Thanks Zach, that was an awesome day, your upbeat and positive attitude were amazing for moral, we all enjoyed it. And to answer some simple questions, all of the neighbors were notified of what was going on weeks in advance, and were all very accommodating, the neighbor across the alley, which we had blocked off, were even so kind as to allow us the use of their driveway, overall the entire job went even more smoothly than I had expected, it was a great experience. Thanks Zach you were awesome buddy!
Aw man, thanks for those kind words. I'm thrilled to hear that it was a satisfactory experience for you. Thanks for offering me this challenge and hiring me to tackle it for you!
It is lovely to hear from the property owner. Whenever I watch these kinds of videos I always want to add that all of us on the internet are very grateful that property owners allow us to see the work 1. I learn more about my own work in my trees here in the UK (although I don't do high work like this!) and 2. we all learn about other countries and other parts of our own country and climate and people and houses and plants so it is generally educational too. biggest takeaway from the huge USA is everything is much bigger than in our tiny UK where houses and yards/gardens are usually so much smaller and land so scarce. Our new neighbours who have not moved in yet just had an absolutely massive tree removed in similar way but did not bother to tell any of the neighbours which is not a very good start to hopefully a good relationship all round.
@dutchdog804 Haha, I know, I felt so bad about that. It was my first time working with this crew and I clearly was not familiar enough with everyone's experience level. We didn't make that mistake again!
Bro as an old man with torn right inner knee ..I can attest..nothing is worse than roofs ..I used to like them now I'm terrified mainly of myself not being able to jump or land and get footing. If I had to jump or slide off like old days it would be over fir me...alot of times I find myself on roof with polesaw. Usually because no high tie in or being solo...to point of giving up 3 broke trucks broken machine .and was acuttualy healing up.until this last 2 weeks been nothing gone wright..except the Hackberry job .with the grcs ..went great..it acuttualy came lose on last peice..but had 2 ropes ..so worked out ..my only good help is 69 year old man..God bless
@Sethhaun78 Man, I'm right there with you. I hate roofs. This low pitch/low elevation garage roof wasn't too bad, but a steep pitch or high elevation and I'm happy to let someone else handle that stuff.
That's mighty kind of you to say. It does seem to be a challenge to find good companies to work for. They are out there, though, and if your son loves this work, it's worth the effort to find one. I hope he has a good experience in this industry. It's very unique work and takes special people to do it.
Great work Zach! Liked seeing all of the rigging. Rob's job looked a little sketchy though, not just from dropping limbs on him, but with him falling thru the roof due to rot and the open holes. I went to a funeral where a young 20 year old fell thru a roof and died, he was tied in, but hit something on the way down. His coworkers thought they'd just hoist him back up. A similar thing had happened earlier on the same job, but that guy was okay except for being banged up. One of them fell thru a skylight, the other fell thru the aluminum roofing. Be safe out there.
8/19/24..A+ video 2day taking out 2 tall oaks in very 'tight' space; between owners garage & neighbors fence both in ~4ft alley! Wow! Complex rope rigging, 3 groung men/helpers, pullys, that GRCS winch cranking device & tag/pull/navigate line = success, no damage done in 2 days! ✅️👍👍⚙️🔧😊. Great job!
Tree work guys got all my respect one of my friends worked under a guy for years started his own tree business in Charlotte and has racked in more than $220k a year and he's 29 this year
Well done guys. Gotta love lowering right into the trailer. Some other options I would have considered would be: to have Rob in the neighbors' back yard instead of on the roof, either anchoring a portawrap to a truck (or to the base, popping off a couple fence boards), or using a high friction system, like a fatty rope and rings or safebloc, and hand lowering... and for the brush maybe using a high speedline anchored on the far tree and doing some controlled speedlining. And for the last part, could have been nice to set a rigging point in the tree that the GRCS is anchored to. But yall crushed it the way you did it.
Hi Zach, thanks for another awesome video. Really appreciate all of your explantations of each step of the process. You are a very positive and encouraging person and I'm sure the teams that work with you appreciate that. It is crazy how the hole in the roof was at the perfect spot to send you Chainsaw through to get a new battery. That couldn't have worked out and better and turned out to be the perfect size. I was a little worried with that large piece of the trunk. Glad that you were able to keep control of it as it would have been a disaster if it fell. It is awesome that the guy riding up with the rope was able to hang on and not lose his grip. Just recently found your channel and really enjoy watching your videos. I saw your Short video about the baby Squirrel that paid you a visit during your lunch break awhile back. The closeup view was really amazing and how big it's back legs were. How did that end when the squirrel jumped toward your head? Glad that you were able to stay calm and not freakout. Congratulations on reaching 29,700 subs and so close to 30,000.
@benburns5995 Wow, Ben thank you for taking the time to write such a great comment. I really appreciate hearing about your experience as a viewer. Thankfully I filmed that squirrel woth my phone and so he was only jumping for my phone. I might have had a little more trouble trouble keeping calm 😅
Second video of yours I’m binging. These are addicting! I lived a suburb like this when I was a kid, and plenty of old trees needed to come down. Including 2 or three in our own yard! I never got to watch because of school or work, and I was always bummed when the trees were gone by the time I got home. Making up for it now! ❤
7:30 in, and I gotta say. Good work coaching those guys as you're working things through. Experience mattered here. You made up for everyone else that wasn't, with that rigging and coaching.
Thanks man! It's important to include thay stuff to help tell the whole story, but I think it's also good to try and avoid dragging thing out with repetitive clips. Thanks for that feedback!
Great job being mindful of saw battery and ground crew by taking your cuts, when allowable at the stem. There is only one common thing people do more to bother me then making a bunch of cuts and stubby pieces of wood to pick up... Stay safe.
Haha fair enough. This job especially couldn't afford stubs 😅 I go like to leave stubs sometimes for crane work or GRCS stuff. But in that case, it's a little more reasonable I think.
FI NE job! No hair or blood loss. That Stihl souns like a 261. Sweet saws. Was going to get a Milwaukee like the battery job but had trouble with the battery. Ended up getting my Sweetie a Stihl battery with the 3 inch bar. EVERYTHING on our wjhole place quivers when she walks outside with that in her hand.Blressings to you!
@@zaccheushomeowners do strange things...have few customers that insist on buying wrong tools.even after they ask me for help they buy the crazy est. Options..like Dr I work for..he bought the stihl battery polsaw and blower and things battery..but first I talked him into a 261..but the guys at local store tell me what he buys it's so funny...😂
Just a thought. Considering the garage roof is not too steep, you could put six tires on the garage roof with a sheet of plywood on the tires. You could drop some heavy stuff on that target without damage.
Wow Zach definitely earned your $$ on that job great rigging skills as usual. We're they fighting with the neighbors that fence would of been removed for access if my job. But all went well, great job
@robertvannicolo4435 Honestly, I'm not sure what the whole situation was. All I know is that when I showed up to climb, everything had to come out the direction we took it. I will say that neighbors yard was so full of dog poop, that I could smell it from the tree. It was terrible 🤮
@zaccheus yea they probably bark all the time and if you could smell it imagine what the homeowner goes through on a hot summer day.im sure left stumps high so fence didn't blow over
Those were definitely two possibilities. I heavily considered a controlled speedline but neither that nor span rigging wpukd have offered enough clearance over the roof for the trunk wood on the first tree. Transfer rigging offered that plus a little more control than span rigging so I chose to go with transfer. I do have a controlled speedline video coming up thats going to be pretty sweet.
@@richardf9137 Thanks! I'm not familiar with noodling. Throwing pieces is a last resort for me most of the time amd so I rarely do it. What is noodling?
@@zaccheus you did, it was the one that came back at you. Glad you caught it time. Love your videos, I m impressed in how respectful you are to your crew.
Hopefully you got paid well ! I wouldn’t leave that property till I had cash in hand ! If homeowner can’t repair a garage roof for a few bucks paying you guys a few grand for that very tricky and professional job ! Yes I would be dubious
I have a question about yoir equipment. Why yesterday did you ise amd electric chain saw and tpday you ise a gas powered? Isnt gas powered the better option for all jobs?
@krismarie4837 Great question! Gas saws are great and have had many, many years to be perfected. Electric saws are new and still have lots of room for improvement, but even though they could be better, they have some features now that make them really nice to climb with. For example, it's really nice to not have to start a chainsaw while I'm un in the tree and they don't make as much noise so it leaves communication open in case someone needs to say something at the last minute. On the downside, that little electric saw did have enough power to make those big cuts on that bigger wood very efficiently, so I used a gas saw for that. If I had a bigger electric saw, I would have used it.
@johns3106 yes is did! In fact that was my plan originally but then I realized that I wouldn't be able to get all of the wood put that way and the system I did use allowed me to get more wood out on the ropes.
Apparently there aren't any required setbacks from the property line for structures. Many cities require 5 feet between the property line and any structure.
This was a super old, tight neighborhood with narrow streets. It was built to house workers back when the place was an industrial town. I imagine they didn't have setback laws back then, but neighborhoods like these are probably why those laws exist now 😅
@charleswolcott1126 Great question! There are a few reasons. It more hazardous for people to be walking around on the roof with their hands full of brush. Especially if they have to approach and edge. It's just harder to see everything. It's bad for the roof to lay big pieces of brush on the roof. Obviously this on already had holes in it, but bossman was adamant we were not allowed to cause further damage and I certainly wouldn't want to anyway. For the same reason we woukdnt be abke to lay pieces of wood down to cut them up. I probably wpukd have had to rig smaller pieces to get them to fit on the roof. Thanks!
I'm not really sure, I assume it wasn't an option because it wasn't offered to me when were figuring out a plan for the day. I'm just a contract climber. So I don't do anything with the customer or the neighbors.
@Jlogo I wpuld have pursued a controlled speedline to get the brush out and the negative rigged the wood down to the roof. It would have been a good bit more challenging, and there would have been a greater risk of damaging to roof by walking over it a bunch.
I can’t believe those people let that building go to crap like that. I was always super nervous walking on peoples roofs. We have a lot of tile roof houses out here in Cali and ya just can’t walk on them. The liability is just too high. Breaking a single tile can cost you a whole new roof cause not all tiles are the same and sometimes you can’t get a replacement tile for a repair cause they don’t make them anymore. My neighbor is currently struggling with that problem.
@SirensC3 Oh that's no fun at all. I definitely wouldn't want to risk a roof like that. We have a color match law here in Ohio and if an insurance company has to replace one shingle and the old ones are too faded to match, they have to replace the whole roof. Shingles are a little more sumdurabke, but the sun makes them soft.
@jimsmith9819 I was def super careful to avoid cutting a rope. There just wasnt much room to worl with all those ropes up there 😅 The gas saw I used was a MS500i with a 25" bar. It's probably my favorite saw. Maybe try cleaning out the spark arrestor in the muffler on that stihl. Sometimes that get plugged up, and it's an easy fix.
@@iiiii4560 I like the 25" light bar and full chisel round file chain that I have on there. I keep a 36" bar in the truck, but I don't find myself using it very often.
@Kaizen747 some might call it that, but I woukd call this transfer rigging as the load is transfered from one system to the next. In my mind, span rigging is when you use just one rope between two high points and the load hangs from a block, pulley or carabiner that is latch onto the rope.
@aaronjackson5862 Haha I have no idea what it cost. We spent plenty of time on it, thats for sure. I'm just a contract climber and I don't ask about pricing. That's my clients business 😅
Oh my gosh I had the Milwaukee top handle and I absolutely hated it it's extremely extremely heavy and has horrible ergonomics if it's just a saw to get you through to a better one than it's decent but other than that oh my gosh
@florpdorp7190 I'm sorry you had that experience. I quote love the ergonomics of the large side handle. It is pretty heavy with the 12.0 battery, but with the new 8.0 batteries that just came out, I think it'll run a little better. I like it better than the husky electric saw for sure.
@@zaccheus I asked too early. I saw that as the video went on and you got in the wood. Very well said about the small rigs seeming silly! Wise notion good sir
@bioniclife Nah, not really. I do very little storm work. Most of the time my schedule is too full and it's a problem for me to move my schedule around more than it is for a tree service. I think I fixed one small broken limb for a friend, but that's been about it.
Me too 😅 I was being as careful as I could. I had five different ropes to work around. Two supported my safety and two supported the safety of those below. I couldn't afford to lose any of them 😬
Good morning z. As I sit here smocking a dress the bug has bit me again! can't you tell me the name of that rope rig and the different parts you need to buy or some kind of Link or the name of it please please please please please please please. When I get out of church by noon I hope I'm ready to order it
@deadmanswife3625 Haha, a bike helmet is better than nothing, but don't put too much confidence in it. A helmet is for protecting you from falling objects as much as it's for protecting you from bumping your head. The ropes, harnesses, and devices I climb on are all really expensive I'm happy to link them in the video description, but I wpuodnt expect anyone to want to buy them unless they could make money with them. There are some more cost-effective methods out there that are maybe a bit better for getting started with. I can make a video about that specifically if that would be helpful for you.
They were probably volunteers. Maple seeds are really good at getting caught in little places like between the garage and the fence there. This was a bit of a lower income neighborhood and I imagine it was unlikely that anyone really cared much about it until it lost some big limbs and punched a hole in the roof.
I'm guessing bossman did and they said no or he didn't want to for whatever reason. Regardless, it's my job to get stuff out using the resources I have available.
At the start of your video, there was a tree in the neighbor's yard by the front sidewalk that has limbs cut off...you should cut down the rest of the tree for them. It looks unsightly as it is. OMG, the weaving of your camera from those heights is making me "sea sick" or should I call it "see sick!"
@babsphillips8583 Yeah those old sycamore trees got done as cheap as possible I'm thinking. I'd be happy to help them if they wanted to spend money on it.
@nicolad8822 I know, right? We asked the fella and he wasn't interested. I suppose we cpukd have forced the issue, but sometimes you have to balance the risk of offending the customer with the risk of damaging property. I certainly don't claim to have that figured out.
@chriss2981 I'm just a contract climber so I don't get to choose the cards we play with. We did talk about a crane though. It would have involved dropping some wires and even then it was just a really tight space with a small set down area. It probably could have been done with a small knuckleboom, but everyone around here only has big ones.
@robertgarrett7007 Mmm I try to be as accommodating as possible and maybe get the property owner you're working for involved. They're the ones who have to deal with the neighbor after you leave and they're also the most incentivised to get the tree down. Obviously offering to clean up the neighbors yard is important. If they have a pool or something, maybe pause long enough for them to get it covered. Coming back on a different day with different wind is the last resort. It is a tough problem to solve. There are extreme measures, but nobody ever wants to pay for them.