So whadja do today?

[MasterBlaster]

Thank you, sir.

 

[murphy4trees]

one of the best advantages of the open face notch as you cut it is that it is hard to unintentionally bypass the face cuts... And its trees like that where a bypass would lead to hinge failure and that tree would have ended up across the fence... AT BEST..

Good pics. The ability to fall trees like that with confidence is invaluable in this industry...

 

[ORclimber]

Originally posted by matthias
ORclimber would it be an accurate guess to say that cottonwood was around 100'?

Not sure, probably getting close. I was tied in 25' from the top with a 150' of fly and had plenty of rope on the ground, but never came out of the tree to have the rope as a good measure. There was about a 10' more stick off the side of the road.

 

[matthias]

I've deadwooded close to 30 Siberian elms this summer on the local army base. Here's some pictures of one particularly bad one and what I did.

 

[matthias]

And after. I tried not to take any green out but the deadwood supported some live branches that drooped to the ground and would have been snapped off as soon as the next summer student cut the grass.

 

[matthias]

A little closer.

 

[matthias]

It's hard to make the perfect cut when the deadwood has been left in so long. Some of the collars were not so obvious.

 

[matthias]

Some poplar deadwooding. It's nice how a lot of the dead branches can be pulled/yanked/kicked off and come completely out of the tree without leaving any stub. You still end up cutting alot of broken stubs though.

 

[jkrueger]

Originally posted by matthias
It's hard to make the perfect cut when the deadwood has been left in so long. Some of the collars were not so obvious.

Looks like the tree had been toped some time ago, am I correct.

Good pics.

Jack

 

[jkrueger]

Spent the day doing estimates and errands. So, got back and knew I had to climb something or die.

Had this oak down by the river in the park spotted for some time. Went there for a get away from it kinda climb. Da, woudn't you know up in the tree I began to find dead wood not seen frim the ground. Darn, I thought this would make a good rec climb.

A couple of hours latter and a truck load of brush below. Dang, I did it again, got dead tips I'd probably leave on a job. Boy how can you have fun when your so compulsive?

I guess this was fun!

Jack

 

[MasterBlaster]

You're more hardcore than me, brother!

 

[SteveBullman]

did a light reduction today on these 2 planes.
spent half my lunch break in the toilets puking.
you have many planes over there? their a nightmare to work with this time of year.
was in france last month and they were everywhere!

 

[SteveBullman]

forgot the pic

 

[SilverBlue]

I'm still stuck doing the small jobs myself while the crew catches up, here's the easiest one I did all month..

 

[SilverBlue]

OOPS forgot to mention the gator, racoon, tiger, and wild kitten infested Cooksville creek at least it was an easy clean up. Hey MB there's your saw.

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Stephen were those After shots on those planes? If so, beautiful work; they hardly look pruned at all.:angel:

If not can you post the Afters so we can all jump on you?

 

[Trtd61]

From the looks of the brush on the ground, looks like an after pic to me.

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Man, I need glasses; all I see is a guy in overalls walking on what seems to be grass and very little brush inside that fence. It did look :Eye: like an after pic to me(I can see a LITTLE more with specs now), judging by the branch ends.

 

[John Stewart]

Rocky
They are hard to tell apart till they mature and even then it makes me pause
London Plane has two fruiting structures hanging one below the other and Sycamore has only one fruit
The leaves are very close
No fruit and your on your own!
Later
John

 

[Dadatwins]

Originally posted by RockyJSquirrel
Are London Plane trees similar to Sycamore trees? Those leaves look smaller but they look similar. Smooth bark and wood, major sinus inflammation whenever you work on them, especially when the lil fuzzballs are dropping. But even the sawdust will make me itch.

They are both close and both have that yummy pollen that gets everywhere and makes you sneeze and itch all over. Great chipping them after about a week or two of dry weather, every limb causes a big puff of yellow / green mist. Make me sneeze just looking at pictures of those things.