So whadja do today?

[Derek]

I got MAIL

OhhhMaNNNN...

Just checked the mail.....

Got the SHERRILL 2004 CATALOG

Now Im never gunna get to sleep....( 10 bucks to send it WHACK)

Thanx Sean, You'll get ya 10bills back SOON...Ill get the other copies to the right people!, We'll do a group buy, for sure...

Got some shopping..opps sleeping to do..nite...Derek..

WoW, look at page 63... no wait 38....hang on p36...

arrr IT'S ALL GOOD!!

 

[Derek]

Just for the record..now1.35 am, No reading either..

Had to go clean the saws...Now mabey I can sleep!!

 

[Jumper]

Hockey.....only got hit in the head once for a change. Goalies are a strange breed............something like climbers.

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Finished getting leftover logs from milling operation hauled...the milling was fun to take part in, Paid $926. to get enough wood milled for 2 20x20 buildings, one of them 2 story. Will save a bunch vs. buying it, plus it'll be to live in a room made from my own trees.

With the pines gone i can see more of the sunset, right now, out the office window aaahhh beautous. Plus the hardwoods behind should fill out nicely over the decades.

Now I have to get rid of the scrap, either renting a 10" chipper for $150/halfday, or subbing to a competitor, hmmm...this is the 1000th post on this thread; remarkable. Where would we be without MB?

 

[Florida16]

cut down a live oak over a power line at my grandmas house today.

Free...

 

[Derek]

Got to the Red Range job..HUH...I'll get the five of them done...

I started on the deadones ( your gunna love the pics!! ) Someone
moved the barn a lot closer to the tree, since I quoted on it??

Dont you hate that!... (Note to self) Must try to quote in daylight hours in the future!!

I origanaly thought I could drop it, just take off one side first..
HuH ,,NO WAY..Very dead, dry and split but one of those things you have to do..Climbed and cut as I went, I be "uped" ( by me )when I see the photos.." Thats way to high in a brittle tree"
( was a pepermint Gum Jason!)...Swine woulden't "turn" for me
Either..Peps are great GREEN..Strange tree dry..The fibers tend to seperate into lot of little strands, hence no "twist cut" working.

No moisture to let it come down against the tree, just snaps off, even with an undercut..Bummer, took hours to get it down.



saw problems, (except the Jonno, way to cheap Aussie!)
Bar and/or chain on the 009, fuel blockage on the 088..

Up and down more than a few times!

The next one went lots better, dead 5 years, they ringbarked it, to stops the roots From going under the concrete they would one day pour, then built around it?..

Ill get the pics done faster than my normal (mail order ,3 weeks)
for this job..

ARRR the green ones tommorow...Broken, torn and full of hangers
Just the way I like them!!

He was hinting at some extra work aswell, sliped me an extra hundred, Said "There was a bit more in it than you thought ay?" Nice fella..

Turns out 3 other companys have been over the years, no one would do them..NOW YOU TELL ME!! Huh nice fella indead!..

I still did well, Ill fly through 3 green ones tommorow...$$$...
Gotogo to the shed fix some stuff...More tommorow!..Derek..

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Somehow the fun loving spirit, friendly greeting of
"So whadja do today?" that has carried thru all these pages,
as the invitation to get this party started too,
has helped spirit and volume here;

Seems now out of place;
as the open armed initiator of the feel good greetings;
is now shunned for continuing his happy,
sharing spirit path; greeting all as fully as he can.

As the countering side of his positive efforts,
continues unabated.

Different prior-i-ties i guess,
i see not the bizness end, just the human one;
And the directed focus and force
of the intent of each personna.

Mebbe a Southern Thang; but i vote for the warmth;
not the cold; as i always and all ways have.


That is even before consideration, that the
Blaster Bar allows clowning and venting that functions
to keep this place cleaner. Butch asked for such a thing here; it was too far out of context, focus, conservatism etc. to have relevance, didn't fit, totally different vein etc. But, then; it couldn't be accused of competing it would seem....

Or, something like that,
:alien:
-KC

 

[Florida16]

Wow, breathtaking...

 

[Chucky]

The refrigerator Maple.



-Chucky
Rot, Knot, & Trot TREE SERVICE

 

[Chucky]

To my amazement, my "I walked from the job" thread generated from even the crustiest arborsite members much support and positive feedback.

But it gnawed at me that I bid on the job and I didn't finish it. I kept re-assessing the dangers of the job in my mind the past few weeks, and decided it was doable, even with my somewhat limited climbing skills (but I'm a great groundie).

 

[Chucky]

I guess the thing that really bothered me about the tree when I walked was that big codom over the road. There was a huge scar on the tree when the last codom failed.

And after the second cut on that codom I realized there was some justification for my concern.

 

[Chucky]

But the rot was not extensive enough to fail from the mere weight of me. But next time I will consider some kind of breakaway lanyard in that situation.

Anyhoo, the old Maple was good to me, and I gave her a nice hug.

 

[Chucky]

Last post.

The job went very well, but of course there was a mishap. The lanyard on my 046 inexplicably detached itself from my saddle and the saw fell about 25 feet to the ground -- bar tip first. It didn't seem to affect the saw that noticeably until I made the backcut on the stump. The cuts (it only has a 20 inch bar) were so curved and screwy that I had to wedge it and pull the bole over with my station wagon to make sure it went the right way.

In this pic I'm not wearing my helmet and eye protection -- the BuggZ eye. I LOVE 'em. Never fog up!

Chucky
Lash, Crash, & Dash TREE SERVICE

 

[Chucky]

Pic.

 

[glens]

Good job!

Glen

 

[Derek]

Hey Chucky great work mate, I know where your comming from on the weak trees , A tree fell over on me once, I was in it!...

I tried not to think to hard on this one, or two, rather get some low limbs of real quick, no highlines, in case somthing breaks. work your way up, the problem with dead ones is tieing in to another limb, it could break from the "ride" taking off a large limb...Dont shake them..

About 4 in a row...Derek..BRB..

 

[Derek]

First half went easy, but the ones over the shed Hmmmm...

 

[Derek]

this was the tree I spoke of last time , with the no moisture in it..

I got them to turn off the electric fence and loosen the wires on the fence, (barly a twig touched it)..Just took my time and peiced it all out, made some little snatch straps up and let them crash into the tree...

At this stage, im taking the whole head of the rhs tree..The shake made me rethink it....VIDiEo would freak my mum out thats for sure!:angel:

 

[Derek]

Ankels sure copped a flogging, thats dam hard to get your 3' spikes into!


Opps so much for my safety speial to Chad, Not real sure in this shot, looks like im useing the Jonsered 625(way to cheap Aussie)
left [and one] handed , theres all that saw dust flying out the other side..and I can see the009 on my hip..

I must be tring to swing it somwhere

Gives a better veiw of the size to!..

Couple more..BRB..Derek..

 

[Derek]

Nearly done ...Thanx for waiting to "comment" on them. Hate a brocken line of shots

I told the owner, cum groundie, that im not tring the shockload treatment again, to much shake for this little duck ..He agreed ,
I cut the one in the current pic real slowley, no under cut,(put a safety cut in at the fork thought)it hung on enought to miss the shed and not hit the tree, and drop somthing eles on my head, happen heaps of times, get used to it..WHERE A BLOODY HELMET

you can make out the rope in the branch above it, got the cowboys there to pull it for me (Dynamic rope 10 mm)
"Worked it's arsoff" got out there as much as I wanted to cut a nice thin scarf towards them, slightly under sided and let her go with a slight twist cut to not jamb the blade...

"THESE GUYS ARE GOOD" was all I could yell! (dont you love it when it goes right?)...

Missed every thing ( well a couple of twigs on his fence, but missed all the gates!..

Went up took little bits at a time till I could drop it ..