Pruning a Douglas fir. R C Tree Service
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Use HD setting. Here we reduce the end weight from the limbs throughout this Douglas fir. This narrows the overall profile of the tree, and reduces the risk of limb failure which typically occurs with this species of tree beyond a certain size. This is a typical job for us, but a tedious one to capture on video that I've previously attempted but then abandoned.
Beautiful video Reg. I've learned a lot about tree work and a lot about quality climbing from you. I have no mentor to teach me, so what you're doing, i appreciate beyond words. Thank you Reg for taking the time to make these, I can tell you put a lot of hard work into it.
Impressive work! I enjoyed watching you balancing out on the tips. The customers don't understand the hard work in rigging and so on. Keep'em coming sir!
Finally, someone who understands pruning of large firs in the northwest, we've been doing this for years down here in Seattle. If you're unwilling to get out there and make a good reduction cut or if claim its not necessary and recommend "wind sailing" or some other bullshit then you should stay on the ground. Good work done the right way!
That was some impressive limbwalking, Reg. Thanks for posting.
I might have dozed off there but this is primo video for showing clients what they need for end weight reduction of fir. I think I will refer to it when I'm wearily explaining it to the next blank-stare consumer, so they have a chance to clue in to their future dissatisfaction of my proper work and move on to the ball-cap spur guy for less money and more haircut.
dozing off is never far away from my mind either. did you get my email regarding TS ? Get back to me. cheers
+Reg Coates haven't seen any email. I will go look now in all my inboxes.
Well done Reg.
I appreciate you making the effort to put this video together.
I would enjoy watching it in person to see the whole "process".
Keep yourself safe.
Randy
Good video for the Customer to understand the level of skill required.
It show's you gentle Nature !
nice work out on those tips. crazy how much body positioning a guy has to do sometimes for one cut. good stuff
I really liked the video! Tedious work, but I can see the tree being much safer over the buildings. Keep the videos coming -I always enjoy.
Impressive tree work, and then the great video on top of it! Well done - and thanks!
Nice view
Wish you'd have shown a before and after of the entire tree.
nice work mate.
Im my opinion, this is how reductions should be done in order to not become detrimental to the health of the tree in the future, yet still reducing the likelyhood of failure significantly. Although the clients sometimes want to be able to "see" the difference. Spot on Reg!
Ouch, spurs on a live tree. Problems for the tree though, with all the disease and decay set in by each of those stab wounds, all hundreds or thousands of them.
Jeff Adams No spurs Jeff....look again
Hi mate
There's a bit of graft there nice work👍how do you find the srt set for this kind of work?
Thanks for posting that, Reg. At the end, it looks like you'd set something up to tend your rope wrench/hitch as you walked back up. What was that setup? Nice job.
It's just a flat sling that's clipped to the back of my saddle. The right length. I often clip the carabiner to the collar of my shirt when not in use....so it's always at hand. More comfortable than a lanyard over the shoulder, and safer than a neck lanyard.
Nice! Thanks!
Great work . enjoyed it. that looks like silky Sugoi is it..?
Yes. I think so at least. curved blade, big yellow scabbard
I woulda figured you might have used a small tooth pattern saw for those tips. I use a zubat for everything but wish I had a straight small tooth for the tiny stuff. Still #1...great work
Yes, I would if I had one. I lost two at the same site in the winter.
just recently i used a silky gomtaro-pro sentei has a straight fine and coarse blade and taped it's scabbard to a sugowaza covers most things for the moment. not tried the zubat.
3:33 freaky, styley
Wow very impressive. How do you guys price something like that? That probably took you all day and it more difficult and exhausting than a removal. Feel like its hard to get people to appreciate how much work that is and to get paid accordingly. We don't have big firs like that here, but when I do pruning or deadwooding I try to get people to go hourly.
it was about 2.5 hours climbing, Tom. Then cleanup of 2 yards thereafter. I priced it for half a day.
Very true
Reg how do you get your line in when your pruning these tall conifers?
Big shot. often you need some luck because it's so easy to get a deflection with there being so many limbs in close proximity.
Thanks very much for replying Reg...really appreciate it 👍
member the ol' days climbin up ta 4 '' tie in and away ya go .. feel the burn... come on ! everybody now ,, feel the burn, hahaa thx for the referal the other day , ended up a leave debris..
!!!!!:-)
This is tipping. Not good on any conifer. It ruins the shape and future growth. And nobody chiming in here seemed to see that.
Sometimes a whole branch can be removed. But not this. It is like cutting an arm off at the wrist.
Michael Dougfir - Its funny you should say that Mike, because the tree is looking great. It's actually on my street so I see it every day
A couple years on and you'd be hard pressed to tell it's been pruned at all, if you didn't know better. It just looks narrower. And on top of that, the owners had no more limbs collapse on the neighbours good since. Much like the hundreds of others I've pruned in the same way.