Trees you've cut

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Why do I keep agreeing to do these jobs?!

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Dismantled a big Lawson cypress for someone. Was a bigger job than expected, especially with the windy weather we have had all summer.
Finally got finished today.
By far the most complicated job I have had to date with all the buildings around the tree.
Luckily the landowner made it a lot easier by placing pallets and boards over the roofs of the buildings.
The tree was covered in little round cones that caught and tangled my ropes at every opportunity.




We speedlined so e of the lighter stuff but had to lower the rest, grazing the roof of the little wooden shed many times in the process. I had to come down out of the tree and leave off for another day at one stage because the wind had made it too dodgy. Branches were swinging around wildly out of control.









After removing all the limbs and lowering down two short logs we then winched the stick over.





Here's a view of the finished project from half way up the next tree, some kind of fir. A much simpler job with no rigging.







The icing on the he cake was that it was a no clean up job.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Dismantled a big Lawson cypress for someone. Was a bigger job than expected, especially with the windy weather we have had all summer.
Finally got finished today.
By far the most complicated job I have had to date with all the buildings around the tree.
Luckily the landowner made it a lot easier by placing pallets and boards over the roofs of the buildings.
The tree was covered in little round cones that caught and tangled my ropes at every opportunity.

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We speedlined so e of the lighter stuff but had to lower the rest, grazing the roof of the little wooden shed many times in the process. I had to come down out of the tree and leave off for another day at one stage because the wind had made it too dodgy. Branches were swinging around wildly out of control.




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After removing all the limbs and lowering down two short logs we then winched the stick over.

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Here's a view of the finished project from half way up the next tree, some kind of fir. A much simpler job with no rigging.



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The icing on the he cake was that it was a no clean up job.

Despite being simpler the next tree was much bigger. I had the 460 with 28 inch bar out for the last section.





Any ideas what kind of fit it is?

 

[Ketchup]

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I feel ya. Just got a bid for $3200 worth of hedging. At least we have battery trimmers now.

 

[Powerstroke Cowboy]

I feel ya. Just got a bid for $3200 worth of hedging. At least we have battery trimmers now.

Bills don't pay themselves.

 

[davidwyby]

I supposed a self employed Bill might.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

I feel ya. Just got a bid for $3200 worth of hedging. At least we have battery trimmers now.

No one round here will pay that much to get hedges cut. I suspect that's part of the reason that hedge in my post was left for so long.
I priced that job at €750. That was to cover me, two other guys and a hire chipper for one day. Two guys at €150 each and the hire chipper at €200 leaves me with €250 for a day's work. The VAT at 13.5%, fuel, any equipment damage etc or other costs then have to come out of my takings for the day.
That job became a day and a half job so I just about broke even. Luckily the hire company wouldn't charge me anything for having the chipper for an extra half day. If they had I would have lost money on that job.


€900 is the most I have ever successfully bid for a days worth of hedge cutting. Again, to cover me, two guys and a hired chipper. I only really do any of that kind of work anymore to keep return customers happy or to fill in the quiet spell in the summer when there isn't much tree cutting going on.


I used to do a lot of hedges, lawns and strimming. It pays really well when you can use the landowners fuel and machinery, get paid cash and cycle to your jobs. However the more you invest into that kind of work the less you will be getting out of it because there is quite a low ceiling in terms of what people are willing to pay. It's different in richer areas or if you get contracts with state bodies like county councils or schools but around here people want everything done for free because they think it's the 1930s and they haven't a pot to piss in.

That's why I went into tree cutting. You get paid a hell of a lot more and the more you invest the more you profit. If strimming paid €500+/day that's all I would do.

 

[Ketchup]

No one round here will pay that much to get hedges cut. I suspect that's part of the reason that hedge in my post was left for so long.
I priced that job at €750. That was to cover me, two other guys and a hire chipper for one day. Two guys at €150 each and the hire chipper at €200 leaves me with €250 for a day's work. The VAT at 13.5%, fuel, any equipment damage etc or other costs then have to come out of my takings for the day.
That job became a day and a half job so I just about broke even. Luckily the hire company wouldn't charge me anything for having the chipper for an extra half day. If they had I would have lost money on that job.


€900 is the most I have ever successfully bid for a days worth of hedge cutting. Again, to cover me, two guys and a hired chipper. I only really do any of that kind of work anymore to keep return customers happy or to fill in the quiet spell in the summer when there isn't much tree cutting going on.


I used to do a lot of hedges, lawns and strimming. It pays really well when you can use the landowners fuel and machinery, get paid cash and cycle to your jobs. However the more you invest into that kind of work the less you will be getting out of it because there is quite a low ceiling in terms of what people are willing to pay. It's different in richer areas or if you get contracts with state bodies like county councils or schools but around here people want everything done for free because they think it's the 1930s and they haven't a pot to piss in.

That's why I went into tree cutting. You get paid a hell of a lot more and the more you invest the more you profit. If strimming paid €500+/day that's all I would do.

This job is probably triple what you had there but it’s a bunch of small shrubs as well. We bid two kinds of hedge jobs: “keep the customer happy” and “there’s no way we’re doing this unless we make good money”. We’ll come out ahead on this one, not that much, but it’s a legit day’s work.

Even here where people are very wealthy, we bump into a lot of customers that are upset about pricing. I spend a lot of time convincing people we’re worth the cost. Holding firm on pricing is hard, but important.

 

[HumBurner]

No one round here will pay that much to get hedges cut. I suspect that's part of the reason that hedge in my post was left for so long.
I priced that job at €750. That was to cover me, two other guys and a hire chipper for one day. Two guys at €150 each and the hire chipper at €200 leaves me with €250 for a day's work. The VAT at 13.5%, fuel, any equipment damage etc or other costs then have to come out of my takings for the day.
That job became a day and a half job so I just about broke even. Luckily the hire company wouldn't charge me anything for having the chipper for an extra half day. If they had I would have lost money on that job.


€900 is the most I have ever successfully bid for a days worth of hedge cutting. Again, to cover me, two guys and a hired chipper. I only really do any of that kind of work anymore to keep return customers happy or to fill in the quiet spell in the summer when there isn't much tree cutting going on.


I used to do a lot of hedges, lawns and strimming. It pays really well when you can use the landowners fuel and machinery, get paid cash and cycle to your jobs. However the more you invest into that kind of work the less you will be getting out of it because there is quite a low ceiling in terms of what people are willing to pay. It's different in richer areas or if you get contracts with state bodies like county councils or schools but around here people want everything done for free because they think it's the 1930s and they haven't a pot to piss in.

That's why I went into tree cutting. You get paid a hell of a lot more and the more you invest the more you profit. If strimming paid €500+/day that's all I would do.

We've done acres of sprouts/seedlings and we've done acres of walls of brush/thorne/berries/poison oak

Once or twice a landowner has said something like, "well, gosh, I could've done that myself" to which the obvious, unspoken answer was, "well, no *s-word, why didn't you?"

Priorities.

Most people out here buy land and have no idea how to maintain it against fire or invasive species, let alone for soil or forest health.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

This job is probably triple what you had there but it’s a bunch of small shrubs as well. We bid two kinds of hedge jobs: “keep the customer happy” and “there’s no way we’re doing this unless we make good money”. We’ll come out ahead on this one, not that much, but it’s a legit day’s work.

Even here where people are very wealthy, we bump into a lot of customers that are upset about pricing. I spend a lot of time convincing people we’re worth the cost. Holding firm on pricing is hard, but important.

The pictures I posted don't do the whole thing justice. We had to reduce that section plus the same again, trim and equally large section and entirely remove another shorter section.

 

[cus_deluxe]

i stay on the ground, but we did this one the other day, probly the biggest cherry ive seen. the lift can go about 75’, paul had to tie in and climb out to get the rest of the top out. dude is crazy

 

[cus_deluxe]

 

[HumBurner]

View attachment 432320View attachment 432321View attachment 432322View attachment 432323i stay on the ground, but we did this one the other day, probly the biggest cherry ive seen. the lift can go about 75’, paul had to tie in and climb out to get the rest of the top out. dude is crazy

Were there obstacles around that prevented straight-falling it?

 

[pavel408]

Any ideas what kind of fit it is?

Some kind of fir... Spanish fir https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Abies-pinsapo-cones-1.jpg perhaps?

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Some kind of fir... Spanish fir https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Abies-pinsapo-cones-1.jpg perhaps?

Maybe, I'm thinking silver fir. Quite a few of them around.

 

[cus_deluxe]

Were there obstacles around that prevented straight-falling it?

a house up the hill one way (potentially) but mostly not wanting it to split and wipe out other nice huge trees.

 

[pavel408]

Maybe, I'm thinking silver fir. Quite a few of them around.

You're right, concerning the range, silver fir is more likely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abies_alba#/media/File:Abies_alba_R1.JPG

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Fully removed these four ash and one sycamore trees today.
Very easy job, very nice trees to climb.
There were phone lines and an abc cable running through the sycamore but I just spear cut most of the branches and the fell vertically down just glancing off the wires. I only had to hold a couple of branches and throw them down on the other side of the tree.
Sorry for the *s-worde photos, I have a new phone ordered. This current phone is my first ever smart phone. I'm not used to it at all, every time it comes out of the pocket the screen or camera lense has a new crack.






There's always one!

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

The last of seven trees I felled for some friends of a friend.
This was the only one I climbed, just to put the winch rope in it. Maxed out my 45 meter rope climbing with a prussik. I was tied in about ten feet from the top and reached the bottom of my rope ten feet from the ground, so this tree was very tall.
The even better part is I felled a taller one without climbing it and the tope landed a good six feet beyond where I thought it would, damaging an ancient stone wall





Good views from the top.

 

[Woodslasher]

I'm not gonna recount all the decisions that led to me doing this, but on Sunday I got to have the honor of knocking down this digger pine for my brother. There were a few major limbs that had to be taken down first, then I scooted down and dropped the spar while my brother hydraulically assisted with the mini ex. Kinda fun, kinda terrifying, I still need more practice/training in the proper ways of doing things but all in all I'd say it was a success.