A couple of big cottonwoods coming down... with some Metallica

Finally got a chance to edit this video, about ten minutes but worth it.

[video=youtube;YCTq3ayUWlg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCTq3ayUWlg[/video]

I enjoyed that...and not just the metallica either. Nice Job!

PTC, very good job, looks like you got her down safetly....nice vid

Orion

PatriotTreeCO said:

Finally got a chance to edit this video, about ten minutes but worth it.

[video=youtube;YCTq3ayUWlg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCTq3ayUWlg[/video]

Click to expand...

Hell of a choice of a song, one of my all time favorites. Great video! Next time I wanna see some giant Redwoods & some Slayer. Thanks man...

Great job!

Loved the lift up at 5:40 and 7:00

Glad you guys like the vid. Making these videos is really fun and customers love seeing them on the website before you remove a big tree at their house. Because I am relatively new in the biz and obviously young I occasionally have customers ask for past jobs or references, I just point them to the website and show them the work we do.

Arborx, I only wish we had redwoods, huge doug firs, or white pines here. The only big trees we get to play with are silver maples, siberian elm, and the glorious swamp tree... uhh I mean cottonwood.

Ozzy, I love that lifting technique, so much easier than trying to piece things out super tiny.

Fine tree work in a tough spot, PTC. Are you packing your portys with ice or were the ropes just wet? What would the course of action have been if you detected a rotten interior?

The ropes were just wet. I know the sky looked clear for most of that video but we were getting some weird mountain weather up there. A couple of flash storms came in and soaked us for a bit.

If we couldn't pull the tree then my plan was to attach a truck to sections and pull them hard as I cut it to jump them out from the house and into the field. There is actually a whole thread on it here discussing some options if you want to check it out. Another thing I may have done is get it down as far as I could with conventional rigging then pull the rest of it with a couple of trucks. I am just glad we were able to yank it over, saved us a big headache.

Here is link to the other thread if your interested. http://www.arboristsite.com/commercial-tree-care-climbing/175797.htm

PatriotTreeCO said:

If we couldn't pull the tree then my plan was to attach a truck to sections and pull them hard as I cut it to jump them out from the house and into the field. http://www.arboristsite.com/commercial-tree-care-climbing/175797.htm

Click to expand...

You mean the Patented Semi-World-Famous-Ol' Rope Jump Cut? I am familiar with it from Rope's posts. Scares the #### out of me though. I'd have to go down and apprentice for a semester before I attempted it. Like TreemanDan's tenex molotov cocktails, you just can't teach that stuff. I am usually more concerned with heart rot when climbing and rigging trees than when felling them. In my experience a few solid inches of outer holding wood is usually sufficient. But in this instance it is good to be absolutely sure when felling. Was the Dutchman planned?

Real nice work BUT

Real nice work but with the way you wear the hat, the glasses and the beard you look more like an 18D still.

newsawtooth said:

You mean the Patented Semi-World-Famous-Ol' Rope Jump Cut? I am familiar with it from Rope's posts. Scares the #### out of me though. I'd have to go down and apprentice for a semester before I attempted it. Like TreemanDan's tenex molotov cocktails, you just can't teach that stuff. I am usually more concerned with heart rot when climbing and rigging trees than when felling them. In my experience a few solid inches of outer holding wood is usually sufficient. But in this instance it is good to be absolutely sure when felling. Was the Dutchman planned?

Click to expand...

I was thinking more along the lines of jerking them with a truck to get them to fly.

I suppose I could have dropped a much smaller piece if the core was rotten. The reason I was so worried about it was because of the sideways lean, a lot of weight going sideways against the holding wood.

Dutchman?

Stihl-O-Matic said:

Real nice work but with the way you wear the hat, the glasses and the beard you look more like an 18D still.

Click to expand...

Haha I guess some things never change..... though I was an 18C

PatriotTreeCO said:

Haha I guess some things never change..... though I was an 18C

Click to expand...

18C you should be usuing Det Cord not a chainsaw for take downs.

Excellent video and good work in a small area! I hope you made lots of $$$ on that job.

Thanks for the video. I hope you make some more.

Great video, nice editing, good sound quality, and great music choice!

PatriotTreeCO said:

I was thinking more along the lines of jerking them with a truck to get them to fly.

I suppose I could have dropped a much smaller piece if the core was rotten. The reason I was so worried about it was because of the sideways lean, a lot of weight going sideways against the holding wood.

Dutchman?

Click to expand...

Makes sense, PTC. Good work. A Dutchman is overlapping cuts in the face cut. They can be used to swing trees or affect the fall. I play around with them some with varying levels of success. Anyway, good video.

-Brent

thanks for the video, I hope you make some more. I like all the instruction given too.

PatriotTreeCO said:

Dutchman?

Click to expand...

You better read up on a Dutchman. They can cause you a lot of grief if you don't know what one is.

Otherwise, great vid!

awesome vid

Great video, it was well edited. I'm going to try to put one together soon, just waiting for the right job to take a video of. Cameraman did really well, alot of videos I see on youtube are just clips of the climber and just dont go in depth like yours.