A - One Trees' at work

JohN Dee · 15th December 2007, 08:15 PM

Heya I got one of them too!

It's called my forearm

Eric Frei · 17th December 2007, 05:43 PM

Well, if you can push them off with ya forearm then ya not cutting them big enough!

a_lopa · 17th December 2007, 08:46 PM

Great work John

Ace Master · 18th December 2007, 09:12 AM

Well Done JohN Dee
Looks like a bit of rigging in that job.

TrevMcRev · 18th December 2007, 09:35 PM

Good shots & good job. Lotta wood there to deal with, did it stay on site or all have to go?

JayD · 19th December 2007, 05:55 AM

Hey,
This contract was fell and slice -n- dice,Which was great as it was all up hill, Once it was down it took about an hour to dock up the barrel.....It was funny one limb we bombed out actually planted itself into the ground and I couldn't pull it over so I felled it to get it out

A good job and I'm glad it's behind us now!

shaggs · 20th December 2007, 09:15 PM

Top stuff John

and nic pics!!!

JohN Dee · 19th February 2008, 03:40 PM

Just like the rubber band man, we snap back again to add some more pics.

This is a cocos palm job we did today.. Knocked out 4 of them today + 2 baby date palms. 2 tones of waste we disposed of from this job...
Oh and the foams made a visit today :P

Before shot featuring the dirty azz palms, my dad and the legendary foams.

Tying the tag line.

The beheading... Kewl pic I reckon of the head being horizontal.

Grinding out a stump, don't ya love your spectator groundies eh?

This is the best after shot I can also provide aswell...

TreeDimensional · 19th February 2008, 03:55 PM

Nice pics JohN Dee, I just have one question. If those things are as dirty to work on as you guys say, why are you cutting the head off first? Wouldn't it be cleaner to install a tagline with a throwline, and block it up on the ground?

And the other guy watching you grind the stump, isn't that the branch MANAGER?

As palms don't have branches, what did you expect him to do?

Eric Frei · 19th February 2008, 10:25 PM

Good on ya, slowly but surely we're culling them.

JohN Dee · 20th February 2008, 06:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TreeDimensional

Nice pics JohN Dee, I just have one question. If those things are as dirty to work on as you guys say, why are you cutting the head off first? Wouldn't it be cleaner to install a tagline with a throwline, and block it up on the ground?

That particular palm, I felt that there just wasn't enough room to fell it from the ground. As it was the fronds on that head were as far as about 1.5metres out from the fence aswell as his shrubs down the back. So we took it in two sections for probably about an extra 5-10 minutes work....
The rest of the palms we felled in one hit.

JohN Dee · 2nd March 2008, 04:17 PM

Here is a few pictures from last year of a Peppercorn Tree (Schinus aerie) prune.
As you can see in the first picture below, this client of ours is a real garden fanatic. The limb I'm on was shading where she likes to grow her annuals, so we cut it back to its collar.

Anyone could have cut this with a pole saw, but would of squashed her beautiful garden below.

This job was very successful because under and around ALL of her trees, there were plants everywhere. All pieces were dismantled with hand held sections and not one bit of damage was done to her garden.

Out on the limb.

One handing, note where my other hand is.

Two hands :P

Managed to whack a cocos palm while I was there, aswell as that Cudamunda Wattle tree next to it

And last but not least the access. Stump grinder probably had 0.5cm on each side at the gate.

All pictures were resized using: The Picture Girdler 2

TrevMcRev · 4th March 2008, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohN Dee

And last but not least the access. Stump grinder probably had 0.5cm on each side at the gate.

Ah its always good to fit you equipment into a tight spot

I'll leave that one there...

JohN Dee · 24th March 2008, 12:53 AM

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This post is here for the TreeZine Article purposes.

Here is ya reciprocal link: - LOL.

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JayD · 29th May 2008, 11:15 PM

-Posted on dads account[note files are attached on this post, Doh!}-

JohN Dee · 29th May 2008, 11:16 PM

Hey hey, gotta revive this thread...

I thought with the latest craze being dead tree removals I'd post up some pics of our MASSIVE(jks) (10-12m

) dead tree removal we did a few weeks back.

Dead n leaning radiata pine, tied in my highline to its alive brother radiata pine... I used a Martin Hitch w/pulley for the added manouverability/efficiency of one handing my hitch...

The dead tree

Going up

Highline in brother radiata pine

Topped the tree with a hand held section

Tops ahoy! In this pic you can see I'm higher then my highline... Although it didn't take much of my weight, it definately helped me balance on that awkward side lean (the lean being in the direction of the photos were taken)

Blocking down

TrevMcRev · 29th May 2008, 11:19 PM

Ugghhh! Dead Pine! Got any photos of the scratches on your forearms LOL.
Anchor from the other tree was a good idea, dead pine can be soft as a sponge.

Ace Master · 30th May 2008, 12:35 AM

JohN Dee
Great pictures

dead and dangerous, just the way i love them..LOL

Eric Frei · 30th May 2008, 10:37 AM

Well, least you didn't have 100's of those bloody pine cones to rake up. LOL

newguy18 · 30th May 2008, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ace Master

JohN Dee
Great pictures

dead and dangerous, just the way i love them..LOL

Me too.At least he got a highline.

JohN Dee · 30th May 2008, 08:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newguy18

Me too.At least he got a highline.

Lol, the thing with my highline...

I made the legs on the Martin Hitch WAY too short and on the descent it was a bitch cuz I literally had to inch it down.... No free sliding

newguy18 · 31st May 2008, 12:29 AM

Hey could be worse,could be a slash pine.

JohN Dee · 14th July 2008, 07:15 PM

These posts are so few and few inbetween so I thought I'd russle up a real BIG one. I've compiled all job photos into their own single animating file. Oh and for the copy catters(Just so you know, these people arn't active members), feel free to copy my pics

NOTE: The pictures in the pics below go in chronilogical order.

This was a fence line prune we did on this Cedar. It had grown over from the neighbours half a backyard (Villa house). The roots are pushing it up from the bottom, the trunk is crushing it from the top, the leaves and berries are continually smooshing and filling his gutters and his neighbour wouldn't cooperate on the removal of their destructive "vigourous"(to be politically correct) tree so we pruned it back to collars and nodes. Some of these photos also portray the home made 4m polesaw I made up for $60.00. The highpoint wasn't very high so I got the small tips with this beauty.

This is a Peppercorn we pruned and gave a light thinning to improve the sunlight to the ladies clothesline. We removed one big limb, two old ones at the bottom that were pretruding that hadn't been cut to a node.

This was the job we did today, we removed this Tallow Wood from the front and the Black Butt from the back. Pretty simple really, alot of room to just cut, the last few bits we had to tie. Just below you'll find a sequence shot Suzie took as some leaders got topped out.

Topped that out, grew out like that cuz of neighbours trees shading it.

Topped one leader where I had the room, again Suzie took the shot.

Hoped yas' liked them.

P.S I'm currently not living at home, so any responses from myself will be delayed.

TrevMcRev · 14th July 2008, 08:46 PM

Good work & pics D. Love the animated effect, how'd ya do that???

newguy18 · 15th July 2008, 02:09 AM

Cool deal John,i like the moving pics as well,really captures what happen.

Eric Frei · 15th July 2008, 06:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TrevMcRev

Good work & pics D. Love the animated effect, how'd ya do that???

They're gifs, like the little banners up the top but you sequence pictures.

Mind you, on the last one either he's got a camera that has multipic mode, mine can do upto 5 pics in rapid succession or he got video and took pics from the video.

Treemachine's camera does time lapse which is also cool.

All this technology, keeping up is hard! And the software side of things, make ya brain hurt.

JohN Dee · 15th July 2008, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TrevMcRev

Good work & pics D. Love the animated effect, how'd ya do that???

Hi Trev, I made the GIFs in Photoshop/Image Ready CS3. All pics were taken on my phone. The last two I have a mode on my phone called Sequence Shot, it grabs 5 shots at once. It's really cool for getting those hard to grab shots, only thing I wish I could do with it is select the time inbetween shots, that would be fully taboolie.

Quote:

Mind you, on the last one either he's got a camera that has multipic mode, mine can do upto 5 pics in rapid succession or he got video and took pics from the video.

Hey you know by default on Windows you can't screenshot a pic from a movie playing in Windows Media Player? Twas' hard when I was trying to draw and cartoon your head for the announcments forum, had to keep switching screens :\

Eric Frei · 15th July 2008, 09:34 PM

The way around it is use Ctrl C to get a screen dump, open paint etc and crtl V to dump, crop the picture.

JohN Dee · 16th July 2008, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ekka

The way around it is use Ctrl C to get a screen dump, open paint etc and crtl V to dump, crop the picture.

Yeah tried that, and printscreen and printscreen + alt. It will take a pic of everything except the actual movie.

Eric Frei · 16th July 2008, 06:56 PM

Hmmm, weird, that's how I do it.

Try a different media player perhaps.

15th December 2007, 08:15 PM	#91
JohN Dee Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 941	Re: A - One Trees' at work Heya I got one of them too! It's called my forearm __________________ We are what we repeatedly do... Excellence then, is not an act, but HABIT... Red : Green : Blue

17th December 2007, 05:43 PM	#92
Eric Frei Admin - Australia's most prominant Arborist - prev Ekka Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 10,775	Re: A - One Trees' at work Well, if you can push them off with ya forearm then ya not cutting them big enough! __________________ Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist \| Project Arborist

17th December 2007, 08:46 PM	#93
a_lopa Veteran Heritage Status Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 1,378	Re: A - One Trees' at work Great work John __________________ Drouin Tree Services and Excavator Hire \| Excavator Hire - Drouin and SE Gippsland

18th December 2007, 09:12 AM	#94
Ace Master Mature tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Australia, Vic, Melbourne Posts: 368	Re: A - One Trees' at work Well Done JohN Dee Looks like a bit of rigging in that job. __________________ Website: The Mt Dandenong Ranges Tree Specialists YouTube: Ace Tree Master

18th December 2007, 09:35 PM	#95
TrevMcRev Sponsor Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Posts: 1,499	Re: A - One Trees' at work Good shots & good job. Lotta wood there to deal with, did it stay on site or all have to go? __________________ Total Tree Care - Melbourne Arborist Reports & Consulting,Tree Pruning & Removal \| Elm Leaf Beetle Treatment Melbourne www.treegear.com.au - Australia's Best Value Arborist Supplies FREE shipping for TREEGEAR Members-Join here

19th December 2007, 05:55 AM	#96
JayD Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: TreeWorld, Sydney Australia Posts: 1,643	Re: A - One Trees' at work Hey, This contract was fell and slice -n- dice,Which was great as it was all up hill, Once it was down it took about an hour to dock up the barrel.....It was funny one limb we bombed out actually planted itself into the ground and I couldn't pull it over so I felled it to get it out A good job and I'm glad it's behind us now! __________________ Level 4 Arborist/ FPIFGM 3204A: Fall trees manually (intermediate) Arboriculture, A life long study for some, a passing phase for others

20th December 2007, 09:15 PM	#97
shaggs Mature tree Join Date: May 2007 Location: sydney Posts: 454	Re: A - One Trees' at work Top stuff John and nic pics!!!

19th February 2008, 03:40 PM	#98
JohN Dee Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 941	Re: A - One Trees' at work Just like the rubber band man, we snap back again to add some more pics. This is a cocos palm job we did today.. Knocked out 4 of them today + 2 baby date palms. 2 tones of waste we disposed of from this job... Oh and the foams made a visit today :P Before shot featuring the dirty azz palms, my dad and the legendary foams. Tying the tag line. The beheading... Kewl pic I reckon of the head being horizontal. Grinding out a stump, don't ya love your spectator groundies eh? This is the best after shot I can also provide aswell... Attached Thumbnails __________________ We are what we repeatedly do... Excellence then, is not an act, but HABIT... Red : Green : Blue

19th February 2008, 03:55 PM	#99
TreeDimensional Mature Tree Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 446	Re: A - One Trees' at work Nice pics JohN Dee, I just have one question. If those things are as dirty to work on as you guys say, why are you cutting the head off first? Wouldn't it be cleaner to install a tagline with a throwline, and block it up on the ground? And the other guy watching you grind the stump, isn't that the branch MANAGER? As palms don't have branches, what did you expect him to do? Last edited by TreeDimensional; 19th February 2008 at 04:45 PM. Reason: content

19th February 2008, 10:25 PM	#100
Eric Frei Admin - Australia's most prominant Arborist - prev Ekka Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 10,775	Re: A - One Trees' at work Good on ya, slowly but surely we're culling them. __________________ Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist \| Project Arborist

2nd March 2008, 04:17 PM	#102
JohN Dee Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 941	WTF? A - One Tree's Pruning?!?!?! Here is a few pictures from last year of a Peppercorn Tree (Schinus aerie) prune. As you can see in the first picture below, this client of ours is a real garden fanatic. The limb I'm on was shading where she likes to grow her annuals, so we cut it back to its collar. Anyone could have cut this with a pole saw, but would of squashed her beautiful garden below. This job was very successful because under and around ALL of her trees, there were plants everywhere. All pieces were dismantled with hand held sections and not one bit of damage was done to her garden. Out on the limb. One handing, note where my other hand is. Two hands :P Managed to whack a cocos palm while I was there, aswell as that Cudamunda Wattle tree next to it And last but not least the access. Stump grinder probably had 0.5cm on each side at the gate. All pictures were resized using: The Picture Girdler 2 Attached Thumbnails __________________ We are what we repeatedly do... Excellence then, is not an act, but HABIT... Red : Green : Blue

24th March 2008, 12:53 AM	#104
JohN Dee Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 941	Re: A - One Trees' at work Bump Up My Post This post is here for the TreeZine Article purposes. Here is ya reciprocal link: - LOL. Here is our button that is at the top of the forum: __________________ We are what we repeatedly do... Excellence then, is not an act, but HABIT... Red : Green : Blue Last edited by JayD; 1st February 2010 at 09:10 AM.

29th May 2008, 11:15 PM	#105
JayD Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: TreeWorld, Sydney Australia Posts: 1,643	Re: A - One Trees' at work -Posted on dads account[note files are attached on this post, Doh!}- Attached Thumbnails __________________ Level 4 Arborist/ FPIFGM 3204A: Fall trees manually (intermediate) Arboriculture, A life long study for some, a passing phase for others

29th May 2008, 11:16 PM	#106
JohN Dee Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 941	Re: A - One Trees' at work Hey hey, gotta revive this thread... I thought with the latest craze being dead tree removals I'd post up some pics of our MASSIVE(jks) (10-12m) dead tree removal we did a few weeks back. Dead n leaning radiata pine, tied in my highline to its alive brother radiata pine... I used a Martin Hitch w/pulley for the added manouverability/efficiency of one handing my hitch... The dead tree Going up Highline in brother radiata pine Topped the tree with a hand held section Tops ahoy! In this pic you can see I'm higher then my highline... Although it didn't take much of my weight, it definately helped me balance on that awkward side lean (the lean being in the direction of the photos were taken) Blocking down __________________ We are what we repeatedly do... Excellence then, is not an act, but HABIT... Red : Green : Blue

29th May 2008, 11:19 PM	#107
TrevMcRev Sponsor Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Posts: 1,499	Re: A - One Trees' at work Ugghhh! Dead Pine! Got any photos of the scratches on your forearms LOL. Anchor from the other tree was a good idea, dead pine can be soft as a sponge. __________________ Total Tree Care - Melbourne Arborist Reports & Consulting,Tree Pruning & Removal \| Elm Leaf Beetle Treatment Melbourne www.treegear.com.au - Australia's Best Value Arborist Supplies FREE shipping for TREEGEAR Members-Join here

30th May 2008, 12:35 AM	#108
Ace Master Mature tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Australia, Vic, Melbourne Posts: 368	Re: A - One Trees' at work JohN Dee Great pictures dead and dangerous, just the way i love them..LOL __________________ Website: The Mt Dandenong Ranges Tree Specialists YouTube: Ace Tree Master

30th May 2008, 10:37 AM	#109
Eric Frei Admin - Australia's most prominant Arborist - prev Ekka Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 10,775	Re: A - One Trees' at work Well, least you didn't have 100's of those bloody pine cones to rake up. LOL __________________ Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist \| Project Arborist

31st May 2008, 12:29 AM	#112
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,206	Re: A - One Trees' at work Hey could be worse,could be a slash pine. __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

14th July 2008, 07:15 PM	#113
JohN Dee Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 941	Warning 56kers, not for slow download SPEEDS! These posts are so few and few inbetween so I thought I'd russle up a real BIG one. I've compiled all job photos into their own single animating file. Oh and for the copy catters(Just so you know, these people arn't active members), feel free to copy my pics NOTE: The pictures in the pics below go in chronilogical order. This was a fence line prune we did on this Cedar. It had grown over from the neighbours half a backyard (Villa house). The roots are pushing it up from the bottom, the trunk is crushing it from the top, the leaves and berries are continually smooshing and filling his gutters and his neighbour wouldn't cooperate on the removal of their destructive "vigourous"(to be politically correct) tree so we pruned it back to collars and nodes. Some of these photos also portray the home made 4m polesaw I made up for $60.00. The highpoint wasn't very high so I got the small tips with this beauty. This is a Peppercorn we pruned and gave a light thinning to improve the sunlight to the ladies clothesline. We removed one big limb, two old ones at the bottom that were pretruding that hadn't been cut to a node. This was the job we did today, we removed this Tallow Wood from the front and the Black Butt from the back. Pretty simple really, alot of room to just cut, the last few bits we had to tie. Just below you'll find a sequence shot Suzie took as some leaders got topped out. Topped that out, grew out like that cuz of neighbours trees shading it. Topped one leader where I had the room, again Suzie took the shot. Hoped yas' liked them. P.S I'm currently not living at home, so any responses from myself will be delayed. __________________ We are what we repeatedly do... Excellence then, is not an act, but HABIT... Red : Green : Blue

14th July 2008, 08:46 PM	#114
TrevMcRev Sponsor Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Posts: 1,499	Re: A - One Trees' at work Good work & pics D. Love the animated effect, how'd ya do that??? __________________ Total Tree Care - Melbourne Arborist Reports & Consulting,Tree Pruning & Removal \| Elm Leaf Beetle Treatment Melbourne www.treegear.com.au - Australia's Best Value Arborist Supplies FREE shipping for TREEGEAR Members-Join here

15th July 2008, 02:09 AM	#115
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,206	Re: A - One Trees' at work Cool deal John,i like the moving pics as well,really captures what happen. __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

15th July 2008, 09:34 PM	#118
Eric Frei Admin - Australia's most prominant Arborist - prev Ekka Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 10,775	Re: A - One Trees' at work The way around it is use Ctrl C to get a screen dump, open paint etc and crtl V to dump, crop the picture. __________________ Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist \| Project Arborist

16th July 2008, 06:56 PM	#120
Eric Frei Admin - Australia's most prominant Arborist - prev Ekka Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 10,775	Re: A - One Trees' at work Hmmm, weird, that's how I do it. Try a different media player perhaps. __________________ Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist \| Project Arborist

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