Lets get this party started...

[Gord]

few more. had a great sunrise that morning.

can anyone id the little tree in the last two pics? i couldn't even guess as to what it is.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Haha! I like the self portrait in the 2nd one!

I need to pack my camera up a tree, but I'm worried about banging it up.

I need to get a disposable one... Yea, that's it!

 

[Gord]

heh...thet's no self portrait, that there is a trusty three-nine-four!

 

[Stumper]

Cool Pics Gord! Here is what I did yesterday-Pseudo-bonzaing some Phitzer Junipers.-Climbing under hurts more than climbing up a tree sometimes. The shadow makes it hard to tell but they wereon the ground and had 30 years of old needles hung up inside them.

 

[Stumper]

Here is pic of Kenn (Outonalimb) starting up an Elm last friday (A week ago). I shot this just before he remembered that he didn't have his helmet.

 

[Davidsinatree]

Stumper,
Bushes look good, did you run the cuttings through your chipper or just throw them on the truck. I get alittle nervous trimming bushes because the homowner sometimes is standing right there watching my every cut, that somtimes takes all the fun out of it.

Looking at before & after pics are awsome, we need a thread started just for that. I dont have any or I would start one. I need to learn how to splice pics together, that would be even better to view the two pics at once.

Here are some pics from a recent job. Removing dead wood & broken limbs from a large pinoak.

 

[Stumper]

David, looking good yourself!. I chipped the llimbs and threw on about a pickup load of twig and needle rakings. The owners were gone most of the time I was working,-Those nasties took 6 hours and generated half a load in my big truck!

 

[matthias]

A full day out of the bucket. :blob6: I was actually in a good mood at work which is a rarity.

 

[matthias]

I put the camera in a crotch and set the timer for shot 17-4. :Eye: That poor saw has seen better days.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I used to have trouble keeping a cig in my mouth, humping up a tree like that.

Not anymore, though!

 

[matthias]

I used to have trouble keeping a cig in my mouth, humping up a tree like that.

Not anymore, though!

Good work on that impressive feat.

Here's a couple more shots.

 

[Gord]

alright i've got a bit of a backlog of pictures so i will commence a flooding.

crane job from a while back, bunch of nasty hemlocks with dwarf mistletoe...urban logging. there's my cadillac pads! the one was a little tall for the crane so i plunked out a little top.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Sweet! Keep em coming!

 

[Gord]

got plenty of logs...most pretty sound...district that we were working for took them all. good crane operator...pretty nice sit back and let the ground guys work.

 

[Gord]

nice big ash (or was it now...? can't remember) that i pruned a just before christmas. lady 'loved the tree' but wanted her garden directly underneath to be covered in sunlight. ah yes of course we can do that....! my groundman is good with the camera, very nice.

 

[Gord]

few pine removals and a spruce...note that accurate drop . brother John blocking down the last little bit. look at that warm light..it's still morning!

 

[Gord]

climbing in the snow...made myself a makeshift cape for my hardhat for this one..well worth it!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Most Excellent! It's good to see some different shots. I can't seem to get cameramen lately. :alien:

 

[Gord]

now for the big pines...these are all just outside my hometown in interior BC. the really gnarly one with the truck under it is in the BC register of big trees as the second largest ponderosa pine (in BC). i think that some of the others may be larger at least in points. these are some of my favorite trees anywhere, they just look incredible in the snow.

the one with the sun behind it is at my parents place.

 

[Gord]

more pines...the one with the top that looks like it's recently died is approx 150' tall. a very big tree for where it's growing. also a good size quaking aspen.