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[ZinTrees]

That's a sweet rig, lots of uses for that truck. You don't need to be a computer engineer to fix it as well. I can see a chip box or some sides on there for logs. Good trade I'd say.

I have stake sides for it but they are total junk, 17ft long single piece, screws hanging out, etc, so I'm gonna rebuild them


Removable chip box is in the plans too,

Beautiful - I am envious. I'd like my next work truck to be a flatbed dump like this. Nice find!

Thanks! It's perfect really, minus the fact they used a 2 way cylinder and a 1 way hoist, left the retract hose dangling and it blows hydro fluid out when dumping, going to weld a bung onto the tank and just return to tank with it, once that's done I've gotta build the rear bumper/ trailer hitch, re do the tail lights so it has reverse and trailer lights, also plan to wire in some work lights ontop of the headache rack

 

[gorman]

on Monday I was on the last half hour of a three day job when I set my line in a honey locust l, base tied, jump tested it and started ascending. At 25’ my tie in point failed and I hit the ground and broke my ankle and incurred a lisfranc fracture on my foot.
Right now I’m lucky I have money saved because after surgery next week I’m out of work for 6 months. I have no climber other than myself and to be pretty blunt, I’m the only guy on the the job that knows what’s going on. Currently I have a couple contract climbers lined up but I’m pretty much fu$$ed.

 

[ZinTrees]

on Monday I was on the last half hour of a three day job when I set my line in a honey locust l, base tied, jump tested it and started ascending. At 25’ my tie in point failed and I hit the ground and broke my ankle and incurred a lisfranc fracture on my foot.
Right now I’m lucky I have money saved because after surgery next week I’m out of work for 6 months. I have no climber other than myself and to be pretty blunt, I’m the only guy on the the job that knows what’s going on. Currently I have a couple contract climbers lined up but I’m pretty much fu$$ed.

oh ****, hope it heals up quick!

first time I ever fell went exactly like this, only fell about 8-10 feet and had no injuries, did a bounce test multiple times, started ropewalking, made it about 5 steps up and "snap"

my dad was behind the house talking to the customer and heard it over the sena, "You just fall?" "yeah" "*******"
hurt more than when my zigzag failed causing me to fall 40ft, walked away from both but they both shook me up pretty bad for a few days after

 

[Rabid K9]

oh ****, hope it heals up quick!

first time I ever fell went exactly like this, only fell about 8-10 feet and had no injuries, did a bounce test multiple times, started ropewalking, made it about 5 steps up and "snap"

my dad was behind the house talking to the customer and heard it over the sena, "You just fall?" "yeah" "*******"
hurt more than when my zigzag failed causing me to fall 40ft, walked away from both but they both shook me up pretty bad for a few days after

How did your zig zag 'fail'?

 

[nitro1253]

on Monday I was on the last half hour of a three day job when I set my line in a honey locust l, base tied, jump tested it and started ascending. At 25’ my tie in point failed and I hit the ground and broke my ankle and incurred a lisfranc fracture on my foot.
Right now I’m lucky I have money saved because after surgery next week I’m out of work for 6 months. I have no climber other than myself and to be pretty blunt, I’m the only guy on the the job that knows what’s going on. Currently I have a couple contract climbers lined up but I’m pretty much fu$$ed.

Does suck but could have been worse, Buy a lift and be back to work sooner or teach your best guy to use it. Making money a spending it on a lift is better than bringing none in and losing your guys

 

[gorman]

Does suck but could have been worse, Buy a lift and be back to work sooner or teach your best guy to use it. Making money a spending it on a lift is better than bringing none in and losing your guys

I have a couple contract climbers lined up

 

[ZinTrees]

How did your zig zag 'fail'?

something got stuck in the links mid rappel, it passed visual and function checks about 20 minutes before this happened (before leaving the ground)

to this day nobody knows for sure, im thinking a broke off twig got into it somehow and I didn't notice, and as I pulled the links down it may have wiggled its way into them locking them down, all I know is on the way down started letting go of the links as normal to slow down and had nothing, grabbed the rope above and below the device with both hands to slow down a little, hit the ground soon after


Rope I was using was sterling scion 11.5, which is the absolute smallest the ZZ+ is rated for although still in spec, and its an EN1891 rope which the ZZ requires (I know some of us don't pay attention to the EN part)

Zigzag had maybe 15 climbs, so just getting broke in, passed all inspections as per the manual, and I took it off the rope after the "fall" and went through it really carefully to see if anything broke mid climb, nope, exactly how it was pre-climb
could totally be operator error although I don't recall anything of the sort, if something got stuck in the links, it wasn't there anymore when I got to the ground which confuses me to no end

I don't climb with gloves, so I know it couldn't be a glove being stuck in it

 

[tree MDS]

on Monday I was on the last half hour of a three day job when I set my line in a honey locust l, base tied, jump tested it and started ascending. At 25’ my tie in point failed and I hit the ground and broke my ankle and incurred a lisfranc fracture on my foot.
Right now I’m lucky I have money saved because after surgery next week I’m out of work for 6 months. I have no climber other than myself and to be pretty blunt, I’m the only guy on the the job that knows what’s going on. Currently I have a couple contract climbers lined up but I’m pretty much fu$$ed.

Sorry to hear about this gorman! Hang in there, bud!! You’re tough and smart, you’ll make it through!

 

[NeSurfcaster]

Speedy recovery man, hate to hear that happening to anybody. Sounds like it could of been worse. On monday we did a poison covered pine and the newly retired customer was recently paralyzed from falling 10' off the roof onto his head onto concrete. 10' fall changed his life big time.

 

[pdqdl]

on Monday I was on the last half hour of a three day job when I set my line in a honey locust l, base tied, jump tested it and started ascending. At 25’ my tie in point failed and I hit the ground and broke my ankle and incurred a lisfranc fracture on my foot.
Right now I’m lucky I have money saved because after surgery next week I’m out of work for 6 months. I have no climber other than myself and to be pretty blunt, I’m the only guy on the the job that knows what’s going on. Currently I have a couple contract climbers lined up but I’m pretty much fu$$ed.

I've been down that road but with worse ankle injuries. I pretty much broke everything between my heel bone and my knee. It will take longer than 6 months, but you'll be hobbling around in about 3 months. I'm still walking around every day, and my injuries were about 40 years ago. Running again was always problematic, and very hard on knees with no ankle to help absorb the shock of landing on that side. Ankle strength while climbing was never a problem at all for me, even today.

You'll be ok, but it might be time to realize that your days of jogging everywhere you wish might need to change. My left ankle is very stable now but lacks any flexibility. Sometimes the doctors recommend ankle fusion, but that is a long way down the line for you to consider. I never did ankle fusion surgery, but mine is so busted up it kinda naturally fused.

The lisfranc fracture is a bit more involved with ligament damage than just fixing a simple broken bone or two, so you should plan on a long and dedicated regimen of physical therapy. It will help build strength and retain some flexibility in that joint.

 

[ZinTrees]

I sprained my ankle a few months ago, nothing horrible, didn't realize it at the time, worked half a day and only after getting in the truck to go get fuel filters for the chipper did I realize how bad it was, I climbed for probably 2 or 3 hours after, standing on spurs the whole time and didn't think anything of it, wasn't bad till I took the weight off it


once I realized how bad it hurt, I was hobbling around everywhere for the next few weeks, babied my right leg because the ankle, then that messed up my left knee right about the time my ankle "quit" hurting


man I got so excited when the pain went away, I could walk normally, till I forgot about it and stepped a little heavier than normal and instantly, all the pain right back, that made for a fun few weeks


note to self, don't walk across a land clearing job with thousands of little stumps carrying a full set of climbing and rigging gear, plus a saw and 5 gallon can of diesel

 

[pdqdl]

Folks often don't know that bones heal fairly rapidly. Bones have an excellent blood supply, and most fractures heal without complications when they are not subject to movement. Cartilage, ligaments, and tendons, however, heal very slowly, as they have very poor blood supplies.

Any fracture involving a joint will probably affect you for the rest of your life. Ankles, knees, hips, and spine carry the most weight, so they cause the most long-term problems.

 

[tree MDS]

Almost like a blast from the past now finding a big old ash! One of the most enjoyable trees I’ve “worked on” (lol) in a while.

 

[tree MDS]

I knew it’d fit in one load! Good thing the shop was right down the road. We had to have a guy spot every wire lol.

Got my years firewood (for personal use) under the crap wood. Should be pretty sweet.

 

[ZinTrees]

I knew it’d fit in one load! Good thing the shop was right down the road. We had to have a guy spot every wire lol.

Got my years firewood (for personal use) under the crap wood. Should be pretty sweet.

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Just curious, what loader setup is on that truck? how much reach does it have?

looking to get/build a setup like this eventually, mine will be an old used turd like the rest of my trucks tho LOL

 

[Howsitgoineh]

I knew it’d fit in one load! Good thing the shop was right down the road. We had to have a guy spot every wire lol.

Got my years firewood (for personal use) under the crap wood. Should be pretty sweet.

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Wow! That is a huge Ash. I don't see them all that big around here, all dying due to the emerald ash borers. We cut a lot of ash, majority goes to firewood.

Looking at that first photo I thought "hmmm that ash doesn't look that big.." then I saw the piece that was rigged down with the groundie - "oh, that is pretty big"

Sees the skid steer and the truck load - "holy moly that's a dang big ash tree!"
Nice work brother

 

[ZinTrees]

well, it was a weird day, sold the bucket truck, bought a new saw

finally figured out what the fuss is, this things a ripper! (dealer had a 362R on the shelf which is basically a unicorn saw here, I talked the sales guy into taking the full wrap off the 362 and putting it on my new 400, so that was sweet!)

my first full wrap saw too, bought it as a larger climbing saw, too hot out here to lug a 500i up a tree when all I need is a little bigger than a 200T, 261 seemed silly to get after looking at the price and specs on the 400, plus I already own a 261 that we don't use

 

[ZinTrees]

got to play with the big crane today, HUGE step up from the 30102WL and 30112S we normally have on jobs, 157ft of main boom, good for like 7K pounds at 80ft

ran the 400 so much today that half the paint's worn off the bar already, its a ripper for sure, power to weight is nice and the wrap handle is the ticket for climbing

yes, we had smaller 2" slings good for like 6400 pounds, on tree 4 I was getting tired of the "small" 6-10K picks so we 2 parted and got larger slings out for some big stuff, 130ft hickory out in 3 picks is nice!

 

[Howsitgoineh]

got to play with the big crane today, HUGE step up from the 30102WL and 30112S we normally have on jobs, 157ft of main boom, good for like 7K pounds at 80ft

ran the 400 so much today that half the paint's worn off the bar already, its a ripper for sure, power to weight is nice and the wrap handle is the ticket for climbing

yes, we had smaller 2" slings good for like 6400 pounds, on tree 4 I was getting tired of the "small" 6-10K picks so we 2 parted and got larger slings out for some big stuff, 130ft hickory out in 3 picks is nice!

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Wow what a spectacular view! Must have been a fun day. I'm a little bit jealous
2 crane days for us next week, this has got me looking forward to it. Largest crane we've used to date is an 80 ton. We use a local crane service, have crane jobs almost every other week.

Lots of lakes here where I am located, we get some amazing shots. However, we're not allowed to share photos online from the crane jobs sadly.

 

[ZinTrees]

we're not allowed to share photos online from the crane jobs sadly.

I'm glad that this crane didn't have the company name, normally I have to edit every picture to remove the company names, even my own company name gets edited out


the crane operator did let me know that he needs me to come quote some tree work at his house, and hinted that "I have room to set up our 210 ton all terrain in my front yard"

so that may be interesting, not sure what I will think of having a crane that can potentially pick 8700 pounds at 185ft radius (but we won't, I doubt he is bringing all 115K pounds of CTW to his house for a few trees, off company time if I had to guess)