Pics of my work with Dave Ryan last weekend

John Paul Sanborn · Mar 17, 2003

We went out to his old haunts to do some work for a long term client

I got some of the pic's on my server storage (can't call it a website) http://home.wi.rr.com/sanbornstrees/

The new sets are DWT ash W D Ryan and St Croix Vista Prune. On the vista we gave the clients brother a radio to talk to me in the tree so I could get the last few twigs out of the way. Most of it was deadwood, but there were some limbs that went and 2 reduction cuts.

Attached below is an adjuster for the retrievable FC I've mentioned before.

One of the DWT pics you will see Dave trying to reset the pulleys before I could get the camera since he laced them backwards

Gopher · Mar 17, 2003

Pics...

That Sanborn, he doesn't miss a beat! I wanted him to have a challenge raising that cut section as it flipped! Well, yes, I did rig the one backwards. That's why I have camerman JP there. Between the two of us, the job is completed safely, and we manage to make sure one or two jabs are thrown (above the belt of course) during the course of the day!

The removal went as planned, and the view from along the St. Croix River beats any desk job!

We are going to be doing another removal (another ash adjacent to the one we just completed), but need to schedule the job with Excel Energy as the lines to the home will be lowered. Not much room on this one, either, but we will be up to the challenge.

I think we will schedule this one in oh, maybe August so that a little boating will be enjoyed by JPS and the Gopher.

Gopher

John Paul Sanborn · Mar 18, 2003

Once the power cones down (single drop sub-pole) there will be scads of room to rig stuff out. Got 2 nice planes to rig a speedline to too.

Greg · Mar 20, 2003

Looks like a lot of set up when you could have just tiped it down and thrown it off the roof. But it did look pretty cool!!

My local Elec co is great about droping the power lines (to the house) as long as I give them a days notice they will be there when ever I tell them I need them, and back within an hour of my call to hook it back up. None of this between 8 and 11 cr@p that the cable company pulls. I just snip thier line in half and buy a couple of $2 connectors to patch things back up. Yesterday I had a little problem because the house had digital phone service provided by the cable company, my splice made the TV fuzzy and the phone wouldn't work at all. I did it again and left the copper a little longer and it worked like a champ!
Greg

Gopher · Mar 20, 2003

pics

We thought about using the roof, but it was far too steep, and a little too far to reach. Add to this a deck off the second story that the tree (which was rubbing on the stairs) ran over, gave us not enough room to try and throw. We did exactly what we had to do, and nothing was touched. Yes, if we could have climbed on the roof (if it wasn't so steep) we could have gotten it done a little cheaper. Would we have been as safe being on the roof? I don't think so.

John Paul Sanborn · Mar 20, 2003

Rigging was the only safe way to do this tree. Setup took a little while, but then it was just cut and swing.

The dwt ran through a retrievable/adjustable falce crotch, through a crotch in another tree then fishpoled down to the base of the one we will do later this year. The FC was set with a throwline while Dave was climbing the other tree.

One of the problems with northern homes is that the roof pitch is rather steep to avoid snow loading, add twigs and moss, and you get a place I don't like walking