whadja do today?

[jefflovstrom]

Rainy day,,, but we got it done.
It was a beautiful day!
Jeff

 

[pdqdl]

I have wondered where the word gin or gin point comes from

I think it comes from the early days of machinery, when any old machine might be called a gin.

gin 2 (j

n)n.1. Any of several machines or devices, especially:a. A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects.​

Obviously, the gin point would be where you attached to the gin.

I'm glad you asked that question, I always kinda wondered myself. It turns out to have been pretty easy to find an answer.

 

[jefflovstrom]

You are correct pdqdl,, my dad was a machinist. In the 70's and 80's we called them 'gin poles'. I think is is now an old school term now.
Jeff

 

[treeman75]

Thats what I call rigging points or crotches to rig from. I know some of the other tree guys use the term also. I first heard it used from an old tree guy about twenty years ago.

 

[treeclimber101]

My picture didn't make it long!

 

[rtsims]

Thank god it's Friday! That's all I have to say about that. Time for a few keystone lights, I like to keep it classy.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Worked in the rain this morning. Made some modifications to my ryans grapple. I welded on a piece of infeed teeth off of a chipper to each of the grapple arms. I get a much better grip now on larger logs. Rotated the top guard down so I can fit the grapple in my chip box on my bucket truck when I load the woos up at jobs.

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[2treeornot2tree]

Forgot to attach the pics

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[2treeornot2tree]

Went and looked at a stumo grinding job for another tree guy. This is the stumps he left. Cuts are wacked.

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[SecondGenMonkey]

1. I hate stump grinding. Most boring thing ever

2. What drugs was this man on? Whatever made him think those are good cuts must be some good ****

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[NYTREECLIMBER]

Went and looked at a stumo grinding job for another tree guy. This is the stumps he left. Cuts are wacked.

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Looks like Stevie Wonder had a go at feeling a treee eh


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[2treeornot2tree]

1. I hate stump grinding. Most boring thing ever

2. What drugs was this man on? Whatever made him think those are good cuts must be some good ****

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You would like grinding with my beast. There is 4 stumps. Shoukd only take me a hour and half for all four of them.

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[SecondGenMonkey]

You would like grinding with my beast. There is 4 stumps. Shoukd only take me a hour and half for all four of them.

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What the heck do you own man? We got a Vermeer but I forget the model... I think it's like a twelve inch wheel. But the two would be an hour or more with the teeth in the condition they're in right now.
An 18-20 inch mahogany takes about 40 minutes if I go about four inches under.

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[BC WetCoast]

What the heck do you own man? We got a Vermeer but I forget the model... I think it's like a twelve inch wheel. But the two would be an hour or more with the teeth in the condition they're in right now.
An 18-20 inch mahogany takes about 40 minutes if I go about four inches under.

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Sharp teeth are the key.

 

[BC WetCoast]

1. I hate stump grinding. Most boring thing ever

2. What drugs was this man on? Whatever made him think those are good cuts must be some good ****

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Said by the man who never had to install a 90 tree hedge or fertilize a hedge 4 blocks long.

The guy probably hit a rock making his stump cut and said 'screw it, let the stumper deal with it'.

 

[pdqdl]

You might consider speed lines in that situation. They don't take long to put on, and if you are smart about it, they can speed you up a lot.

Tie your rope at the base of a long branch to be removed. Attach a loopie & carabiner to each log piece that you would snap cut and toss, working your way to the far end of the branch. Start cutting like a madman, the whole branch is rigged and controlled. Cut below each loopie, the next one down the line is holding the rope as a gin-point. Since each branch/log is being held, you only need to make a back cut on the side the rope is on, then rip through the back cut until it falls or can be pushed off.

The groundies just need to hold on to the far end of the rope, perhaps anchoring it to the truck bed where the logs will be delivered. If you are running a long ways horizontally, they will need to have a friction control device to hold the end of the rope...

Obviously, this gif does not show all the details, but you should be able to get the drift of how it works.

 

[pdqdl]

@pdqdl can you put a diagram or link to a video of what you described?

See above.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

What the heck do you own man? We got a Vermeer but I forget the model... I think it's like a twelve inch wheel. But the two would be an hour or more with the teeth in the condition they're in right now.
An 18-20 inch mahogany takes about 40 minutes if I go about four inches under.

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I have a carlton sp 8018 trx. I ground 28 stumps, avg 30" diameter, in 3.5 hours a month or so ago. That was with dull teeth to.

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[sgreanbeans]

Pruned a tree for a very outspoken lesbian mailman. Her house is rainbow colored with rainbow curtains. Signs all over the doors about solicitors. Figured that her neighbors loved this as it was in a nice older hood. Turns out, they all love her. When I first seen the house when I turned the corner for the bid, a about chat myself, surly code enforcement would be on this. Never seen a house so "colorful". Think I am going to cammo mine. Wonder if that will fly.

 

[sgreanbeans]

View attachment 319614
Obviously, this gif does not show all the details, but you should be able to get the drift of how it works.

How in the world did you make that, pretty cool!