another day in the life of a utility worker

bigshea13

widening road so we have to remove trees from around the line. easy work. drop and walk away. no mess clean up....thats for the state boys.

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Eric Frei

Now this picture really intrigues me, is that the rotten centre of the tree?

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bigshea13

yep. i was able to fit exactly half my body in this one and my leg still didnt touch bottom of cavity

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Eric Frei

Now that's a tree with some character, what's with all the green crap? Is it slimy and slippery?

So how are you liking the job, looks OK to me from the pics, is it flat out go go go all day without breaks or is it like a govt job where red tape and paperwork is half of it?

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bigshea13

lovin it so far. all removals and takedowns with absolutey no clean up. they are widening for the highway and we just get em away from the lines. moss everywhere cause its so damp. ive never seen evergreens grow so fast as they do here. they say its cause of all the rain they get. got some towering firs and several large lombary to do tomorrow. weve got all the time we need to do em. no hurry. we are required to do a separate safety briefing for each tree but ive been grouping them togather cause individually is retarded.
this evergreen{which i havent looked up whar exactly it is} was wierd. ever see this sort of thing. its the same plant....no grafting and there were two of them side by side.

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quercus

Yeah bigshea, I've encountered one of those too in the past. Don't know how that is possible though. Ask MD Vaden, he'll probably know this, I reckon....

Eric Frei

That is unusual, some type of deformity perhaps.

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brendonv

That would be an Alberta Spruce, trying to revert back to a White Spruce -It's parent tree. I believe the Alberta Spruce is an abnormality found on spruce trees, like a witches broom, taken and grafted on a normal Spruce root stock.

bigshea13

checked up on that theory and it definately holds water. i read that single brooms on a plant are usually characteristic of a genetic deformity as opposed to stress, infection,parasites which may cause several "hexebesen"witches broom to occur. thanks for the direction brandon. thats the first ive ever noticed one on a conifer.

bigshea13

wheel chock carving. cause i keep driving off without them
some kinda hanging nest...oreol maybe?
the lumbardys are for tomorrows project

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TreeDimensional

bigshea13, Now how about an explanation of some of the stuff growing on 'em! What the heck is that mass of stuff on the limb, is that tent caterpillars?

What was the pic of the regrowth on the little stump about?

And last but not least, doesn't the boss give you guys a big enough saw? OR did the huskie die? LOL

bigshea13

no catapillars....some kinda bird nest.
they are buds...never seen em cluster like that before though [ZOOM IT IN}
no smart ass the husky didnt die the h.o. said he wanted to race us with his stihl so derek was going to make it fair

Eric Frei

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TreeDimensional

What are we looking at here Ekka?

bigshea13

yeah. what r we looking at?

bigshea13

lumbardy leader

cut-right

Your job of some sort ekka?

bigshea13

bigshea13

view of the sound
trimmin
rings

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TreeDimensional

Great shots bigshea13, especially the last two. Talk about 4 REAL close friends!