You deserve all the support man!!! I love your videos. Between you and August and a few others, I have built my own tree company…. I hope you push through this hard time. We are all here to help if you need!!
I think you did a great job of showing just what you were talking about. Reminds me of a squirrel running around the stem trying to avoid a hunter. Thanks for the update on Guilty of Treeson
Good work on the TreeSon shout out. Just saw his opening vid. Tree Services UNITED!!! ✊. Oh, and thanks August for keeping us edutaned. Love to the fam 🥰
Thanks August. That sucks about the lost footage because it sounds like you had nailed the footage as usual. That’s great rigging footage nonetheless. I remember that large oak on that steep hillside a few years ago that was great as well. Your crew’s teamwork, work ethic, and awareness for safety is evident in your videos.
After watching plenty of your videos I thought I could apply your tactics and remove a 20-year-old crabapple tree that was unsightly due to shade from neighbors' tree and blight. It was half dead. Inspired when neighbors had one tree removed and second one thinned I got out my reciprocating saw and started removing all the limbs I could reach. The pro saw me and said he'd take the rest down, then he disappeared. I tried to direct the top to land on my driveway, but the back weight forced it to fall the opposite from my desired direction. Oh well. I got the brush hauled to the local yard waste site in a couple car trips. Thanks for the new site for Jason's channel. I was missing him.
Just found your videos, absolutely love em. I totally enjoy rigging large trees and working out the best, safest, quickest method. Keep up the great work, from the uk.
August thanks so much for taking the time to teach, your knowledge and experience is amazing! You also have a gift for teaching, so please don't stop!!
Can’t wait for some Monkey-Treeson or Guilty-Beaver collab videos 😂😂. Thanks for looking out for the fellow tree man like Guilty of Treeson. I love watching both of you and it’s awesome that you are trying to help him! Great video too, sad that I couldn’t learn more from you about big rigging today. Look forward to the next one
Another great video. Watched you guys forever but never subscribed to any channel but thought it was time. Keep doin what you do. Always had a passion for the industry but opportunities led me on a different path. Now I’m older and doin a few small jobs here and there. Just love it. Take care and keep doin what you do. Rick
Thanks for using your platform to support Jake Rogers and guilty of treeson, I feel terrible for him losing all of his work. And I look forward to you guy collaborating together this fall.
Some more great vids! Thanks. And the post-processing F/X really is appreciated. Let's us know what to look at before things start to move. Sorry those great shots were lost. Looks like you were dancing around the trunk like a squirrel hiding from a confused dog! LOL
Thanks for the heads-up on Jake's new channel, always enjoy his work and videos. Great video, even with lost footage. Thanks for all your efforts for us tree guys. How can anyone not like the Hunicke crew?..these guys are great!
I appreciate your ethics. Willingness to put yourself in a mega massive teaching situation. Beautiful massive flat landing. We....my family thank you.... several other monkey folks also. Will do.
Your mental calculation and hinge work is amazing, August. I don't work in the tree industry...but your application of physics, and explaining the felling... is jaw dropping. Bet that was one HEAVY and tight grained baby! Great work.
Excellent video, despite the lost footage! Kool perspective from the crane view toward the end of the video. Great shout out to Jake -- pity he lost his channel, but he'll undoubtedly build up the new one to be even greater.
gnarly. What finesse, and what a great crew... and an epic water bottle/trash can shot! I love that notch 'made for the boom' that says "made for this" Good of you to give a shout out for guilty of treeson
Oh man thank goodness you didn’t hit the 460! Prefect as usual. I can see you guys are dealing with Smokey days just like us here n Nor Cal. Always enjoy watching a highly skilled professional and learning for them.
Given the situation, we will put a tag line on the limb butt tied to our mini skid. When the butt comes off if the skid was snug and the operator takes say six or eight feet of rope the butt cannot hit the climber. Attention must be paid to alignment of ropes and the piece along with what August said about strength. Even tip tying can pull the butt from the possibility of striking the climber. I like the hinge dissect. Be well All
Not a tree faller but I still enjoy watching the professionalism, I have taken a few down in my years for firewood and I do know the danger of taking trees down safely. You guys stay safe always ❤
Wonderful explaination....when I was alot younger in the game I was jousted pretty hard with a limb that I had no business trying to handle with that level of experience. Thanks for the reminder....I truly look up to you in regards to your work experience and ethics....keep rocking bro.
Hi August. Another fine video. Not just entertaining....but, a video learning experience. Too bad about the lost footage. Would have been great to hear your explanations.....get inside your noggin. 😉😊
Did big crane job yesterday there no operates right now Ida has most all the tree guys . At least the ones who still want to travel . One pick was 11,700 lbs on the hook but it was on the ground already, two limbs fell out of tree . Old decayed live oak trying to get quote from another tree service in Daphne , AL on sonic tomograph on decay in rest of tree . Customer wants to save the tree but I don’t think they should take all the risk without having image of the condition . Big rigging some of my favorite also , close call on the 046 baby . Stay safe guys and you can’t run saw after 1:00 pm ?
Great vid bummer ya lost all the extra in tree stuff really like that I was wandering what happened to Jacob haven’t seen anything from him in awhile l watched all of his vids to he doesn’t grey job
awesome video bro, even with the camera woes. thanks for taking the time to do a voice over, your content really helps us new guys. ive gotten some really good compliments from my boss because of your content. nice shot with the bubbly by the way
Always something interesting. Would be VERY interested if you would talk about why you are removing healthy trees. Not necessary on the obviously too old or too dangerous, but sometimes you leave me scratching my head. ;-)
Hey Robert. I rarely resist someone who wants to cut his tree down. Occasionally I do. See my video called “Nothing Personal.” That said, a “healthy” cottonwood (seen here) is as good a reason to cut it down as any.
By thinking the process completely through, the end result is video worthy. For every action, there is a equal and opposite reaction. Good job, good crew. Thanks August.
August quick question. Ever had issues with your lights on the truck when you plug up the chipper? We have the same exact bucket truck. GMC c7500. We have the Intimidator Bandit 18xp. Groundy backed up to sharp today and broke the Control panel box completely off today smh so I have to fix that tomorrow but we had the wiring checked and lights fixed for not even 30 mins. Hooked up chipper lost lights on top of the button below the strobe light button there's a button that turns the glow plug check light on and idles truck up. Well driving now periodically the ➿ glow plug light will pop on and off loosing power each time and check engine light will flash then turn off. Seems to do it while idling and driving. Purpose for trucking being in shop was the fuel line blew a press fitting off the silver fuel line from fuel pump/filter to truck. Shop fixed fuel leak and lights. Now it's like it's fuel cutting. ⚙ ➿ Tired of my boss getting the run around from the mechanic and charges over $100 an hour. Not saying he's not doing his job I'm just saying he might be keeping it a little bit longer than he should and usually every time it goes to him it comes back with another issue. Any issues with your bucket truck
It's unfortunate that you lost what you had planned to show. What you had was still very satisfying though. This is what I love, exactly as you explained it. Looking forward to a new opportunity to see the video when you capture the concept on another job. Your expertise never fails to impress. Thanks for all of your combined effort.
Man Adam is a beast of a grounds man Ive watched all your videos over the years and he is a machine he needs to have a helmet cam so I can just let my groundies watch it
I'm jealous - not bc of your equipment or rigging capabilities - but because it's cool enough there for you to have a sweatshirt on part of the time! Ready for cooler weather down here in Mississippi!
In the Rogue Valley, it can be cool in the mornings, but as he noted, during fire season, must be done by 1:30pm so they are out there early, like 5am or so I think. Like Western Washington, Western Oregon is very dry during the summers and the Rogue Valley can get hot, like in the upper 80's to mid to upper 90's easily. I lived for a short time in Medford and it can stay warm/hot until at least Oct down there. They are in southwest Oregon and in between mountains, they have the Cascades to the east, an extension of mountains to the north and the Siskyou mountains at the Oregon/California border so the heat has nowhere else to go. Plus, this may have been shot when a week or so ago too when it was a bit warmer. Don't know about down there, but here in Puget Sound, the temps are dropping and yesterday, we didn't get out of the upper 60's I don't think. Today, it'll be 62-63F and by Friday, rain rolls in for the weekend with similar temps.
Those branches still looked huge on camera. The top looked close to 30 ft here. I swore the 1st piece of spar you took after the top was going to knife the turf. However, it just kept rotating and rotating and then splat & flat. Simply awesome. 😁🤘😁
I fully get this, and I fully understand the knowledge and experience that it takes to make big rigging decisions like this, especially in a Poplar (Cottonwood). But, and it’s a big but, it still takes a fair pair to pull it off. Chapeau to you and the lads. Great instructional video August.
Howdy August, I enjoy Jake's channel and look forward to your possible collaboration videos with him later this year. Hope to see new Guilty Of Treeson content as well. Perhaps Jake will give us out here in RU-vid an explanation of what has occurred with his channel. Where he is going from this point forward. Have A Day! ;~)
Hi August, is it first time you used the blue crane rope? Seems better than using 2 ropes. Precise work overall and thanks for info about Guilty of Treeson.
That’s bad ass I love watching the branches swing 180 degrees around tree I’m also a tree guy in Colorado I just picked up a monkey beaver saddle well see how she runs ,I’d like to start my own channel
You said you had it braced up top or secured because you were rigging off the same tie in spar. Can you explain your brace method in this video? Couldn’t really see what you did.
For everyone that says a real pro won't use a tophandle saw with one hand, well this video shows they're wrong. Tophandles are meant for the option of one handed use.
Can’t say I’ve seen that trunk-splitting drill attachment on that mini skid. Not a bad piece to chip all, but seems a bit time consuming. Nevertheless, it is an additional option when needing to haul everything in chipper box. Good vid, man. Stay safe!
To my disappointment my company would rather cut and chuck that whole thing out with the bucket instead of rigging. It may seem quicker to do that but if you have a good high tigh in point that doesn’t need to get changed and an efficient ground crew it would 100% be quicker, AND SAFER to rig it out. But unfortunately whenever I suggest the rigging route I’m told not to, so much to my dismay the boss’s way normally prevails. So I go up and monotonously cut and chuck. Either way still thankful to be able to be in the trees.
Cottonwoods give nice shade, but they can drop some huge limbs with little warning.. They say to never camp in a cottonwood gallery lest they drop limbs on your campsite. It would be real scary to have one next you your house. Tree looks like it had some heart rot in the main stem. Time to take it down.
Another great video as usual. While not a tree guy myself, I do appreciate what you do, and did have to take down one Cedar on the side of my yard last year. It was not terribly tall (just a touch taller than my one story house), but was getting to big for the space between the house and tree, but even worse between tree and chain link fence as it was closer to that. Anyway, a come along, a strap to anchor to base of deck railing at stairs and a rope to provide tension as I took down the upper 1/3 of the tree to fall between the deck and shed, and did it with a recip saw with pruning blades, LOL. Did it without incident too and love not having the tree there. Sorry to hear of the lost footage. As a GoPro owner (H9), I feel your pain. When I got mine, I had some issues with the SD card it came with, yes, Sandisk, but a 32GB one at that and a couple of chapters got lost as the camera froze. A firmware update (updated, yet again later to fix the back screen mostly) and a new, 128G Samsung EVO card and I've not had issues. Also cards do wear out so if getting old, might want to get fresh ones, just an idea. Despite that, you were able to rescue the video and did a good job with the pick up of your talking head to explain what was lost with the footage you had to work with and still able to tell what needed to be explained. Always a great production and quite entertaining.
