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So, does anyone have anything to throw down this week?
I have oodles of pics, most deserve their own thread, but I'm so darned busy...between skiing, ski photography, working, paper work, trying to fix a bunch of saws--not much time for photo editing and posting.
Here's a teaser, of the 6 foot dbh old growth fir that we just worked on for the second time in 14 months. The appx 500 year old tree is losing branches, has major decay, and is 28 inches through where I cut out its dead top last yr, and still 120-125 feet tall. Thankfully it has a slight lean away from my customer's awesome new home.
Here's a teaser, of the 6 foot dbh old growth fir that we just worked on for the second time in 14 months. The appx 500 year old tree is losing branches, has major decay, and is 28 inches through where I cut out its dead top last yr, and still 120-125 feet tall. Thankfully it has a slight lean away from my customer's awesome new home.
The house, one of my all time favorites, is patterned after a mountain chalet, much like many at Whistler Mt.
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MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
Cool pic, RB.
You don't have to post em all!
Just the good ones!
You don't have to post em all!
Just the good ones!
Views galore!!
While we don't have a plethora of big shade trees to work in, I'd rather be here in the PNW work environment than most anywhere else...
..specially after a week of awesome weather as we just had...great for pics. Of course everywhere we were, I could see the mountains, which made me bummed I couldn't be skiing and shooting my buds dropping hairy ass cliffs.
In this pic is a portion of a young 3 foot dbh fir that has a dead top. It may be 160-170 feet tall...it's in a conservancy that the previous owner gifted to the city, now her relatives/tenants can live in the cabin rent free. I need to look them up, as the dead top should be removed.
While we don't have a plethora of big shade trees to work in, I'd rather be here in the PNW work environment than most anywhere else...
..specially after a week of awesome weather as we just had...great for pics. Of course everywhere we were, I could see the mountains, which made me bummed I couldn't be skiing and shooting my buds dropping hairy ass cliffs.
In this pic is a portion of a young 3 foot dbh fir that has a dead top. It may be 160-170 feet tall...it's in a conservancy that the previous owner gifted to the city, now her relatives/tenants can live in the cabin rent free. I need to look them up, as the dead top should be removed.
And here's the job from the other side of Mercer Island, removing two big previously topped firs, that had been deemed hazardous by my good friend Scott Baker. The big one ( 4 feet through at the ground) has close to 2500m board feet of wood in it. I hope it is good marketable timber. Too big and heavy for my 17 ton boom truck bud.. the bottom 20 feet will weigh in at about 11000 lb. We left it at 105 feet, just above the old topping cut. Now waiting for another crane friend ( 35 tonner with 120 feet of stick, and only 20 foot wide extended) to find some time to help us. The second tree grew no new top, and has a lot of hollow top rot..hope the bottom is better...but it is only 800-1000 board feet anyhow.
A water skier's dream..glass!!
14,410 feet up...lotsa frozen H2O!
One heck of a lot of multi million dollar properties!!
3.3 megabyte vid of lowering a branch, nothing unusual, for those who dont want to bother with such a big file.
OK, Eric, ya T1 speed demon!!
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
Originally posted by netree
It's okay.. I have the 1.5 seconds to spare
John Paul Sanborn
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