So whadja do today?

[Derek]

last one

There must be more on a roll yet to come back, will get back to the other dead ones I did for the same guy, and the finish of this job, but it all went well...WHEW!


This Is a quick add for the palm job I did...Derek..

 

[glens]

How's the elbow holding up, Derek?

Listen, if you save those images at a JPEG "quality" of 60 instead of 100 (no compression) you'll drop them (as with the second one specifically) from 517,433 bytes to 94,241 with little to no degradation.  Just think, you'd be able to post all four in the time it took for one, even if nobody else benefited on the other end.

Glen

 

[Derek]

WoW

Originally posted by rumination
Nice work on that palm Derek!

Hey leon can I quote you on my adds, that sounds so good comeing from a man in HAWAII...Shame theres only one in the entire area..


Glens
How's the elbow holding up, Derek?

Did you see shot 4 i think in wadja do today, look at my forarm, holding the rope( cutting left handed these days!,,Such a long story, ill post the update in tenniss elbow soon..

Listen, if you save those images at a JPEG "quality" of 60 instead of 100 (no compression) you'll drop them (as with the second one specifically) from 517,433 bytes to 94,241 with little to no degradation. Just think, you'd be able to post all four in the time it took for one, even if nobody else benefited on the other end.

Cool, mate I dident know, allways see it there, never touched it..Cheers..Derek..

 

[MasterBlaster]

Man, I'm glad we don't have palms here!

Hey Derek, around here the cops would haul ya to jail if yur wearing a orange jumpsuit!

 

[Derek]

IM not jumping anywhere...

So you could see me then?.....Need to call them OVERALLS..
A jump suit in a tree?..Hmmmmm...

I saw your "jump" recently!!

The palm, It was a treat compared to some I got into this week..Derek..

 

[Chucky]

GEEZ-ZUS, Derek, don't you have buckets down there below???

I guess climbing in a dead tree is pretty tame after the day-to-day dealings you have with dangerous criminals, giant poisonous spiders and high-voltage transmission lines!!!

Chucky

 

[MasterBlaster]

I didn't do diddly. We had a rain event.

I'm still recovering from a lunch pizza buffet.

 

[Gord]

today i took down the biggest austrian pine i've ever seen. with a crane. it was a fairly tight spot too, made more difficult by the fact that the crane did not quite have totally sufficient reach or lift capacity. but we got her done.

 

[Gord]

kind of a decieving tree, didn't look really big until i really got up close.

 

[Gord]

almost all the wood out. no real action shots no photographer around too bad.

 

[Gord]

the crane fellow said these last few butt pieces weighed about 2300lbs each. i found it hard to believe but i suppose it's likely accurate.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Nice.

Yea, the hardest part about getting good pics is the danged photographer... they're usually too busy taking care of what yur laying down!

Believe it or not, one guy I work with will slice and dice/hand load a tree like that.

 

[BewtifulTreeMan]

why did it have to be taken out?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Stupidity, probably. :alien:

 

[Derek]

Originally posted by Chucky
GEEZ-ZUS, Derek, don't you have buckets down there below???

I guess climbing in a dead tree is pretty tame after the day-to-day dealings you have with dangerous criminals, giant poisonous spiders and high-voltage transmission lines!!!

Chucky

I knew my mood would change (trolls )..I even got zapped by Darin,,,Opps!..

You so funny Chucky...Cracks me up every time

I rather the green ones much better, The dead ones take so much longer..Wait till you see the pics of the other dead one I did (14 hours from now) The line job was so great, got some very nasty zaps, got knocked out or the tree by zaps aswell, Hanging there by a pole strap, kicking like mad to try to get my feet back in
to the tree, must of looked histericial!

Spiders I just larf at these days, have to, size of dinner plates round here!!, ya can get them of your neck and play yo-yo with them, then through (gently) like a frisbe! they float down real well to..

Nar no buckets round here {E.W.P} would be very handy on the dead ones, they just dont behave nicley...
Its the termite infested ones that give me the creeps, dont allways know there there untill your up there..

Then realy watch your step...Then to, a bucket would only get me so far..Gums here are 165 feet at times, bit out of the budjet for one of them at the monent...(long moment)

Today off (need to rest left hip) strainded it a little, Sat and Sun clearing a road so a house can be moved along it...

Ill do it for FREE just to be swinging from tree to tree like I did on the line, gee I miss that,

He offered me a good "day rate" to get the edges of the road done, i'll get 70m done without touching the ground, the other side will be better a 100 m section of real heavey stuff..

The owner has a 6 tonne mini excervatior and truck to match
he'll follow me picking it up..How cool!! (bloody big house to move
ill get some shots of it before, get the owner to take some of my "leap of faith" during...Should be a treat!!..Derek..

Hey Chucky, dont know if you saw the series of shots, I posted months ago..I took some before shots, it might of been my last tree EVER heres the first "before" shot, just getting set up..

How close does this look to 330,00 volts? and the dew/wet leaves let you feel a lot of power!!

 

[Gord]

Originally posted by MasterBlaster
Stupidity, probably. :alien:

well the stump was pushing into the house. and they have another one a bit smaller also in (smallish) back yard as well as a swimming pool (full of pine needles.) so this one was a good call actually.

 

[matthias]

Those are awesome trees Gord and Derek! I am sick of looking at pictures so I have my mind set on a trip to B.C when this line clearance contract is done (spring). Sorry Derek, I'd love to see those gum trees up close but those west coast conifers are within driving distance. After working in 30-50 footers for so long I'll probably soil myself when I actually see a 100'er.

 

[Chucky]

No thank you, Derek! I'd go back to driving Big Truck between Jersey and New York City before I'd hang in them devil trees!

Me and electricity just don't seem to get along. If I'm wearing rubber-soled shoes and standing on a carpet, I'll climb out the window before I'll touch that doorknob!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by Gord
well the stump was pushing into the house. and they have another one a bit smaller also in (smallish) back yard as well as a swimming pool (full of pine needles.) so this one was a good call actually.

Well ok, just this one time...


Ya, sometimes there's a good reason, but so many times there ain't.

 

[Gord]

Originally posted by matthias
After working in 30-50 footers for so long I'll probably soil myself when I actually see a 100'er.

100'er...set your sites a little higher eh!

100' trees around here are often small...matter of fact.