I do a hammer test on ash....if it has a nice hard "whack" sound to it, you're probably good to go. If its a dull thud or if the wood collapses with the hammer blow, I'd plan something different than climbing.....
Thanks man! Should be back to normal by the end of the month one more hurtle to get over next week. At least it gives me time to read the forum!
I climbed and limbed and put a safety line in a white spruce up at 60' last Saturday. Came down and fell it. It just took a 1 hand pull to get it going where it was supposed to go. I took down 5 trees that day. But only one needed clum. As a tip the customer gave me a brand new Silky Big Boy in a custom made leather belt scabbard. And I going to get 2 good sawlogs from the tree I clum. Tho my knees worked well. Being in the spurs isn't great for them. But it was a lot of fun !
Feels good to keep the rust off the gear once in a while. Not to mention getting some logs and a Silky out of the deal!!
The Big Boy is going in my day pack as a few times a year I need one to get into or out from a customers. On my garbage routes.
A little back story first.... we have an old pond that holds no water, it’s in a bad spot and does nothing but grow brush. Next spring I’m going to fill it in. In the meantime brush, chips, rocks and wood scraps have been adding up as filler. I decided the few trees growing around the edge need to end up in it and be buried. Instead of dropping them in whole then crawling in to bump off all the limbs I’m going to climb and limb them down into the hole and lay it all in flat. I was feeling pretty good this morning for once so I decided to get a little exercise. After finding out my recent weight gain has me on the last belt hole of my saddle I set to work. Hooked my way up to the top, set my rope and slid back down to start knocking off limbs. My first chance in a tree with the 355t and it’s pretty sweet! Got it topped only about 25’ at that point. ended up dumping two 4’ chunks off after that then slid back down. Rope probably hanging there around 20’ you can see the typical twisted willow spar that it is. So I torched it off with the new/old dolmar.
Different willow with the 2511t Someone found a video editor thing on there phone sorry about the cheesiness
Thank ya very much Nick taught Mikey to be his ground guy a few years back and once he mastered that, Nick ‘showed him the ropes’ and he started climbing. Fast forward, now Mikey runs his own tree service! He’s also studying for a degree as an arborist and a tree doctor. The boy is hooked for life! He absolutely loves what he does. They both run successful tree service businesses and that often comes in handy when they need each others help. I do my share of clearing ‘the drop zone’ while one of them is up the tree cutting. I’m pretty handy with my own chainsaw but i gotta hustle to keep up with them lolll... I prefer splitting firewood and hauling it out to our customers bc i can work at my own pace PLUS I get to keep the $$$, hehe a shopping I will go ~Lissa
I bought a petzl zigzag recently. Gonna try it out in the tree on friday. Works nice playing around in the garage.
Deadwooding an aspen Pulling over a big ash after I topped it out, left a few leads on one side to avoid a bunch of roping due to a fence. Took a lot to pull it over. Flying squirrel that popped out after I dropped a dead tree. It was in shock but seemed healthy enough. Cool to see. A fat ash tree I took down in Akron. 40” or so. Hard to see me, but I’m in a crotch about dead center. Just setting a tip before I started cutting.
I’m really enjoying the zigzag. It draws up slack very smooth but bites great once you put some weight on it.
