This oak was struck by lightning roughly two years ago according to the homeowner. Portions of it were still alive, though the majority of it going over the house is clearly dead.
I'd like to see a time laps video of a tree like this being taken down from top to bottom with the camera in 1 spot. I know nothing about tree work other than what I've learned from your videos but for some reason this fascinates me. Love your content bro, keep it up.
That oak wasn't large, that oak was ducking HUGE!!! Love your videos human, hope I can be an arborist when I'm done with my "forestry and wildlandmaintainance" study. I'd do everything to do that for the rest of my life. Keep your great videos going👍
Human my friend. Happy New year and Big trees wish i you. Climbers are the best Ground man, They know what to do. Good work, as always , Greets, Basti from Germany ;-)
Good day! Hope you've some decent weather for work, I know it can get rather chilly in your area. 100% correct on climbers on the ground, whenever I'm on the ground for Joe, or he's on the ground for me, the job goes much faster. I have a feeling it'll be the same with Robbie, he knows his stuff. I wish you and yours the very best in this new year =)
I really enjoy watching your crew removing large tree SAFELY. I have removed trees from my property And yes I have learned a lot of what NOT to do. But they weren't nearly the size as the trees you take down. I want to remove some large branches from a few trees but I can't do it safely so they are still there. I'll hire a pro for them. Keep up the good work. Be safe brother. Your the best.
I’m watching this and seeing loads of good firewood and kindling. If it were my tree, I’d just ask the crew to organize the piles, then I’d cut and split it into firewood.
Watched a few of your videos so far. Very few on youtube worth watching but yours are. I thought you were the business owner with your skill set. Heck I was even impressed with your ground guys. I can't even hire someone I can trust to run a chainsaw on the ground much less a climber. Some can't even crank a saw no matter how much or how well you teach them. Though I did hire a saddle climber years ago but it took him two days to do what I could do in one. Oh yes Hypoxylon canker, I didn't even notice it until I read the post.
Thanks much, maybe someday, but not for a few years I imagine. Sadly, we're lacking on ground guys right now, one fell off a roof and broke both feet, and another left for another company. As the junior climber I'm kinda stuck on the ground for the time being =( Totally agree with you though, good help is incredibly hard to find
Great video! I noticed the snow on the ground, not sure of the actual temp. Do you ever set your saws to the winter carb shutter position? Also, what's your opinion of that Silky pole saw?
I set all of our saws to winter shutter mode about 1 1/2 months ago. I've climbed in as low as 9 degrees, and had no issues with the saw, though my hands were another story. I did a video on this longboy, you can watch it for my feelings, but my next one I think I'm going back to the zubat, love silky, just not this model so much.
fricken awsome video man! keep them coming. definitely would like to see one time in the future a full on video on how you tie off a brach to catch it and lower it after you cut it, but definitely keep up the good videos. hey what lift was being used? not your bucket truck but the other one with tracks on this thing looked sick as HELL
Some really good videos on rigging are done by TheClimbingArborist, can be found here www.climbingarborist.com/rigging.php . That lift is a JLG, unsure of model or anything, but it's narrow and on tracks so it can go where the bucket truck can't. Also has 75' lift, opposed to our trucks 60', is pretty nice when you need it, but it's way slow.
Thanks man! I will definitely check them out for sure, the more you know and the more you learn makes your job and life easier! And i could totally see the lift being useful in may ways with my company, like when im doing a house power washing i could go all the way around the house without any ladders and also when im painting or installing outside lights, so id definitely like to look into that.
hey human do you have any extra climbing gear you would sell for cheap always wanted to get into climbing I'm a logger who has 3 kids and a wife just don't have the money to buy new stuff right now
The yellow is a 9/16" all gear husky, 14,000 lb average break strength. www.allgearinc.com/arborist-rigging/husky-bull.html www.treestuff.com/store/catalog.asp?category_id=3&item=1006#detail
+Human hum.... would it be worth it to drive down from northern Minnesota...... do most tree services allow an every day guy, with a pickup truck and chainsaw, to take wood from a sight? I have never asked?
I have people come up to me fairly regularly and ask for the wood, and have yet to turn anyone down. If we're short at the shop I'm sure I'd have to say no, hasn't happened yet though. Can't hurt to ask if you've got a crew working nearby!
pushing the weight cap. with the rounds? also, this, and other vids, I was always taught (I'm old, 60yr.) that your supposed to keep your lines close with a clove hitch with heavy stuff, yours are spaced? thanks- great vid/editing.
Not too much, 13,000 lb MBS on those ropes, so 2,500 or so SWL with a 5:1 safety factor. Occasionally I do use the close hitch, a much bigger fan of the running bowline though. In the video, it's not cloves I'm using, it's a running bowline with an additional half hitch on the butt side, takes some of the strain off of the knot on the bowline.
great info- it's been awhile. we always used the bowline as well but without a safety hitch, different ropes/techniques. that's why I'm into your site, to learn all the new stuff, and it's eye opening. thank you.
You’re right, it was a beautiful tree but sometimes the proximity to someone’s home or something like that is just too close or the tree is starting to rot and drop limbs. Would you want this thing coming through the roof of your house in a really bad storm or tornado 🌪? Just some things to think about. It’s not like these guys are taking down whole swaths of old growth.
It was a rental, and our other climber used it to get at some of the stuff over the house that the bucket truck couldn't reach. Where he's at in the yard, the bucket truck couldn't get to.
Thanks for the response man. That oak wilt is a death sentence for red oaks and this appears to be a pin oak which is a member of the red oak family. Just curious, trees can speak a lot of things to us more so than the clients, I'm always wondering why they react to things the way they do. If that's true any red oak in that vicinity is at risk to contract the fungus as long as any wood for that tree is still in the area, even from the stump and the root system for a considerable amount of distance. Job security baby!
Thanks, and that's a 16" on there. Though I am looking at something smaller though, not a young man and my shoulder is starting to bother me. Looking at the MS 150, or the new Husqvarna battery powered climbing saw, either way would be much lighter than my 201t.
Nice video! Cool tree to remove. Im not sure but at 5:55 it looks like you left hand is kind of close to the chain when rolling the log and you have your finger on the accelerator so its a risk. Stay safe man :)
Yeah, closer than I think is safe, nice catch. I generally try to pull my bar down away from the off hand as soon as I'm through the wood, need to do a better job of it. I know you're always supposed to have two hands on the saw, just takes way to damn long sometimes though. Thanks for the comment =)
Yeah just a warning and something to think about! Two hands on the saw when its possible but sometimes it is necessary and good to just use one hand as long as we do it careful
It is huge, not ours though, we just rent it occasionally, I believe it's the model in the link below. www.jlg.com/en/equipment/electric-hybrid-boom-lifts/compact-crawlers/x600aj
7:32 freefall, and 7:40 roped . Not very comfy with the size of wood you are dropping, while directly above your hoist truck. Sure its roped down, but if that rope were to fail in any way, it would sure put one heck of a divot in your truck!
lol, understatement there. Rented a crane for it, but didn't have a spot to get close enough to lift the sections out. Just bucked it on the ground then lifted'em out with the crane. Some real craters, filled them back in nicely though, brought a whole bunch of dirt in along with what we brought to fill in the stump cavity.
Just found your channel today and it’s awesome brother! Im a veteran myself (I was actually in the Air Force and medically retired after 12years, unlike your Pararescue college roommate 😂.. funny story though). I was wondering how you went from the Navy to felling trees? I stuck pretty close to what I did when I was in: I went from working on old school equipment to pharmaceutical equipment. Huge difference working for someone that has money, doing more with less during the Obama years burnt a lot of people out and the smart ones got out, they were where I was stationed anyway. How do you deal with all these people correcting you and telling you how to do your job? It would drive nuts! Stay safe brother! I want to cut down all my pine trees that are dead 2/3rds of the way up now after watching your channel! Lol
Being from out West I find that statement funny, pines and redwoods tend to get struck here since our oaks are so short comparatively. Although in other parts of the country I can understand why oaks get hit a lot since they are usually the tallest trees in the area.
That and many oak trees suffer from heart rot. Note the brown core of the tree and the many hollow spots. This is a dangerous tree that needed to be cut down.
