Lets get this party started...

[mikecross23]

another....

 

[mikecross23]

1 more....

 

[MasterBlaster]

Man, thats a shame. And stupid!

 

[NickfromWI]

I wonder if they are going to try to file a claim with insurance?

 

[mikecross23]

Originally posted by NickfromWI
I wonder if they are going to try to file a claim with insurance?

The insurance agent showed up as we left.

Butch,
I picked up that the home owner was 'bout as sharp as a bowling ball.

-Mike-

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

i bet he wish he had someone else do, or maybe even the foresight to take out the branch before construction!!

i think he was spelling wind as g-r-a-v-i-t-y.

One time this bouncing around tough guy working on the crew i was subbed to, was saying i could do all that you did, showing muscles etc. He had run a chainsaw on another job (hard worker, added up all his expereince at jobs and he had 38, and was 23....), kinda a con/bully guy from what i could see. So the 3rd day of listening to his bantering, he comes up and announced he was ready to start taking my place, he had it all figured out, except which way a limb would fall when cut, but he'd get that and be in the big bucks etc.(was already watching gear). i spoke up for the first time and said i could give hime that gosh darn it; i could tell him how easily to determine where everything would fall unless obstructed. He with audience demanded how; i informed him each piece would fall down, and good luck! His routine on fellow workers seemed to work less after that.....

 

[xtremetrees]

Originally posted by mikecross23
1 more....

After 10 years fighting gravity as a production climber I've always wonder what it looked like.
This pic is like scratching a place you just cant reach.
thanks
I feel much better now

 

[MasterBlaster]

No pics for the week???

I gotta get me a new cam!

Somebody's gotta have something!

 

[rborist1]

:Eye:

 

[rborist1]

:Eye:

 

[MasterBlaster]

Two guys in those tiny twigs?

I guess lights CAN be a PITA... another climber is probably a good idea... wuz it fun?

I hate lights!

 

[murphy4trees]

Here is a pic from last year's penn-del chapter east TCC... these are the men of Ward Tree Service, from left to right Big Jon, Chris Ward, Jose ?, Jim Roach and crouching is Pat Epps...
I think Roachy won 4 or 5 out of 7 events that day... it was raining pretty hard... He sure does have a baby face...
Roachy is definitely an innovator, though I've never even seen him climb... I learn a lot of his tricks from Big Jon. Jon says he has way too much time on his hands... mostly cause he finishes a days worth of climbing by mid-morning... then he just plays with knots and climbing techniques etc...

 

[Tim Gardner]

The wind blew this tree over into another. No room for a crane.

 

[Tim Gardner]

From a different view.

 

[Tim Gardner]

Stump shot.

 

[Tim Gardner]

The tree I was working from.

 

[Tim Gardner]

Lowering the stick.

 

[rbtree]

Yeah,Tim, it's good to see you back.

That looks like a toughie...How did you get the butt to clear the fence? Did you make a cut past the fence plane, and support the butt or did it spring up?

Not to criticize, but wouldn't a block have been better..as in minimizing cambium damage to the spar?

 

[Tim Gardner]

RB, one of the team did a slow cut at the base. By cutting at the right angle it allowed the stick to swing slowely towards the host tree whew the two bull lines were set thereby missing the corner of the wooden fence. Sometimes the stump still has enough of a grip to spring the stick back up but this one did not. If it had I would most likely have blocked it out.

 

[rbtree]

Cool..

If I have to make a high cut to help save an obstacle, I break out the 36 inch bar...so I can be as far away as possible... could even use a power pruner to nip a tiny bit of holding wood.

I've also built tripods out of 4x4's to support the log on...