Large Red Oak Removal.

[ozarktreeman]

some pics of red oak done about a month ago.
tree was about 80ft,15ft, from cabin.40in,at base.
done in two and half hours.

 

[ozarktreeman]

couple more,guess i,m not shrinking them enough.not able to post all on one page.

 

[Rftreeman]

don't you just hate climbing out of a perfectly good bucket???

 

[jomoco]

I've seen so many bucket boys get in trouble roping trees out of their reach and getting slapped around needlessly it's not funny.

Why would you even need or use a bucket on a simple removal like that? All it does is get in the way.

Buckets are for pruning and shaping trees within their reach in my opinion.

Seems like everytime I use a bucket, I end up getting frustrated and climbing out of the dang thang so I can get where I need to go without messin around.

To each his own though, buckets can be handy at times.

jomoco

 

[Blakesmaster]

Nice work.

I've seen both sides of the issue. Watching guys reposition the bucket truck 4 or 5 different times to get a tree down when it would have been much easier to just climb and I've also seen climbers get frustrated with a bucket because they didn't set it up in the right spot to begin with. Both have there place in tree removal.

 

[ozarktreeman]

Rarely takes more than one setup,unless the the crown is extremly large.
Which in this area that is hard to find in most trees in this area.get the occassional white oak with big crowns.
And the bucket beats climbing anyday for me.
to each is own i guess.

 

[Blakesmaster]

Trust me, I love climbing and really get a kick outta doing trees with just my ropes and spikes. The main reason I wanna buy my own bucket eventually is strictly for fatigue reasons. Yeah, I may be able to climb and rope down a tree as fast as I can do it from a bucket but I ain't able to do that all day long if ya know what I mean. It starts to get ridiculous when you're laying out 30 sheets of plywood to get the bucket to a sapling though.

 

[Mikecutstrees]

Nice job Ozark, I especially like the last picture with the stump and bushes around it all intact. Nice professional job. Mike

 

[Climbing Cutter]

Nice work, i've got the same bucket lift as you.

 

[Nailsbeats]

Trust me, I love climbing and really get a kick outta doing trees with just my ropes and spikes. The main reason I wanna buy my own bucket eventually is strictly for fatigue reasons. Yeah, I may be able to climb and rope down a tree as fast as I can do it from a bucket but I ain't able to do that all day long if ya know what I mean. It starts to get ridiculous when you're laying out 30 sheets of plywood to get the bucket to a sapling though.

Come on Blakes, we all know you don't own a pair of spikes, lol.:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Nailsbeats]

Nice job Ozark. Thanks for taking the time to post it up.

 

[treemandan]

I saw the bucket then the tree then I was looking for the shot of the " hop out". Glad to see it, I was thinking " I know he ain't gonna try to swing that thing down from the bucket".
But in pic 107 ? Please describe how you rigging line is set up. It looks like it goes to a choker of some sort then right through the middle of the trunk back down on your side. What did you use as a lowering point is my question. It didn't look like you took the natural crotch route but I don't see a pulley, just something that looks like an eye sling.
That wood looks like Dingo material all nice a layed out real pretty and all.
I guess your forestry hat fell off?
Yes, thanks for posting, it looked like a good job. Now your measurement of 42" was taken at the flare? If it was , sorry, you don't get to count that. I wish we could but they only let us measure from about chest height for mean trunk dia.

 

[Blakesmaster]

I saw the bucket then the tree then I was looking for the shot of the " hop out". Glad to see it, I was thinking " I know he ain't gonna try to swing that thing down from the bucket".
But in pic 107 ? Please describe how you rigging line is set up. It looks like it goes to a choker of some sort then right through the middle of the trunk back down on your side. What did you use as a lowering point is my question. It didn't look like you took the natural crotch route but I don't see a pulley, just something that looks like an eye sling.
That wood looks like Dingo material all nice a layed out real pretty and all.
I guess your forestry hat fell off?
Yes, thanks for posting, it looked like a good job. Now your measurement of 42" was taken at the flare? If it was , sorry, you don't get to count that. I wish we could but they only let us measure from about chest height for mean trunk dia.

You mean pic 103, Dman? I was confused about that as well.

 

[Blakesmaster]

Come on Blakes, we all know you don't own a pair of spikes, lol.:hmm3grin2orange:

You mean my sissifiers? Yeah, I got a set or two layin' around.

 

[ozarktreeman]

treemandan
I believe at the point your talking about is a rigging line hooked to skidsteer.
Hopped back in bucket at that point and knotched and skipped what was left of the top.
Missed that pic.
And yea wood was grappled to line later cut up for HO.

 

[treemandan]

You mean pic 103, Dman? I was confused about that as well.

Yes 103.

 

[treemandan]

treemandan
I believe at the point your talking about is a rigging line hooked to skidsteer.
Hopped back in bucket at that point and knotched and skipped what was left of the top.
Missed that pic.
And yea wood was grappled to line later cut up for HO.

No, it was 103. The one where it looks like the rope goes throughthe tree sort of.

 

[custom8726]

Rarely takes more than one setup,unless the the crown is extremly large.
Which in this area that is hard to find in most trees in this area.get the occassional white oak with big crowns.
And the bucket beats climbing anyday for me.
to each is own i guess.

Yup!! Nice clean job.

 

[ozarktreeman]

dman this is pic your talking about rigging line back to bucket and top knotched and pulled down.

 

[treemandan]

dman this is pic your talking about rigging line back to bucket and top knotched and pulled down.

If I am supposed to see something in pic 111 I am not seeing anything. I don't understand what you mean. I ask what you used as a lowering point in the tree but you can tell me all about hooking it up the the loader as well now to. I hook the Dingo up to small stuff, not often.