Lets get this party started...

[MasterBlaster]

Another angle

This was at the zoo...

No smoking!

 

[MasterBlaster]

I pretty much had to rope it.

 

[MasterBlaster]

The higher the better!

Can I get an Amen?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Smoke em if ya got em!

I seem to work extra fast in zoosville...

 

[murphy4trees]

MB,
Are you hooking those trees or AM I seeing things....
I thought you knew how to climb trees...

 

[Ax-man]

No your not seeing things Murph, Butch got caught with his pants down in that pic. I was going to say some thing but MM will have some thing to say about it sooner or later.

Butch, you still have time to delete it.

Larry

 

[rbtree]

Nice work, Gord! Tite spot...how much was the job in Cdn $?

We had a surprise big windstorm blow through yesterday.....I responded to a call last night, they thought the tree needed removing last nite...the standing part that is. the rest had trashed two houses. (120 foot codom cedar)I said no way, but did go up to tarp the roof. Stories and pics will follow....we did $5100 today...no crane...broke in the GRCS instead!!! Have two crane jobs tomorrow plus a few more....man I'm tired..!!!

 

[MasterBlaster]

The tree that the limb broke out of is coming down. The tree that it hung up in is not, and it wasn't hooked.

Yea, murphy. I know how to climb trees.

Thanks for the vote of confidence

 

[rbtree]

Storm pics:


125-130 foot codomn cedar, one half on house, other being climbed. lifeline tied in at 105 feet in 135-140 foot cedar.

 

[rbtree]

Away she flies

 

[rbtree]

Down

 

[rbtree]

breaking free

 

[rbtree]

Here's where we got lucky. The top was falling from so far up that the butt eventually came down first, which Eli hoped would not happen. It landed inches from the nice textured sidewalk. Phew! I would have climbed higher, or perhaps lowered it off the spar tree. No way were we going to lower it off itself, that leader was not well attached!

 

[rbtree]

Failed section after we'd taken the top off both damaged houses.

 

[rbtree]

More later, I gotta go look at a couple more jobs....get the crew started on a quickie- some little trees uprooted, then do two crane jobs, and a couple more.

Yesterday, the phone rang so much my battery died (no charger with me) which made for a major snafu...another crew lost a job, plus i lost one that I couldnt get to.

But we still did $5100...four jobs done, one started.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Dang! Ya didn't kill yur groundie, didja?

 

[Lumberjack]

I did the pine in the foreground and the pine in the background.

 

[Lumberjack]

So much room to put stuff in.

 

[rb_in_va]

I saw a crew removing a tree yesterday, and they had a crane. They climber rode the hook up to the top of the tree, attached a strap I assume to the hook, then descended to make the first cut without taking any limbs out. Is that standard practice? It was a tight spot and the climber had to dodge all the limbs when the crane let the top down. I guess the theory is that the groundies could cut the limbs off on the ground. Anyway, just wanted to get some feedback here. Thanks, Roger in VA.

 

[Lumberjack]

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