Trees you've cut

[HumBurner]

Up the hill we go to the next tree. My first real/good-sized palm tree. Id cut some tiny ones before, but this took a few minutes of consideration. The trunk and top leaned back over the house. Set up the lighter rigging/winch, not knowing what to expect. Had a wedge in it as soon as I could. Aside from having to bail before I could sever the last fibers on the right side, everything went smooth; once it started moving, it moved fast! The hinge held, and I hit the narrow alley without hurting the live oak clump or breaking the marker. I'll be just fine if I never have to cut another palm.

Reason why such a high-stump was because I only brought a smaller saw. I thought the client wanted two much smaller palms out next to their woodshed, as was previously discussed, but they switched it up on me.

 

[ferris]

Big walnut tree at my parents house.
The trunk had unfortunately been rotting for years. It threatened to fall onto the shed on the left at some point. Of the 60cm trunk, only 10-15cm were not rotten.
We first sawed off the large branches using the bucket of a telescopic handler.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Up the hill we go to the next tree. My first real/good-sized palm tree. Id cut some tiny ones before, but this took a few minutes of consideration. The trunk and top leaned back over the house. Set up the lighter rigging/winch, not knowing what to expect. Had a wedge in it as soon as I could. Aside from having to bail before I could sever the last fibers on the right side, everything went smooth; once it started moving, it moved fast! The hinge held, and I hit the narrow alley without hurting the live oak clump or breaking the marker. I'll be just fine if I never have to cut another palm.

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I hate when customers do that.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

I haven't cut a single fun or interesting tree in ages.
This week we have been doing line clearance. I hate it.





I found a cool stump in someone's field. I think its a beech.





Just cut a box around the lines.





Today we found this 20kv spur with the fuses blown from birch trees growing up through the conductors. No one had reported an outage.
We followed the spur and discovered it was feeding absolutely nothing! 5 or 6 span of 20kv feeding nothing! Wtf?!






I also killed two combi system power heads this week. We use combi system heads attached to the old round pole saw shafts instead of using current pole saws like the HT135. Apparently the new shafts give up.
Anyways, two times this week I accidently dropped two different combi power heads into water. Of course the saws were running at the time and sucked in water.

I was trying to clean one out by running the water out of the plug hole and then pouring fuel in and igniting it with a lighter to blow any remaining water out when of course I set fire to the saw, parts of my van and the ground around me.
Obviously I had used too much fuel and it had gone everywhere.
It was an inferno.
The funniest part was one of my supervisors was sitting in his van facing away from me on the phone to someone. All he had to do was look in his mirror and he would have seen me frantically beating down flames with my (no longer) waterproof stihl hi vis jacket.
I managed to extinguish the blaze around the back doors of my van and on the ground but my pole saw was still in flames.
In an act of part desperation, part stupidity and part frustration and anger i threw the entire thing into a nearby bog hole full of water, submerging it once again.


This is the effect esb line clearance has on me.
A usually mild mannered, calm and sensible young man becomes an accident prone, raging soldier of chaos.


Anyways, that's my first week of line clearance in nearly 2 years complete.

 

[Woodtroll]

raging soldier of chaos.