Trees, Trees, and More Trees

[John Griffin]

No doubt it has been wet up there. We can’t catch a break on the daily downpours and have other projects lining up.

Bid a Starbucks on Memorial that has 3 small trees on it. If we get it I’ll be in touch.

Yeah it's made trees uproot easier in the storms we have had. I'm getting tired of working in the rain. It's harder to deal with and ropes dont work as well.

I'd be glad to bid on some more tree work for you guys. Maybe we can meet up as well at some point either way.

 

[John Griffin]

These are some of the picks we made from the job we had to mat in for. There were two trees on two houses. It was quite a mess.

 

[Welder Dave]

Ruts in the lawn are pretty minor and easy to fix compared to large tree's falling on your house.

 

[crane operator]

What kinda do you have?

LibertyMats are what mine are. I don't think they would be any stronger than the alturnamats, but they might be. https://store.dicausa.com/products/libertymat-95-x-47-ground-protection-mats

I've got some 8"x8" bolted mats that are 4'x8' long, and used to have some 2"x8" three ply mud mats that were 8'x16'. If its really been that wet, that's usually the only thing that will hold you up. The mud mats rotted to pieces. I've still got the 8x8 ones, but you really need 20' long ones laid in with a forklift or loader to make a floor.

 

[John Griffin]

This is the aftermath from the last job. The lumber is 5x5 rough cut pine.

 

[John Griffin]

We took apart this pecan in bad shape. It was looming over a smokehouse built in 1809 and a house built in 1814.

 

[John Griffin]

This is the knuckle from the pecan. It was 8300 lbs.

 

[John Griffin]

We had a double trunk hackberry tree on top of a house. Both sections fell on it. It came down during a rowdy storm so it was really wet. We had to setup on top of the cast iron sewer pipe. It was buried about 2 ft but we still didnt want to push on it so we spread the load way out.

 

[John Griffin]

Had to take a sweat gum apart in a tight spot between houses.

 

[dirty4fun]

Wish I lived closer some of that Pecan would of made some pretty wood I bet.

 

[skyking1]

Wish I lived closer some of that Pecan would of made some pretty wood I bet.

slab that giant knuckle for some live edge.

 

[CM1995]

I just want a couple of limbs for the parrilla.

 

[John Griffin]

slab that giant knuckle for some live edge.

It was rotted out in the middle

 

[John Griffin]

Wish I lived closer some of that Pecan would of made some pretty wood I bet.

Pecan is real bad about being furry. I had a friend mill some and make a table. He ended up scrapping it.

 

[John Griffin]

We had to setup mostly in the street downtown the other day to reach three trees between houses in a very tight spot. It was so cramped it was very difficult to use a bucket truck because of trying to swing the boom off to the side would run into the house. It was 90 ft to the farthest tree so we had to load up all the counterweights.

 

[Welder Dave]

That is a neat crane being so compact.

 

[skyking1]

that is what I was thinking. It looked right there all jacked up on the sidewalk.

 

[John Griffin]

That is a neat crane being so compact.

That's a big part of why it works so well for what we do. A lot of times a bigger crane wouldn't fit between houses or around a corner. We quite often setup between two houses and reach into a back yard. It's also nice for stuff like the downtown job where you can get it perpendicular to the street.

 

[John Griffin]

We had to set the crane up in a tight spot yesterday. This nice lady has a codominate tree failing at the base. One half was going to fall on her house when it let go. We had to reach over the length of the house and take this oak tree apart in small pieces. We made one pick yesterday at 96 ft working radius. Were down to 3000 lbs net lift capacity at that distance. We limited our picks to an estimated 1000 lbs just to err on the safe side. Our heaviest pick ended up at 1000 lbs.

 

[John Griffin]

We took two trees down at the local tech school. I bet a lot of their students would have liked to watch but we did it on a Saturday so the parking lot would be empty. The last log was 3300 lbs.