treeman82
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Well we logged the beast today. What an experience that was. Couple of scum bags stopped to watch for less than a minute... I think they knew I would have had them chased off if they stayed too long. Anywho, we still have to clean up tomorrow for a few hours, but otherwise all went well. Crane showed up on time, support equipment and personel showed up on time too. Operator looked at the driveway, almost chickened out, but gave it a go and got in without any major troubles... 33 ton National boom truck, made it in the driveway with INCHES to spare. After taking down some fence we got the cribbing and outriggers set. Operator said that this was the worst access he's ever had. 127 feet of main boom on the truck and he used every bit of it to get to the tree 90+ feet away. There was one point where I had to keep pieces under 200 lbs because he was so far out, he was good for 700, but that was pushing it, so I said I'd do 100 - 200 until we were in a better spot. Not 1 piece went over 1,100 lbs.. most were showing between 800 and 1000, with quite a few pieces coming in less than that. While we were taking lunch the operator told me that the job was written up as a 12" white pine in a tight driveway, even showed me the work order... he took pics to dispute that which I hope to have and post soon. All went well though, except for a lot of nice saw logs having to be trashed due to being short.