Big Oak removal, seacoast NH

[JeffL]

Refer to THIS thread for more details. olddirty took on the job apparently, and I offered my help to run the ropes for him, Dieter (CUCV) supplied all good stuff (loader, chipper, truck), and me and Jason brought the sawrs. Started about 10am, it put up a bit of a fight, especially those few butt logs, but had it all down and cleaned up come evening time. Dieter has a LOT of wood splitting ahead of him in the near future. :greenchainsaw:

As sad as some people may be about it, we didnt end up smashing the house. Didnt so much as put a scratch or dent on it in fact. I have some video of the last few parts of the tree coming down I'll throw together later, but for now, pictures!

The tree, in all its glory.

It looked big here, but in person........looked MUCH bigger.

Dieter (CUCV), and Jason? (olddirty, and yes I cant remember if it was Justin or Jason. lol)

Pondering.......olddirty style.

Getting ready to finish off the 2nd top.

I got to bomb the one leader over the driveway, blowing out part of the top here. I put one log butt first into the driveway and managed to blast dirty with a rooster tail of dirt. I think he was spitting sand out for 5 minutes after the fact.

All cleaned off.

 

[JeffL]

Notching the last chunk.

Pulling it over with the loader.

Mmmmm, yummy.

We found a surprise inside!

MS660 + 28" bar = not nearly big enough.

All down, house still standing!

 

[oldirty]

ya dude!


good pics and good times for sure.

truth be told jeff you made that tree a but easier on me and i appreciate the effort. sky is the limit as far as potential goes for you in this game we play. you keep doing your thing and put in the time and you'll be a tree stud in no time.

whoever's been training you also deserves some props as well.


by the way, its justin and oldirty. lol

that superman is now hanging from the rearview mirror.


thanks for the pics.

 

[JeffL]

As little time as I've spent in a tree, I've been on both ends of "good lowering" and "bad lowering", so can fully appreciate not getting bounced off my spikes when a piece comes off the tree, its the least I could do. And yes they do put the time in at work to train us, its much appreciated. Plus I love this work and will take any opportunity I can get to get a little more exposure.

 

[Nailsbeats]

Nice job guys, good to see the young talent getting the job done.

All said and done that was a good size tree. Pictures are great.

I'd have to give a shootout to the Bobcat and grapple, since I am a Bobcat man, also, double shots to the 660, lookin tough.

Oldirty, looks like you have your pic for the men of AS calendar, ha ha. Excellent work guys.

Man I wish I could have been there.

 

[oldirty]

hey nails. you wanna know the best part about that tree?

3 people who had never even met before, took that bad larry down to the ground and walking away in about 10 hrs without doing one lick of damage to anything.

where's tman for this? he likes pictures. speaking of... that calender idea sounds cool. i mean... i know its a biased opinion but i think that shot of me and my 660 on that stump might be a cover shot.

 

[oldirty]

this pic here.

 

[JeffL]

this pic here.

 

[Adkpk]

Excellant

What a bunch of dirty old studs.

 

[JeffL]

What a bunch of dirty old studs.

I didnt take my shirt off, I didnt want to embarrass oldirty.

 

[Nailsbeats]

That's a player for sure OD, but you'll have to compete with this!

I'm wearing sandles to boot, ahaaa....take that.

I've been playing with different props and lighting in anticipation of the upcomming calendar. I may have peaked at the "maul pose".

How bout some of this. I'm thinkin March or April?

 

[JeffL]

I dont like the direction this is going at all.

 

[Nailsbeats]

Come on Jeff, post em' up, we still have a few months open.

As far as i can tell, Dirty and I have 3 months and the cover so far. Wait, make that 4 months, I'm bringin back the original maul pose.:rockn:

 

[Adkpk]

Watch out boys I'm looking for my calender pic.

 

[JeffL]

Come on Jeff, post em' up, we still have a few months open.

As far as i can tell, Dirty and I have 3 months and the cover so far. Wait, make that 4 months, I'm bringin back the original maul pose.:rockn:

Check out my "dropping a few sugar maples" video. I drop a tree with my shirt off, its almost like softcore ####.

 

[Nailsbeats]

Jeff, let's not get ahead of ourselves. We'll start with the calendar and work our way up to the video's.

 

[tomtrees58]

man you scare me this cut are all wight that pour house tom trees

 

[Podaltura]

Good work Jeff!!! Congratulations

 

[Nailsbeats]

Watch out boys I'm looking for my calender pic.

Get at er', spot's a filling up fast. This guy know's it:agree2:

 

[oldirty]

man you scare me this cut are all wight that pour house tom trees

what?


all the cuts were over the house man. but if you talking bout that butt cut i was a little leary myself! i had other ideas for that last piece but didnt really like any of them. plus i had just found out about the bobcat at that point.

hell ya i want to try to pull it over instead of chunk'n down big fatties. truth be told i was tired and i had some faith that i could get it by the corner from where i was looking during the climb. lol.

being serious now though, how would you have dealt with that stem?