Treeslaying Illinois style

[gr8scott72]

my new camera is awesome, a Nikon D70 DSLR with a 24 - 120 mm zoom.

we finally caught a break with the weather, and I sold a sweet job, 4 dead trees, leave the wood, took our time and had fun with em, and fine tuned the yard.

love to bomb, and a bag of topsoil fixes anything!

bummer, tried to load pics, at 3 mb they kinda overwhelm the AS uploader. probably could reduce the resolution, but that would be a waste.

Get a photobucket account (free). You can upload any size pic and they all come out the same to your preset size.

 

[Nailsbeats]

Get a photobucket account (free). You can upload any size pic and they all come out the same to your preset size.

I'll second that.

 

[treevet]

I got a nice camera and often don't take it out for fear of dirt and damage.

 

[gr8scott72]

I got a nice camera and often don't take it out for fear of dirt and damage.

That's what the cheap point-and-shoot cameras are for.

 

[treeslayer]

good ideas. photobucket it is, (yahoo has one called flickr), I will have to do that.

you're right about the dirt, it came home kinda dusty, not gonna happen again. I had a small Olympus for a long time, but it beat me out the tree once and hasn't worked right since.

 

[Brimmstone]

Is that the little camera that died down here?

 

[treevet]

That's what the cheap point-and-shoot cameras are for.

That was my point. Had a cheapo and bought a nice one like David's but it often sits in the office as I doubt if I will ever take it up in the air.

 

[treeslayer]

Is that the little camera that died down here?

one just like it. had 2, got none. the new camera WILL NOT go up.

was a tough camera, worked for a week after the 50' bounce thru a tree.

 

[brnchbrkr]

Irfanview

my new camera is awesome, a Nikon D70 DSLR with a 24 - 120 mm zoom.

we finally caught a break with the weather, and I sold a sweet job, 4 dead trees, leave the wood, took our time and had fun with em, and fine tuned the yard.

love to bomb, and a bag of topsoil fixes anything!

bummer, tried to load pics, at 3 mb they kinda overwhelm the AS uploader. probably could reduce the resolution, but that would be a waste.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Freeware

Great tool for your laptop or desktop.

Batch resizing, renaming, slideshows, etc.

free

 

[Brimmstone]

God I haven't heard of that program for years. That is what I first used myself till I was given a copy of Macromedia Fireworks

 

[treeslayer]

finally back on crane!!

we hammered 3 good sized oaks today, on 3 different jobs. all worthy of a crane, and made the good money on em all.
tree 1 live Red Oak leaning against a house.
tree 2 VERY dead Red oak trying to fall on a house.
while doing the second job, the big, fresh dead red oak 30' feet away in the neighbors yard called to me, cried for for my loving saw, and I tore her ass out the frame. She was victim 3. We never even moved the crane, I took it apart sending hand signals to a halfway man, and I crippled that ground crew. :hmm3grin2orange:

all the wood to the tree 2 front yard. I hitched a leader as high as we get, dropped down and cut under several more leaders, sending the loads sideways over the house back to the landing zone, only way they could get over the house. too far for the jib, unless piecing small. NOT ME. :hmm3grin2orange:

we have over 400 pics today, and will be uploading soon. I have a Flickr account for the high resolution stuff.

 

[treevet]

Nice job David, does Whitey do tree work for others? Nice crane and set up.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Sorry

I am getting "Goose-Bumps" all over!
Jeff
(there I go)

 

[treeslayer]

they do a lot ,from what I hear. Vern, the operator was a climber for many years, and it shows, one of the the best I've ever worked with.

 

[treevet]

you are a very delicate type aren't you Jeff?

 

[treeslayer]

Tree 2

this took 30 minutes.

 

[treeslayer]

here's how to get to work.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Freedom

I guess I like you after all this time of getting me" pee-d off" on your ego and so much time to post. Me, well, I got 3 girls, 15, 8, and 9. Yeah , you know my Boss and stuff and you are right, I did offer you a job a few years back. Probably around the Big Ones in the south. We sent a small crew. Anyway, Yeah I am am management , but I got there the hard way. Now I need to take care of my family and Maybe get a little jealous of the good old days.
Jef
(can I take it out on you?)

 

[treeslayer]

Me, well, I got 3 girls, 15, 8, and 9.

My girls are 19, 17, and 13. and my mini-me is 14.

 

[treeslayer]

Tree 3

The ground crew was overwhelmed with this one, and the photographers pitched in to help their boyfriends.
Tom ran them ragged all day, and I just sent more.
you can see it behind the nasty dead one, was a reach.