Trees, Trees, and More Trees

[Nige]

One of the cables from the i/o box to the eks module behind the operators seat shorted the can line to battery power. This took out the can driver and resistor in the eks. It also took down the pressure transducer in the boom.

External damage to the harness or internal.?

 

[John Griffin]

External damage to the harness or internal.?

Internal. No cuts or impacts to the cable.

 

[skyking1]

That's great news. It sounds like that last job was only possible with the new crane.

 

[crane operator]

Glad to see you got it going.

 

[John Griffin]

Very glad to have it going. We have been using it a lot.

I did a bit of flying off of it today.

 

[John Griffin]

Got a couple of more pics one of my guys took at our crane job the other day.

 

[John Griffin]

We took a whole maple tree in one crane pick yesterday. We were next door picking apart an oak tree in bad shape when the neighbor came over asking if he could hire us to take out this maple that has been giving them problems due to its location. Its brances were intertwined so we decided to pick it whole. It weighed 7100 lbs.

 

[John Griffin]

 

[John Griffin]

I ran our crane today myself. I have operated a bunch but not much with this new crane as Im usually climbing with it. I could get used to this crane. Its very nice to operate. This thing has lots of capacity at distance. 89ft and 4200 lbs of net lift capacity with 125 ft of boom out. Still 92 ft up too.

 

[John Griffin]

We did two crane jobs yeaterday. The first one we spent some time training a friend of mine's daughter how to install slings. She did excellent

 

[crane operator]

Glad to see your crane out working.

 

[John Griffin]

Took down some pine trees over a garage.

 

[John Griffin]

Had to get tight up to the neighbors house. Reach over the fence and into the back yard. We took 15 trees down in the side of this yard.

 

[digger doug]

are there any trees left in Huntsville ?

 

[John Griffin]

are there any trees left in Huntsville ?

They're all over the place here. Literally several thousand on my street alone.

On a side note, we do really try to do everything we can to keep any of the tree from ending up in the landfill. We chip all the brush and give the chips away to farms or gardeners though chip drop app. All the logs from this job went to a local independent sawmill so they can turn it into lumber. Any logs that werent good enough to saw will go into our wood lot to be processed into firewood. Yes, even the pine. We use it for campfire wood for campgrounds.

 

[mowingman]

I wish I had a stump grinding business there.

 

[colson04]

I get manure from a dairy and mix it with my wood chips. Let it breakdown for a summer and have nice, rich compost to amend my garden with every fall. The logs (any species) gets hauled back to my house and processed for firewood. I don't cut trees daily, more like couple jobs a month. Just enough to get paid to process my own firewood. I burn about 7 full cord a heating season.

Still loving your thread @John Griffin . I wish I could have had a crane on my last removal. Seven red oaks towering over a lake cottage on a very tight lot. The smallest oak was 24" dbh, the biggest was 40". The bottom 16 ft of logs were full of nails, wire, insulators and screws. I spent more time swapping chains than I did cutting at the end.

 

[CM1995]

They're all over the place here. Literally several thousand on my street alone.

On a side note, we do really try to do everything we can to keep any of the tree from ending up in the landfill. We chip all the brush and give the chips away to farms or gardeners though chip drop app. All the logs from this job went to a local independent sawmill so they can turn it into lumber. Any logs that werent good enough to saw will go into our wood lot to be processed into firewood. Yes, even the pine. We use it for campfire wood for campgrounds.

We are mob'ing into your neck of the woods next week for a big box retail addition. It has 6 planted water oaks in 3 islands to be demo'd however they are pretty big at 8-10" in dia and 20' tall so probably out of your wheel house size wise.

 

[skyking1]

the kind you could oops counterweight with a big excavator.

 

[John Griffin]

I wish I had a stump grinding business there.

You like being covered in clay dust and wood chips?

We grind our own stumps usually. We use a grinder i built on our mini ex.