Trees you've cut

[Maintenance Chief]

a few lamp posts, communication box,and a hydrant. Not critical but aim has to be good.

 

[Maintenance Chief]

#2, nice to have a young guy buck everything up.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

The last big trees on this job.
Nearly all of them had to be climbed to set a pull rope.

I just wedged this one though.






Perfection!






See the bit of rot in the middle. A lot of trees had butt rot on this site.






The corner tree, it was particularly hairy. Rotten in the centre again.






A little persuasion, Couldn't be bothered climbing this one.

 

[Hinerman]

On and on it goes.
1 more day should see us out.


Another high stump, everything is full of metal here


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I purposefully put my hinge in the root flare on this one to help steer it away from a building. It worked.


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Just another spruce. There's a bit if rot in some of them.


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If it's not an oversized spruce full of metal it's a big dead ash.


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Do you think this tree had metal in it?


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Where does all the metal come from?

 

[Hinerman]

View attachment 472961View attachment 472962View attachment 472963#2, nice to have a young guy buck everything up.

Who wrapped the saw? Looks slick...

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Where does all the metal come from?

Mostly fences.
But some trees had old buckets, horse shoes etc embedded in them.
I've seen worse.

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Who wrapped the saw? Looks slick...

Came that way.

 

[Sloughfoot]

Mostly fences.
But some trees had old buckets, horse shoes etc embedded in them.
I've seen worse.

Most interesting metal I've hit in a tree was what looked like a piece of a cast iron decorative hanger about a foot into an old 6' diameter Valley Oak.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Back to removing ash die back trees.
The first two pictures are of relatively healthy specimens but the customer wanted them removed as he's building a shed beside them.




When in doubt leave a big hinge.






The tree on the right is alive and healthy, the two on the left not so much.






This was 3/4 of the way up.







One of these trees was loose at the roots. After we felled it we could rock the stump back and forth an inch or two. I thought it felt wobblier than usual when I was climbing it to set a pull rope.

 

[Hinerman]

Back to removing ash die back trees.
The first two pictures are of relatively healthy specimens but the customer wanted them removed as he's building a shed beside them.

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When in doubt leave a big hinge.


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The tree on the right is alive and healthy, the two on the left not so much.


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This was 3/4 of the way up.



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One of these trees was loose at the roots. After we felled it we could rock the stump back and forth an inch or two. I thought it felt wobblier than usual when I was climbing it to set a pull rope.

Why the big hinge?