Post Your Climbing Pics

[Tim Gardner]

Brian,

I bet it is a little unnerving to have that top hanging over your head for a few seconds. I have used cranes but only for storm damage removal. Great pics!

I am hoping Tom will post some pics from his climb that was on CBS this morning. What about the rest of you guys?

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Only one I could find where you can see me. About 3 years old, a buddy took.

Cant seem to size it right with corel tonight.

 

[NeTree]

John,

Ever try Irfanview? You can't paint with it, but it does just about everything else you can imagine.

http://www.irfanview.com/


Erik

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

My sister installed Corel on my machine so she can do her moonlight stuff, mostly menues for diners.

So she comes in and changes parameters and I have to wait for her to fix it .

This way I ain't paying for the softwear I hardly ever use.

 

[Nickrosis]

Erik: I can't see you in your picture.

Brian: I'd feel vulnerable without a hemet! I'm glad you wear one now! Keeps you around a little bit longer, especially with all the thinking faculties.

Circled one is me...... I switched faces to make myself more recognizable. I thought putting my other body in the picture would be overkill.

Nickrosis

 

[treeclimber165]

Nick,
I just started wearing a helmet this year, when I got back into climbing. I was required to wear a standard hardhat a several companies in the past, but common sense tells me that they are worthless in a tree without a chinstrap (but a chinstrap is a CHOKING HAZARD, so you cannot have one!). I feel much more at ease now knowing I have a small piece of plastic protecting my skull, and not having to keep it balanced on my head while climbing.

 

[NeTree]

Nick,

Maybe this pic will be a little better. My girlfriend brightened it up a bit and circled me. All the more reason to get a nice digital camera... hmmm, maybe for X-mas??


Erik

 

[Nickrosis]

Yeah....and I need to send in the police report to the insurance company to get mine back.

Nickrosis

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

Hey, I'm working.

 

[Tim Gardner]

Originally posted by kf_tree
nice pics.

did you paint your helmet or did it come in green?

Ken sent me a private message with regards to painting Petzl helmets and that it might compromise the safety of it. My helmet is manufactured by Fibre-Metal and is made of fiber glass, not a type of “plastic” like the Petzl. It was painted at the factory so I repainted it the color of my choice. Check with the manufacturer of your helmet before painting it.

Thanks for the heads-up Ken.

 

[underwor]

You asked for it. My good side. About 2 years ago

Bob Underwood

Berg Takedown - Veterans Day - 2000

 

[FBerkel]

I'm not sure this is compressed enough...

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

With that big caboose I thought it had to be one of those cornfead, haybailin', farmgirl students of yours!

 

[FBerkel]

Try that again...

 

[seanlarkin]

Here I am at work, pretending to work...Tobe is the one up in the tree, taking the picture of me.

 

[FBerkel]

Naw, I wasn't nervous about that piece...

 

[FBerkel]

Back up to the top.

 

[FBerkel]

And off it goes. This (cottonwood) removal took two days of rigging with lines, and one day to get the wood down with the crane. What a waste of time, not bringing the crane in right from the start! The bottom section was 22 feet high, averaged 7 foot diameter (nine at base) Estimated weight: 20 tons. I sold the wood to a guy who wanted to carve it into a sculpture (which he never did, it still sits on his farm, rotting now.

 

[rbtree]

Very impressive, Fred!!

I've done some biggies, some that took that long, but never that big, specially not a cottonwood!


Some yrs ago, we got 2500 board feet of peelers from the bottom 50 feet of a cottonwood, that was 5 feet dbh, over 6 at the ground, but only 50 yrs old.

Today's tree, a young, double trunked 110 foot poplar, took about four hours to get down. It produced 12 yards of chips. We speedlined most of it. $ 900, a bit low, but 300 more for a one hour cedar teardown helped. Plus an hour bucking wood and cleanup...

 

[kf_tree]

dammm, fred that was a monster. i love the pics when the climber looks like an insect. it really puts those big tree's in perspective. when you watch some one start going up a monster removal, it like how is that little guy going to cut that monster down. but piece by piece they come down.