3 or 5:1

 

[treeclimber101]

throwing a big pine top.mov - YouTube

we have a 1" double braid for pulling BIG stuff I think its good for like 40K we never pull with a 5/8 unless by hand we use 3/4 with a 3 or 5:1

Oh god that ####ing video is the bomb ! I looked for it through 30 pages of that dreadful thread last nite thank you .

 

[BlackOakTreeServ]

23ft 8in. is the world record for murphing tree top over hedges...lol...Dan has to much time on his hands

lol, I like how dan gets the tape measure out.... he's so surprised how far he murphed it

 

[ropensaddle]

23ft 8in. is the world record for murphing tree top over hedges...lol...Dan has to much time on his hands

lol, I like how dan gets the tape measure out.... he's so surprised how far he murphed it

Lol I was doing jump cuts in the 80's lol, oh well I guess it don't count lmfao

 

[Tree Pig]

Lol I was doing jump cuts in the 80's lol, oh well I guess it don't count lmfao

you probably had a mullet in the 80's too... hmmmmmmm. Maybe Murphs bucket truck is a time machine.

 

[tree MDS]

you probably had a mullet in the 80's too... hmmmmmmm. Maybe Murphs bucket truck is a time machine.

I bet he's got a cassette player in that bad boy, and a shoe box full of Springsteen and John Cougar Mellencamp tapes riding shotgun. Lol.

How'd I do with that one?? Feeling a little off today, so it was kinda forced. It's pretty bad when I can gauge my current level of depression by whether or not I feel like busting murph's ass!! Seriously. Sorry, just thinking out loud here..

 

[ropensaddle]

you probably had a mullet in the 80's too... hmmmmmmm. Maybe Murphs bucket truck is a time machine.

Hahahah a cowboy with a mullet naw

 

[rtsims]

Wow, that was, well I don't know what that was. You know a guys gotta wonder how much trial and error Ol murph has gone through. I guess the bottom line is it worked for him but you will probably never catch me doin it. I stay away from the trial and error method. But what do I know, that was a highly calculated situation for murph.

 

[mattfr12]

you probably had a mullet in the 80's too... hmmmmmmm. Maybe Murphs bucket truck is a time machine.

Has a flux compaciter? that jump cut was pretty sick but seemed to be alot of time and work to get that much tree down vs how much other methods would have gotten down.

 

[Pelorus]

Today was second time this year (the big leagues now, lol) I got to take life easy having the services of a crane dismantle a tree. The crane op / owner (Monty) is a really good guy, and his picks were very smooth. Which was good for my shaky mental equilibrium.
TV antenna got swallowed up and became one with the tree. - is visible in one of the pics below.
The pine was beside the septic bed - a tad squishy lately cause of the recent monsoon season.

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[treemandan]

Has a flux compaciter? that jump cut was pretty sick but seemed to be alot of time and work to get that much tree down vs how much other methods would have gotten down.

Yeah well Murphy has his own laws.


Murphy's Law(1986) - YouTube

 

[treemandan]

Murphy knows how to TCOB, he has the situation under control.


Charles Bronson gets his hands dirty - YouTube

 

[jefflovstrom]

We do a massive Chorisia (floss silk) every year. Gonna do it Thursday, I am gonna get a couple of pic's. I should of got some last year, but, oh welll.
Supposed to be near 100 degrees here tomorrow,
Jeff

 

[ropensaddle]

Today was second time this year (the big leagues now, lol) I got to take life easy having the services of a crane dismantle a tree. The crane op / owner (Monty) is a really good guy, and his picks were very smooth. Which was good for my shaky mental equilibrium.
TV antenna got swallowed up and became one with the tree. - is visible in one of the pics below.
The pine was beside the septic bed - a tad squishy lately cause of the recent monsoon season.

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Lol last picture is priceless I see hank hill and boomhower lol

 

[treeclimber101]

I see them too in the top left corner , and nice work with the crane

 

[ropensaddle]

I see them too in the top left corner , and nice work with the crane

Yup every subdivision has em lol

 

[treemandan]

Lol last picture is priceless I see hank hill and boomhower lol

nuttin but nostrils

 

[Pelorus]

Hank & his pals stayed back a decent distance and they all vanished by the time the tree was down.
The front wheels of the crane just murdered that little strip of lawn between the two driveways. Fixing the moonscape gave the HO something to do and kept him occupied for about two hours.