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Title: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 14, 2015, 03:20:21 pm
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Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: Cut4fun . on January 14, 2015, 03:23:07 pm
Glad there are crazy folks to go in the trees like that. I was amazed watching what I call tree monkeys do mine out front.

Going to move to saws work in action board.
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 14, 2015, 03:28:07 pm
Kev, I climbed for almost 25 years. Hard work and takes its toll tendons and joints.
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 14, 2015, 03:29:17 pm
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Dead Monterey pine removal on Monday
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: DefinitiveDave on January 14, 2015, 03:30:21 pm
Looks nice, what type of gear do you run in the tree?
My climber loves a fun job like that, when I got him a foot ascender and the other doohickey that uses the second foot to ascend this year he was in arborist heaven, he as been in the business for 12 years now and none of the companies around here use any gear like that.
Dave
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 14, 2015, 03:41:47 pm
Two of my climbers use a traditional prusik knot made with the pigtail off the carabiner. Other two use a fixed loop to form the prusik (friction knot ).
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 14, 2015, 03:44:11 pm
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Tall Phoenix palm from today's job. 80'
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: Cut4fun . on January 14, 2015, 04:08:16 pm
Today  :'( . So beautiful there.  :'(   

Want to see what I am starring at.  Frozen tundra.  :P
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: 660magnum on January 14, 2015, 04:18:48 pm
When you get done with the palm you need to clean your saws well as that mess corrodes in and around the chain brake and oiler something terrible.
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: DefinitiveDave on January 14, 2015, 04:45:25 pm
I am just guessing but is a palm tree a thin bark, slippery-azz no spikes situation?
Here in Ohio we don't have any outside of arboretums and they discourage climbing in there :)
Dave
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: 660magnum on January 14, 2015, 05:07:45 pm
There's some kind of oil in palm trees that will just ruin a chainsaw under the chain cover. You have to be careful about buying used saws from palm infested areas.
(http://photo.blsnelling.com/Chainsaws/MS440/IMG6680/117202351_wkSB2-L.jpg)
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: 3000 FPS on January 14, 2015, 05:45:47 pm
Wow that is some bad mag rot.
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 14, 2015, 05:54:26 pm
We do a lot of palm and yucca removal jobs and my guys break down the saws and spray LPS or wd40 on the side covers/case at the end of the day. It's shocking how quickly the palm juice corroded the magnesium if you don't clean them after each use. Nasty stuff!
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 14, 2015, 06:04:01 pm
Dave, we use climbing spurs (spikes) on the palms if inaccessible with a lift.  There's a fungus called Fusarium Blight in the Phoenix palms here and the main way it is spread is from tree to tree is climbing spurs or from chainsaws/Handsaws. After pruning one of these Palms the chainsaws (tools) have to be broken down and disenfected with Clorox or like.  Cost to replace one of the specimen phoenix palms can be more than $30,000 so it's high stakes pruning if you are careless and infect someone's tree.
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: 660magnum on January 14, 2015, 06:05:24 pm
The wood is like oriented strand corn broom. 

But the strands clog up the saw and there is silica all infused withing the strands. The chain dulls quickly.
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 15, 2015, 05:50:59 pm
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Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: Cut4fun . on January 15, 2015, 05:52:15 pm
Was the bees in that tree?
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 15, 2015, 05:57:07 pm
Yep, I'll post another pic with my guy wearing a bee keepers net over his hardhat!!
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Post by: aclarke on January 15, 2015, 06:05:26 pm
I think you can see the blue nylon topped bee net on his head. Got stung 4 times before we sent up the bee net.

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Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: 3000 FPS on January 15, 2015, 07:57:09 pm
Is that a eucalyptus tree.   
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 15, 2015, 09:12:58 pm
Yes. Tasmanian Blue Gum. (Eucalyptus  globulus) Brought over to this area in the turn of the century to be used as RR ties. Wood proved to be too unstable and wasn't used for this purpose.  The trees in the above picture was planted in the early 1900's.  These are are about 110' tall.  There is a specimen on our local channel islands that was measured at 236ft a few years back.
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 15, 2015, 09:20:00 pm
Looks like the tree on santa Cruz island is now 247' tall.  I'll see if I can find a picture
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: 660magnum on January 15, 2015, 09:21:51 pm
My mother had a couple smaller ones in her yard at one time. They were only in the 25'-30' range. Wood grain is different from what I'm used to.
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: 3000 FPS on January 16, 2015, 10:38:34 am
Looks like the tree on santa Cruz island is now 247' tall.  I'll see if I can find a picture

That is one tall tree.   
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: pete on January 17, 2015, 09:01:54 pm
The eucalypts are a strange tree if you cut one that has been growing in a water starved area as it dries the splits are small and the wood tight and stable. But if you get the same species grown in swamp or wet lands cut it down and try to season it it splits open like a hookers legs. I found this often when trying to season gum for bowl blanks for the lathe still got a few examples of the various seasoning attempts somewhere There were large bluegum plantations put in around my area over the last 15  behind my workshop will get some pics.  Over here redgum and jarrah were the main timbers used for railway ties/sleepers. There were large bluegum plantations put in around my area over the last 15 years or so carbon offset plantings destined for woodchipping but the company went bust and the farmers were not getting paid the lease for there land so hundreds of acres were pulled up and burnt, but a few of the smarter ones are now running firewood from these trees and thinning as they go but they are planted so close together they don't obtain massive height.
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: 3000 FPS on January 17, 2015, 09:11:18 pm
When I lived in Southern California there were eucalyptus trees all over the place.  I saw some pretty big ones come down over the time I lived there.
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 17, 2015, 10:02:51 pm
That's interesting.  I've milled some small pieces of  Red Gum (camaldulensis) and Robusta and  it has been very stable. As you mention, arid climates yield tighter/denser wood that's less prone to move while drying.  We've removed some Eucalyptus in irrigated garden/ landscape settings and they literally pour water out while making a cut.
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 17, 2015, 10:05:53 pm
Where did you live in southern Calofornia. I'm about 90 miles north of Los Angeles
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: 3000 FPS on January 17, 2015, 10:12:59 pm
Where did you live in southern Calofornia. I'm about 90 miles north of Los Angeles

Orange County, city of Cypress.    Same house for about 38 years and I retired and moved to Wyoming.
This is where all my wife's family lives.   
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 17, 2015, 10:30:30 pm
You've got a real sweet spot to retire! I enjoy the cool pics you've posted of the big sky and endless views. 
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: 3000 FPS on January 17, 2015, 10:56:03 pm
Thanks Adam I really enjoy the freedom here and I get get along pretty good with my inlaws.

This coming summer I hope to get some kind of shooting range set up and get all my reloading equipment out so I can have some fun.   A lot of the ranges I went to in Cal when I was there got shut down for one reason or another so I just quit shooting when I was there.

  Plus I can cut, stack, split, burn, and store all the wood I want without someone complaining.   
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on January 18, 2015, 12:07:41 am
Sounds like a fun. Most of the public ranges on Forest Service land have been closed here as well.
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on April 28, 2015, 05:37:36 pm
Cleaning up an old 1920's Estate property.  Lots of cool old trees.


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Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on April 28, 2015, 05:42:34 pm
Owl nest with three good sized Great Horned Owl chicks about 50' up...
Mom wasn't to stoked when the guys pruned the tree, all done now and Owls are happy.
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Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: 3000 FPS on April 28, 2015, 08:07:59 pm
Is that a eucalyptus tree?
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Post by: aclarke on April 28, 2015, 10:19:01 pm
Blue Gum Eucalyptus.  (Eucalyptus  Globulus)
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Post by: 3000 FPS on April 28, 2015, 11:33:33 pm
Those trees sure get tall.  That one in the picture looks to be very high.
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Post by: aclarke on April 29, 2015, 09:43:50 am
The one in the picture is about 120'  probably planted in the 1920's when the home was built
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Post by: 660magnum on April 29, 2015, 10:00:56 am
Looks like a Australian Ghost gum?
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Post by: aclarke on April 29, 2015, 04:07:24 pm
Similar appearance. Ghost gum has a chalky white trunk and grows to about 65'  Haven't seen one here.  We have a lot of the lemon scented Eucalyptus (Citriodora) here that has a similar trunk, although more yellow than white.  Citriodora gets pretty tall too 140-150'   
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: 660magnum on April 29, 2015, 04:20:49 pm
Ghost gums and some Eucalyptus are first cousins? They did belong to the same family until the early 90's where someone changed the family name for the Ghost gums..

Thanks for the clarification.
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Post by: aclarke on April 29, 2015, 05:52:33 pm
Yep, same family.  Different genus+species to the Globulus (Blue gum)  the Lemon Scented Is closer relative
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on March 29, 2016, 01:33:04 pm
Dead Monterey Cypress removal today.

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Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on March 29, 2016, 01:34:37 pm
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Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: 3000 FPS on March 29, 2016, 05:42:06 pm
That chunk of wood probably weighs more than you do.   That is impressive work standing up there with a set of tree gaffs on.
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Post by: jmester on March 29, 2016, 10:05:48 pm
Is that a ring or a carabiner on the redirect sling. Looks pretty slick.
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Post by: jmester on March 29, 2016, 10:24:06 pm
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A 40" tulip poplar I cut last week. It was a beauty. Got 4 clear 16' and 1 low grade log out of if. Cut a red oak today that measured 50" on the stump should have grab a pic of it. Flip phone don't take good pics.
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Post by: mdavlee . on March 30, 2016, 03:36:13 am
Nice poplar.
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Post by: 3000 FPS on March 30, 2016, 12:23:28 pm
That poplar sure looked nice and straight.   Could be some good lumber in it.
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Post by: Cut4fun . on March 30, 2016, 01:52:00 pm
I'm sure glad there are guys around that like to do that tree work climbing all around limbing and blocking down a tree. 
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Post by: Cut4fun . on March 30, 2016, 01:54:44 pm
Nice felled log there too. Hope to have some down like that this year myself. 

 Did I mention I dont like felling bigger trees.  :o :-X

Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: aclarke on March 30, 2016, 02:28:45 pm
Jason,
Probabaly a steel locking carabiner
Title: Re: tree jobs this week
Post by: jmester on March 30, 2016, 08:45:10 pm
Adam, have you heard of or tried the x rigging ring? Saw a YouTube video if them in action and look pretty cool and simple to use. Felling big trees can be hard to fell. Sometimes it is hard to judge the lean. Seen trees with trunk sweep opposite the lay and canopy towards the lay set back. As a good rule just set a wedge. Maybe one day i will buy a go pro and record a day at work. I know my kids sure would enjoy watching it.