A - One Trees' at work

Eric Frei

Boa

Save me please .... I need visual effects.

Got pics?

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TrevMcRev

I 2nd that.

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Sean Freeman

Ok here's what I've got on my laptop, yes I know they're a bit arty but you know sometimes after a few ales you feel like looking at leaves ok....

The first two are of ne growth on Millettia pinnata, a common tree up here esp in areas of water harvesting, creek banks etc. the whole tree looks like this, and I missed the deeper colours that were present a few days before.



The next is new growth on Swetinia (bit of a cheat since its wouldn't be over the whole tree


This one is old foliage on a Planchonia careya (cocky apple) growing in the bush


And the last is one my current loves Barringtonia acutangula the grow anywhere tree tough small and beautiful, look at that colour and tell me you're not moved She's lovely...

Eric Frei

Bugger me, I aint seen any of them!

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JayD

This arrived in the mail today, we donate mulch to Whalan Public School. A pleasant surprize. (They mispelt A-One)

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Arboriculture, A life long study for some, a passing phase for others

Eric Frei

There you go, good samaritan award, good on ya's.

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JohN Dee

Knocked down this Sydney Blue Gum (Euc. saligna) today. Was a beautiful tree, just in the wrong spot. It was lifting up their drive way so it had to go.


The canopy


Spot the climber.


Limb walk - Action shot


Over the house and into the drive.


Time for a break.

There is one more pic in the attachments, it was to big to embed so ya just gotta click on the linky :P.

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Eric Frei

Nice stuff, those jobs are the sweetest.

Looks like ya using the loops and biner idea, right? Fast on fast off, no knots, no BS on the ground, head over to your next rig whilst the groundy is dragging, beautiful.

Nice shots too.

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JohN Dee

Yeah the sling n biner idea works great. Suzie was the person behind the camera - she's getting pretty good at it, hence the two action shots.

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JayD

Hi All,
This is what we done today,


The mess


Deformed Euc.


John tying the knot


The aftermath.

Turned out good, a couple of lebanese blokes came with their own saw and asked for the wood, so we gave it to them - beats loading it

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Eric Frei

Those conifers are busy inside, and the sticks sharp!

You grind it too?

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JayD

Goin back in a few days to grind the stumps,got to catch up after the winds!

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Arboriculture, A life long study for some, a passing phase for others

Sean Freeman

Lol, yep love those block chasers can make life a fair bit easier

JohN Dee

Far out, look at all the dust on this ole' thread... Figured it was time to post up in it again - we cant let Jason and Trevor get all the replies and views now can we?

This was a Melalueca we cleaned up... It got blown over during the Newcastle floods storm so it was awhile back...


Thar she is...


Basically crunched the fence and snapped a few branches off the tallow wood.


The majority of the canopy we cut down with the HT75.


All cleaned up... Cleaned up the snapped branches on the tallow wood too.


And this is a cocos we removed from their property aswell while we were there.

When I removed that cocos, I used the Double block buck with our 066 - that's a nice solid technique Streyken.

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Eric Frei

You used a stihl ms660 to cut a cocos palm?

Too good a saw to stick in one of them, bit big too dont ya think?

Or am I missing something?

46 is plenty for a cocos, 44 good too, 26 bit gutless.

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JayD

True, True, I cant remember exzactly why we did use it More than likely our over saws were in for a service..but I tell you it sure did slice and dice that bad boy real quick, John usually uses our 365 for the thicker palms on the way down,when we can't drop them on the full...horses for corses..1 less chit stick
JayD

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JayD

Hi Folks,
I thought you might like to see how the boys moved logs around in the olden days??. I found this very interesting,all the head stalls are made from Brush Box and the bullocky driver knows all his team by name...so here are a couple pictures for you all to enjoy.
All The Best
JayD

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Level 4 Arborist/ FPIFGM 3204A: Fall trees manually (intermediate)

Arboriculture, A life long study for some, a passing phase for others

Sean Freeman

JayD, you've probably seen these but some others might have missed them really great b/w photos of old time logging in the US in the forestry and logging forum over at AS

Eric Frei

Hey hold up!

I think I saw MB with his tautline hitch in there.

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mdvaden

I like that sunset photo.

That one might look good cropped too.

JohN Dee

Well about 3 weeks ago we removed this Brush box. The owner was installing a pool and it was in the way.

Was a beaut' of a job cause at the end his mate wanted the firewood .


The tree - me setting my TIP.


Hand held section, the whole tree was done in hand held's and scarfs. Had just enough room to place and drop it.


The next hand held


Going up - Featuring the Martin hitch.

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Eric Frei

Yeah good, did ya get the stupid cocos palm there to?

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JohN Dee

Nah we didn't... He said he liked the palm tree and didn't mind the berries. Wait til his new pool is in, that'll change quick smart He was a copper too.

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Eric Frei

Coppers are great to work for I found. Good payers. Like things done right and give decent people the work.

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JohN Dee

Indeed. One of the coppers I worked for last year.. We were the 2nd quote there. They told the first guy to piss off, because he was there trying to get unreceipted cash outta them lmao.

Speaking of coppers, I got a call the other day from some guy pretending to be from some sponsor group for the police... Anyways to cut a long story short, I asked him for his badge number and he said stuff ya then and hung up! Ha! Dam con artists.

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Eric Frei

I tell'm to ring John Howard, he's got $18billion surplus!

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JohN Dee

This was a Tallow Wood that we removed for one of our clients... It was cracking and pushing over his/councils reatiner wall that was 4 metres high(Basicallly holding his whole backyard in place)

We whacked to cocos palms there aswell. Oh yeah I also got bitten by a huntsmen on this job too .



There the tree is, a shed under neath, and two fences within a metre. Note the lateral branches.


We cradled these boys out, probably 2 metres above the shed, were the lowest ones.


Limb Walking up this 80*


Limb Crawling for the Tip Tie.


Gooooooonskeeeeeeees.

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Eric Frei

I see they get them long branches down there too.

At least they're not slippery powder white limbs like other gums, you can shuffle out there OK.

Bad spot to work, would have been a real bugger on the ground dealing with them long limbs in that gap.

Plenty of slewing and a GRCS would have been handy to winch them up!

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JohN Dee

Jeez gotta dust off this ol' girl and get her live again.

I tell ya what after working on those Cypresses at Mt Wilson every tree including this one seems so tiny to me now...

Took down this gum tree on thursday, all up it took about 6-7 hours to dismantle. Got a hell of a bloody kick back when the nose of the bar split on the 200, lucky it kicked back into the wood I was cutting. So we rushed down and bought a new one set her up and away she went beautifully.


Canopy Shot.


This gum was that snappy that when I dumped this limb I'm out on that it smashed itself into 4 separate pieces.


Few more limbs down.


Descent for lunch


More clearence limbwalk.


Chunkin' it down.


The height is alot more then what it seems in this pic.


Taking off a few more chunks with the 66 before we felled it.

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Eric Frei

Psssst.

I got a block driver sitting here.

It's looking for a work out.

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