crane assisted removals

treevet

Today another day another crane removal. Got a call late Sat. Too late to do anything but another tree fell on a building. In this case a hackberry uprooted with all the rain we have had and fell on the rear of a garage and into a fence and a swimming pool.

Having close contacts with the 2 best tree crane companies in Cinci. I got both on cell phones. But they were covered up again with all the rain and could not get there until noon Mon. I don't work on Suns. and I could start picking some with my 14 ton 70 footer, but for the "stand up" off the building and possibly yanking out the stump I wanted more firepower.

So......got this 25 ton rear mount (like Askmeall's) and put the Yankovitch on it and all is well now with a little bodywork yet to remain on the pool cover and rear garage roof.

Thought this might be a good sink for crane talk, picts., occasional vid. and discussion of different techniques, equipments, attitudes, clients, jobs, etc. etc..

This was the last pic....little over 1/3 of the stem. Not relatively a very difficult crane job...but without one...

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Bruce Hopf

Nice pictures. Looks like you will have more fore wood, once you get that load all cut up, and split.
I'm sure that this thread will get lots of response, and have pictures from all over, showing different jobs, and techniques, using cranes. Good job treevet. . Bruce.

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treevet

Thanks Bruce, what is your opinion of hackberry for firewood. Seems to decay very quickly and be a medium to lower grade BTU giver in its prime. Nice starter wood though.

Bruce Hopf

To be honest, I don't know too much about hack berry. Is it a hard wood, or is it soft.
Does it have a nice smell to it? I know that Apple wood is used in some smoke house operations, to smoke meat, such as pork. It might be good for that.
It might be worth your while, looking into, to see if any slaughter houses, in your area, do their own smoking of the meat, for customers. Bruce.

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treevet

No it is not worthy of that. Just thought you might have that tree in your area.
It is a weedish tree that grows just about anywhere.

treevet

Today we did another subbed crane removal. This was a climb crane removal as both units would not fit in driveway. Tree, Pignut hickory, was 110 to 120' feet anyway and big spread lush canopy that Teco would not have reached top stuff. Man, this hickory if holding any wood at all is incredibly strong and often a PITA to get detachment.

You have to wonder how back in the pre chainsaw days people got a tree like this out of there. It bent entirely over the roof and not likely it would have been easy to butt hitch/block and friction device it down on roof it was so heavy (both the wood and the huge leaders covered with heavy foliage.

My guess is that if faced with this situation (tree was leaning over house and back buttress roots were heaving up) chances are that they would just abandon the house and move to another location.

My guess is that probably only roughly 5 percent of all the people that post on all the forums could handle a removal such as this.

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treevet

Let's see some more crane posts and pictures.

Bruce Hopf

I'm going to have to do some research on it, and see what it looks like, the shape of the leaves, and such.
It is posible, that there could be trees like that around here. I just never heard of it before now. Bruce.

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Bruce Hopf

Could be a little more that 5%, but I'm not goiong to argue. Very impressive work, you have done here again. Another load of fire wood to cut up.
Bruce.

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treevet

Looks like it is well up into Ontario Bruce

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treevet

Probably less than 5% of all the tree men in Cinci. Been at long enough to notice who shows up for all the MOST difficult removals. That is why they cash in the best.

Tree yesterday for example, guy get slammed on Sat. on his garage and pool. We have rescued him before and he calls me. He goes to work on Mon. while we are craning off his garage and mentions to his co workers at a large corporation miles from his house his situation and the first response he gets is "you should call (us)". That has a huge monetary value. We made over $5,000. on Monday.

Bruce Hopf

Yep, that has me covered. I'm about 2 to 2 1/5 hours form Sarnia, Port Huron Mi.
I defiantly have to try and find some pictures, and see what the leaves look like, and go out for a stroll, in my bush, and have a looksy. When the tree is green, does it have kind of a harsh like smell to it? Thanks for the help. Bruce.

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2.0's, 1- Mac 1-10
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Strunk chain saws
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treevet

Its mature bark is probably the most telling characteristic. It has little "berries". The bark is very ridged. It has little leaf insects (psyllids) that drive people nuts flying into their houses through any small opening included screens.

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Bruce Hopf

I might have a couple trees like this around here, in our bush. One I know where it is. Now I'll have to go and see, when the soybeans are off.
I have a tree, along the side of our back field, just inside the bush, that I don't know what it is, but it could be this tree here.
It is just loaded with berries. I'll take some pictures of it, and post them here, probably in the tree Identify thread. Thanks again. Bruce.

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2.0's, 1- Mac 1-10
Stihl chain saws
2- 044's, 2- 034's, 2- 024's, 1- 064, 1- 084,
Strunk chain saws
1- Busy Beaver, 1- SpeeDemon Special
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