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  1. Shansen
    You can certainly see some sort of devious plot in his eyes, and then just when he thinks no one is looking, he swoops in. Having been forewarned by you guys made all the difference. We owe ya.
  2. Shansen
    I have a tractor/loader and a dump trailer. I will sometimes "ring it up" as you say if I don't have access or if the job isn't big enough to warrant bringing the equipment to the site.
  3. Shansen
    Anything built in the last 50 years or so will have insulation in it. Sacramento is only about 90 miles from me and is quite hot in the summer. My house was built in 1906 and has no insulation in most of the walls. The west wall is partially exposed to the afternoon sun and those exposed portions of the inside wall are hot to the touch on a summer afternoon. You can squirt the wall with a water hose in the back yard and watch steam come off the wall. I have some crepe myrtles growing there but they have a few more years before they will cover everything. Our swimming pool is on the west side of the house so there isn't room for any large trees there.
  4. Shansen
    And if you like me are thinking "I wonder what's going on under the hood of that truck while all this lame tree work is going on". Here you go. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBs0SvVdHds]YouTube - motel 007[/ame]
  5. Shansen
    Here is my guy shaping some holly oak trees in Oakdale, CA. [ame] [/ame] And [ame] [/ame]
  6. Shansen

    London visit

    Shansen replied to Shansen's topic in The Lounge

    Absolutely!
  7. Shansen
    I've always wanted to have one of those.
  8. Shansen
    Things are kind of slow here so I decided to do a mechanic project I've been needing to do for 6 months or so. About a year ago I changed the motor in my forestry truck from an 8.2 liter Detroit (which was leaking exhaust into the coolant) to a 10.4 liter Caterpillar 3208. I finished it up in April of last year I think but there wasn't room for a belt driven fan on the front of the motor so I put in electric fans. These were inadaquate to keep the motor from overheating. So I cut out the supports in front of the radiator and moved it forward and latched it down, replumbed things and put in a belt driven fan drive assembly that I bought at a used truck parts place. Here is a video of it running when everything is finished. [ame] [/ame] Sorry got some of the pictures out of order.
  9. Shansen
    You must be super proud. That picture looks like it could be Vietnam.
  10. Shansen
    The guy who had this job would have climbed it, but the tree was full of ants and they got all over him. So they called me in.
  11. Shansen

    London visit

    Shansen replied to Shansen's topic in The Lounge

    Boy, you guys are a big help.
  12. Shansen

    London visit

    Shansen posted a topic in The Lounge

    My daughter is coming to London the end of next month. She has a college friend who is studying abroad there and she will be visiting her. There is also this guy she likes in London whom she met in San Francisco. I told her that if he tried anything that my British tree buddies would be more than glad to kick his ass.
  13. Shansen
    Here is my bucket trainee guy working on a pine takedown in the mountains east of me. [ame] [/ame]
  14. Shansen
    Our air quality sucks most of the time.
  15. Shansen
    Yeah, usually when they have a large beard like these there is some pigeons in them. I have run into rats twice. There was nothing in these that I could see. Yes, they burn really fast, the whole pile would probably go up in 10 minutes or less.
  16. Shansen
    I put them in my dump trailer and will take them to the dump like they are (actually they are still sitting in there). I have chipped them before and almost always have a plug up. Plus, it dulls the knives really fast. I have a Vermeer 1250 which I understand is not very good for chipping palm fronds. Some of the other style chippers may be better. There is a guy at the Treehouse from Hawaii who chips a lot of palm stuff, so it can be done. edit: I'm always tempted to burn them because it wouldn't cost me anything; however, if I get caught it will be a fine of several hundred dollars. So I will take them to the dump and pay $9 to get rid of them.
  17. Shansen
    Here is me trimming a couple of backyard fan palms.
  18. Shansen
    Sorry about that. I almost decided to not work that day but decided what the hell. It turned out to be fine, but it was a little wet. We are considered semi-arid. It rains about 12 inches a year here.
  19. Shansen
    Here is a camphor tree removal at an apartment complex. The tree wasn't too big but I have never seen roots wrap around a pipe like this one did.
  20. Shansen
    These aren't tree work pictures but I did a welding project lately. They are all tired of hearing about it in the Treehouse so I thought I would start bothering you guys. I converted my dump trailer from a bumper pull to a gooseneck hitch. I didn't think to take a picture of the trailer before I started. The first picture is in my "shop" starting to build the first leg of the gooseneck, next I took it over to my cousin's to turn it over and weld on the underside, then a couple of pictures of the finished product minus the paint and wiring and my son cutting some channel iron.
  21. Shansen
    That is a nice picture.
  22. Shansen
    Was it cold?
  23. Shansen
    My forestry truck is a 2 wheel drive but my pickup that I tow my dump trailer and whatever with is a 4X4.
  24. Shansen
    I took one load of firewood home and gave one to my neighbor. Here is the stack that I took home after it was split of course.
  25. Shansen
    Here is a job I did about a month ago. I swung one limb right into the electric wire going to the barn and bent the conduit. I hooked a rope to the conduit and pulled it straight with my tractor and then reattached the brace down to the rafter with some deck screws and my cordless drill.

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