So whadja do today?

[Stumper]

Redlineit, Actually I think that is way cool. Doing something with a dead specimen makes sense if it has some artistic interest so long as everyone understands that the tree is dead and we are engaged in art rather than arboriculture. Did you get a picture?

 

[Thor's Hammer]

I really like that, Great Idea. got any pics?

 

[vharrison2]

Great story.

 

[vharrison2]

Hurricane Dennis in Key West.

 

[vharrison2]

Here is one more

 

[Ekka]

I can smell the money your makin from here VH ... ka ching, ka ching.

And it's a time that you get some back from those filthy insurance companies.

 

[vharrison2]

Bowling for $$

Just had a client describe the storm like that, thought it was funny. Although, these storms are very dangerous and can be deadly. They are not to be taken lightly.

 

[vharrison2]

Took the guys working in Key West some lunch. Also, took the annual photo. It is the one time during the year just about everybody is in one place.

 

[MasterBlaster]

They hafta eat coconuts???

 

[vharrison2]

Ralmao

 

[crane tree]

"the wind caught it!"

driving down my road on the way home after a big day, i catch a glimpse of an unknown neighbor looking up at the corner of his house, the the profile of a 40 ft x8" pine tree severly leaning toward the house.
---i drove on by for a couple hundred feet, but then backed up to see whatup. hurricane dennis was on the way, so he was doing "prevent defense " doityourself ignorant style. he had tried to directional fell the tree away from the house, he says, " the wind caught it!" it fell about 45 degrees from where he wanted,right towards the house,onto the service power pole, by small miracle the trunk perched right onto the top of the pole, with a big branch balanceing the whole thing by being splayed out onto the power line loop at the pole ---i recon it was coincidence the front notch and back cut was all wrong, hinge was in the wrong place with only 1/2" to serve as guide and he did not use a rope to guide it anywhere in particular.
---so i used my pole saw , cut brances all off except one a little entangled with the power line loop, down to bare trunk-used 4"x4" for a midway prop with 2"x4"'s (to make wide) and 1"x4" "ears" then wedged it up a little bit to unweight the tree--i had a 100 foot guide rope on it, and showed his wife how to hold it out at the end-- and when i made the final cut and yelled she would only have to nuge the rope, the prop would act as crutch and go over with the tree--(elbow on the table, your forearn is the "prop"-put your arm up then let it go down to the table)
---i showed her about where to tree would hit and how she would be safe at the end of the rope , and after the nudge would have plenty time to trot off a few more feet anyway just to be safe---so i extend the polesaw-have a bench properly stableized to stand on-and make the cut --it was beautiful, the end piece rolled over the top of the pole,out of the entangled loop, over and right down to the ground without tearing up the power line--still looking up , i yelled to pull and she did, and watching the tree start to slowly roll and fell with the prop guiding its fell arch-i look down and over at the wife, she had for some reason,quitely moved up on the rope to the exact spot where i told her the tree would fall--i hollered, she realized what was happening-and leaped out of the way--oh dam- it fell right where she had stood-blam!!!-that trunk would have killed her--i cannot explain what i felt,the air turned mighty blue in general,but its was mostly anger at myself,,, i think --so i wipe down with a clean towel, clean up my tools, put em away, sun was pretty low in the sky, guessed i had been there working steady for 2 hours at least-in general i was in a puzzeled but bad mood , then the homeowner comes up and tries to hand me $10--i just put up my hand, shook my head, got in my truck and leave--!!! ---i thought of one of my favorite books--"Carry the Wind" about mountian men trappers the first to interact with the rocky mountain Indians in the early 1800's--right then i wished i was there!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Damage!!!

 

[Tom D. Wilson]

**** yeh boy, go catch your self a beaver! thems good eating yesssir

 

[treeseer]

Today? Got 5 calls for consultations, 4 goaheads. I'll make more in those 4 hrs than I used to make in 40 when I started out.

Course I'll spend more too.

 

[diltree]

Id love to do tree work in Florida.....but are there not lots of snakes and spiders of a poisonous nature in the trees.......I'm not scared of extreme heights...but snakes and spiders, count me out

 

[treeseer]

...but are there not lots of snakes and spiders of a poisonous nature in the trees.......

Don't forget the gators and the bats and cougars and cockroaches big as mice and rats big as possums and possums big as coons and armadillers and howlin she-devils!

I seen em all in Floriddy, better stay in Mass.

 

[diltree]

Don't forget the gators and the bats and cougars and cockroaches big as mice and rats big as possums and possums big as coons and armadillers and howlin she-devils!

I seen em all in Floriddy, better stay in Mass.

I swear, If i came across a huge snake way up in a tree, I would unhitch my lanyard and take my chances with the fall.

Ill stick with my current hardiness zone, for that reason

 

[Tom D. Wilson]

i agree, spoke to a bloke here in the uk who had been out working in ozz, instead of just carrying a large wound dressing in his personal first aid kit he had antivenoms as well, you just had to hope you got a glimpse of what bit yeh as it scuttles of so you got the right one,

 

[Dadatwins]

I get to play with this toy for a few weeks at the brush landfill. Get to push brush and wood & load trucks with grindings. For anyone that has played with Tonka toys the real thing is much more fun.

 

[RAMRod]

End Loader

Cool toy there dadatwins... Did it have an automatic tranny?

I drove one off and on one summer when I worked for a tractor junk-yard in Iowa. Was a hoot! That one had an automatic in it, and I remember being amazed that it could take all the torque.