really big poplar

[treeslayer]

this tree was 140' tall and 20'circumfrence, Isabel knocked it over in the ravine .(and not on the house thank God.)

 

[treeslayer]

Heres how we got it out. only had to take it to the street.

 

[treeslayer]

buried an 088 with a 36" bar.

 

[treeslayer]

short heavy blocks, the whole tree totaled out at 54,000 lbs.

 

[treeslayer]

homeowner in front of part of the tree.

 

[treeslayer]

bringing the small stuff out of the ravine.

 

[treeslayer]

Sure was nice having my name on this baby for a month.

 

[treeslayer]

Billy, a real operator. (and my cool logo for the hurricane!)

 

[treeslayer]

Of course I got one of JPS, he was also the security guy, protecting the trucks from all the riff raff driving around.
at 6' 7", he was more than a good deterent.

 

[treeslayer]

one last crane shot

 

[treeslayer]

oh, yeah, this is a small tree in the front yard I threw in for nothing.

thats JPS actually picking it up!

 

[buckduck]

Great pics!!
Thanks for posting!

 

[Lumberjack]

Good work. Looks like yal may of had fun while yall were doing it.


How much would a job like that run, if I may ask?



Carl

 

[treeslayer]

$10,850 for the poplar, +$5000 for the trees knocked down into the ravine. took a day and a half.
You used y'all twice in one sentence, Carl, where are you from?
God Bless a country boy!

we even made the newspaper.

 

[njarbor]

that was really sick. i did notice however that in the first picture where you are standing on a chunk of the spar, was that saw running? i assmune it wasnt but if so i wouldnt want to be in that position if that saw kicked back

 

[MasterBlaster]

So Tree you did nearly $16,000 in less then 2 days?

Yikes!!!

 

[treeslayer]

That was Joey Cornell standing on the log, (spars are vertical).
He can handle it. so can I.
of course the saw was running, that makes the chain turn,

Not a lot of kickback with an 088, (god help you when it does), had to be done.


Thanks to people like John Paul Sanborne, Chad Brey, Lance Wallace, and Joey Cornell and his partner Patrick.

 

[Climbing mike]

How much was the 70 ton crane charging you per hour? I heard the cranes were the ones making the most money.

Mike

 

[Scars2prove-it]

Where we got hit in Maryland, a friend of mine was charging $4500 - $5600 just to take a tree off the house and set it on the yard. And that was with a 45' crane on a polecat that he just bought for $15,000. He did seven of those jobs the day after Isabel hit.

 

[treehugger01]

Thanks for those pics.
Monster tree indeed. Whole op looks squared away!
Clean job to, that is always a plus.
You had the crane a whole month? Daum thats gotta be alright. I'd have stayed tied into that bugger as much as possible. Monster crane that one is!