whadja do today?

[Rabid K9]

Season of burning orb of doom, relentless wind & dust definitely upon us, working with a constant 40-70km/h wind always adds another dimension in summer.

Third day of three day job, waiting for a lull in wind to bomb a flooded gum top into the carpark, should fit just inside cones, butt lined up to feed straight into chipper.

 

[tree MDS]

Few stills from the locust today. Lol. Got the load of wood we had on from Saturday dumped and packed the log truck and dumped again. Amazing all that wood fit in two loads perfectly (amazing all that wood came out of just three trees!). Started the locust at 12:00 or so. Got her all topped out around 4:30. Pretty good Monday!

 

[treebilly]

I need a spider lift bad. Climbing is starting to take a toll on me. Just don’t recover like I did 20 years ago

 

[no tree to big]

Few stills from the locust today. Lol. Got the load of wood we had on from Saturday dumped and packed the log truck and dumped again. Amazing all that wood fit in two loads perfectly (amazing all that wood came out of just three trees!). Started the locust at 12:00 or so. Got her all topped out around 4:30. Pretty good Monday!
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No b4 pic of that tree? Def doesn't look like a 10kdolla tree idk yall must be slow. 2999.99 including stump soil and seed, bahahaha.

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[tree MDS]

No b4 pic of that tree? Def doesn't look like a 10kdolla tree idk yall must be slow. 2999.99 including stump soil and seed, bahahaha.

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Lol. Idk. There’s cables galore to try and separate for the dump, old cables snipped off, newer cables, cavities, cracks, holes everywhere. I’m hardly chipping anything. Don’t trust that **** around my machines! Trunk is huge too! But yeah, it’s just a tree. Probably 115’ or 120 maybe, something like that. Maybe a little more.

here’s about the only pic I have where you can see it in its full on skanky glory lol.

 

[mikewhite85]

Nice work!

 

[mikewhite85]

You going to charge 10k???

 

[mikewhite85]

Have struggled to find a good position / balance with the knee ascender as well. Swap regularly between single & double throughout climbs so have found a bastardised tree / cave / rock set up works well for me.

* Zig zag with chicane, no chest lanyard.
* Right foot ascender (silky saw also on right calf).
* Right hand ascender above chicane.

Disconnect chicane & straight into double set-up, just have to remember to remove hand ascender (not that I've ever forgotten & had it go sailing up to get stuck in a notch....). No pesky knee ascender to get in way during work, foot ascender there ready for all the various micro climbs within larger climbs.

Good plan! I'm guessing you have a foot loop running down from the hand ascender?

The only thing that irks me about the chicane for drt is having to run the whole rope through to my spliced eye. I know they make those special narrow spliced eyes to eliminate that problem but I never got around to buying a rope with one. I also have a rope runner pro but never use it! Maybe I'm old school but my "go to" for drt is still a split tail with blakes hitch!

 

[mikewhite85]

Some nasty rain today. We stayed in and drank coffee.

On Friday we finished up a 2 day job pruning 13 Pin Oaks at the hospital. It was a pretty public job so we hired a photographer. Here are a few shots.

 

[tree MDS]

Took delivery of the new track lift today, so between that and getting my old lift’s annual inspection done, didn’t start cutting on this till around noon, I’d guess. Piece of cake.

 

[tree MDS]

Lol. Arboristing.

 

[mikewhite85]

Lol. Arboristing.
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Finally!!

 

[Jed1124]

Took delivery of the new track lift today, so between that and getting my old lift’s annual inspection done, didn’t start cutting on this till around noon, I’d guess. Piece of cake.
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You can dump that **** at my house and save the fee at supreme. Like me some locust. Don’t get much of it. Minus the butt log lol.
Glad to see Danny got you in there!

 

[dbl612]

Lol. Arboristing.
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Is that the treevet memorial labor saver? Congrats!

 

[tree MDS]

You can dump that **** at my house and save the fee at supreme. Like me some locust. Don’t get much of it. Minus the butt log lol.
Glad to see Danny got you in there!

He’s a really good guy. Knows quality when he sees it. Lol.

You ever see that car he’s been working on? Lol. Thing is sick!

 

[epicklein22]

Took down this large sugar maple today (36” dbh, over 100’ tall). I was able to bomb most of the brush except for a few over a hemlock and then dropped it. It was in the backyard, down a pretty steep hill, and the homeowner just wanted it dropped and cut to lay flat. Would have been a nightmare getting it hauled out.
We took down some smaller maples in the front yard next to this ravine. The stumps were right off the bank, but the homeowner wanted them ground if possible. I ended up tying my stumper off to my mini just in case it started to slide.

 

[epicklein22]

Quick video of me cutting a lead off the tree in the picture above.

 

[tree MDS]

I wonder what Trivit did today??

 

[tree MDS]

I wonder what Trivit did today??

Probably was an old Puss-bag. Lol…

 

[capetrees]

Probably was an old Puss-bag. Lol…

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