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MEDIA COVERAGE!! http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-2181...,3798513.story Channel 13 was there filming and interviewing for a couple hours....The segment ran.....no mention of my company name.....but they may add to it and run it again. For now, only the story is up...I hope the news segment that aired will be linked to soon...they did say they may add to i'''''''''''''''''''''t and run it again. I shot about 14 gig of photos and video...then drove out to Pete's and filmed him milling a log...which turned out to be a birch that we'd given him last spring. Didn't have time to get the big crooked maple logs on the mill. Then, I ran the vid files down to the station, but on a flash drive, and she didn't have anyone there that could take them off the card.....waste of time...though they want the footage. Cowboy Dave had the tree brushed out in 2 hours or so...we had close to an hour break before Mike showed to crane the sticks. Another bid was $3800. We did it for $2200..crane fees $300, labor $875.....we were done by 2 pm.....Reckon I'm a happy camper. They did air me making a butt cut with the 13 horsepower 3120... Gonna be a while before I get my photos edited.....and the video is HD....I have to build a new computer (Intel i7 processor needed) in order to edit the video, even to view it properly...and my puter is a dual core AthlonX64 3800....with two video cards....

If your pair swings from side to side, then you're free to join..... Saw For Hire -- Tulsa’s Only Reality-Based TV Show hope your tummy muskles are in shape, or you may hurt yourself laughing at the drama, hijinks, and farkups....

Yup, shrek, that was studly, indeed. I think Paul Nosak wants ya for the next "Saw For Hire":001_rolleyes:

It was over 7 years ago, but it's still good! The fun starts at about 1:12.. [ame] [/ame]

Stand by for some video....and also from a single larger cottonwood removal that was part of a 73 tree job........ where the other 72 trees cost double what the biggie did.

Dave speedlining brush from the only tree that had to be climbed all the way to the top..to get it to where it could be chipped. While Jerry yards logs from off the slope. Chipper winch was used to tension the speedline. Down lower in the tree, it was used to actually lift the branches up and zipping them out of the hole, by straightening the slacked speedline.

ragging the butts from across a ditch, onto the turf, where we could reach them with the bobcat... For the anchor part of the 5-1 mechanical advantage that we used to yard the logs out of the wild area (ditch as well) we set the bobcat and pickup truck up in tandem, joined via a chain, and with chocked tires. The chip truck did the pulling. Worked like a charm! success!

The last of a group of six, this 110 footer was about 40-42 inches on the butt, with a good six feet of back lean...with a house directly behind it. We used our spectra core rope, which has near zero stretch and is rated at 19,000 pounds tensile strength, at 9/16th size. We pulled with our dump truck loaded with 18 yards of chips, so had about 20,000 pounds of traction, and on grabby frozen turf A delicate moment, for sure, but over it came!! I'd estimate the tree to weigh 12 to 14000 pounds, and to have had perhaps 2000-3000 pounds of back weight that we had to counteract with the pull.

The job was removing about 18 cottonwood, ranging from 42" dbh to 6", and 40 to 110 feet tall. First 1/2 were done while the playfield was frozen, which allowed us to get out truck/chipper right to the trees, and use a rented bobcat to move the wood to where the debris truck could load it. 2nd half was done while elem school was on XMAS break, which meant no traffic in parking area, so we could fell most of those trees too, save the one which we speedlined. Fun job, good profit, thanks to the timing! http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/...7623289750877/ click on detail to see each photo larger, and read my comments. and on each photo for a choice of sizes. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/...750877/detail/ Slide show option is at upper right or here:

Sorry to bust ya'll's bubble, but I prefer the Electrolux saws, 338 Husky or jonsy 2139T....but you do have to port the muffler, which is a bigger gain than just taking that danged screen out of the 200..... You'll see why in this now infamous video. Everyone accuses me of showing the 200T with a dull chain. It's not, its just hanging up a tad.....cutting perfectly, or with the same chain, day in and day out, it is still 10-15% slower than the 2139...which is dead on reliable, lighter, and extremely long lasting. All the old problems are solved.

Oh my farking gawd...that is classic... I think I threw my neck out laughing.... loved it all, but especially at 1:35....:What about my ballsack?" "Drop it right here and let's get to work...."

I used to run 32" bars on 044's and 372's, in softwood, even in stock form. Now I run ported saws, and have an obsession with speed. So, I prefer shorter bars. But an 044/440, especially if it has the dual port muffler fron cover, can handle a long bar, if needed. That said, a 24" will perform better, or a 28 in softwood.

A Mexican woodpecker and a Canadian woodpecker were in Mexico arguing about which country had the toughest trees. The Mexican woodpecker claimed Mexico had a tree that no woodpecker could peck. The Canadian woodpecker accepted his challenge and promptly pecked a hole in the tree with no problem. The Mexican woodpecker was amazed. The Canadian woodpecker then challenged the Mexican woodpecker to peck a tree in Canada that was absolutely 'impeckable' (a term frequently used by woodpeckers ). The Mexican woodpecker expressed confidence that he could do it and accepted the challenge. The two of them flew to Canada where the Mexican woodpecker successfully pecked the so-called 'impeckable' tree without breaking a sweat. Both woodpeckers were now terribly confused. Why was the Canadian woodpecker able to peck the Mexican tree, and the Mexican woodpecker able to peck the Canadian tree, yet neither was able to peck the tree in his own country? After much woodpecker pondering, they came to the same conclusion: Apparently, Tiger Woods was right when he said your pecker gets harder when you're away from home. __________________

Wow, big tree!! Cedrus libani? My bowl turners would have loved to gotten some of that wood. It looks like there was plenty that had no rot.

Actually, that was Mr. Barto, Brian's father, who has been performing his clown acts for ages at logging shows. Here's Brian, who's perennially the fastest in the world, US style, which is on the 90 foot pole, up AND down, with no belay. Current record is around 20 seconds.

Here's how it's done in Washington State:

I have one....but I'm on the other side of the world from ya.... You'd also need to find a good shop guy who doesn't charge an arm and a leg...as the entire saw has to be dismantled, which I'm sure you know. It's quite a process to split the case. (I've never done it.)

My comments in bold

Yo Graeme..... I thought of you today while Brian and I were helping Cowboy Dave, my hotshot climber :thumbup1:wreck out a maple....It was about 18 feet tall ...heck, coulda been a whopping 22:001_rolleyes:......But it was on a steep bushy slope, with the house below and big low windows. So, we stood on the car deck, about 8 feet from the tree, and he handed the pollarded brush to us, but mostly tossed it onto a rope which we slid the mess to us, speed line style....big speed line style! Then, we did the same with a couple 100 pound limbs, swung em by pulling on the bight in the line, let em down so they wouldn't hit some other glass or the framework of the raised car deck, then pulled the pieces up. He chunked down the bottom 12 feet, and we carried it up to the alley, ducking under the canopy of a holly and rhody. Real hi tech stuff. Unfortunately, there will be no training video, as it was misting....... Raining tomorrow, so we'll go back Thursday to prune (for the third time in 15 years) a gorgeous wide blue atlas cedar....view enhancement, and careful end weight reduction so it stay together. That will be the fourth day of mostly view pruning at two adjoining homes in an upscale part of Seattle. Here's a vid of Dave, from "down under" Scary title, huh "Tandem ball riders, in the sky" [ame] [/ame]

Now you got it......and factoring in the added weight from increased water content--lower down the stem.....

Must I join the fan club? I thought you were trying to be like TW, steve? You know, be the best arb forum going??? Hmmmm.

Yo Shrek, didn't ya read Graeme's article? Their calculations were so precise that, after determining how much pretension to apply to each section, that each lifted off by about 1/4 inch!! And, due to the ever changing line angles, trig functions had to used to determine the tension needed.

Angus, With inline dynos, you'd have more control, simply by being able to determine the exact amount of force to apply. But the efficiency with GRCS's would be improved, as there would be no need for prussics on the load lines, for the Tirfors and dynos. Either system would work essentially the same with opposing pendulums....Each GRCS would be cranked till appropriately tight, the cut made, and then cranked till the piece lifts off gently. With your system, all that was done prior to making the cut, which is really slick, and speaks to the mathematical precision of the program and figuring...and the precise weight estimations...including taking into account the weight from added water lower down.

My comments within, in bold Not to negate, criticise, or denigrate in any way your calc's, or the technique, but with 2 GRCS's any load, within range of the friction drum's holding capabilities and the strength of two men, can be lifted gently, and then lowered, up to 2500 lb or more.

Hey Angus.... If Graeme is like me, he'd easier know when and where the article ran. I used to get published a fair bit (my skiing photography mostly) and kept track of all the pubs..... I know I could find the article, as I've kept most of my arb mags, but it would be a bit of work to dig through them all. As far as using two GRCS's for the job, it could have been done, (had Greg or anyone invented such a device at the time) as tension could have been progressively and carefully applied to each till the load lifted off gently. However, there would be no way to use an inline dyno.... The directional problem is solved by adding a block directly above the capstan....which would add a bit more resistance and friction to the system.