ropensaddle
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Busted out four large red oaks for a new pool clean them up in the am good firewood + pay gotta love it lol
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treevet
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climbed and took down a tree completely broke and bent over a large flat roof that crashed into another tree at about 24 feet and then went up another good 50 feet above that and no where near the other tree anymore.
Tied the 2 together where they intersected and put a support line higher up with a throw line and attached it to an opposite tree. Climbed and lowered off the broke tree and the worry was the broke tree completely detaching at the ground break and flipping over with me in it. Lowered down to the roof off the broke tree and then big wood off another tree. Then took down the other tree bent over the roof the same way.
You coulda pulled over the broke trunk after we detached it from the tree it hit without cutting and it would have just crashed right into the house.
Hairy day but 2 grand in the pocket. Gotta love it. :greenchainsaw:
Tied the 2 together where they intersected and put a support line higher up with a throw line and attached it to an opposite tree. Climbed and lowered off the broke tree and the worry was the broke tree completely detaching at the ground break and flipping over with me in it. Lowered down to the roof off the broke tree and then big wood off another tree. Then took down the other tree bent over the roof the same way.
You coulda pulled over the broke trunk after we detached it from the tree it hit without cutting and it would have just crashed right into the house.
Hairy day but 2 grand in the pocket. Gotta love it. :greenchainsaw:
tree md
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Got to love storm work. Cha-ching!
ct greenman
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Finished wood storage rack and stacked split wood.
Finished wood storage rack and stacked split wood.
I know that wood will probably handle a bunch of snow. Get it as high as those Pallets, the fire wood will keep up the "pallet wall", Curious about the roof. I dont know your snowfall.
Jeff
How much room for the fire wood?
ct greenman
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Serious pitch on the roof snow should slide off. I will stack it so the wood helps support the roof if I need to I will add more support. The pallets are nailed top and bottom and help support the stack. It was only $60 for the plywood and 12 2x3's pallets were free.I will hang a tarp off the front when the weather gets bad like late October November. I did not want to spend alot of time or $ on the wood storage but did not want to deal with tarps over the top that is annoying and does not let the wood dry.
I am an a s s, so I say build an Igloo of wood and keep your fire wood inside it. What the heck, you are half way there. That is not a serious roof and I live in California, no snow for me unless I wanna drive to it. I would use those pallets to start the fire!
Jeff
ropensaddle
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Done several like that, definitely not easy. I wonder why did you not use your crane?
TreeTarget
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Slept in after a two-day, whirlwind tour of the midwest. Should have gotten a better producer first. Helped tear out a section of floor and act like I was helping alot. Long weekend ahead, so didn't want to tax myself. Gonna cut this message short for the same reason...
So why are you on a manly tree site? I don't know about everyone, but, I don't care how many sections of floor you teared up. You just like us tree guys!!
Jeff
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The theme for this past week has been up down up down. 2 days of storm damage at a camp... probably climbed 20 trees the first day, and 5 the second.
The other day one client had me go pick up some new gates for the front of her house. It took a little over an hour to get there, and my guy and myself busted our asses getting them into the truck. Get them back to her house, unload them as she wanted, she's happy and we take off. About an hour later she calls me, they have to go back. So we dropped what we were doing, busted our asses again to put them back on the truck, and drove them back up to where they came from.
The other day one client had me go pick up some new gates for the front of her house. It took a little over an hour to get there, and my guy and myself busted our asses getting them into the truck. Get them back to her house, unload them as she wanted, she's happy and we take off. About an hour later she calls me, they have to go back. So we dropped what we were doing, busted our asses again to put them back on the truck, and drove them back up to where they came from.
treevet
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Tree (and house) were down a steep embankment in a creek bed and no place (read highway and too far away) to set up a crane.
One of those situations where....quote "walk around the tree and assess it for safety to climb before climbing"....then if you got the balls.....you go ahead and climb it anyway.
treevet
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here's a vid for insur. co. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMMJhmc8m34
These are woods trees so real tall. Sug mpl went up 20 feet and intersected ash which it crashed into causing the ash to bend way over. Both trees were bent over the house about 50 feet above where they intersected (and I had them lashed together. The stump looked nothing like that upon arrival as it was holding a few inches of wood (5%) and the rest was barbered chaired way up.
I put a line about half way up in the broke tree from the intersection of the ash and broke tree and attached it to a remote tree by the highway. Being no complete dummy....I was also tied into a big syc maybe 80 to 90 feet above this (ash, maple, and rubber roof) but it was quite a distance away so I had to climb the broken tree and tie into it and rig off of it.
I also had the barber chair lashed from both sides so it would inhibit it from kicking up. But the few inches of holding wood could have broken at any time and a big problem would have been had by all involved. I rigged some of the bottom of the ash and maple from the syc. but the tops of the ash and maple would have hit the roof if rigged from there or speed lined. Plus they were all caught up in other trees surrounding the house in the woods.
ropensaddle
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I wish sometimes I had a 380LB buckstrap one that would break not decel, so if things go bad you can say bye bye to it, of course; that is if your tied to semi remote tree
Blakesmaster
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Nasty stuff, man. Good job. You ended up rigging the tops off that?
treevet
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thanks
Had to rig the broke maple off itself and the ash off itself as they diverged quite far apart at the top. We also had a chimney with 4 or 5 clay pipes sticking out right below we had covered with plywood. But the constant worry was anything falling off and sticking in the rubber roof. Ho had been up there and knew there was no holes in it when we started. And of course any branch that breaks off will parachute down butt first right into it.
All in all it was a nice reasonable job from both sides for $2k with me and my gm in 7 hours with leave everything.
treevet
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I wish sometimes I had a 380LB buckstrap one that would break not decel, so if things go bad you can say bye bye to it, of course; that is if your tied to semi remote tree
that makes an awful lot of sense because you are very unlikely going to be able to release enough tension from your camming device and/or unsnap your lanyard quick enough when the schit hits the fan.:agree2:
TreeTarget
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So why are you on a manly tree site? I don't know about everyone, but, I don't care how many sections of floor you teared up. You just like us tree guys!!
Jeff
Can't say that I really LIKE anyone in particular, but since we are noting masculinity as a factor of participation for the site, was going to ask the same of you.
Was the boss's floor we replaced, so though it wasn't outside, was actual work and dealt with wood. Getting ready for the Fourth, so going to be a long day. Been spending more time in the shop, so hopefully will have some furniture inventory built up before long.
Everyone have fun tomorrow, and don't blow yourselves up. Back to the grind on Monday, or Tuesday...depends on recovery and shell-shock.
treevet
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Can't say that I really LIKE anyone in particular, but since we are noting masculinity as a factor of participation for the site, was going to ask the same of you.
That just hadda hurt......
........deep.
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