There was a giant elm tree in the backyard at our house in Vermont. It died with almost all the other elms back in the late 60's. When they tried to cut it down there was no cranes that were big enough or could get close enough for this monster. It shaded the backyards of 4 different neighbors besides ours. With the equipment they had available at the time they could only cut it down to lowest set of branches. The stump they left behind was about 20 feet tall and about 6-8 feet across at the top. I wish I knew where the pictures and home movies of it being cut down were. I'd love to watch that job again.
After installing a bidet, my father, brother, and neighbor all got on. It really will change your life. it’s like the difference between using a hand saw and a chain saw. And no crap on your hand.
Yes!! Awesome smooth operation. And yes, get a bidet. My wife always wanted one and we got ours just before the toilet paper panic hit!! Don’t kill trees to wipe your bums!
Thinking you may be able to get a system to record the vox radio conversations would be kinda neat to hear. Obviously cut the portions you don't want us to hear for whatever reason but just a thought.
Lovely conversations about the bidet. Finally, we get to know what tree surgeons talk about in the privacy of their truck. I'll tell my brother-in-law about this. After all, he's a certified arborist. Ah, hell, he probably already knows this stuff.
Elm. We had a Chinese Elm planted in the middle of our front yard, about 12 feet from the sidewalk and 12 feet from the house. Needed a fast growth tree for shade. We got faster growth than expected. The branches overshadowed the sidewalk and scraped the roof of the motorhome parked at the curb, overshadowed part of the house roof and damaged the shingles. Before we had it removed I measured the circumference; it was 7 feet. They took it out piece by piece and ground it up and followed up with a stump grinder that went down about 3 feet. Twenty five years later I'm still pulling up little elm tree sprouts. The tree that wouldn't die.
All the Elm trees here died over 25 years ago from Dutch Elm disease, such a sad sight to see a whole long street with an Elm arch over it just bare of those huge beautiful trees . Just checked the date and the video was around a year ago so I’m a little late but hey, at least I’m watching.🙋🏼
Jake, why not a clove hitch instead oslf a cow's hitch when slinging a limb or trunk for hoisting? In my mind, a clove hitch would be betters because it resists sliding more than the cow hitch.
I wanna do some crane work so bad. They're so expensive to hire on for specific jobs though, way more cost effective for me to just rig everything out on the jobs i do.
What do yall do with those huge chunks of base trunks? The ones being loaded in the grappling truck. Do yall ever co-op with a lumber company to harvest the wood for furniture wood?
so this might be a dumb question, but why not put the logs on a flatbed to sell to a lumber mill, or woodworkers? When I was a cabinet maker I would have killed for elm like that.
In Kansas, we have elms everywhere. They hold ridiculous amounts of water. I’ve even cut a branch and had water shoot out under pressure. Too bad there kinda trash trees.
The reason why you don't see them very much is because most of them were killed off by dutch elm disease back in the 1970 and 80s. I had 2 that were older and bigger then that that 1 in my front yard in Kansas City back in the 1960s.
