I pulled a side job today, probably took several grand from an arborist

[IchWarriorMkII]

But I saved myself money... where does that lie on the moral scale?

:greenchainsaw:

To start, this thread is a continuation of this one :

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?p=668870#post668870


Same gear as the last time we rolled out and pieced a big cotton wood down as seen here:

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=46132


Well, to be totally honest my 353 is missing in action! I sent it off to get modded (to be a better bucket saw) and now Im without! After toying with a Crapsmen 55cc saw I went and bought a 16" B&C for the 361. Same weight, SOOOO much more power.

Worked very well as a bucket saw, I was impressed. Its weight was still managable, its performance was excellent. Its fuel economy was appreciated, I don't think we ever had to quit because the saw was out of fuel. Simply topped it off every time we came down.

Our first priority was removing a branch that was suffering from severe rot. It had been pruned, and regrew. As you can tell, the weight of the new mass caused the branch to start to pull away. Its now leaning towards the house...

So we starting peicing the branches down.

Hard to see progress, as its got the other tree in the background.

As you might see, we stopped due to the thunderstorm approaching. Had just a little bit of wind with it.

This is where we pieced the rotten branch down to, and found about a half circle of live wood 3-4" thick at most. The branches extending from this were probably 50-60' tall, (3 of the them) and 6-8" diameter.

 

[IchWarriorMkII]

Sorry for the delay guys, the DSL here went down for a while.

 

[IchWarriorMkII]

Here we are, all done for the afternoon.

And the following morning :

We took down the branch whole. It had the right lean and was headed out into a draw. Took about 15 minutes, but saved us well over an hour.

Stump shots! I did the face cut, bored in the back cut and tripped the release as far away as I could get. Had the bucket ready to boogey if something went wrong. I unfortunetly didnt dog and sweep as well as I should, thats why the far side hinge wood is nipped.

That left us with the last two bean poles to piece down. Here is the best shots of how we did the tree, just rinse and repeat.

 

[IchWarriorMkII]

All done!

Well, not entirely, but the stump removal is pretty much us playing around and seeing how rotten the tree is. To get an idea :

Sorry if I bore you! As you can see from the pics, Im pretty young... definately new at this tree work and Im just takin it slow and learning (and UNDERSTANDING) a lot of things that I pick up here. Definately no 'old hands' at this game around these parts.

 

[IchWarriorMkII]

Ill have some more pics tomorrow, if my cousin (it was actually his tree) can email me them.

I'd like any commentary if we are doing things wrong/unsafe... Thanks for stoppin by!

 

[Sprig]

Ya mean other than duckin' that lil' top? (jk, jk)
Nice work Ich, looks like y'all had fun too, but, wheres yer muffs?
Still like RBW's idea of shootin' the tank, now that would have been awesome How did the pit vipers fair?

Good work imho!



Serge

 

[TDunk]

Looks like a fine job to me.

 

[Ductape]

Great Pics ! From where did you get that handy bucket truck? Was it just hanging around?:greenchainsaw:

 

[Ed*L]

Looks like a good job to me.
Well done and good pics!!!

Ed

 

[Log Splitter]

Nic post, Ich! Thanks for taking the pictures and sharing here.

There's and old cottonwood down the street from me that you can practice on next.

 

[IchWarriorMkII]

Where's my muffs?

They are on my head!

The big orange thing...


The bucket truck is from work, we got to borrow it. Doesn't hurt that its stored in my back yard

 

[THALL10326]

Ut Oh

Ya did a side job did ya. Well your in for it now. Theres a feller in Ohio and one nitwit down in Ga thats gonna flood the country now. Oh well I'll go get my boots on and my waders,LOLOL

Good job on the tree, great pictures..................

 

[jrclen]

Nice job and great pictures. I enjoyed seeing you take that big boy down.

 

[MrGriz]

Great pics and a great job.

 

[04ultra]

The bucket truck is from work, we got to borrow it. Doesn't hurt that its stored in my back yard

Great pictures......BTW did you say side job.......I sure hope you told them cash....



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[manual]

I think he said he did the job for himself. Nothing wrong with that.
Using someone elses bucket truck, sence the truck is stored at his house I guess that would be called storge rent.
I don't see no obstacles in the way looks like a good learning tree. Good Job.

Oh yea, It's not like he dropped the tree on a sidewalk and out in the streetopcorn:

 

[wdchuck]

Nice pics and takedown, there are 4 silver maple that are that size on our place, all need to come down, it'll make one heck of a bonfire pile.

 

[THALL10326]

I think he said he did the job for himself. Nothing wrong with that.
Using someone elses bucket truck, sence the truck is stored at his house I guess that would be called storge rent.
I don't see no obstacles in the way looks like a good learning tree. Good Job.

Oh yea, It's not like he dropped the tree on a sidewalk and out in the streetopcorn:

Could you tell me what a "learning tree" is, is that a tree that goes to school each day,:hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[RiverRat2]

A learnining tree is kinda like a Nurse logs offspring,,,

Could you tell me what a "learning tree" is, is that a tree that goes to school each day,:hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:

just has a kinda crooked root system and and a BIG OLE BUTTRESSESSS

Me I likes'em W/ Big Buttressesss,,,, :notrolls2:

 

[stihl 440]

pics

Nice pics ich! :hmm3grin2orange: :biggrinbounce2: :greenchainsaw: