whadja do today?

[treemandan]

Today we knocked down the 90 foot dead elm with no bark on it with wires under it. You talk about cranes and small pickers and Wraptors and Dingos and 880's.....but sometimes a big cherry picker is the right tool and just boggling what it can do, mine being 75' reach. Every time it goes out I come back with a new love for it. This tree could not have been climbed and we would have halved the time to set up and boom a crane over the wires (real steep) from the road and the drive would not have taken the weight.

Sounds like a bucket job.

 

[ozzy42]

Found this nice little suprise after getting in the canopy this morning.
Gotta love Mondays.




What do you all think about this little cavity?

It was about 30 ft up on the main stem of this 45 ft 26 inch DBH water oak

Decided it was safe enough to tie in 10 feet above this point.

This is a lower limb coming of the trunk below the bad spot.

Sorry,I don't know how to blow up pics.
I have to get the wife to load them on the photobucket[computer illiterate]
Even though I tied in above that bad hole ,I had a fairly high limb going away from the fence that we rigged on for lowering,and that worked out pretty good as 80% of the tree was hanging over the fence ,and getting in the other back yard was a real P.I.T.A .

Took the spar down to 15ft before dropping the rest parallel to the fence.

Used my homemade porty for the logs.
What can I say,I like to make things with metal.

All in all ,wasn't too bad of a job.
Had to bail out at 3:00,had an appointment.
Back in the morning to haul off the rounds and grind the stump.

 

[treevet]

Good job Ozzy.....go small above those big defects.

 

[tree md]

Nice job Ozzy!

 

[oldirty]

good effort 42.

 

[ozzy42]

Good job Ozzy.....go small above those big defects.

Thanks ,I wasn't bouncing around nearly as hard as I usually do .
I felt a lot better after I dropped about 300lbs of the tree from above that spot.Figured it made up for my weight and gear plus a few pounds.
I could have bombed the whole top into the neighbors yard,but I needed the T.I.P. for walking out some of the lower limbs that had to be roped.

 

[ozzy42]

Nice job Ozzy!

good effort 42.

Thanks guys .

This was my first posting of pics of tree work.
Made the wife load them up.
Figured I follow the thread enough I should at least try to contribute a lil something.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Found this nice little suprise after getting in the canopy this morning.
Gotta love Mondays.




What do you all think about this little cavity?

It was about 30 ft up on the main stem of this 45 ft 26 inch DBH water oak

Decided it was safe enough to tie in 10 feet above this point.

This is a lower limb coming of the trunk below the bad spot.

Sorry,I don't know how to blow up pics.
I have to get the wife to load them on the photobucket[computer illiterate]
Even though I tied in above that bad hole ,I had a fairly high limb going away from the fence that we rigged on for lowering,and that worked out pretty good as 80% of the tree was hanging over the fence ,and getting in the other back yard was a real P.I.T.A .

Took the spar down to 15ft before dropping the rest parallel to the fence.

Used my homemade porty for the logs.
What can I say,I like to make things with metal.

All in all ,wasn't too bad of a job.
Had to bail out at 3:00,had an appointment.
Back in the morning to haul off the rounds and grind the stump.

Hey Oz, Is that rope running a tail on a square or did you round it off?
The pic does not let me answer my own question. Do you have Windows Picasa?
Jeff CTSP

 

[jefflovstrom]

I think I may be going to Hell but I agree with Jeff(choke....)

And thanks for the kind thoughts TV, now I am going to spend my remaining 5 days worrying about clients and equipment and reputation and and and......


Gee the powder looks good out there.... I better go strap on my skiis and inspect some more Alpine eucs.... they really need a VTA on every one of the thousand or so down the Shaky Knees run!

OK, I am game, What is an Alpine euc?
Jeff

 

[ropensaddle]

Good job ozzy I was cleaning up after the alphabet crew big mess 6 big pines clean up is boring though,looks like u had some fun

 

[ropensaddle]

Today we knocked down the 90 foot dead elm with no bark on it with wires under it. You talk about cranes and small pickers and Wraptors and Dingos and 880's.....but sometimes a big cherry picker is the right tool and just boggling what it can do, mine being 75' reach. Every time it goes out I come back with a new love for it. This tree could not have been climbed and we would have halved the time to set up and boom a crane over the wires (real steep) from the road and the drive would not have taken the weight.

gonna have to start taking a cam with ya vet:rant:

 

[ropensaddle]

Hey Oz, Is that rope running a tail on a square or did you round it off?
The pic does not let me answer my own question. Do you have Windows Picasa?
Jeff CTSP

here ya go jeffy lol

 

[jefflovstrom]

here ya go jeffy lol

That was no help, Ropey! Same pic. Is it rounded off? Guessing yes, since all was good.
Jeff

 

[ropensaddle]

That was no help, Ropey! Same pic. Is it rounded off? Guessing yes, since all was good.
Jeff

I can't take a pic jeff:dunno:

 

[ozzy42]

Hey Oz, Is that rope running a tail on a square or did you round it off?
The pic does not let me answer my own question. Do you have Windows Picasa?
Jeff CTSP

Yes and no.I did use 3/4 box tubing on the ends for the pegs but it is rounded where it;s attached via the mig weld.
It was the first one I made.I used the BT ,3/8 cold roll,and 1 3/4 od tubing[roll cage tubing].All stuff I had laying around.
I am going to make some more ,using all round the next time.

 

[ozzy42]

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I can't take a pic jeff:dunno:

Hey rope,did you blow that up using photo bucket?
I see how to do that ,but then got lost putting it back in the album to get the new img code for the larger pic.

 

[ropensaddle]

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Hey rope,did you blow that up using photo bucket?
I see how to do that ,but then got lost putting it back in the album to get the new img code for the larger pic.

Sent to paint click image then re-size and skew 200 % to blow up then load to photo bucket!

 

[tree md]

I spent all day running around town. Gave two estimates, got them both. Had 5 calls today. Things are picking up.

I'm almost ashamed to say what my AM "tree" job is tomorrow. LOL, I've got to take out two redtips. I've got to dig up the root ball on both but they're small. What the heck, $150 for an hour of work. I'll take it. Hopefully it's dry enough for me to get into another job and pick up the logs tomorrow at that location so I can collect. We got socked with 4" of rain over the weekend and there is standing water everywhere.

Got another easy job to do but it's got to dry out a little first. The trees are in the flood plane and are in about 6" of water right now. Got to go look at another big one Thursday.

 

[TreeTarget]

Two trees today, nice bunch of cedar for furniture. Foot feeling better, right...
Good day of weather, great day for work, chipper had a/was a problem, but we got over it...everything else took a beating.

"I'm pretty tired...think I'll..." go for a walk now...

 

[outofmytree]

OK, I am game, What is an Alpine euc?
Jeff

Eucalyptus pauciflora(snow gum)

Natural habitat is the "alps" in Victoria and New South Wales. The kind of country you saw bits of in "The Man from Snowy River". Beautiful country, friendly people and great snow!