longest you've been in a tree?
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ozzy42
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I voted "Damn trees "
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Didn't have a "too old to remember" option.
I remember a few where I had drinks sent up 5or 6 times and a sandwich and some smokes.Probably 7-8 hrs at the most for me.
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Didn't have a "too old to remember" option.
I remember a few where I had drinks sent up 5or 6 times and a sandwich and some smokes.Probably 7-8 hrs at the most for me.
tree md
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2 days. 10 hours in this bad boy the first day, 8 the second. 6' DBH, 100' crown. Prolly 110' tall. I ran out of my 150' rope about 30' from the top... Had my lunch sent up to me both days... Hold up was a 20x20 drop zone and we had to roll everything out on a dolly over a 2' deck that we ramped and out through a 36" gate... Talk about a #####... Lot's of thumb twittling in this tree while I waited for the guys on the ground. I was swinging 18" limbs...
My dad at the base of tree:
My dad at the base of tree:
flushcut
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It wasn't an overly large silver maple but a lot of bull :censored: below. I think it was some were around twelve, nine the first day three the second day.
P.S. What's up with the new smileys?
P.S. What's up with the new smileys?
treeman82
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As far as 1 tree goes in 1 day... 9.5 hrs. white ash over a house, everything had to be lowered. Did 2 smaller ash trees in the morning.
For overall in 1 tree... the white pine I did this fall which still needs work. 5 hrs the first day, 8.5 the second, and about 6 the last day to log it out with the crane. Once the snow goes away I have to go back to remove the last 10'. 130' white pine, 4 or 5 stems, base was 5 1/2' diameter.
For overall in 1 tree... the white pine I did this fall which still needs work. 5 hrs the first day, 8.5 the second, and about 6 the last day to log it out with the crane. Once the snow goes away I have to go back to remove the last 10'. 130' white pine, 4 or 5 stems, base was 5 1/2' diameter.
4 hours, just last year. Almost passed out from the heat once the canopy was gone and the sun came around the corner. Real hot day and dehydrated big time. Got down just in time.
TreeAce
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As i get older I have had some problems with my feet "fallen asleep" on me after being on spurs all day. Its always on the home stretch thats bad, being on a spar and getting close to done or atleast comn down. Seems like on that log theres no easy way to get the weight off my feet for a long enough time to get the circulation going again. I start haven problems like that after about 5.5 to 6 hours, other wise I can stay in a tree a long time. When I was younger I was in a tree almost 11 hour once. Groundies finally said "whats up man! your killn us!" and then they told me what time it was...I had no idea. Time flies when your haven fun!
tree md
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Hey Ace, My feet get to hurting on a large spar too. Especially when you're having to block every piece and wait on the ground guys. I will usually throw my climbing line around the spar and set down on the seat of my saddle and straddle the tree to take a load off if I am having to wait on groundies for very long. It's not much but it is some temporary relief.
beastmaster
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I spent 10 hours up in a big pondarosa pine removal 20 years ago. It was multiple trunked(looked like a stone pine) went threw the primarys and was over a house. Lots of big wood and all had to be tag lined and lowered. Edison was on stand by the whole time too. Ate lunch in the tree. Use a 064 for most the job. My arms would knot up and I couldn't straightening them, they would just curl back up.
Don't think I could do it today. I routinely spend all day in some trees but I come down for lunch and have other climbers helping out lot of the time. Makes a big differences.
Don't think I could do it today. I routinely spend all day in some trees but I come down for lunch and have other climbers helping out lot of the time. Makes a big differences.
treemandan
Tree Freak
Me too! Sure I have spent all day and more on one tree climbing and these days after 3 hours I am hungry and the ground is full so whether its done or not I am coming down.
It not uncomon for me to spend 5 hours pruning.
treemandan
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2 days. 10 hours in this bad boy the first day, 8 the second. 6' DBH, 100' crown. Prolly 110' tall. I ran out of my 150' rope about 30' from the top... Had my lunch sent up to me both days... Hold up was a 20x20 drop zone and we had to roll everything out on a dolly over a 2' deck that we ramped and out through a 36" gate... Talk about a #####... Lot's of thumb twittling in this tree while I waited for the guys on the ground. I was swinging 18" limbs...
My dad at the base of tree:
That is, was and will always be one big ass tree. Not unless you are really small people.
banshee67
Poulan Wild Thang
ok so i have a question to the guys spending the whole day in a tree without coming down..
where do you piss!?
where do you piss!?
tree md
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On the tree in my picture the temps were 104 and 103 those days, That's not heat index, that's actual temps. On days that hot you usually don't have to piss because your sweating out so much fluid. I did piss one time in the tree... I got around the back side and just pissed into the tree... I did it while my guys were taking a water break so they did not know...
Most day's I try to come down around lunch time, take a break and take care of any bathroom business if I need to. That tree was just a ##### to get up in so I discretely snuck around the back of it... It was so big that there was no chance of being seen.
beastmaster
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On the tree, off the tree(if no ones watching)a plastic bottle(big opening. ha)
Rftreeman
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I spent 3 days in one tree, came down to use the back of the chip dump once and at the end of each day, ate lunch, took my breaks up there....whole lot a nasty overhang, rigging and cookie cutting involved, didn't mind it much, I was getting paid by the hour back then....
Rftreeman
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on the ground guys if they don't move out the way.....lol...
treemandan
Tree Freak
A good place to let it hang out is to stand behind an open truck door and pretend you are on the phone, just look around a bit and act like it. Works just as well by the side of the road or in the front yard.
Like I said, a few hours and I am coming down period.
Like I said, a few hours and I am coming down period.
treeman82
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To be honest, I don't like having to come down for any reason other than the tree is done unless I'm within a few feet of the ground anyway, and am in no rush.
Mike Cantolina
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Same here, that may change when I get a wraptor though.
