Lets get this party started...

[rbtree]

Part of the rootball was growing in lousy pitrun, so it was hard fo rhim to keep it together.

 

[rbtree]

Going down the road 12 miles or so to its holding site, it was almost touching traffic lights, and certainly overwide on the right side. He''ll need a lowboy when he sells it, as he's boxing it for the summer, so it'll be higher.

 

[NickfromWI]

Originally posted by rbtree
...I fronted the expenses, close to $2000, he promised that he'd pay me $4000 when he finds a buyer....

That was a very noble thing to do, Rog!

I am assuming he got it for free because the owners wanted it removed? What a great thing to do to save such a beautiful tree!

love
nick

 

[TreeJunkie]

Here's a shot of a pin oak i took down last sat. 100 ft. died 3yrs back, hit by lightning and then hypoxilin set in,,This one was fun..

 

[TreeJunkie]

http://home.comcast.net/~yannadoit/

Check out this oak take down.. Quite a few pics here so i didn't want to post individually...

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

The statistics that John Ball has sifted through show that fallers stopping to do something after starting the knoch is a significant percentage of faller related deaths in the tree industry.

Just a thought, we become too complacent at times because we doo this stuff all the time.

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

Way too much good material for safety guy!!! Can not compute! Can not compute!

P.S. I apologize for the Star Trek reference.

 

[igetbisy]

Originally posted by John Paul Sanborn

The statistics that John Ball has sifted through show that fallers stopping to do something after starting the knoch is a significant percentage of faller related deaths in the tree industry.

Just a thought, we become too complacent at times because we doo this stuff all the time.

we "DOO" this stuff all the time.

 

[RescueMan]

Originally posted by John Paul Sanborn
The statistics that John Ball has sifted through show that fallers stopping to do something after starting the notch is a significant percentage of faller related deaths in the tree industry.

This picture reminds me of a close call when I was leading a crew of high school students with the New Hampshire Conservation Corps doing trail-building on power company land along the Connecticut River.

I was taking down a 100 ft. white pine, at least 2' dbh for one of two stringers for a river bridge we were building. (It turned out that the tree was on someone's private land and he came to check out the noise - but that's another story).

I cut the notch and began the backcut when I remembered that my Environmental Ed instructor wanted to see a big tree come down. So I sent the one student who was helping me to fetch him.

While I was taking a leak near the tree, I heard a big crack and saw the pine begin to lean into the notch. As I was frantically putting away my pecker, I saw the student and the EE teacher walking toward me up the trail right into the fall zone of the pine.

I could do nothing but yell "timber" and, fortunately, they were perceptive enough and quick enough to jump into the stream along the trail and scramble across.

They survived with only some scratches and bruises, some caused by a sapling which was bent towards them across the stream by the falling pine.

I guess the EE teacher got what he asked for, and I made a silent prayer of gratitude that I hadn't killed anyone that day.

- Robert

 

[TreeJunkie]

Jps,,,,We hadn't even started the back cut actually,,As you might have noticed we have simply marked where the back cut will be placed. I'm not real sure what the prob. w/ this pic is,,,,there's more than enough holding wood ,,,that baby wasn't going anywhere...

 

[MasterBlaster]

No biggie, TreeJunkie. I know that was just a snag, and not the entire tree.
The problem with posting what might look like an unsafe procedure is that everyone and their brother look at it, and then they think its okay.

 

[NickfromWI]

Bye bye, cherry

Here's a cherry I finished. One of my coworkers stripped it up except the top. After lunch I went up, took the top out, and chucked the rest.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hey Nick, do ya have enough gear for that little stick?

 

[NickfromWI]

Any of it seem unnecessary?

 

[MasterBlaster]

You know me...

I have never had that much gear with me in a tree yet.

But thats just me...

 

[MasterBlaster]

This thread comes to mind.

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9953

 

[NickfromWI]

Here's one for ya, butch!

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Originally posted by TreeJunkie
that baby wasn't going anywhere

That is the assumption that was made. In Balls talks reraltes several people who stopped after starting the knotch then did something like fill the gas tank under the tree.

Then the holding wood failed and dumped it on him.

You can assume that it was not going to do anything, you can be reasonably sure. You cannot know what is going on inside the wood.

Familiarity breeds contempt, complacency can make bad things happen.

Safety is where wh operate in a fashion where we can be assured that nothing will ever happen.

In the accidents we read about, how often is it said that "he's doen it hundreds of times!"

 

[MasterBlaster]

Cool, Nick!

Now do me...

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Re: Cool, Nick!

Originally posted by MasterBlaster
Now do me...

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I don't think Karina will let him