4 120-135 foot poplars, plus 2 small satellite trees. At the ground butt size is 3-5-5 feet. Right on a busy street with apartment on other side. I won't start it till we get a promising weather window AND the piped ehp Dolmar 5100 is in my grubby li'l hands...I hope Ed sent it, as he said he was visiting Russ this week, and would do so then. It'll be a perfect job to shoot lots of pics and video.
We actually have a fair drop zone at a 45 degree angle away from the wires for the first two trees, and a bit on the third, which is in between the house and the drop zone. So can pull a lot of 30-45 foot tops... and tip tie a lot with the GRCS. The 4th tree poses concerns with its hollow 3 foot butt, and only an inch or two or solid wood. But its smaller trunk and the tree next to it can be tied into. And I can dump 15-25 foot long brush and maybe tops along side the house, or into the busy street using temporary traffic stoppage. Two climbers, 4 groundies (3 of them also climb so we can trade off), two chip trucks, I'm shooting for less than 2 days to brush them out. We have the parking lane close to the trees after 9 am.
Day 3, crew of three, we bring in my crane guy for the last 50-80 feet, which we'll load directly into containers from a delivery service. The customer is arranging all the service drops, permits, sidewalk and street use permits, and the brief lane closure needed when we park the crane on the street for the last two trees.
Then we grind and haul the chips from the two stumps right on the sidewalk.
Total $ will be between $13-16k, the customer was nice enough to accept my variable price.
We actually have a fair drop zone at a 45 degree angle away from the wires for the first two trees, and a bit on the third, which is in between the house and the drop zone. So can pull a lot of 30-45 foot tops... and tip tie a lot with the GRCS. The 4th tree poses concerns with its hollow 3 foot butt, and only an inch or two or solid wood. But its smaller trunk and the tree next to it can be tied into. And I can dump 15-25 foot long brush and maybe tops along side the house, or into the busy street using temporary traffic stoppage. Two climbers, 4 groundies (3 of them also climb so we can trade off), two chip trucks, I'm shooting for less than 2 days to brush them out. We have the parking lane close to the trees after 9 am.
Day 3, crew of three, we bring in my crane guy for the last 50-80 feet, which we'll load directly into containers from a delivery service. The customer is arranging all the service drops, permits, sidewalk and street use permits, and the brief lane closure needed when we park the crane on the street for the last two trees.
Then we grind and haul the chips from the two stumps right on the sidewalk.
Total $ will be between $13-16k, the customer was nice enough to accept my variable price.
