Fatty silver maple take down

[Chucky]

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Originally posted by glens
Good job, though. Way to earn a few cents! Few people would have stuck it out like that.

Glen
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"You call this a congratulations? Seems more derogitory than anything. I don't think anyone walked feeling shorted."

I don't think Glen was being sarcastic, and don't feel bad, TreeJunkie. I did the same thing (underbid) on the "I walked from the job" thread. But I went back and finished it today because I could, even though I maybe made only $100 from all the trouble. It was simply a matter of principle.

Beautiful job, BTW.

Whadja do today

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I helped on a similar sized tree last week, Dave (Gopher) Ryan borught a 60 ton in and we laid it out in the barnyard. Sean G. was up in the tree and I was sling-boy.

There were a few more leads on that one.

The farmers had there"little" 100 hp tractors there to drag the leads away. in one piece.

Our angle and extention left us with a 7000# max so we left the but section 9 ft high since we would ahev been able to just take 3 ft cookies sections with multiple chokers.

Too bad it was cold and windy, I don't know if Dave took any pictures.

Oh that was in the afternoon, we did four big dead oaks in the am.

There I had more purpose, running back and forth to unsling and cut. Road up to set a sling a few times too.

Cranes are great when you can utilize them.

Oh, BTW great work Brandon, you'll get a lot of miles from the story too. "I remeber the time in oh-four when we got a scaffold to get this butt section out...."

 

[Ax-man]

If you can stand another pat on the back I'll give you one, too, Very good job.

I've run into few like that over the years only I never got the oppurtunity to do them like that and wondered how we would do it. I've done some smaller ones but nothing quite that big, usually the decks were in such bad shape the owners took the decks out or we could get our Elliott in close enough to lift the big sections.

I liked the ramp idea that was mentioned and the use of the scaffolding you pictured.

Personally, after getting that last lead down with the scaffolding and whittling the main crotch down a little, I would have ripped the main stem like a vertical milling job, if no garbage in the tree could be detected. I've ripped a lot of big firewood logs over the years and even made some benches out of some.

Again, good job done, Brandon

Larry

 

[Tree Machine]

Me sez the same thing. Honorable, no injuries and DONE.

I am so glad for you that you didn't hit metal, or anything. Trunks that size, when you go through a tank of gas every two or so cuts, are challenging enough to both man and saw. Hit metal, and it has such an impact on team morale. Plus, there is little way of knowing, then, what you're gonna hit next. It can add a lot of down time. You were spared that, thank goodness.

As far as the stump, one suggestion (off the cuff), might be to frame-in the circle down to the earth, then just fill it in with pea gravel. Park the umbrella table over top. I doubt this is your responsibility, but passing the suggestion on, it might be appealing.

That stump could be inoculated with gourmet mushrooms, also. The spawn comes in a form on 1" long, 5/16" diameter wooden dowel pins. Great father/son project. Dad drills the holes, and the kids whack the dowels into the holes with a hammer. It's that easy. THEN fill the zone in with pea gravel as the mushrooms will fruit up through. The umbrella table will keep the site shaded. My suggestion would be the yummy and highly prolific Pleurotus columbinus, the blue oyster, possibly available at www.mushroompeople.com or definitely at Fungi Perfecti, www.fungi.com. It is known as 'plug spawn'. 300 dowels will be needed.

 

[MasterBlaster]

So, how do ya get the cow to take a dump on the log?

 

[geofore]

remove deck?

Glens, I had a customer, this year, change his mind on saving/remodeling an old Victorian home. After I busted my butt clearing the trees around/over top the old house he changed his mind and removed the house, didn't tell me. Then he called me a few months later to remove couple more trees so he could put in the above ground septic. I went back to remove the trees for the septic to go in and the house was gone and a nearly finished log home twice the size of the old home that used to be there was up. I could have bombed those trees right through the old house and saved him the price of the bulldozer work. Some folks change their minds after they make the job hard. After a year or two what do you want to bet that deck isn't gone and a family room added on?