Where do you get your weather info

[wiley_p]

How many of you guys pay attention to your local news for the weather when planning removals. I go by only the NOAA forcastande also what is your cutoff on windspeed. If the wood is strong(doug fir) and I have a big dz I might go above my cutoff but as a genral rule I wont top above 20 knots. I was going to finish some Poplars today and my client was a little unsupportive on my decision he said the tops were only moving back and forth about 15'. I said see ya at the Spar Tree bud.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I've got NOAA bookmarked, I've started keeping other zipcodes for areas I work frequently.

(Though Daves not called me for Green lake for a month or so now . It's fun working up there)

Species, size and location have a lot to do with it. Though we don't have the same sized trees as the PNW or parts of the east cost.

It may mean taking smaller peices.

I think 50 mph is the heaviest I've climbed in chacing storm hangers.

 

[xtremetrees]

about 8-15 mph wind is all I will climb in.
Lightening. Noway!
Thunder. Maybe, but unlikely.

 

[BigJohn]

No way to lightning. I was once takeing down a hickory with a crane. A storm popped up and it was lightning pretty good. It was idea to come down but boss said no way I was almost done and it was going to pass like all storms eventually do. I hung in there. I watch the local news in the morning. I look to see if it going to wet out. I don't have much say in what jobs I do just if I do them or show up to work. Wind is no porblem. I hate having the sawdust blowing back at you no matter where you stand it seems to follow you. And you can't help but wonder if the tree your in is going to be like one of the many you have seen fail in wind storms. For actually climbing the tree its OK just hold on and lean into the wind. I just don't rain. Can't seem to help but not like getting dirty or wet.

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

I watch the tv and go on ther computer, but the most accurate forcast I know is a rectangular hole in my wall called a door. I open it stick my head out and look west.
If I squint, sunny. If my heads wet, rain. If my nipples get hard, cold.
I think you get the point.

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

Originally posted by BigJohn
No way to lightning. I was once takeing down a hickory with a crane. A storm popped up and it was lightning pretty good. It was idea to come down but boss said no way I was almost done and it was going to pass like all storms eventually do. I hung in there. I watch the local news in the morning. I look to see if it going to wet out. I don't have much say in what jobs I do just if I do them or show up to work. Wind is no porblem. I hate having the sawdust blowing back at you no matter where you stand it seems to follow you. And you can't help but wonder if the tree your in is going to be like one of the many you have seen fail in wind storms. For actually climbing the tree its OK just hold on and lean into the wind. I just don't rain. Can't seem to help but not like getting dirty or wet.

sounds like you need too find a new boss ..what an idiot making you work in lighting ...i had a guy work for me who was hit by lightning when he was a kid he spent months in a burns unit

 

[Stumper]

www.weather.com

I will work in 45-50 mph wind. I won't climb if it is over 25mph unless there is an emergency.

 

[NeTree]

Originally posted by Stumper
www.weather.com

Ditto!

 

[OutOnaLimb]

Hey Justin, did ya see then news last night? There were two Semi's that were blown over on I-25 up by Ft Collins. Enough Said!. The wind out here on the front range is pretty fierce. I think I would rather climb in the snow and ice than in the wind. I dont really mind doing removals on spruce, pine, or fir it its blowin about 30. But I dont like the thought of being tied in to a Cottonwood trying to prune in 20mph winds. Nothing like trying to walk out on a branch and your tied in to a crotch that is swaying back and forth about 4-5ft. I have climbed in the rain quite a few times, but as soon as I saw the lightning I was tied off and Zipping down on a Figure 8 at Mach 2. Im to good lookin to die young.

I rarely pay much attention to the weather. We got 10inches of snow here in Colo Springs the other day and Denver barely got any. The weather here changes so fast and so often that you can be working in long johns and carharts in the morning and just a t-shirt after lunch.

Kenn

 

[rumination]

tradewinds are commonly 15-30 mph here with stronger gusts so I will climb most (not all) trees in those conditions. If the winds are any stronger or are coming from an unusual direction then it comes down to an individual judgement of the tree in question and its location. I have been in trees in winds up to 50 mph, but its not necessarily something I would recommend. Quite a fun thrill though!


If conditions are really unusual I get my weather from the NWS State Forecast Discussion Page and their radar loop. Otherwise I just look at the clouds and the mountains.

 

[jmchristopher]

Thunder

If I can hear thunder, I'm getting myself or my guys out of the tree. Side strikes from clouds are predictably unpredictable and scare the beejeezes out of me.
If my boss ever said to keep climbing with lightning in sight, he'd be doing it himself.

 

[jamie]

weather

i have all my wet weather stuff in my piece bag, if it rains we get all waterproofed up, if it snow i put the extra jumper on, if its windy its windy, if there is lightning well, im yet to experience it.

i look at the weather when i open the curtins and when i get out the house / car

jamie

 

[NickfromWI]

i started using www.accuweather.com because I get sick of all the popups over at weather.com

I think weather.com has a better layout/format, though.

love
nick

 

[kurtztree]

www.weather.gov where I usually go