Unregistered, whatcha workin on right now?

nixon

Obviously , I'm a lurker here Actually I'm twice retired .Once from the military ,and once from the construction trade . I pretty much stay busy doing firewood now . I'm ahead by a little over 2 years and have another tri-axle load coming this week . Other than that I have a growing to do list of things .
Life is good here . I enjoy reading this forum ,I've learned a lot .
All the best , John

JayD

Welcome John,

You were once a lurker, now you are a contributing member...Welcome to Treeworld.

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sueann

See this guy? I was wondering how you get the ropes up to the top of the trees like that? I've seen heaps of pics like that here and I'm sick of wondering how they do it so thought to ask.
Do you climb up there first and tie it up or do you like lasso it or something, to lasso it would be a bit hard I think.

Oh damn! the pics didn't come up, he's about 2 pages back I think, but do you know what I mean?

I'm worried this is a dumb question but I need to know. Not that I want to do it or anything, just curious.

jeffswede

Get off your horse and calm down!
Jeff

sueann

I've been on horses since 5am and I am calm thanks! No, I've just been wondering how they get the ropes up there in the first place, and are they safety ropes in case you fall? or are they to catch the piece of tree that is cut off.

jeffswede

So this is " Tree World?".
Jeff

sueann

To learn as well Jeffswede? about trees? Yes?

jeffswede

Is this 101?
Jeff

sueann

Is that better? I love beautiful horses and beautiful trees, so it doesn't bother me one way or the other.

I have thousands of trees here and it's fascinating reading and learning all the things I never knew.

sueann

101?? sorry?

jeffswede

Well, Good for you!
Jeff

sueann

Thank you Jeff.

I hope the weather's nice in San Diego. It's cold but sunny here.

jeffswede

Ahh!- I love you to!
Jeff

sueann

Back at ya. I'm sure you're a perfectly lovely person.

sueann

I found what I was looking for! Interesting stuff!

Tree climbing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm still working on making a pond with waterfall. The bushrock is all down and just waiting for some grevilleas and bottlebrush trees to arrive from ebay.

dov

Works been really going well lately - working on a couple of decent sized Eucs at the moment.

As we all know, tree lopping is a public spectator sport (I remember one time seeing people lined up a street away watching me work) and there are a fair few times when I've caught casual workers taking photos of me up trees (ye, ok I asked for some of them.) Recently I decided to turn the camera around and I've started taking photos of the views we all enjoy while climbing.

If the photos work, in the second pic you can just see Melbourne in the distance across the bay.

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Bruce Hopf

Fantastic pictures. Bruce

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dov

Thanks Bruce. Sometimes when I'm up a tree I get the jitters, so I stop and make myself look at the view. After that it just sort of feels like I'm meant to be there and I'm fine. Got some 30m trees up in the mountains waiting for me - pretty much in the middle of a forest - so I can't wait to see what it's like looking out down the gully through the tree canopy!

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arbologik

hi therrin , I'm now working in france as a tree climber arborist and my employement stop around july. So i come to have some information about our fantastic job in autralia

shelleyhouse

K this is funny but here goes....
typing to the sound of a stump grinder as my partner eliminates evidence of giant firs and pine which died when the house was abandoned....

trying to figure out if I'm still in zone 4 or if American Arbor Society is right and I'm in a zone 5 now, which means that I would be able to plant Japanese maple and Golden Chain Tree, need advice!

Recovering from an underground fight with a bindweed octopus.

mldarrell

Hey Guys ang Guls, It is getting warm in central Florida and tree care is heating up for sure. I told someone the other day that we spent all winter tying fishing flies and now that the fish are biting we have to go back to work.
We have a big job with the County Housing coming up as soon as- Obama sends that guv fund down from Washington DC. Still not sure where he got the money but I will probably find out at Tax time 2010 LOL. We are Headed for Zambia in two weeks near the Zambizie river...wont have time to fish there either. Dang! NEAT SITE alot real smart folks hear, Im proud to meet ya.
Thats all Fer Now.
Keep your eyes to the sky, cause thats where the help will come from!
mldarrell

Treeson

Had a great week of work last week, four days out in the sunshine. Been tidying up some snow damaged beeches and a few others on an estate in the Scottish borders. Been removing hangers and cleaning up stubs and torn branches. The other job I had on was a hedgerow of Blackthorn that had to be reduced to 6ft from a height of around 18-20ft. probably the longest hedge I have ever cut, it was about 900metres long. so glad we had the tracked timberwolf to chip the stems as the access was not too great and that chipper really surprised me for it's size as to what it could handle.

Marto

Hey Therrin,

I'm living in NZ, but looking at moving to the Gold Coast of Australia soon. I mainly do line clearance here but i've been getting into tree climbing which is super-fun and challenging. You situated in the US?

grace adamson

i had 2 different tree trimmers out to trim back 2 of my black locust trees and the last one that came out did not listen to what i was telling him about leaving some of the limbs and juet cut them back away from the house ,but do not take the limbs off. the tree trimmer cut the tops out and all of the limbs off and just left the 10 ft trunks. i am hoping that they will come back and i am hoping that you can tell me that the last tree trimmer that did this to the trees did not kill them and i am hoping that you can tell me if he did or not and if they di=o come back i am hoping that you can tell me when they will come back. the tree trimmer did this yesterday which was nonday the 19th. i really need to know as i am very upset looking at 2 ten ft logs sicking straight up as i call it.please email me back asap.

jeffswede

Keep hoping!
Jeff

dov

Don't pay them.

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djbohn

trying hewing. not easy. getting the pace of it. (jeesh damn, these people had a hard time of it.). lol

punnuman

hey guys...im new to the world of trees and found this website and decided to join.

i remember as a kid i loved tree climbing and ready around trees but as i got older i totoally dicregarded them. i am now on a personal mission to go back to the days.

I am doing some reasearch on the types of trees that grow in La and would like to put my own studies together in some form of book or index style reference. once i have done that i have a couple more idea up my sleve.

but im taking it slow and crawling before i can walk. im introucing myself to the world of trees again and 'tree world' is a great place to start and meet other people who share my enthusasium

ecj

Hi Therrin;48217, I'm a bit busy cleaning up after a cyclone but we're getting there. My wife and I have recently moved onto a 55 acre property in the Australian wet tropics (Whitsundays) with one of our sons and his wife. Currently I'm trying to work out what would be a good tree crop to plant on a few acres for timber felling in the future. My ideas at this stage include Toona australis (Red Cedar) and Acacia melanoxylon (Blackwood) (mainly because I've sourced seeds) Ideas/suggestions of other potential species would be most welcome and any advice re their propagating, planting and care would also be very welcome.

Graemec

Hi Therrin, you caught me on the hop. I just came for a look. Working on, you ask? I am afraid with me it's more play than work. I am not currently involved professionally in horticulture/arboriculture but after a lifelong interest in trees in the natural landscape, I am, with my partner some two years into a project to develop a bush garden on our hillslope homesite here in Cairns. We have a small nursery area at our current rented unit, where we are growing some thousands of tree seedlings, and planting them out as they are ready. The builders are currently at work on our new house, so we hold grave fears for some of the plantings in their proximity.
The planting theme is dryland Eucalypt forest on the level street frontage of the block, grading to a Rainforest garden on the steep slope below the house.
After 2 years the mainly Acacia cover planting on the slope is starting to give sufficient shade and wind protection to have allowed us to begin to place the carefully nurtured climax species, i.e. rainforest trees not only from Nth Queensland, but treasures such as Brownia macrophylla from Central America, and several Saracca sp. from Malaysia.

Cheers,

Graemec