Lets get this party started...

[TreeJunkie]

Rocky, You are right. I should just chill.. What the hell,, to each his own...I dont' climb much anyhow.....just another moron...

 

[ORclimber]

Originally posted by TreeJunkie
The whole deal about a pantin on spikes doesn't seem like much sense to me.

It works great on an ivy trees. climbing through ivy sucks

 

[rumination]

ORClimber, did you have to take down those ivy covered trees? I pity anyone who has to climb a tree with vines that thick.

Vines suck!

 

[rbtree]

Originally posted by matthias
"lifeline tied in at 105 feet in 135-140 foot cedar." -Rbtree

Can Rbtree or anyone else for that matter explain to me how that tie-in point was acheived?

matthias,

If you study the pic, you'll see that we're removing the half failed codom cedar, and using another tree for tie in...Ian set a throw line at 60 feet or so, and then advanced higher to set his lifeline. At about 85 feet, he set the big block and 3/4 inch line which we used to support the stem in the house, and then winch it out with the GRCS.

While Ian was doing all this, Eli and I were clearing the tree from the two roofs which it had trashed.

We had a problem getting the GRCS to hold on the slippery barked tapered cedar trunk, so set it higher, then tied a doubled line around the base...Between it and the GRCS, we attached three lines to hold it all in place.

 

[rbtree]

Even though the log in the house wasn't extremely heavy, and we had a favorable rigging point, it was still all we could do to suspend it, cut more wood from inside the house, and then get it out.

Due to the distances involved, the job would have called for perhaps a 110 ton crane, so by doing it all ourselves, we cleared way more profit---$3000 for maybe 20 manhours.

 

[ORclimber]

Originally posted by rumination
ORClimber, did you have to take down those ivy covered trees? I pity anyone who has to climb a tree with vines that thick.

Vines suck!

No, not yet. Just thought they were a good example. Luckily there is room to drop those when the time comes.

Here's an oak that had ivy on it. We just pulled over the ivy covered part and bucked it up on the ground. Easy $1500 tree, I was the lowest bid.

 

[rbtree]

Eli (ex-employee) was pumped to use the Dolmar 7900 (after he sent down the 488 Shinny in this pic) though it was less than sharp.

 

[rbtree]

Nearby was this cool formation....as you can see, an even larger cedar and it's wife....?


You know who is clowning it up....

 

[murphy4trees]

Belated congratulations on earning 5.1K in a day... awesome and Do you think the GRCS paid for itself yesterday???
Keep knocking out the big bucks... you deserve it and we all gotta make it while we can....

 

[rbtree]

And 3.9 K today!


Yep, Daniel....heck, maybe I'll get a couple more of 'em!

The last pick of a large, failed lombardy poplar butt was 7000 lb, the 36 ton crane was good for 4000 at that extension. He managed to lift it out of the back yard, only lightly bashing the mostly undamaged side of the house. Put a small dent in the retractable clothline.

The bottom 30 feet of the tree weighed about 15,000 lb.

 

[Lumberjack]

Normally I dont up down like that.

Normally the only time I up down on a removal is when I climb up to the top to set my friction saver and a rigging point or two (just depends), and drop back to the bottom limbs.

When you have to tip tie and lift it is hard not to climb up to set your rigging point.

I like not wearing spikes when I dont have too.

Frictionless climbing is very easy and uses little energy for climbing long stretches, however less climbing that = the same amount of work is better.

 

[a_lopa]

are you getting these jobs rb thru word of mouth for doing the difficult,and or crane work.i had a laugh the other week when a prospective client said he was going to ring my first boss but he thought he only did small trees!i can live with that

 

[matthias]

Dead elms, spruce and ash.

 

[matthias]

Dead Elms on the ground, spruce and ash.

 

[matthias]

Sorry, I didn't acknowledge the cedars in the first picture.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Do you know what killed them?

 

[matthias]

I am too uneducated to diagnose exactly why these trees died, but I assumed DED when it was just the elms that died and everything else in the proximity was fine.

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

The new chipper:

 

[MasterBlaster]

That guy in the white shirt couldn't chunk that 'lil piece in the chipper himself???

Oh, yea, NICE chipper!

:angel:

 

[xander9727]

How much does it weigh? Does it have hydraulic down feed or lift? What size engine does it have. The autofeed seems to work really well.