10/10 video. Cool, calm, collected. CC&C. I appreciate the explanations as you go along, great insight in your thought processes and planning. Extremely useful for newer arborists like myself.
I appreciate seeing a crew work fluidly respecting one another representing your name in the business and our industry in such a professional manner, that reflects a lotta hard work. Respect to you and your crew.
Hell yea love the team work good stuff. T880 looks mint. My company has 3 kenworths 2 storm body log trucks an a 65 yard chip truck. Keep up the good work love seeing it
Awesome!!!!!!!! Glad to see you back on RU-vid!! Really appreciate the details and why you're doing certain things a particular way. The voice over walking us thru what you're doing is priceless. Phenomenal!!! Thank you sir for sharing!!
Great job Reon truly talented! Joe was in for a treat that day bc you definitely understand both sides and your a beast at both! So awesome to see that much weight leave with ease! Stay safe and keep the chips flying!
i really love watching your company! you give me dreams! we just acquired a 2022 freightliner bucket! first big toy and second chip body too so we now have 2 dumps :) slowly moving towards reon rounds style! once u shown me how far i could take this, ive been motivated so much more to succeed seeing what you have done! keep it up bro! love the big gains u have had lately! its amazing and well deserved! your a hard worker!
at first I thought the tree was going to be worth 20k, but...silver maple. Then I thought they were having the stump ground, a dining table made, and their landscaping done on top of the tree removal. I guess you can really give it to the homeowner when you're the only bidder.
This is what I call a masterpice, Reon. Outstanding work from all the angles: equipment, coordination and professionalism. Much love from Italy, keep your saws in the wood!
Finally a video I can send people when they ask me how to do crane work. Insanely wonderful stuff. This video should be highlighted in crane rigging classes
Really glad to see you back on RU-vid occasionally Reon. As a somewhat old guy, I try and stay off social media. Don't have IG so I can't see your work often. Your videos and editing are amazing and many times all I can think is "Man do I wish I had his job!" Keep it up. Great work, great crew!
I normally don't go crazy subscribing to every video I see but I must admit this was absolutely enjoyable to watch. I always wanted to get into tree work with the right crew but that always evaded me in my life. As a result I ended up going into electronics and machining but I do have a huge amount of "toys" to keep me satisfied beyond retirement when it comes to chainsaws and much more.... With that said I can totally appreciate the safety precautions taken here and the way you took that tree down via crane. Having the tension set perfect gave me chills, I mean it didn't even twist an inch! This is one fantastic video. Hats off to the entire crew!
So much stoke and professionalism in this video, I love it! I spent my better years doing tree work for way too long for a guy who had such a bad attitude. Great crew!
Big silver. Thanks for the video...Hello from Massachusetts. I also have a merlo 50.30. There are dozens of companies in MA that own 110t cranes some more than one and would do this job for 8-10,000 or less. If i rent one im shooting for 8000 revenue for the day, lots of guys who own them are running cheaper than that...Lots of competition and well financed operations out here. Kind of a race to the bottom on jobs like this. Hats off to you for selling it for so much and for the smooth work!
Very awesome video!! I love the little pointers about pulling the sling down and why you make your cuts in a certain order (very helpful). My crane operator loves it when we make the job smoother. Thank you much for posting these! Very inspirational! Very cool operation!! Thanks again from the climbing Michigander!!
Man Its great to have you back on You tube. I love how your all in on these big trees and your on the cutting edge of the latest and greatest equipment. Also I am very interested not just in how you cut trees but also your thoughts on the business side. Wish you all the best.
This channel is way underrated! As a guy who gets an adrenaline rush from cutting down a 20 foot alligator juniper on my Arizona homestead, I intended on watching for a few minutes and skipping to the end. Somehow I was glued to the end and hit subscribe! I have a feeling I will have a lot to learn from you and will share channel when I can.
That was just outstanding filming - showing the process without it ever being repetative. My old man was a woodsman ( they called them "foresters" over here in the UK ) and before he passed last year I showed him vids like this - he was so amazed at the high tech and safety gear and talked so much about how it would have made his working life so much easier & safer ( he carried many scars ). In such a short time no-one would have known you and your excellent team had ever been there. As an ex crane operator I tip my hat to your guy - never a flicker or a jerk in the lines.
I remember when first using 16strand braided saftey core dacron-poly line, instead of twisted 3strand manila. I also remember when the Blake's Hitch was pretty hot stuff. This wasn't that long ago.
Just finished today taking big deadwood scattered throughout a big mulberry, at age 75, with one helper, and hauling away, and got paid fairly--5 hours--like you==but less than 1/40th what you got! Work today was satisfying, but watching this tonight was like the icing on the cake for a great day. I've climbed now for over 55 years--just work part time now--did city contracts for about 7 years only long ago--had a bucket truck for 25 years till the axle came apart. I've rented a crane 5 times, but only 1/4 the size of yours--this was SO much fun to watch--you were fantastic! I initially thought $20,000 was too much--I never made more than 2500 on a tree, but that was many many years ago--I imagine that sized crane cost a pretty penny to rent, and you had HIGH risk swinging all that over a house and up and away from wires, so now i think you earned EVERY PENNY of what you charged. Thanks for sending an old timer to bed with this great video clip of highly skilled professional work.!!
You must be in my area...tree work in the Philly suburbs is terrible pay bc of all the illegal owned and operated businesses...you know, they don't have to follow the same rules we plebes have to follow, like having insurance, paying payroll taxes, workers comp and income taxes...must be nice to be the reason the prices are so suppressed, and make more than everyone who does the right thing in having a tree business. After 22 years, I think I need to find a new profession...
Another wonderful video diary - just love all your kit and seriously envy your Stihl tuning engineer even with my ears I can tell they're wailing like banshees as they need to on big wood. Being primarily estate maintenance and landscaping contractor, I didn't go looking for big difficult trees but they still came my way on managed property - usually after the skinflint owners had already let them fall so never needed a crane. Had to do a 130ft Black Poplar which had a single solid trunk of 6ft diameter to 60/70 ft and a massive stags headed regrown crown - it had fallen half in a pond, demolished yards of paddock fencing and the top hamper blocking a little used but still public lane. A 1ft slice through the trunk had to be quartered before three guys could lift it and the wood stank from a fungus. Owner complained when I charged him five regular days for the crew and threw in our digger for free! I like the sound of $20k a whole lot better.
You guys make tree work look like a big fun adventure. I really look forward to seeing more of that next-level action and what kind of trailer the Merlo telehandler will ride on.
New subscriber here. Such a dream team you have! I actually stumbled here after watching a Bjames Butler video. Glad I found your site as this is going to be a favorite stop for me! Just such a pleasure seeing old fashion passion and work ethics! God Bless you and your team!
Excellent job 👊. Iv had the pleasure of doing a few Naples around that size as well as a few hemlock s. And it's always hard work but I love the trees that everyone talks about
Hey Reon that was a hell of a job you pulled there and that link belt was a beast and still is a beast glad to see that you're doing RU-vid and hope to see a lot more videos really nice video and great job to you and your whole crew💯👍💪💪💪🙏🇺🇲
Hey Reon, Awesome content. Love the videos you put out. Always really informative as well. Certainly interesting to see how you do it In the States compared to here in the UK. Look forward to more great videos.
Outstanding video start to finish! Your crew is a well oil machine and worth every penny you charged to take down and dispose of that monster maple safely. That was not an easy job but you made it look easy. Thanks for sharing!
Good video. Enjoyed your dialog with the crane. My experience was hand signals, so would have to brief everyone pre lift, make sure everyone is on the same page. Those radios are awesome! Thanks
Here in New Zealand we have an endemic tree called a Kauri. The timber retails for around $4500/ cubic metre. New Zealand’s largest Kauri is named ‘Tane Mahuta’ and is huge, being one of the most massive trees on Earth at around 600 cubic metres and making the tree worth around $2.7 million in timber!
@Reon the way you stepped up your game in the tree 🌳 for the crew, equipment, and weather that was all on you was Grade A professional. In addition, the level of detail and effort placed on safety was some of the best in the business. Thanks for taking us along and that's a great crew. 👍
Awesome video, Reon, such a big tree in a tiny garden and you guys completed it all raked up in 5.5 hours! Well played man!! 😍 and those big slings are beautiful 🤩 that crane is an awesome machine I hope you’ve got another job with it soon? 💪🏻💪🏻
Amazing work! Excellent attention to details & video presentation! That tree was colossal, & the total weight (over 70,000 lb) of all the branches & trunk sections is about the same as a WW2 Sherman tank.
Awesome video. The best tree video I have seen in a long time I just subscribed to your channel and I’m going to watch the rest of your videos. Keep up the good work.👍👍👍👍
Im a long time subscriber to ur videos me Reon - i always enjoy watching ur work and it brings back many memories of falling trees while working on my godfathers farm and with the city parks&rec
Fantastic vlog boss from U.K. first saw your good self through a vlog from Guilty of Treeson and although am watching this like 10 months later only just got round to subscribing but great to see such a heavy tree and also the Avant 8series a great bit of gear so looking forward to seeing more like this 😊
Enjoyed the video. Nice editing. Hit all the important aspects. Would like to see rigging of brush picks. Hopefully the big jobs keep coming so you can cover that big "nut" every month. You've put together a great company. AAA.
As a retired park maintenance employee who has removed a few trees in his 40 year career, when I came across this video I have only two things to say....this guy has a mastermind and Goliath gonads.....great great job and stay safe and healthy.....
Cool video lots of information. we cut one down this same size along with another smaller 38" dbh just 2 guys though wish we had had more help took 14 hours ugh.
With an unbid project like this, brakedowns aren’t relevant. It’s more of a “Im not guna do this unless the skills are heavily rewarded” scenario. Trees this size in residential situations rarely stick to price scaling because of all the extraneous details. This was a sick project. Glad y’all got the phat 20k pay it forward though eh?
Fuel: $128.42 Bar Oil: $8.13 Equipment Wear and Tear and Maintenance Allotment: $876.89 Labor: $1,600 Crane Rental: $1,000 Insurance costs allotted for this job: $2,000 Skill & Cahone's to get it done (also pays for prior equipment purchases): $14,386.56
I thought that from the title, but when I saw them using a crane, 2 chipping trucks, dump truck, trailers, loader, ground crew, highly skilled workers etc. suddenly that $20,000 don’t seem like so much. A smaller crew could have chopped that tree up and let it stay on the property for much less. But if you want it removed, the cost goes up astronomically
