what did i miss?

have'nt been here for a bit, its summer and i tend to spend my time longboarding and streetluging, or hiking and fishing. Have'nt climbed much, couple of 80' douglas firs that needed to come down (work),other than that....nuthin...

:D

Originally posted by SRT-Tech
have'nt been here for a bit, its summer and i tend to spend my time longboarding and streetluging, or hiking and fishing. Have'nt climbed much, couple of 80' douglas firs that needed to come down (work),other than that....nuthin...

:D

It's been quiet on the board. Everyone's getting fired up about the Rendezvous, coming up fast.

I was up in Bellingham Washington recently, almost to BC, great trees and land, good coffee too.
-moss

yea Bellyham is great, i was down there about 10 years back (when i used to be able to cross the border, LOL)

I have a treejob coming up, a70 foot cedar that has been dead for 5 years. Has to be climbed, cant notch and drop. Should be very interesting climb, did some bore tests and it is still very sound though.....

I was impressed with western red cedar, beauty of a tree, some interesting leaners seen in the woods snaking their way up to the light.

So what's your theory? Cedar being rot resistant the roots are still there holding the dead tree steady? I suppose you could rig some support lines as a backup just as long as you didn't nail them chunking down.
-moss

hello! stepped back in to TCi for a looksee...been doing nothing workwise, sitting on my butt drinking beer, soaking up sun, longboarding. back on the bikes again, pulled out the fleet bult up a replica of a 1890's french "scorcher" bike. Added a few touches of my own. pics soon.

Later.

Sounds like a rough life. I guess somebody's gotta do it.

Set a rope up high, tie it off at the ground and give it a pull test. Make it ocilate like crazy. This technique saved my life once on a dead oak. Darn thing broke at the base and took out a wood fence but I didn't have to ride it down (as initially intended to piece it out). Or you could just walk away from the job. My favorite excuse for high risk jobs I'm afraid of is that "I don't have the experience". That will stop them dead in their tracks! It is a client's tree right? You didn't let your own personal tree go for 5 years did ya?

hi all, back again, still cycling mad amounts (100kms + a day ont he track bike) and taking er easy.

did a tree removal today, a one year old very dead 80' tall Cypress with a MAMMOTH 4' trunk up to 60', then splitting into 2 x 2' spurs.

limbed it, dropped both tops, then tied off the trunk with the bull line and headed down for lunch.

after lunch made the face cut, got the old man and the uncle to pull the bull rope and then made the backcut. CEEEERRACK tIMBER!!!!!! it landed dead on target with a resounding wooooommmmp!!!! Nothing i like more than making that backcut, poundig in the wedge and high tialing it out of there.

dog tired now. off to sleep.



edit, as for the tthat other 5 year old dead cedar, well, ol momma nature took care of that for me i still got paid to make a pile fo firewood thugh....

what type of cycling?

fixed gear. Great for ripping around the city!

bianca baby here - 3 rings strong

hills are my havens

have fun

bravo to the fixie. i run a 42x15. what's your setup? 30 miles on the fixie is like 50 on the road bike.

Originally posted by SRT-Tech
. . . limbed it, dropped both tops, then tied off the trunk with the bull line and headed down for lunch. . .

. . . CEEEERRACK tIMBER!!!!!! it landed dead on target with a resounding wooooommmmp!!!!

Nothing i like more than making that backcut, poundig in the wedge and high tialing it out of there.

Yeah, I know this is a Rec forum, and not really intended for work-talk but I just wanted to say I enjoyed your discription of the removal of that Cypress.
It’s exilerating to do a “drop” and all goes as planned.
Thanks for the vivid discription, complete with sound effects.
Regards,
Electrojake

P.S. Cannondale hard-tail lover here!
An F700 that’s outfitted to my likings, (speciffically to lug my climbing gear into the thorn infested swamps of Jersey looking for that “perfect climber”.
-Ej-

do they still refer to certain areas are being "PINEY"S"

check out the watchung range for trees

jz

Ahh, a completely off-topic thread
The Pineys.
The Jersey Devil.
People that have never been south of the Mason-Dixon Line but somehow have developed a southern drawl in their speech.
And my favorite: UFO sightings in cranberry bogs.
The New Jersey that nobody ever sees. The Pineys.
Note: Ya gotta go south, then west, to get to the “real” Pineys.

As for the Watchang Reservation and Jersey trees. . .
I do most of my climbing here in Middlesex County, Spotswood, East Brunswick, Helmeta area.
I am fortunate to have a 1500 acre reserve a few blocks from my house. It’s called a wetlands-aquifer but that’s a code word for Swamp, however its got trees so off into the soupy, bug & briar infested swamps I go with GPS in hand.

In the fall I climb The Pequest Wildlife Management Area, (Warren County). Some nice mature hardwoods up there, Poplar, Beech, Oak. Its all on solid rock and earth, not swamps, and no stinking capillar infested pine or Maple, just nice clean hardwoods.

Were you doing much climbing when you were still in Jersey?
Just Wondering,
-Ej-