Huge Takedowns

[diltree]

I thought i would start a thread, showcasing some of the larger trees we have taken down........ Here is a huge oak we took down a couple weeks ago. Thank god the butt split when we dropped it....otherwise we would have needed the crane to get it on and off the loader; our loader picks around 7,500 lbs; so i would estimate the butt log had to weigh around 14,000 lbs considering we barley were able to pick the two half's.

 

[blue]

first shot the butt weighed 4900kgs cut from the floor
second shot this piece wieghed 2500kgs cut from the tree

 

[begleytree]

Who's the naked midget in the first pic? lol

big tree!
-Ralph

 

[blue]

post 'em up then big boy

 

[begleytree]

Maybe that came out wrong.
I was saying it was a big tree.
and I was playin with him about this pic 100_0362.JPG

Lighten up, eh?
-Ralph

 

[Eagle1]

Yea baby!! NICE Pics !!
What the heck would we do without Hydraulics?

 

[kf_tree]

how bout big tree's that were climbed in tight back yards? if you could get a loader to it then i'm sure you got a bucket or crane to it.

no i can't post the pic's.......i hardly have any pics of myself climbing........ahhh i was too busy climbing. i've post some here in the past but always got scolded for not wearing ppe so i stopped posting climbing pics.

point is i'd much rather see pics of rigging climbers, than road side bombers.

 

[kf_tree]

Yea baby!! NICE Pics !!
What the heck would we do without Hydraulics?

block it up with big saw's and short bars, and have the guys hump it through a house.

 

[diltree]

Well kF this job was done for a utility company...and it was all over the 13,000kv........so i don't think anyone would be climbing this one.......on many roadside trees; were there is wires involved, climbing is not even a thought. In a back yard you worry about ruining a flower garden; when dealing with high voltage, the mistakes you make cost you your life. Municipal work is simply on a different level, you need the equipment just to get in the game, and submit a bid.

 

[diltree]

Blue...that looks like a monster silver maple, am i right??? or is that tree something else????

 

[stehansen]

Sweet truck man. I could really use something like that once in a while.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

Blue...that looks like a monster silver maple, am i right??? or is that tree something else????

Horse Chestnut aesculus hippocasteaneum

 

[diltree]

I have never seen a horse chestnut that big......very cool

 

[blue]

Who's the naked midget in the first pic? lol

big tree!
-Ralph

was only joking mate,just tryin to stir ya up a bit

 

[TREETX]

Use an axe for big take downs

 

[diltree]

By the way the midget is one of my ground-foreman........