Want to see where I worked today?

Looks like fun!!Wanna swop?You get to sit on your arse all day feeling undervalued!

It is nice to see the person who tells me to go to bed
I have to admit, I don't know what you are doing? The last picture especially. It looks like some type of rope or cable?

He's cutting off overhanging branches isnt he!!

Yes

We had most a tree cut down in our back garden a few years back, the guy was in a harness, swinging from the tree, looked like great fun!!

No. He is not. He is purposely knocking down several small bird's nests, all filled with terrified chicks.

Joe(I, for one, am dismayed at the brutality)Nation

Many chicks are terrified when I take my big tools out and play.

Imsure your sensible enough to use protection.

And what makes you so sure?

Joe(Hey! I've got a rumor to spread)Nation

dadpad
Many chicks are terrified when I take my big tools out and play

I have never seen branches cut down that way. Dumb question, but why not use a chainsaw? That is the only way I have seen it done in the area I live.

Oooh, dadpad, I'm fascinated!

Anytime there are trees being taken down I have to stop and watch.

I hate the loss of the trees, but I'm amazed with how calculated (and mostly accurate) the job has to be.

Quirk of fate that the pics show me using the loppers. These are quicker and safer (on small branches) than the chainsaw. It's all about having good control of the environment and material I am working on and with.

Taking the branch down in small pieces means no damage to the tiles on the roof when the branch drops. I Rope off larger pieces 2 ft long to the cage, cut them and and lower them down.
Additionally loppers are less taxing physically than the chainsaw even if it is a dedicated one hand tree saw its tiring to work with. Tired arms make mistakes.

Back a few years ago this fellow who lived next door to a friend of mine decided to cut some branches overhanging his roof. Got his chainsaw, climbed up on the roof, but saw that the branches were too high to reach. Climbed down, got a eight foot 2x4 and some rope.

Yeah.

TIED the chainsaw to the 2x4 and started her up. Got back up on the roof. Raised that combination up into the tree branches. Actually cut one branch pretty easily and moved over to cut a few more but then he saw that the chainsaw was getting loose from the rope.

Now, when the chainsaw began to lose the bonds of the rope, this guy had two choices (at least) he could :
1) let it fall

or

2) try to catch it.




It is extremely difficult to gauge the direction and velocity of a falling -fully operating- chainsaw while at the same time avoiding getting cracked on the head by the eight foot 2x4 you are holding or so it appeared to this fellow's neighbors.

Also there is the falling rope to consider and it's possible entanglement in the chainsaw or you or both.

He tried running up the slope of the roof, but fell flat. He then reached out for the bouncing, spinning, angry chainsaw sliding towards him.

Luckily, he missed.

The chainsaw bounced nicely off of a second lower roof and, completing what some described as a beautiful two and half gainer with a twist, plunged itself into the earth, blade-first, between two azalea bushs.

It stopped running.

The fellow was fully game to try the whole thing again, but, as he was cleaning the chainsaw off, his wife returned from the grocery store and was given a full report of the morning's entertainment.

Joe(she, of course, spoiled everything)Nation

I have no idea if you are serious or joking
When I see you posts I smile the way you sign them with a comment in parenthesis in between you user name.

dadpad, can I call you dad? That roof looks like tile which breaks easily if a limb were to hit it hard enough if I am correct.

No!! If you do that I cant fantasise about having sex with you. well I suppose I could but... eeeewwww no.



I just said that! You seem to have a frustrating habit of making other peoples statements your own on occasion.

Joe (you'll like this) Nation. I know a bloke who bought a steel core rope to do his own tree work. Very expensive it was but you know, safety in the home and all that.

Having climbed his ladder he got into the tree and positioned the rope correctly in the fork of the tree, he somehow managed to sever it - with his very first cut.

He said "I thought it was taking a while to get into the cut"

ummmm...yes?

I heard a story about aguy who had a chain saw on a rope to act as a counterweight so that he could exert more mechanical; advantage in swinging it around. He also had the throttle stuck open somehow and, to make a long story short, he disemboweled himself.
Everybody was laughing at his funeral.

That is my greatest fear,NOT the fear of dying, but the fear of dying stupid, like having been impaled by a kickback board on a table saw, or wiring a line HOT and frying yer ass into eternity.

Oh Lord , save that I may not die like that kid who was killed in a one car collision on a straight road on a clear day. The one where he ran into the only sign pole for twenty miles. Thats looks so uncool when its in in the paper.

AMEN.

OH yeh, behind the guy who disembowels himself with a chainsw is a wife who, at the funeral, will take all kinds of credit for "I told him not to do that". God, even when your ded you can be embarrased by know it all women.

dadpad
You are right I did do that (making your statement mine in effect). I did not realize I was doing that and I didn't do it intentionally. I appreciate the fact you told me. You said on occasion, so I have done it before. I truly wasn't aware I was doing that. Thank you for telling me. I appreciate your honesty and apparently I need to pay more attention.

Several times in my life I have faced the prospect of doing dangerous work cutting trees. In each instance, I visualized thje worst case scenario and left it to tyhe pros. I still trim a few trees, but very cautiously. Don't want an embarrassing death for my family to report.