Dang #%!@*&&^! Winds.

[treesquirrel]

Two dead pines to do this morning and the winds are too daggum high for my safety comfort zone. They are surrounded by hazards so no way to just drop em.

Oh well... Guess I'll go put out some fliers.....

I know some of you folks prolly work aloft in high wind but not me my friends, not me.

 

[ckliff]

Here in Kansas if u don't work in the wind u don't make any money...

That said, if it gets over 35mph it does get kinda ridiculous.

Don't let the flyers fly away.

 

[NORTREE]

Well,its snowing here this morning but calm winds at the moment.I don't like rigging trees down in the wind either.I also don't like picking them with the crane in the wind!

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

23* with 30mph winds. Nobody wants to work today. I called 3 other clients after todays work canc'd last night. (I'm the sub if you did not know)

I'm not too upset.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

Yeah and over here too.

I posted in the Champion Trees section that the wind here yesterday took down Oregon' national champion Sitka.

But didn't see the post yet. Needs mod approval there.

Says you're the mod in that forum, but you are over here...

Chop / chop, buddy

 

[tree md]

We've been having 30-40 MPH winds here too. Nearly impossible to work in. I wouldn't want to be in a skinny dead pine in high winds either. Live pine limbs will sail like a hang glider in even moderate winds. I always rope every limb on pines in the wind.

Problem here is it's too cold! I'm just about to leave for work and it just broke 30 degrees. Been waiting for it to warm up a little. Being from the south, I hate working in the cold!!!

 

[Grace Tree]

7"-15" of snow possible. 25-40mph winds. I have one more job to finish this week and then it's hibernation until March. I'm ready. 'Been a tough year.
Phil

 

[senechal]

More of the same for us, with 3 more days of high winds expected. Friday we tried to squeeze in a big Catalpa limb overhanging a house, and there were some tennnnse moments. It didn't take me long to request spikes to be sent up after a couple of gusts that had me ready for a good swing...

It makes tim hortons taste that much better

 

[John464]

just got in 40 mph gusts. only got 3 jobs done today. we pulled a dead pine off a house. did some small removals and trimmed 3 50ft pines. Shut everything down after lunch. Too dangerous. I have the guys processing wood and working in the shop for the rest of the day

 

[ropensaddle]

Been windy here also trying to figure out a kite that would be
controllable to trim from in high winds lol!

 

[Urbicide]

You guys have got my sympathy and my respect! Not much breaking the wind up there! Last January I had to change out around 60 1500 watt metal halide light bulbs 50 feet in the air. This was at a power house's coal yard down on the Ohio River. It was 10* F and the wind was about 25 mph. I have to admit it was pretty watching the thin sheets of ice flowing down stream. Pretty damn cold! Any of you Pro's have heated handles on your saws? Seems only a couple of weeks ago we were sweating our jewels off.

 

[windthrown]

You call that wind?

Here in the PNW we have had hurricane force, triple digit wind speeds in the last 2 days. I mean, its a blowing... and blowing hard. Losing peices of our roof here today. Trees down all over, roads closed out to the coast, rivers at flood stage, schools closed in most of the northwest part of the state.

It is moving into northern CA now. I dunno what WA state is like, but I bet it is a mess. Along with BC. Forget felling trees here today. Its all windthrow cleanup and road clearing type stuff. Time to post my, "Have chainsaws, will travel" ad to make some fast money on storm cleanup.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

If there is enough money to make the trip worth it I could get a couple guys out there with saws and climbing gear.

 

[jomoco]

If there is enough money to make the trip worth it I could get a couple guys out there with saws and climbing gear.

Unless you take some type of land route I seriously doubt you'll get there with your saws JPS.

I tried to take my saws on a flight to Seattle early this year to sub on some storm cleanup, I got there on a flight, but without my saws, it sucked.

If any of you know of a national airline that will allow you to take empty saws in their cargo compartments, I'd appreciate knowing which airline it is.

Thanks.

jomoco

 

[Slvrmple72]

I finished up saturday so no more climbing till spring or at least above 30. I have a couple of clearing jobs to work on during the next few months, drop and chop to start the new wood pile. Got the pane section ordered for my goof that day too! ( see my broken window thread) I dont mind some wind but if I am working in close quarters to power or that glass sunroom I will wait. I really like it when I can use that little breeze pushing on all those leaves to drop the limb instead of setting a pull line in it. Work smarter not harder! What I dont like is that breeze on me in 25 degree weather!

 

[Sprig]

Here in the PNW we have had hurricane force, triple digit wind speeds in the last 2 days. I mean, its a blowing... and blowing hard. Losing peices of our roof here today. Trees down all over, roads closed out to the coast, rivers at flood stage, schools closed in most of the northwest part of the state.

It is moving into northern CA now. I dunno what WA state is like, but I bet it is a mess. Along with BC. Forget felling trees here today. Its all windthrow cleanup and road clearing type stuff. Time to post my, "Have chainsaws, will travel" ad to make some fast money on storm cleanup.

We hit a few gusts this aft probably conservative at around 50knts, trees crashing in the distance, power's been on an off, nobody except the hydro crews out in this chit (bless their tired souls, a few are friends of mine and they have my undying gratitude and respect, whatta crew of die-hards!).
Its calmed down now but from the lastest reports we are just in the 'eye', record rains expected, no surprize. To say the least the kids aren't allowed out in the winds and any play around the streams is very strictly banned on penalty of 'worse than death', if you can imagine. Haven't seen so much water for a while, maybe last years spring thaws, but there is a lot of water cascading down the hills and our harbour looks like a big mud puddle, hm, poor fishes, not in my oven, a real shame (some good 'stuck' pics soon as I can get my card reader installed, this will be my 4th attempt on dial-up with a 5Mg file, poor PC doesn't like power outages *sigh*)

All!

Serge

 

[ropensaddle]

Here in the PNW we have had hurricane force, triple digit wind speeds in the last 2 days. I mean, its a blowing... and blowing hard. Losing peices of our roof here today. Trees down all over, roads closed out to the coast, rivers at flood stage, schools closed in most of the northwest part of the state.

It is moving into northern CA now. I dunno what WA state is like, but I bet it is a mess. Along with BC. Forget felling trees here today. Its all windthrow cleanup and road clearing type stuff. Time to post my, "Have chainsaws, will travel" ad to make some fast money on storm cleanup.

Heard ya,all was going to catch it on the news is it a
blizzard as well?

 

[beowulf343]

Lol-you guys are pansies. 20 degrees, 30 mph winds, driving snow all day-took a few minutes to get going but not a bad day for december around here. At least there is no more than 10 inches of snow on the ground so far. (Although with the way it's snowing right now, that will probably change by morning.) Just another day at work.

 

[juststumps]

dead wooding 4 swamp maple's,,, they called for 10-20 mph,, with gusts to 50...was up around 60 ft,, when one of the gusts came thru... backed out of the tree to wait till things calmed down... SNAP !!! here goes a live piece sailing down,, 4 inch at the break,, about 10-15 long.. drops onto the roof guard,, leaps into the side of the house.. missed a window by less than a foot.. thankfully it was a stone house.... limb was live on the outside,, all punky at the break.....got ugly for a little bit, but the wind calmed down after that...finished the day...

 

[ropensaddle]

Lol-you guys are pansies. 20 degrees, 30 mph winds, driving snow all day-took a few minutes to get going but not a bad day for december around here. At least there is no more than 10 inches of snow on the ground so far. (Although with the way it's snowing right now, that will probably change by morning.) Just another day at work.

Yeah uh huh like to see you wading the swamp with gators
and cottonmouths all around at night to restore power
there wise guy!