Unregistered, whatcha workin on right now?

rbtree · 8th February 2009, 01:04 AM

Duncan, BC, eh?!

We lived on Shawnigan Lake for 6 months......after we immigrated from Arkansas. I went to high school in Victoria, then moved back to the states. over 40 years ago now, sheesh.

Spring? Maybe, but the forecast is calling for chance of snow again in the Puget Sound area next week....

treevet · 8th February 2009, 01:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rbtree

Duncan, BC, eh?!

We lived on Shawnigan Lake for 6 months......after we immigrated from Arkansas. I went to high school in Victoria, then moved back to the states. over 40 years ago now, sheesh.

Spring? Maybe, but the forecast is calling for chance of snow again in the Puget Sound area next week....

Damn you're an old codger, lol.

It is supposed to be 50F here today. Think I heard a huge slab of ice and snow slide off the roof a few minutes ago. Work is comin in in spurts. Time to put that BC 2000 to work swallowing up the dead and wounded. (ice storm, hurricane)

newguy18 · 8th February 2009, 02:46 AM

Right now i'm taking it easy,i'm pretty sure that another disc let go in my back.

LeifR · 8th February 2009, 04:26 AM

What I am working with now is snow. S-N-O-W! Lots of it.
Though, I shouldn't complain, I see you australiens have a real tough time. Fire, flood, crocs and snakes. And all at the same time. World isn't fair, and has never been.

Back to my own snow. I have to remove it from my roofs. I have calculated the weight to 120-130 kg pr square meter. That means a load of about 15 tons on a normal bungalow roof.
How much weight my old roofs may stand is impossible to know. If the roof comes down, I'll know. So, I have to remove some of it to be sure. The lower half of the snow is hard and heavy, nearly like ice.

Leif.

Dano · 8th February 2009, 07:51 AM

Beautiful place you have there Leif, I'm up and at it early today painting another side of my house before it hits the expected 44C. again today!

The paint dries in the tray at that temp, and frankly isn't much fun..

Dano

rbtree · 8th February 2009, 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by treevet

Damn you're an old codger, lol.

Time to put that BC 2000 to work swallowing up the dead and wounded. (ice storm, hurricane)

uhoh....now that's a chipper! I rescind my babble......

pcarborist · 8th February 2009, 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LeifR

I have calculated the weight to 120-130 kg pr square meter. That means a load of about 15 tons on a normal bungalow roof.
So, I have to remove some of it to be sure.

Leif.

Leif, I live in Northern Utah, USA @ 7000 ft (2,121 meters) and when I built my house the building code was (and still is) 100 lbs/s.f. (45.5 kilos/30cm2). Even though my house can withstand the snowload, I still climb up on the roof once or twice a year and shovel off the snow mainly because the exhaust vents get buried.

Quote:

The lower half of the snow is hard and heavy, nearly like ice.

If the ice is confined on the roof near the eaves, it sounds like you might be getting ice-damming as a result of cooler air found near overhanging eaves. If so, you can correct that with heat tape but it cost you in your power bill.

Falke · 8th February 2009, 11:48 AM

I wish Stavanger was a bit colder, so that the rain would fall as snow! I'm going to a bit colder region of my country on monday. Im about to take the second course of the tree part course to become an "european tree worker" Im looking forward to 5 days of expanding my knowledge and skills

clarke mcclymont · 8th February 2009, 12:19 PM

g'day everyone,looks like a good site,often wondered if there was an australian tree discussion website.
my name is clarke mcclymont,i live on the central coast of nsw at forresters beach,i climb for and operate onshore tree sevices.i look forward to talking issues with other fellow tree industry workers in the future.
cheers clarke

s.kerrone · 8th February 2009, 01:39 PM

Hi Newguy,you don t do any topping in Florida ?

treevet · 8th February 2009, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clarke mcclymont

g'day everyone,looks like a good site,often wondered if there was an australian tree discussion website.
my name is clarke mcclymont,i live on the central coast of nsw at forresters beach,i climb for and operate onshore tree sevices.i look forward to talking issues with other fellow tree industry workers in the future.
cheers clarke

Welcome Clarke, Tell us what you know, you may find some info on here while having a laugh or two.

Therrin · 8th February 2009, 03:12 PM

Working on moving! Looks like I'll be ending up in Bakersfield, Ca. At least there's plenty of palms up there. And cows.... lots and lots of cows...whew.

Selling my travel trailers, selling some tools and equipment... trying to downsize my holdings for "city living". Ugh.

Lemme know if anyone works out there.

Eric Frei · 8th February 2009, 03:39 PM

You should sell some of those shotguns too then?

Eric Frei · 8th February 2009, 03:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clarke mcclymont

g'day everyone,looks like a good site,often wondered if there was an australian tree discussion website.
my name is clarke mcclymont,i live on the central coast of nsw at forresters beach,i climb for and operate onshore tree sevices.i look forward to talking issues with other fellow tree industry workers in the future.
cheers clarke

That looks like a real nice place to work ... got pics?

LeifR · 8th February 2009, 08:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pcarborist

Leif, I live in Northern Utah, USA @ 7000 ft (2,121 meters) and when I built my house the building code was (and still is) 100 lbs/s.f. (45.5 kilos/30cm2). Even though my house can withstand the snowload, I still climb up on the roof once or twice a year and shovel off the snow mainly because the exhaust vents get buried.

If the ice is confined on the roof near the eaves, it sounds like you might be getting ice-damming as a result of cooler air found near overhanging eaves. If so, you can correct that with heat tape but it cost you in your power bill.

Hello, pcarborist.
Thanks for reply. I don't live in these houses. It is the home of my mother who is dead now. I keep the place because I love it and have a lot of good memories from there. Besides that, I like to have a place where I may work in the wood and with wood. But keeping such a place demands a lot of work too. I have built a new house few minutes of driving from Bjoerndalen. You may see a bit of this area in the thread My place/Picture forum.
The houses are old, built in a time when building codes were not invented. Besides that, woodworms have eaten an unknown ammount of wood. Thus I have no idea about the strength of the construction.

Concerning this icy snow: After a heavy snowfall in january, we got rain and very wet snow. This has frosen, and hurts my back when I must shovel it away.

Leif.

newguy18 · 9th February 2009, 02:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by s.kerrone

Hi Newguy,you don t do any topping in Florida ?

Just on removals.

Fairfield · 9th February 2009, 01:27 PM

Ekka just got the news about the fires, my thoughts are with your countymen.

quercus · 9th February 2009, 04:37 PM

Been doing a few forestry jobs nowadays... Work is pouring in though. We had a real rough time in the last few months with our new store. But now the time has come to relax a little bit again and therefore, I'll be here way more often...
Nice to see ya"ll back after all this time. Can someone please get me up to speed about all those things that happened out here?

hey Eric... things look pretty FUBAR in OZ... But I've got an idea... if we could tilt australia just a little bit, all that water would flow to the other side and wipe out those huge forest fires wouldn't it?

newguy18 · 9th February 2009, 04:42 PM

I suggest starting at page one of this thread.Let me know when your finished.

Eric Frei · 12th February 2009, 08:34 PM

Yeah, floods up north, fires down south and right where I am ... nothing!

newguy18 · 13th February 2009, 12:20 AM

Same thing here ekka,every huricane season a big storm will be heading right for me,then at the last minute it'll go around me,might even end up in ohio.

jtrouse · 17th February 2009, 08:51 PM

Hey all its been a while since i posted something ive just been flat out lately and havent had a chance to do much after work. Heres some of the stuff ive done lately.

Unfortunatelty the before photos never got taken but the height was 120ft for the first two and the second was close to the same.

And some of the other work ive done is one you tube ill post the link once it uploads.

Climb safe

Eric Frei · 17th February 2009, 08:56 PM

Pic 2, wazzup with the gutter on the corner of the house trouse?

jtrouse · 17th February 2009, 09:48 PM

the tree had dropped a limb prior to removal and this was one of the reason for the removal of it. No it wasn't us but good pick up

Eric Frei · 17th February 2009, 10:15 PM

What sort of tree was that, sort of whitish coloured bark.

Was it a euc?

Hey imagine, some greenie councils in the fire zone only gave 6m around the house as a tree clearing zone, that tree be about on the limit of that.

gardensntrees · 17th February 2009, 11:12 PM

gidday there tree world guys n gals? just a new boy round here. have been in business for myself for 6 months doing tree work. mostly private stuff. got on here to try to find out about formal quals relating to tre surgery, arboriculture as it is still a fledgling thing here in Western australia. i notice that over East one needs a cert 111 in arboriculture to be considered for employment. as a ex services guy i do know that always the proof is in the pudding and as such i can climb competently and as such am streets ahead of all the bull dust operators out there. ok look forward to gaining knowledge here, regards Robbie:

Eric Frei · 17th February 2009, 11:17 PM

You sound like an RPL type of person to me.

Q.Q. · 18th February 2009, 12:08 AM

Well on Monday I did a garden job out of town, dropped four Washington Cotton palms around a pool and ground them out and did a few other stumps around town.Packed my bag and drove 120km's to Dirranbandi for the night.

Today I ground out a two meter rotton Bottle Tree stump in dirrin, got to be the worst smell ever.Drove back St George and removed a large Doolen tree between 2 houses,then the neighbor's wanted a dead one done so jump the fence and did that as well.Went and had a look a another job and called it quites at 6pm.

Tomorrow off to Brisbane, Yipeeeeeeeee.The drive sucks 8-9 hours.And next week I do my course in EWP training yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

treevet · 18th February 2009, 12:20 AM

Is that a BC 1250 in your sigpic QQ? Can we see a close up. Neat mount of the spare.

Q.Q. · 18th February 2009, 12:45 AM

Are you serious?. This thing looks like the oldest peice of crap out

.
Yer its a 93 model 12inch Bc1250,on the other side I mounted a vice as well at chest height, I hate bending over to sharpen saw's.
I carn't wait to update,hmmmm BC1800, but this old girl does the job and I can put up with it.

Ok I'll get some closer pic's for yeh.

8th February 2009, 01:04 AM	#301
rbtree Mature tree Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Seattle, Wa. US of Eh Posts: 408	Re: rbtree, whatcha workin on right now? Duncan, BC, eh?! We lived on Shawnigan Lake for 6 months......after we immigrated from Arkansas. I went to high school in Victoria, then moved back to the states. over 40 years ago now, sheesh. Spring? Maybe, but the forecast is calling for chance of snow again in the Puget Sound area next week.... __________________ http://www.??????.com/photos/rbtree

8th February 2009, 02:46 AM	#303
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 4,977	Re: newguy18, whatcha workin on right now? Right now i'm taking it easy,i'm pretty sure that another disc let go in my back. __________________ Have your say join us today. old schooler

8th February 2009, 04:26 AM	#304
LeifR Mature tree Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Norway Posts: 285	Re: LeifR, whatcha workin on right now? What I am working with now is snow. S-N-O-W! Lots of it. Though, I shouldn't complain, I see you australiens have a real tough time. Fire, flood, crocs and snakes. And all at the same time. World isn't fair, and has never been. Back to my own snow. I have to remove it from my roofs. I have calculated the weight to 120-130 kg pr square meter. That means a load of about 15 tons on a normal bungalow roof. How much weight my old roofs may stand is impossible to know. If the roof comes down, I'll know. So, I have to remove some of it to be sure. The lower half of the snow is hard and heavy, nearly like ice. Leif. Attached Thumbnails __________________ My place - Bjørndalen. http://www.youtube.com/user/MultiVoff

8th February 2009, 07:51 AM	#305
Dano Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: NSW Posts: 101	Re: Dano, whatcha workin on right now? Beautiful place you have there Leif, I'm up and at it early today painting another side of my house before it hits the expected 44C. again today! The paint dries in the tray at that temp, and frankly isn't much fun.. Dano

8th February 2009, 11:48 AM	#308
Falke Sappling Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Stavanger, Norway Posts: 18	Re: Falke, whatcha workin on right now? I wish Stavanger was a bit colder, so that the rain would fall as snow! I'm going to a bit colder region of my country on monday. Im about to take the second course of the tree part course to become an "european tree worker" Im looking forward to 5 days of expanding my knowledge and skills

8th February 2009, 12:19 PM	#309
clarke mcclymont Sappling Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: forresters beach Posts: 8	Re: clarke mcclymont, whatcha workin on right now? g'day everyone,looks like a good site,often wondered if there was an australian tree discussion website. my name is clarke mcclymont,i live on the central coast of nsw at forresters beach,i climb for and operate onshore tree sevices.i look forward to talking issues with other fellow tree industry workers in the future. cheers clarke

8th February 2009, 01:39 PM	#310
s.kerrone Sappling Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: duncan b.c. Posts: 24	Re: s.kerrone, whatcha workin on right now? Hi Newguy,you don t do any topping in Florida ?

8th February 2009, 03:12 PM	#312
Therrin Former Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bakersfield, Ca Posts: 2,512	Re: Therrin, whatcha workin on right now? Working on moving! Looks like I'll be ending up in Bakersfield, Ca. At least there's plenty of palms up there. And cows.... lots and lots of cows...whew. Selling my travel trailers, selling some tools and equipment... trying to downsize my holdings for "city living". Ugh. Lemme know if anyone works out there.

8th February 2009, 03:39 PM	#313
Eric Frei Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 12,814	Re: Ekka, whatcha workin on right now? You should sell some of those shotguns too then? __________________ Protect your rights to work - Join Australian Tree Association My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist

9th February 2009, 01:27 PM	#317
Fairfield Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Bucks county Pa USA Posts: 125	Re: Fairfield, whatcha workin on right now? Ekka just got the news about the fires, my thoughts are with your countymen. __________________ Hi yes you know me I am B.A.M.F nice to meet you

9th February 2009, 04:37 PM	#318
quercus Mature tree Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: belgium Posts: 368	Re: quercus, whatcha workin on right now? Been doing a few forestry jobs nowadays... Work is pouring in though. We had a real rough time in the last few months with our new store. But now the time has come to relax a little bit again and therefore, I'll be here way more often... Nice to see ya"ll back after all this time. Can someone please get me up to speed about all those things that happened out here? hey Eric... things look pretty FUBAR in OZ... But I've got an idea... if we could tilt australia just a little bit, all that water would flow to the other side and wipe out those huge forest fires wouldn't it?

9th February 2009, 04:42 PM	#319
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 4,977	Re: newguy18, whatcha workin on right now? I suggest starting at page one of this thread.Let me know when your finished. __________________ Have your say join us today. old schooler

12th February 2009, 08:34 PM	#320
Eric Frei Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 12,814	Re: Ekka, whatcha workin on right now? Yeah, floods up north, fires down south and right where I am ... nothing! __________________ Protect your rights to work - Join Australian Tree Association My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist

13th February 2009, 12:20 AM	#321
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 4,977	Re: newguy18, whatcha workin on right now? Same thing here ekka,every huricane season a big storm will be heading right for me,then at the last minute it'll go around me,might even end up in ohio. __________________ Have your say join us today. old schooler

17th February 2009, 08:51 PM	#322
jtrouse Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 63	Re: jtrouse, whatcha workin on right now? Hey all its been a while since i posted something ive just been flat out lately and havent had a chance to do much after work. Heres some of the stuff ive done lately. Unfortunatelty the before photos never got taken but the height was 120ft for the first two and the second was close to the same. And some of the other work ive done is one you tube ill post the link once it uploads. Climb safe Attached Thumbnails __________________ Regards Jim http://www.arborclimb.com.au CONTRACT CLIMBER CERT IV HORT(ARB) NMIT CERT III HORT (NMIT)

17th February 2009, 08:56 PM	#323
Eric Frei Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 12,814	Re: Ekka, whatcha workin on right now? Pic 2, wazzup with the gutter on the corner of the house trouse? __________________ Protect your rights to work - Join Australian Tree Association My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist

17th February 2009, 09:48 PM	#324
jtrouse Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 63	Re: jtrouse, whatcha workin on right now? the tree had dropped a limb prior to removal and this was one of the reason for the removal of it. No it wasn't us but good pick up __________________ Regards Jim http://www.arborclimb.com.au CONTRACT CLIMBER CERT IV HORT(ARB) NMIT CERT III HORT (NMIT)

17th February 2009, 10:15 PM	#325
Eric Frei Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 12,814	Re: Ekka, whatcha workin on right now? What sort of tree was that, sort of whitish coloured bark. Was it a euc? Hey imagine, some greenie councils in the fire zone only gave 6m around the house as a tree clearing zone, that tree be about on the limit of that. __________________ Protect your rights to work - Join Australian Tree Association My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist

17th February 2009, 11:12 PM	#326
gardensntrees I'm new here so be nice Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Perth Posts: 1	Re: gardensntrees, whatcha workin on right now? gidday there tree world guys n gals? just a new boy round here. have been in business for myself for 6 months doing tree work. mostly private stuff. got on here to try to find out about formal quals relating to tre surgery, arboriculture as it is still a fledgling thing here in Western australia. i notice that over East one needs a cert 111 in arboriculture to be considered for employment. as a ex services guy i do know that always the proof is in the pudding and as such i can climb competently and as such am streets ahead of all the bull dust operators out there. ok look forward to gaining knowledge here, regards Robbie:

17th February 2009, 11:17 PM	#327
Eric Frei Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 12,814	Re: Ekka, whatcha workin on right now? You sound like an RPL type of person to me. __________________ Protect your rights to work - Join Australian Tree Association My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist

18th February 2009, 12:08 AM	#328
Q.Q. Mature tree Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Western QLD. Australia Posts: 282	Re: Q.Q., whatcha workin on right now? Well on Monday I did a garden job out of town, dropped four Washington Cotton palms around a pool and ground them out and did a few other stumps around town.Packed my bag and drove 120km's to Dirranbandi for the night. Today I ground out a two meter rotton Bottle Tree stump in dirrin, got to be the worst smell ever.Drove back St George and removed a large Doolen tree between 2 houses,then the neighbor's wanted a dead one done so jump the fence and did that as well.Went and had a look a another job and called it quites at 6pm. Tomorrow off to Brisbane, Yipeeeeeeeee.The drive sucks 8-9 hours.And next week I do my course in EWP training yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee. __________________ Q,Q's Tree & Garden Maintenance FAMILARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT

18th February 2009, 12:20 AM	#329
treevet Backflipper Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Posts: 2,131	Re: treevet, whatcha workin on right now? Is that a BC 1250 in your sigpic QQ? Can we see a close up. Neat mount of the spare.

18th February 2009, 12:45 AM	#330
Q.Q. Mature tree Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Western QLD. Australia Posts: 282	Re: Q.Q., whatcha workin on right now? Are you serious?. This thing looks like the oldest peice of crap out. Yer its a 93 model 12inch Bc1250,on the other side I mounted a vice as well at chest height, I hate bending over to sharpen saw's. I carn't wait to update,hmmmm BC1800, but this old girl does the job and I can put up with it. Ok I'll get some closer pic's for yeh. Attached Thumbnails __________________ Q,Q's Tree & Garden Maintenance FAMILARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT

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