Do it Yourself Tree Work

[Music] hey what's up YouTube today we're doing a crane job it's actually going to be Adams first like solo crane operator job Damien will be climbing I'm gonna go through a pic with that I'm real quick as a refresher course and then I'm going to turn him loose on it and I'm gonna go climb some rickety sketchy thing because I don't want to ask anybody else to do it it's not really like they couldn't do it you know Damien could handle it Geoff could handle it but I kind of want them to know when to do something themselves am I making sense Damien how do I say it I think he's trying to say I was the boss there comes a point in time where he doesn't want to just call upon another climber to climb something that could be super sketchy and could not end well and so he makes sure to take matters into his own hands that way if something happened yeah yeah long pauses nothing that's gonna happen but if you start asking a bunch of questions about how safe it is then you can't really be pointing somebody else at it I guess is what I'm saying so we could all handle it there's a adequate options around the tree other trees and stuff so but hey I'm a little rusty I need to get up there 66 yeah 66 67 somewhere in there okay so look on the chart and tell me what what you're good for we're barely past 77 so but playing it safe huh figure out 92 of stick out to 50 yeah - to 50 so 59 20 - to 50 5650 all right so around around 57 so you're good for 57 can I look at it yeah you're right so you're good for 57 and you're taking that whole left side and break that into what we do is we figure our skid steer will pick up a thousand pounds pretty easy and we're used to picking up things with the skid steer all the time so we figure how many bites with the skid steer need to easily carry that so how many bites good yeah that's what I'd say - so that thing is 3000 pounds max and that gives you a huge cushion of of 2,700 pounds so in a minute we'll have you tension it okay all right so we're here on our first pick got Adam on the crane today feels pretty good I've got a half hitch up there and terminate it on the right we're gonna cut it just above those wires good job Adam on the first pick that's a good sized pick for our drop zone there we'll lay it down right here brush the end I'll be in the more open area then we'll just either winch it or skid steer it into the x19 hole alright that was a super smooth pick feels good working with Adam anybody that knows Adam knows that he is very methodical and takes this time to make sure things are done right so it might be kind of sketchy working with some other person somewhere but it feels good working with him because I feel like he really takes the time to make sure that he's not squeezing the right controls or the wrong controls nice job Adam okay just straight up boom right [Applause] 2550 okay YouTube those guys just did another smooth pick see that that's pretty good that's happiness making and I'm about to go up this weirdo it's nice up down below it's some kind of poplar I was gonna be a hero and just climb it and wreck it out you know and then I decided I would set a line in this other tree so I did now I feel like I can do anything I want maiden voyage on the Panther bar spongey [Music] [Applause] [Music] I probably boom up and get ourselves okay here we are in the top now and kind of the top it's definitely got the washed out old bones look but it's it's pretty good I think I think it's okay perfect tree it like looks sketchy for video but it's like not very much of a problem I I think says me says me do you understand actually not that good ah Oh he's smiling what are we doing with that wood I can slice off I'm gonna spear it I don't need the rope on this I don't know where to put these guys these YouTube guys why they can see that's all I'll put them where they'll see it if it hangs up that way I have total disclosure [Applause] we don't need no stinking rigging lines though less bouncing around down on the hill so you and what we're looking at YouTube it's kind of funky stuff so I got the fence right there if I tried to just blast it out there through that stuff it would hang up and it would like twist around and maybe fall on the fence so I'll do something but we're getting it see don't look at my tie-in over there it's don't look at that yeah but it's better than this thing okay so I'm slightly above the sponge rather than try to rig this out through all of this crap I mean come on I'm gonna try to just climb higher you know and try to make things hit the ground freefall style cuz they hang up they're even more hung up if they're hung up with the rope on them right we'll do it we'll do it I don't know what to do with you guys I got no helmet mount on this hat so I don't know maybe I could clamp you to the side of my hat or something all that was like one of those moves nobody should try that at home or something because pushing with one hand cutting with the other out of slice means your means your hand is gonna be dropping towards the saw so you have to it's a not recommended alright so we'll go and cut this one here off at the base closest to us it's coming up through these hedges here we'll go ahead and pick that whole first one and closest to us nice and clean good dumb pretty rickety up there so you want to run this one please ah ah I didn't even feel a thing good how am I gonna get Hollywood shots with such a good broke man hey shake me up a bit I just turned Mycenae unit off for a second what was that [Applause] and I can see a waffle we've gotten so much weight off so remember when I was saying I'm talking to YouTube right now remember when I was saying don't go anywhere that you wouldn't ask somebody else to go well sometimes it royally sucks cuz look sometimes I mean even if it's not terribly dangerous which somebody would argue that it might be it's uncomfortable as heck okay YouTube seems like we're spending the day with you so I'll go ahead and tell ya the next thing we do with this snag the bank is really steep so we don't want to bomb big logs and have them go down and go through their new concrete forms bash their little trees and stuff so what we'll do is we'll I'll throw the rigging line over a good spot here somewhere and then they'll have both ends and they'll put a block on it and then they'll pull the block up into that spot somewhere with a rigging line in it that way the rope that's running the pieces is going through a block and not like rubbing on that tree cuz that tree they you know they want to there's no reason to harm the tree in the process of getting this one out so then well that way we'll negotiate the slope properly without you know pinball and some big pieces down the hill okay so I just threw the rope over got a little coil on it there for weight so that I can work it down the tree by throwing shock waves in the rope it's a awkward place to work here with all these little twigs but as you can see are you ready come on [Music] she flying would well that work alright are you ready I'm ready dead wedding the oak tree no extra charge and he did witted it on the back swing like a pro alright YouTube last tick without them on the crane and me doing a little cutting we're gonna take the rest of this piece we're good for 6,500 alright YouTube we gotta cut off this is just sitting there I'm gonna go ahead and have a Adam cable up pretty smooth I must say let's go see what Adams doing over there we're good for 6,500 YouTube's what's it weigh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] whoever loses gets the tortilla all right then fine it was scary getting yeah nerve-racking yeah and that controls that's what took so long as I was slowly just waiting for it to engage and they were just and then checking you know making sure they are there right yeah controls but yeah I loved it good you're a certified crane operator might as well yeah as well crane [Music] [Music]

Channel: August Hunicke

Views: 75,303

Rating: 4.9670029 out of 5

Keywords: Stihl, Echo chainsaw, Panther chainsaw bar, Crane, Tree work, Arborist, Medford Arborist, Medford Oregon Tree Service, Grants Pass Tree removal, Certified crane operator, tree climber, Monkey Beaver Harness, Monkey Beaver Suspenders

Id: WIvlQA3KQi0

Length: 24min 47sec (1487 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 29 2019