whadja do today?

[Toddppm]

Are you going to do the job of the tree in the picture?

Are there any trees close enough to tie the trunk piece off when you get to it? I haven't done a ton of storm damage work but a few.
Just wondering how everybody would do that tree with no nearby trees or a crane etc.. Normally I'd just start on the roof chunking off branches until you get to the point where the trunk meets the edge but with no tie off you can't just cut it back at the roofline and hope it doesn't hit the house. That tree looks small enough to cut the trunk off the root system first and it shouldn't put much more weight on the roof if you cut it far enough up? Since it looks too far uprooted for the rootball to help it spring back up at all.
How you going to do it?

 

[jefflovstrom]

Hey tree md, How the area around Chelsea do?
Jeff, CTSP

 

[treevet]

in the dark of the night last night some crack addicted ass whole took a bolt cutter to steal some metal off our equipment. In the process he/she pulled out the emergency plug on out bc2000 engaging the brakes and later we found killed the 2 batteries.

We find out while brush loaded on a tight 2 lane street and while trying to jump it off my pick up naturally the street turns into an interstate highway. Anyway while squeezing out of the truck with a car going by I slammed the door of my silverado on my thumb. It's down to the lot with a 32 cal. pistol at 3 hour increments in my future for tonight.

cheers

 

[jefflovstrom]

in the dark of the night last night some crack addicted ass whole took a bolt cutter to steal some metal off our equipment. In the process he/she pulled out the emergency plug on out bc2000 engaging the brakes and later we found killed the 2 batteries.

We find out while brush loaded on a tight 2 lane street and while trying to jump it off my pick up naturally the street turns into an interstate highway. Anyway while squeezing out of the truck with a car going by I slammed the door of my silverado on my thumb. It's down to the lot with a 32 cal. pistol at 3 hour increments in my future for tonight.

cheers

Karma! Check - mate! Not really TV, Sorry man! I hope your thumb sucking ammendments get the job done!
Jeff, CTSP

 

[treevet]

Karma! Check - mate! Not really TV, Sorry man! I hope your thumb sucking ammendments get the job done!
Jeff, CTSP

Maybe if I had Jeff CTSP on staff....that injury doesn't happen

 

[ropensaddle]

in the dark of the night last night some crack addicted ass whole took a bolt cutter to steal some metal off our equipment. In the process he/she pulled out the emergency plug on out bc2000 engaging the brakes and later we found killed the 2 batteries.

We find out while brush loaded on a tight 2 lane street and while trying to jump it off my pick up naturally the street turns into an interstate highway. Anyway while squeezing out of the truck with a car going by I slammed the door of my silverado on my thumb. It's down to the lot with a 32 cal. pistol at 3 hour increments in my future for tonight.

cheers

friggin crackheads

 

[jefflovstrom]

Maybe if I had Jeff CTSP on staff....that injury doesn't happen

I knew you would come back with a GOOD ONE!. Cause you crazy!
Jeff, CTSP

 

[ropensaddle]

I knew you would come back with a GOOD ONE!. Cause you crazy!
Jeff, CTSP

Yup but the CTSP he needs is certified tree sniper patrol

 

[tree md]

Are you going to do the job of the tree in the picture?

Are there any trees close enough to tie the trunk piece off when you get to it? I haven't done a ton of storm damage work but a few.
Just wondering how everybody would do that tree with no nearby trees or a crane etc.. Normally I'd just start on the roof chunking off branches until you get to the point where the trunk meets the edge but with no tie off you can't just cut it back at the roofline and hope it doesn't hit the house. That tree looks small enough to cut the trunk off the root system first and it shouldn't put much more weight on the roof if you cut it far enough up? Since it looks too far uprooted for the rootball to help it spring back up at all.
How you going to do it?

That's pretty much the plan. I have a good tree to tie off the trunk right behind where I took the picture from. I'm going to set a bull line and get some weight off of it, work it back to the edge and pull it into the yard with another tag line while I lower it on the bull line.

That's the easy one. I've got another one to do with a postage stamp drop zone on another property. About 28" DBH Maple. Going to have to lower every stick. The other two are semi large, multi-stemmed River Birch in the front of the property. Going to have to rope about 2 or 3 limbs out of those but it is mostly bombs away on those two. Just have to move all the wood from the Maple and both River Birch to a house across the street. I only have one groundman that is really able to do it tomorrow so I will have to climb and move the wood. My dad will be working with me but I don't let him move the big stuff. My other groundie is in California right now.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Yup but the CTSP he needs is certified tree sniper patrol

OMG- You a thinking man!
Jeff, CTSP

 

[ropensaddle]

That's pretty much the plan. I have a good tree to tie off the trunk right behind where I took the picture from. I'm going to set a bull line and get some weight off of it, work it back to the edge and pull it into the yard with another tag line while I lower it on the bull line.

That's the easy one. I've got another one to do with a postage stamp drop zone on another property. About 28" DBH Maple. Going to have to lower every stick. The other two are semi large, multi-stemmed River Birch in the front of the property. Going to have to rope about 2 or 3 limbs out of those but it is mostly bombs away on those two. Just have to move all the wood from the Maple and both River Birch to a house across the street. I only have one groundman that is really able to do it tomorrow so I will have to climb and move the wood. My dad will be working with me but I don't let him move the big stuff. My other groundie is in California right now.

Good to hear your getting busy surgery went well I hope?

 

[deeker]

I missed a long beard today....with both barrels of the 10ga.

 

[tree md]

That sucks TV. Happy hunting, I hope you bag a crackhead tonight.

We are all targets being that they know we have saws and equipment that is easy to get rid of but I know having the big equipment you do that has to put a huge bulls eye right on your back. One of the guys I worked for in Atlanta had a couple acre yard with an old house right in the city. It was in Buckhead which was a nicer part of town but there were still plenty of crackheads around. The place was actually his old home place where his mom and dad had lived when it was still rural and the city grew up around them. He let his crane operator and his wife live in the old house to keep an eye out for the lowlifes but they still got him a few times that I know of. I have been hit a few times and it burns me up.

Edit: I meant to say that I have got a Pitbull running around outside that will not let anyone near the shop and just loves me to death. Maybe you should get a big dog.

 

[jefflovstrom]

That sucks TV. Happy hunting, I hope you bag a crackhead tonight.

We are all targets being that they know we have saws and equipment that is easy to get rid of but I know having the big equipment you do that has to put a huge bulls eye right on your back. One of the guys I worked for in Atlanta had a couple acre yard with an old house right in the city. It was in Buckhead which was a nicer part of town but there were still plenty of crackheads around. The place was actually his old home place where his mom and dad had lived when it was still rural and the city grew up around them. He let his crane operator and his wife live in the old house to keep an eye out for the lowlifes but they still got him a few times that I know of. I have been hit a few times and it burns me up.

Now you just sound drunk, go to sleep!
J-

 

[tree md]

Good to hear your getting busy surgery went well I hope?

Yeah, very well. I got the best news I could hope for. Doctor said that I caught it very early and should make a full recovery. No chemo and no radiation. I just have to leave the tobacco alone. I had quit smoking a few years back but was still dipping snuff. It's a ##### to try to put it behind you I'll tell ya. Just having to make some lifestyle changes that are uncomfortable right now. I had to quit drinking beer after work because it makes me crave tobacco. I am also having to loose some weight. All things I should have been doing anyway. It just sucks when you have to quit everything at once. Everything I do I reach for a dip. I kept it in my ditty bag on my saddle and I keep reaching for it and it's not there. LOL, been having to say a prayer to just get me through the day without the tobacco. Worst vice anyone could ever have. I wish I had never touched the stuff.

 

[tree md]

Now you just sound drunk, go to sleep!
J-

Lol, I wish. I've only got one pain pill left and I'm saving it for bedtime. After that it's time to leave the hazy days behind and get back to work.

 

[ropensaddle]

Yeah, very well. I got the best news I could hope for. Doctor said that I caught it very early and should make a full recovery. No chemo and no radiation. I just have to leave the tobacco alone. I had quit smoking a few years back but was still dipping snuff. It's a ##### to try to put it behind you I'll tell ya. Just having to make some lifestyle changes that are uncomfortable right now. I had to quit drinking beer after work because it makes me crave tobacco. I am also having to loose some weight. All things I should have been doing anyway. It just sucks when you have to quit everything at once. Everything I do I reach for a dip. I kept it in my ditty bag on my saddle and I keep reaching for it and it's not there. LOL, been having to say a prayer to just get me through the day without the tobacco. Worst vice anyone could ever have. I wish I had never touched the stuff.

Well good, sorry ya have to can the dip and refrain from the beer but if thats what it takes brother do it. I used to not care much whether the sun rise or set but married with grand kids makes a huge difference

 

[tree md]

Well good, sorry ya have to can the dip and refrain from the beer but if thats what it takes brother do it. I used to not care much whether the sun rise or set but married with grand kids makes a huge difference

I hear ya. There ain't no livin' in dyin'.

You'd be surprised how many people will smoke themselves right into the grave knowing that they're killing themselves. I have an image in my head of my grandfather who continued to smoke right up to the bitter end. He had black lung, emphysema and lung cancer. I cannot get the picture of him coughing up blood then lighting up a cigarette out of my head. I refuse to go out like that.

 

[tree md]

Oh yeah, Jeff, I'm not sure about Chelsea but we had 33 tornadoes touchdown statewide on Monday and they are saying we had 4 touchdown this morning now. Not sure exactly where Chelsea is but down around Oklahoma City got hit pretty hard on Monday as well as the North Eastern part of the state. Our storms were very moderate compared to other parts of the state. I was woke by the weather radio at around 4:30 this morning and they were only warning of Thunderstorms at that time. The news said that the Sirens were going off in Tulsa and there was some damage but we get micro bursts and heavy thunderstorms all the time. I went back to bed. It wasn't until I got a call on the tree on a house at around 9 this morning and rode down there that I realized the extent of our damage.

 

[Toddppm]

Fthat, My master bedroom would be underground with that much storm activity all the time! Maybe the whole house!