pre-digital photos

[felixthelogchopper]

What's the story on the second pic, Reg?

[Tom Richards]

looks like you got to cut your teeth on some big old eucs reg:thumbup1:

[Taupotreeman]

Few from a crane job

[Taupotreeman]

A few from various jobs. Massey 135 we used for timber extraction in The Outwoods just outside of Loughborough. County on a new line clearance job for a 132KV line going to a wind farm out the back of Welshpool somewhere. Transmission line clearance corridor in the Megalong valley, NSW. Sunrise over the Hawkesbury River from a road bridge just between North Richmond and Richmond, NSW. Gum removal job (saturday work) in one of Sydney's suburbs for a local contractor. Back then most PPE was unused or unheard of.

[RC0]

What's the story on the second pic, Reg?

 

A big part of the business was transplanting. Mark (company-owner) used to get asked to to locate and supply a certain species and size of tree/trees to install and aftercare....guaranteeing the survival for x amount of time after the transplant.

 

He'd basically go driving around Sydney looking in peoples gardens for a tree/trees that fit the profile. He'd then approach the home-owner and make them an offer on the tree.

 

Very labour-intensive work and long hours e.g. one particular installation in the city we set off from the yard at 11pm friday and didn't finish until sunday morning, straight through without sleep, just trying to move a big root ball part-way up a building by hand. Crane would only reach so far in you see....so about 5 of us, couple bobcats, boards, rollers and digging tools. It was hard in the heat but I didn't care, barely out of my teens and homesick, I didn't have much else to do outside of the job at that time. I learnt a lot, but didn't realise it until quite some time later.

 

The big treespade in the earlier pics was Marks, one of only 2 in Australia at that time.

 

Nice TaupoTree

[Taupotreeman]

A few more.

 

I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK. Clear felling in the outwoods for Doug Illingworth.

 

More from the 132KV line installation. Paul Claybrook and Mark Coulson from Reid and Co. George Stokes. Unfortunately a lot of these big Oaks got nailed just for the wind farm. One of them was the only tree in the middle of a paddock and they decided to put the line right over the top of it.

 

County hauling the same Oak out of the gully.

 

Asplundh Ford Louisville and Whisper chipper.

[High Scale]

Reid and Co! That's a blast from the past:)

[Taupotreeman]

Some seriously dodgy goings on with them when I worked for them.

[Scott Walker]

Great pics Reg out of interest what age were you when you started climbing and how did you get into it?

[Adam Bourne]

I've got a few from 14 year ago but my scanner is not compatible with my iPad will have to wate a while before I get one. .??????? Might see if I can take a photo of one.... nice thread Reg good to see some old school.