Unregistered, whatcha workin on right now?

Bruce Hopf

Spent the Last Two days, looking outside through the window. We are having, and had a snow storm here for two days. I have snow drifts in my yard, around 4' high, and rising.
On my way out to the shop, to get the wood stove started, and do the finishing touches of hooking up the snow blower to one of my tractors, and when this storm passes, I'll have a few hours work to get the yard opened up again. I hate winter.
I'm also working on rebuilding the top link for the three point hitch of my biggest tractor, that way I can use it instead of the tractor that the snow blower is hooked up to, presently. Take care. Bruce.

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McCulloch chain saws
1- Pro Mac 60, 1- Pro Mac 700, 2- Mac 10-10 Automatic's, 2- Mini Mac 30's, 2- Mac 110's,
2- Mini Mac 35's, 1- Mac 140 with Automatic Chain Sharpener,
1- Pro Mac 10-10, 1- Mac Cat, 2- Eager Beaver
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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southsoundtree

On Monday we are going to start a new job. 3 year old house construction damage to some trees, grade changes, etc.


Questionable alders alnus rubra near heavily windowed waterview house.

Some corrective pruning for small co-dominants in western redcedars thuja plicata,

Nasty large douglas-fir psuedotsuga menziesii snag to take down in the woods, maybe a highline, or just tie into the neighboring tree at equal height to the topping cut. Get to leave all that in the woods.

they put in a storm drain by trenching 5' from the base of a western redcedar around 24" dbh.


Yay, Christmas $$.

Treeson

Have finished installing christmas lights in the trees of Edinburgh, spent the last two weeks shivering in the shadow of the castle installing 4000 odd metres of lights. Glad to be finished -look forward to doing some easier tree work.

danschweitzer

bin tiling today i m a part timer in the forest Thirmin but the projects in the woods in Botton are ongoing cycles of the woods ther which are 30+ years old so my mate Allan runs it all you know the whole thing planting gowing enclosures etc. well there are a number of differnt platations round the valley not sure of the sizes some bigger some smaller 1-10 acres roughly enough to feed all their resopnably new ever increesing number of wood boilers and all the fencing wood and other stuff i just do a few days a year there thinning i grew up ther so its normally a great day in the woods best work out ever i genrally work with a yung lad we trained together a year or 2 ago now

Raven

Today I completed attaching stone handle to the knife I made for my son for X-mas. I'll start the leather sheath with coontail (rattle snake ) skin inlay for special looks tomorrow. I have a beautiful desert raattlesnake skin I plan to use. ( I am known as Queen of the road kill because I pick up dead snakes and skin them for my knife sheaths). Besides that I am making props and sets for the next theater play opening in January. Who would have thought making a three foot Chrysler Building would be so damned tough. I DID make the red light to go on top..I am so pleased with myself for that. So between making custom knives and props and sets and fine jewlery for Christmas gifts I am learning Italian because I expect to have a job in Italy in 24 months. Other wise, life is very dull except for dancing to the demanding tune from my two Chihuahuas. They rule the house and my life. Gadszooks, they can stare a hole in me to get what ever they want.
So. That is what I am working on right now.
Raven

TrevMcRev

Got any pics of your handywork?
Sounds interesting!

haroldhenry

Hello BERMY, this is James Lindsay Jr. Just stumbled across this website. Did`nt know anyone was looking for me. I`m back in the U.S. You can send me an email at jbfantasy@hotmail.com. Not sure who you are. I was in Bda for many years . Went by the name Jungle Jim for years. Hope to here from you soon at the email I gave you. James H. Lindsay

Bruce Hopf

For those of you, that don't know what a top link, or three point hitch of a tractor looks like, or is, I took a few picture of the set up today.
I have the snow blower hooked up the tractor presently, and I've taken pictures of the three point hitch system.
I built the bracket, for the top link, so that the hydraulic cylinder can be hooked up to, and it is used as the top link , between the back of the tractor, and the snow blower.
I use the hydraulic cylinder, so I can tilt the snow blower back, so it can chew through hard snow, and I can tilt it forward, so that it doesn't dig into the gravel of the driveway.
All this is done, by using a hydraulic lever on the tractor, called a hydraulic remote, which opens up a valving spool, for the hydraulics of the tractor, which allows hydraulic oil to pass through, to the cylinder.
A three point hitch consists of two lifting arms, and one top link, so what ever implement is hooked up to the tractor, that is not a trail implement, with wheels, can be raised, and lowered, with the tractor.
Hope this help those of you, that had no idea what I was talking about, so I thought I'd better explain things a bit for you. Bruce.

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McCulloch chain saws
1- Pro Mac 60, 1- Pro Mac 700, 2- Mac 10-10 Automatic's, 2- Mini Mac 30's, 2- Mac 110's,
2- Mini Mac 35's, 1- Mac 140 with Automatic Chain Sharpener,
1- Pro Mac 10-10, 1- Mac Cat, 2- Eager Beaver
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
Stand Back, I Have A Very Extreme Case of CAD (Chain Saw Addiction Disorder).

Fairfield

I will be taking a instructor class this up coming Jan. Looking forward to teaching rope rescue classes in the future. The school that I am hoping to teach for has a contract with the US military to teach all over the world. Should be a good time.

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Cole

hey fellas spent the past two weeks doing industrial rope working building new sub-station for transgrid/country energy, the last four days we were doing live 300kv work in the station, below and above ground at once stage we had a 22t excavator meters from the main transformer/ capacitor bank, you could feel the hairs stand up all over your body, we were creating new emergency blow out capture systems....in case she blows up this system will capture all the oil from the trannys. ive never worked in a more anal workplace in my life, and i thought as in arborist organising an outage was a pain in the arse, we got a 630 page jsa from the principle contractor, every peice of machinery had two earths one trailing earth and one earth switch protector, we rigged in 25 new circuit breakers to a total value of over 5 million dollars, by far the craziest thing ive done in my career the first day doing live works the transgrid executive said to us fellas "off the record" i did my apprenticeship in the sub-station 30 years ago and so far no one had died here, so he put a dust pan and brush on the fence as a reminder that if get hit thats how you leave there in a dust pan....

Bob Tooley

Almost follows the policies of disarming bombs... the 'off-the-record' part say's "we're going to acknowledge you're doing a dangerous job...but don't expect it to show in your paycheck.... Thank god my days of tempting fate are over... now all that's left is for fate to just step in and ...take over...

Apocalypsse

Loooooong day yesterday, best part was we broke a rigging carabiner trying to pull out a trunk. Shame we couldnt find what was left of the biner, would have loved to have seen what was left of it.

Eric Frei

I always have a load of shackles around, they're way cheap and got ridiculous strengths.

Like a 4.5t SWL one is around $10 ..... and that's only 20% of breaking strength. Where the numbers on biners are breaking strength, so that $10 shackle breaks at 22.5 Tonnes

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oziweb

thick leather gloves ,coveralls and a chain saw in the two bougainvillea plants that have not been pruned for the past 10 years - thorns about 4 inches long - finally cutoff at ground level and will roundup them over the week - nice flowers but prefer them in some one elses backyard. Also cut the trunks on the Wishteria and will also round up them. Next to the trees - have a beautifull Norfolk Island pine - good healthy tree but its 2 inches off the wall of the house - sadly that has to go. A couple of nice Jackaranda trees but I have little Jackaranda's coming up every where.

Finally got the Cannery Island Date palm in a non dangerous state pruned it with a chain saw and it now looks good - its growing point is about 10 foot high so it is nolonger a danger to the kids etc - would love to know just how old it would be at that height?

Apocalypsse

We didnt have any of our rigging gear with us as it was just a straight scarf and drop, we just had that crappy ex-council biner on us. Only rated to 10kn as well so not overly surprised with its rather dismal performance.

haroldhenry

All is good. Santa Claus is comming.Merry Christmas to you, Ekka and all!

Apocalypsse

Fkn awesome day in Kinglake, dropping 100ft+ Eucs. Boss cuts out the heads, awesome. We drop one whole, epic levels of awesome. I got to scarf out a whole lot of trees, good fun and good practice. Was rather pleased, 100% accuracy.

gawd

tis the time 4 cocas palm - but cant complain $60 a prune - providing they have been pruned in the last 12 months - rather kill and grind -but money in the bank next year- Ill take $60 4 5 minutes climb -{yeah do spike em }

danschweitzer

I SLICED MY LITTLE FINGER PULLING A TOOL BOX OUT OF MY VAN. a SNAP OFF TYP STANLEY BLABE HAD SLIPPED ROUND THE TOP COMPARTMENT OUT OF SIGHT WHEN i GRABED IT IT FELT LIKE A SCRACH OF A NAIL JUST POINTING THROUGH THE TOP PLASTIC BUT WHEN I LOOKED I SAW THe cut and i realised. Isnt too deep though so christmas came early. Other than that Ill be cutting a few trees back tomorow if I can get a glove on then some more felling a bit later on between other jobs. Felling spruces pines larches and some other evergeens stay cool happy christmas

tilligerry habitat

Knee jerk reactions to fire are something I can relate to totally. We had a fire 2 yrs ago and now due to endangered frog habitats and being a Koala preservation area we have had to remove dead sticks (not allowed to remove dead trees) at a cost of $3760. A lot of people wanted a burn, but no go for us for at least another 3 years. A small fire broke out on Tuesday but luckily we were on site and got it out enough for the Fire Brigade to finish the job. Deliberately lit is the worst bit to swallow!

Tree Prodigy

I have been doing alot of rigging and removals in a campground now that everyone has left for the winter its pretty challenging because all the power & cable goes everywhere and the campers are really close together but I am almost done there & I will be moving to the islands on the lake to trim & remove trees for the electric co-op that I have been doing every jan-apr for a few years now

gawd

worked my butt off ,hoping to take a fortnight off to catch up on maintenance!

kel

Phone stopped ringing a week before christmas with a few "maybe" quotes out there, should start happening agen monday. Wouldn't mind a few jobs before we go O/S on 20th to make it feel like you "deserve" this holiday. Just finished slashing 35 acres for a friend with a 6' slasher. That was a challenge. Know what I'm NOT going to do when I get down out of the trees.

Apocalypsse

I do believe I have created tree porn today. Video'd our bobcat feeding our hired 18" Vermeer, omg, just omg... I think i'll have to post a thread down in the pics/videos forum of the stuff we got.

susie

Very large Ficus hillii! Some getting possibly structurally unsound. Good news on my Canariensis though, have totally taken from transplanting, thanks to Ekkas great advice!

Ratruder

I'm not actually in the tree industry - I just climb for recreation. My mum has a big fig that her husband keeps lighting fires under because he is - well - dumb.
Over the years he has caused a lot of damage to the lower limbs & buttress roots but I've been keeping it tidy so there's nothing to burn & it seems to heal itself with time. They have a stand of really big camphor's that I'm not game to go too close to because of the damage he continues to do to those with his bon fires.
I have a bunch of string lines up the fig that I am able to haul up my throw line followed by my rope. The highest is about 22 metres & I've been getting more comfortable with branch walking & improving my fitness. To me this is the best sport for problem solving that I have been involved with.
How do I find other posts I've left & why did one of them show up in 2007 or 8 when I only left it the other day.
My father in law recently gave me his Still 038 AV Super. I starts first time & goes well but needs a new bar chain & sprocket that I am reluctant to purchase as it is a fairly heavy machine & in time to come I may want to spend some time with an Arborist & wonder which saw would be the best to trade the 038 for.

Eric Frei

Ratruder,

You might be confusing the thread start date with your post date.

Also up the top blue bar

Quick Links > Subscribed Threads

Is the fastest way to find the threads you have posted in.

The fires under trees, well I agree it is dumb, unless the tree sucks which most camphor's do.

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Apocalypsse

Heres the best pic I got from today. Bobcat and truck are ours, chipper on loan from Vermeer and excavator to help us all day tomorrow. Theres 2 more cypress like those in the background and another half dozen liquid ambers just a bit bigger to go. Shame auto feed came pre-broken, cant wait to f some s up with it tho. Also the log on the table in the picture refused to go through, apparently this 18" doesnt wanna accept 18"...

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Oaktree Girl

Hey, collected a 120-year-old oak tree that came down in the wind. Couldn't bear to see it go to landfill so we went and salvaged what we could. Not sure if the pieces we got are worth milling. Such a beautiful tree to come down like that. The best part of the trunk went to a cabinet maker that eyed it off and came back with a small crane to transport it. Does anyone know a good place to get a portable band-saw for milling. Any ideas what we should do?

jmoon

I am a recreational and by necessity arborist to keep my trees healthy. I have misplaced the instruction manual for my older Stil 031AV chainsaw and found this site trying for info. I respect/appreciate the work of eco arborists.