Thanks Zach, that was an awesome day, your upbeat and positive attitude were amazing for moral, we all enjoyed it. And to answer some simple questions, all of the neighbors were notified of what was going on weeks in advance, and were all very accommodating, the neighbor across the alley, which we had blocked off, were even so kind as to allow us the use of their driveway, overall the entire job went even more smoothly than I had expected, it was a great experience. Thanks Zach you were awesome buddy!
Aw man, thanks for those kind words. I'm thrilled to hear that it was a satisfactory experience for you. Thanks for offering me this challenge and hiring me to tackle it for you!
It is lovely to hear from the property owner. Whenever I watch these kinds of videos I always want to add that all of us on the internet are very grateful that property owners allow us to see the work 1. I learn more about my own work in my trees here in the UK (although I don't do high work like this!) and 2. we all learn about other countries and other parts of our own country and climate and people and houses and plants so it is generally educational too. biggest takeaway from the huge USA is everything is much bigger than in our tiny UK where houses and yards/gardens are usually so much smaller and land so scarce. Our new neighbours who have not moved in yet just had an absolutely massive tree removed in similar way but did not bother to tell any of the neighbours which is not a very good start to hopefully a good relationship all round.
Great work Zach! Liked seeing all of the rigging. Rob's job looked a little sketchy though, not just from dropping limbs on him, but with him falling thru the roof due to rot and the open holes. I went to a funeral where a young 20 year old fell thru a roof and died, he was tied in, but hit something on the way down. His coworkers thought they'd just hoist him back up. A similar thing had happened earlier on the same job, but that guy was okay except for being banged up. One of them fell thru a skylight, the other fell thru the aluminum roofing. Be safe out there.
That's mighty kind of you to say. It does seem to be a challenge to find good companies to work for. They are out there, though, and if your son loves this work, it's worth the effort to find one. I hope he has a good experience in this industry. It's very unique work and takes special people to do it.
Second video of yours I’m binging. These are addicting! I lived a suburb like this when I was a kid, and plenty of old trees needed to come down. Including 2 or three in our own yard! I never got to watch because of school or work, and I was always bummed when the trees were gone by the time I got home. Making up for it now! ❤
Idk sometimes yall staring while a climber does his job some guys get in their head and sometimes things go wrong and going from a peaceful spectator to pissed off neighbor really makes for a angry climber with a chainsaw lol but hey thats life cant win em all and whenever you do win have some pride and feel the confidence and dont let it turn to arrogance
@JayJones-kb6ub no, you can't win them all. I will say though that only you are responsible for how angry you allow yourself to be and how you react. I've been doing my best to not let little things that don't really matter bother me. It makes for a better day for me and a better day for the ground crew when I'm not cranky all day. I'm far from perfect, but making a pointed effort has definitely helped.
Hi Zach, thanks for another awesome video. Really appreciate all of your explantations of each step of the process. You are a very positive and encouraging person and I'm sure the teams that work with you appreciate that. It is crazy how the hole in the roof was at the perfect spot to send you Chainsaw through to get a new battery. That couldn't have worked out and better and turned out to be the perfect size. I was a little worried with that large piece of the trunk. Glad that you were able to keep control of it as it would have been a disaster if it fell. It is awesome that the guy riding up with the rope was able to hang on and not lose his grip. Just recently found your channel and really enjoy watching your videos. I saw your Short video about the baby Squirrel that paid you a visit during your lunch break awhile back. The closeup view was really amazing and how big it's back legs were. How did that end when the squirrel jumped toward your head? Glad that you were able to stay calm and not freakout. Congratulations on reaching 29,700 subs and so close to 30,000.
@benburns5995 Wow, Ben thank you for taking the time to write such a great comment. I really appreciate hearing about your experience as a viewer. Thankfully I filmed that squirrel woth my phone and so he was only jumping for my phone. I might have had a little more trouble trouble keeping calm 😅
8/19/24..A+ video 2day taking out 2 tall oaks in very 'tight' space; between owners garage & neighbors fence both in ~4ft alley! Wow! Complex rope rigging, 3 groung men/helpers, pullys, that GRCS winch cranking device & tag/pull/navigate line = success, no damage done in 2 days! ✅️👍👍⚙️🔧😊. Great job!
Well done guys. Gotta love lowering right into the trailer. Some other options I would have considered would be: to have Rob in the neighbors' back yard instead of on the roof, either anchoring a portawrap to a truck (or to the base, popping off a couple fence boards), or using a high friction system, like a fatty rope and rings or safebloc, and hand lowering... and for the brush maybe using a high speedline anchored on the far tree and doing some controlled speedlining. And for the last part, could have been nice to set a rigging point in the tree that the GRCS is anchored to. But yall crushed it the way you did it.
Thanks man! It's important to include thay stuff to help tell the whole story, but I think it's also good to try and avoid dragging thing out with repetitive clips. Thanks for that feedback!
7:30 in, and I gotta say. Good work coaching those guys as you're working things through. Experience mattered here. You made up for everyone else that wasn't, with that rigging and coaching.
Tree work guys got all my respect one of my friends worked under a guy for years started his own tree business in Charlotte and has racked in more than $220k a year and he's 29 this year
@dutchdog804 Haha, I know, I felt so bad about that. It was my first time working with this crew and I clearly was not familiar enough with everyone's experience level. We didn't make that mistake again!
Bro as an old man with torn right inner knee ..I can attest..nothing is worse than roofs ..I used to like them now I'm terrified mainly of myself not being able to jump or land and get footing. If I had to jump or slide off like old days it would be over fir me...alot of times I find myself on roof with polesaw. Usually because no high tie in or being solo...to point of giving up 3 broke trucks broken machine .and was acuttualy healing up.until this last 2 weeks been nothing gone wright..except the Hackberry job .with the grcs ..went great..it acuttualy came lose on last peice..but had 2 ropes ..so worked out ..my only good help is 69 year old man..God bless
@Sethhaun78 Man, I'm right there with you. I hate roofs. This low pitch/low elevation garage roof wasn't too bad, but a steep pitch or high elevation and I'm happy to let someone else handle that stuff.
FI NE job! No hair or blood loss. That Stihl souns like a 261. Sweet saws. Was going to get a Milwaukee like the battery job but had trouble with the battery. Ended up getting my Sweetie a Stihl battery with the 3 inch bar. EVERYTHING on our wjhole place quivers when she walks outside with that in her hand.Blressings to you!
@@zaccheushomeowners do strange things...have few customers that insist on buying wrong tools.even after they ask me for help they buy the crazy est. Options..like Dr I work for..he bought the stihl battery polsaw and blower and things battery..but first I talked him into a 261..but the guys at local store tell me what he buys it's so funny...😂
@davidchang8428 it used to be yellow. It's this one here: www.endorstreegear.com/products/cmi-heavy-duty-loop-runnercmi-heavy-duty-loop-runner-36in I started out using a HMPE sling because they have high ratings. But they don't do well under shock loading so I went back to nylon. 14k mbs is plenty for most light rigging.
Excellent YT presentation. I'd like to see included a few minutes of the rigging as it's set. Maybe not the whole thing, but you had a LOT of ropes magically appearing in the perfect position.
Wow Zach definitely earned your $$ on that job great rigging skills as usual. We're they fighting with the neighbors that fence would of been removed for access if my job. But all went well, great job
@robertvannicolo4435 Honestly, I'm not sure what the whole situation was. All I know is that when I showed up to climb, everything had to come out the direction we took it. I will say that neighbors yard was so full of dog poop, that I could smell it from the tree. It was terrible 🤮
@zaccheus yea they probably bark all the time and if you could smell it imagine what the homeowner goes through on a hot summer day.im sure left stumps high so fence didn't blow over
@johns3106 yes is did! In fact that was my plan originally but then I realized that I wouldn't be able to get all of the wood put that way and the system I did use allowed me to get more wood out on the ropes.
Great job being mindful of saw battery and ground crew by taking your cuts, when allowable at the stem. There is only one common thing people do more to bother me then making a bunch of cuts and stubby pieces of wood to pick up... Stay safe.
Haha fair enough. This job especially couldn't afford stubs 😅 I go like to leave stubs sometimes for crane work or GRCS stuff. But in that case, it's a little more reasonable I think.
I have a question about yoir equipment. Why yesterday did you ise amd electric chain saw and tpday you ise a gas powered? Isnt gas powered the better option for all jobs?
@krismarie4837 Great question! Gas saws are great and have had many, many years to be perfected. Electric saws are new and still have lots of room for improvement, but even though they could be better, they have some features now that make them really nice to climb with. For example, it's really nice to not have to start a chainsaw while I'm un in the tree and they don't make as much noise so it leaves communication open in case someone needs to say something at the last minute. On the downside, that little electric saw did have enough power to make those big cuts on that bigger wood very efficiently, so I used a gas saw for that. If I had a bigger electric saw, I would have used it.
@Jlogo I wpuld have pursued a controlled speedline to get the brush out and the negative rigged the wood down to the roof. It would have been a good bit more challenging, and there would have been a greater risk of damaging to roof by walking over it a bunch.
@@iiiii4560 I like the 25" light bar and full chisel round file chain that I have on there. I keep a 36" bar in the truck, but I don't find myself using it very often.
@@richardf9137 Thanks! I'm not familiar with noodling. Throwing pieces is a last resort for me most of the time amd so I rarely do it. What is noodling?
Just a thought. Considering the garage roof is not too steep, you could put six tires on the garage roof with a sheet of plywood on the tires. You could drop some heavy stuff on that target without damage.
I'm not really sure, I assume it wasn't an option because it wasn't offered to me when were figuring out a plan for the day. I'm just a contract climber. So I don't do anything with the customer or the neighbors.
@bioniclife Nah, not really. I do very little storm work. Most of the time my schedule is too full and it's a problem for me to move my schedule around more than it is for a tree service. I think I fixed one small broken limb for a friend, but that's been about it.
@Kaizen747 some might call it that, but I woukd call this transfer rigging as the load is transfered from one system to the next. In my mind, span rigging is when you use just one rope between two high points and the load hangs from a block, pulley or carabiner that is latch onto the rope.
@charleswolcott1126 Great question! There are a few reasons. It more hazardous for people to be walking around on the roof with their hands full of brush. Especially if they have to approach and edge. It's just harder to see everything. It's bad for the roof to lay big pieces of brush on the roof. Obviously this on already had holes in it, but bossman was adamant we were not allowed to cause further damage and I certainly wouldn't want to anyway. For the same reason we woukdnt be abke to lay pieces of wood down to cut them up. I probably wpukd have had to rig smaller pieces to get them to fit on the roof. Thanks!
@jimsmith9819 I was def super careful to avoid cutting a rope. There just wasnt much room to worl with all those ropes up there 😅 The gas saw I used was a MS500i with a 25" bar. It's probably my favorite saw. Maybe try cleaning out the spark arrestor in the muffler on that stihl. Sometimes that get plugged up, and it's an easy fix.
I can’t believe those people let that building go to crap like that. I was always super nervous walking on peoples roofs. We have a lot of tile roof houses out here in Cali and ya just can’t walk on them. The liability is just too high. Breaking a single tile can cost you a whole new roof cause not all tiles are the same and sometimes you can’t get a replacement tile for a repair cause they don’t make them anymore. My neighbor is currently struggling with that problem.
@SirensC3 Oh that's no fun at all. I definitely wouldn't want to risk a roof like that. We have a color match law here in Ohio and if an insurance company has to replace one shingle and the old ones are too faded to match, they have to replace the whole roof. Shingles are a little more sumdurabke, but the sun makes them soft.
@ScottyPimpinATL haha often I don't have time to stop and count the rings. You may be interested to know that when I was layer looking at the cut end of the log, I noticed that one year all of a sudden, the rings got tighter and then slowly opened up again. I imagine this was when the house was built. Digging the basement and installing the driveway probably damaged the root system and slowed the tree's growth rate for 10 or 20 years until the root system recovered.
@zaccheus I have a love-hate relationship for trees. This year, I went on a full assault towards the Chinese Privet. It's a never-ending battle, needless to say. Some have disguised themselves as trees. My main objective is to rescue the North American bamboo. I have also had a huge issue with wood post beetles from my neighbors taking wood chips. That's a whole other situation, tho. I personally feel the trees have been dying off more rapidly over the last 5 years as well. I often find myself spotting out dead trees and feeling like it is unnatural.
@ScottyPimpinATL we have had a lot of dead tree recently as all the ash have been wiped out by the ash borer beetle. Seems like there is always a new disease threatening some species.
Apparently there aren't any required setbacks from the property line for structures. Many cities require 5 feet between the property line and any structure.
This was a super old, tight neighborhood with narrow streets. It was built to house workers back when the place was an industrial town. I imagine they didn't have setback laws back then, but neighborhoods like these are probably why those laws exist now 😅
@@zaccheus you did, it was the one that came back at you. Glad you caught it time. Love your videos, I m impressed in how respectful you are to your crew.
Good morning z. As I sit here smocking a dress the bug has bit me again! can't you tell me the name of that rope rig and the different parts you need to buy or some kind of Link or the name of it please please please please please please please. When I get out of church by noon I hope I'm ready to order it
@deadmanswife3625 Haha, a bike helmet is better than nothing, but don't put too much confidence in it. A helmet is for protecting you from falling objects as much as it's for protecting you from bumping your head. The ropes, harnesses, and devices I climb on are all really expensive I'm happy to link them in the video description, but I wpuodnt expect anyone to want to buy them unless they could make money with them. There are some more cost-effective methods out there that are maybe a bit better for getting started with. I can make a video about that specifically if that would be helpful for you.
Those were definitely two possibilities. I heavily considered a controlled speedline but neither that nor span rigging wpukd have offered enough clearance over the roof for the trunk wood on the first tree. Transfer rigging offered that plus a little more control than span rigging so I chose to go with transfer. I do have a controlled speedline video coming up thats going to be pretty sweet.
Hopefully you got paid well ! I wouldn’t leave that property till I had cash in hand ! If homeowner can’t repair a garage roof for a few bucks paying you guys a few grand for that very tricky and professional job ! Yes I would be dubious
@aaronjackson5862 Haha I have no idea what it cost. We spent plenty of time on it, thats for sure. I'm just a contract climber and I don't ask about pricing. That's my clients business 😅
@ You Did. You’re in charge. Not only did he almost get knocked off the roof right away due to you not telling him to double up his line or be concerned with where he was positioned, he was then right underneath the swinging pass of another large limb again just after that (when multiple of your limbs made contact with the roof before and after). I mean you basically said in the video his contact with the branch and rigging choice was your fault. I don’t see how anything that happened/could have happened that day wasn’t on you… 👍 You’re not nearly old enough to be able to think of yourself as an expert in tree removal. There are many instances in your videos that show this with close calls. I’m also not saying you know nothing, obviously you do. But you should either switch to excavation only quickly or lose the bravado. I doubt UA-cam would ever see your accident video, but you would bear the consequences for the future.
@ Oof, that’s a pretty tough opinion man. I don’t believe the climber should be the foreman on the job. The foreman’s job can be best done when he or she isn’t focused on climbing. Even more so, I don’t think a contract climber should be expected to be a foreman. I also don’t believe the climber should be responsible for setting the correct number of wraps on the fraction device. I often help groundys with a suggestion when they request it, but they are ultimately responsible for that function if the crew. There are so many factors that go into how the rope runs on the bollard or the winch on a given day and a climber doesn’t have as much information to work with as the person holding the rope. I’m sure I don’t need to explain that to you. You’re right, I have plenty to learn and you won’t find a single video on my channel in which I claim to be an expert. I’m fairly well educated in the matter and my biggest claim might be that I have a better understanding than most. As anyone in any trade should know, book smarts only take you so far and anyone claiming that they can no longer benefit from further experience is a fool. All of this to say that I showed up to this job, met the crew for the first time and we knocked out a job with limited resources and limited ground experience. It could have been better. It could have been more text book, but nobody could have gone home any healthier than they did. I am thankful for that and I’m also thankful for the education that this job provided and that I was able to share that with the world. Also thankful for your comments and thoughts on the matter.
@@zaccheus I asked too early. I saw that as the video went on and you got in the wood. Very well said about the small rigs seeming silly! Wise notion good sir
Thanks Zach, that was an awesome day, your upbeat and positive attitude were amazing for moral, we all enjoyed it.
And to answer some simple questions, all of the neighbors were notified of what was going on weeks in advance, and were all very accommodating, the neighbor across the alley, which we had blocked off, were even so kind as to allow us the use of their driveway, overall the entire job went even more smoothly than I had expected, it was a great experience. Thanks Zach you were awesome buddy!
Aw man, thanks for those kind words. I'm thrilled to hear that it was a satisfactory experience for you. Thanks for offering me this challenge and hiring me to tackle it for you!
@@zaccheus more than satisfactory lol
@@Demodad68 Aw man, it's very rewarding to hear that 😊
It is lovely to hear from the property owner. Whenever I watch these kinds of videos I always want to add that all of us on the internet are very grateful that property owners allow us to see the work 1. I learn more about my own work in my trees here in the UK (although I don't do high work like this!) and 2. we all learn about other countries and other parts of our own country and climate and people and houses and plants so it is generally educational too. biggest takeaway from the huge USA is everything is much bigger than in our tiny UK where houses and yards/gardens are usually so much smaller and land so scarce. Our new neighbours who have not moved in yet just had an absolutely massive tree removed in similar way but did not bother to tell any of the neighbours which is not a very good start to hopefully a good relationship all round.
@@zaccheus Hey can you tell me what you use for your lanyard?
You guys are total pros. Especially the leader -- gave detailed orders, kept everyone safe, the perfect boss.
It relaxes me to watch you take down these big trees 🌳
Very impressed how easy that Milwaukee saw cuts. Goes thru like butter, nice! 🪚
@@xcalibre222 I used to think pretty poorly of electric saws, but this thing is changing my mind!
I appreciate all the positive reinforcement you give your coworkers
Thanks! It helps everyone, including myself, have a better experience every day.
Great work Zach! Liked seeing all of the rigging. Rob's job looked a little sketchy though, not just from dropping limbs on him, but with him falling thru the roof due to rot and the open holes. I went to a funeral where a young 20 year old fell thru a roof and died, he was tied in, but hit something on the way down. His coworkers thought they'd just hoist him back up. A similar thing had happened earlier on the same job, but that guy was okay except for being banged up. One of them fell thru a skylight, the other fell thru the aluminum roofing. Be safe out there.
Another very good video. Thanks for taking the time to film, edit, and share with us.
@jacksnow1703 thanks for that feedback, Jack! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
These guys are so amazing. The guy sounds so cool and calm but the stress has to be intense.
Challenge accepted, met, and conquered. Good stuff again buddy. Great explanations. Well done!
@ClellWise Thanks Clell! I love me a good challenge!
My youngest son worked for an arborist all summer. Wish his boss was as good a teacher as you seem to be.
That's mighty kind of you to say. It does seem to be a challenge to find good companies to work for. They are out there, though, and if your son loves this work, it's worth the effort to find one. I hope he has a good experience in this industry. It's very unique work and takes special people to do it.
Second video of yours I’m binging. These are addicting! I lived a suburb like this when I was a kid, and plenty of old trees needed to come down. Including 2 or three in our own yard! I never got to watch because of school or work, and I was always bummed when the trees were gone by the time I got home. Making up for it now! ❤
Good show. Great comms controlling the ropes.
If I were a neighbor, I would out in my yard watching. Rain or not. A chair, a Pepsi and some chips and watch the show.
Haha thats awesome, Mary! Thank you for your support! I'll take you along for the ride with videos as best as I can!
Idk sometimes yall staring while a climber does his job some guys get in their head and sometimes things go wrong and going from a peaceful spectator to pissed off neighbor really makes for a angry climber with a chainsaw lol but hey thats life cant win em all and whenever you do win have some pride and feel the confidence and dont let it turn to arrogance
@JayJones-kb6ub no, you can't win them all. I will say though that only you are responsible for how angry you allow yourself to be and how you react. I've been doing my best to not let little things that don't really matter bother me. It makes for a better day for me and a better day for the ground crew when I'm not cranky all day. I'm far from perfect, but making a pointed effort has definitely helped.
Hi Zach, thanks for another awesome video. Really appreciate all of your explantations of each step of the process. You are a very positive and encouraging person and I'm sure the teams that work with you appreciate that.
It is crazy how the hole in the roof was at the perfect spot to send you Chainsaw through to get a new battery. That couldn't have worked out and better and turned out to be the perfect size.
I was a little worried with that large piece of the trunk. Glad that you were able to keep control of it as it would have been a disaster if it fell. It is awesome that the guy riding up with the rope was able to hang on and not lose his grip.
Just recently found your channel and really enjoy watching your videos.
I saw your Short video about the baby Squirrel that paid you a visit during your lunch break awhile back. The closeup view was really amazing and how big it's back legs were. How did that end when the squirrel jumped toward your head? Glad that you were able to stay calm and not freakout.
Congratulations on reaching 29,700 subs and so close to 30,000.
@benburns5995 Wow, Ben thank you for taking the time to write such a great comment. I really appreciate hearing about your experience as a viewer. Thankfully I filmed that squirrel woth my phone and so he was only jumping for my phone. I might have had a little more trouble trouble keeping calm 😅
Woof, that was some cramped quarters!
@@earndoggy that's what makes it fun!
Like to hear you explaining what is going on. Makes it very interesting to watch.
Absolutely agree!!!
Thank you for the feedback!
8/19/24..A+ video 2day taking out 2 tall oaks in very 'tight' space; between owners garage & neighbors fence both in ~4ft alley! Wow! Complex rope rigging, 3 groung men/helpers, pullys, that GRCS winch cranking device & tag/pull/navigate line = success, no damage done in 2 days! ✅️👍👍⚙️🔧😊. Great job!
That was quite a feat. Congratulations, great team work!
@@diegovd7215 Thanks, man! I couldn't have done it without a great team on the ground/roof.
Zach, that was some great rope engineering to make you rigging work properly. Blessings to you.
Thanks, Bill!
Fine job boys.. As much talent and work ethic as any person needs..
@bobbyplatt7654 thanks bobby!
Well done guys. Gotta love lowering right into the trailer.
Some other options I would have considered would be: to have Rob in the neighbors' back yard instead of on the roof, either anchoring a portawrap to a truck (or to the base, popping off a couple fence boards), or using a high friction system, like a fatty rope and rings or safebloc, and hand lowering... and for the brush maybe using a high speedline anchored on the far tree and doing some controlled speedlining.
And for the last part, could have been nice to set a rigging point in the tree that the GRCS is anchored to.
But yall crushed it the way you did it.
You and the team do great work, I enjoy seeing advanced rigging like that! Good job.
love the edits you did towards the end.. not making the video too long, instead showing just the mian cuts
Thanks man! It's important to include thay stuff to help tell the whole story, but I think it's also good to try and avoid dragging thing out with repetitive clips. Thanks for that feedback!
Really enjoyed watching this tree removal!
Greetings from the BIG SKY of Montana. Good work you guys.
@rogerdudra178 thanks Roger!
7:30 in, and I gotta say. Good work coaching those guys as you're working things through. Experience mattered here. You made up for everyone else that wasn't, with that rigging and coaching.
I'm truly amazed by the way you and your team got that done. A really great job.
@@JamesMillis-v3w thank you!
Impressive man, well done!
@jeremyj612 Thanks, Jeremy!
Tree work guys got all my respect one of my friends worked under a guy for years started his own tree business in Charlotte and has racked in more than $220k a year and he's 29 this year
Zach; world class boss and operation.
@b_f8852 aw thanks man, that's mighty kind of you to say.
Homeboy on the roof went for a ride on the second cut😂
@dutchdog804 Haha, I know, I felt so bad about that. It was my first time working with this crew and I clearly was not familiar enough with everyone's experience level. We didn't make that mistake again!
@@dutchdog804 sneaky 🐢 man 🤣
Bro as an old man with torn right inner knee ..I can attest..nothing is worse than roofs ..I used to like them now I'm terrified mainly of myself not being able to jump or land and get footing. If I had to jump or slide off like old days it would be over fir me...alot of times I find myself on roof with polesaw. Usually because no high tie in or being solo...to point of giving up 3 broke trucks broken machine .and was acuttualy healing up.until this last 2 weeks been nothing gone wright..except the Hackberry job .with the grcs ..went great..it acuttualy came lose on last peice..but had 2 ropes ..so worked out ..my only good help is 69 year old man..God bless
@Sethhaun78 Man, I'm right there with you. I hate roofs. This low pitch/low elevation garage roof wasn't too bad, but a steep pitch or high elevation and I'm happy to let someone else handle that stuff.
@@zaccheuskeep going brother
Very nice and controlled way of working.
Nice to see how it is done the right way.
Great work!!!!😄
Great teamwork 👏👏👏
@@lugoyvonne thank you!
Seemingly impossible jobs are what I thrive on.. transfer rigging for the win.
Seems like Ive seen this system before 😂
@groundpounder24365 haha I was thinking about this video when I commented on yours. I do like the tough ones.
@zaccheus you the man, my friend.
Have a great day
@groundpounder24365 Thanks, GP. I hope you have a great day, too.
Awesome work guys 🫡
Thanks Greg!
That tree removal looked impossible, but they pulled it off! Thanks for sharing.
Just subscribed! Awesome professional video! DEFINITELY, a big thanks for sharing!
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@@rickfromvirginia Thanks, Rick!
Love watching this!
@@patchadams4me glad to hear it! I have lots!
FI NE job! No hair or blood loss. That Stihl souns like a 261. Sweet saws. Was going to get a Milwaukee like the battery job but had trouble with the battery. Ended up getting my Sweetie a Stihl battery with the 3 inch bar. EVERYTHING on our wjhole place quivers when she walks outside with that in her hand.Blressings to you!
Haha I have a friend who has climbed with that little battery stihl. He loved it. I'm not sure what they were using on the ground.
@@zaccheushomeowners do strange things...have few customers that insist on buying wrong tools.even after they ask me for help they buy the crazy est. Options..like Dr I work for..he bought the stihl battery polsaw and blower and things battery..but first I talked him into a 261..but the guys at local store tell me what he buys it's so funny...😂
@@Sethhaun78 haha yeah, some folks are all about the name! People are funny creatures we all have our goofy bits
@@zaccheus They work fine but my Sweetie still strikes fear.....!
@lewiemcneely9143 😂 you ought to get her some battery-powered pruning shears. Those things are intense too!
8:43 You missed an opportunity to say "Going to go out on a limb." LOL
@@marymulrooney1334 haha I guess I've lost a lot of those opportunities 😅
You really respectfully to your crew always 💪👍
@@alexarmstrong1134 I do my best! Gotta treat others the way I want to be treated!
really nice work. what is that tan colored sling that you're using to tie the girth hitch onto the different branches?
@davidchang8428 it used to be yellow. It's this one here: www.endorstreegear.com/products/cmi-heavy-duty-loop-runnercmi-heavy-duty-loop-runner-36in
I started out using a HMPE sling because they have high ratings. But they don't do well under shock loading so I went back to nylon. 14k mbs is plenty for most light rigging.
Excellent YT presentation. I'd like to see included a few minutes of the rigging as it's set. Maybe not the whole thing, but you had a LOT of ropes magically appearing in the perfect position.
Haha fair enough. I forget to include that stuff sometimes because I find it boring to watch. I’ll try to keep this in mind for the next one.
Wow Zach definitely earned your $$ on that job great rigging skills as usual. We're they fighting with the neighbors that fence would of been removed for access if my job. But all went well, great job
@robertvannicolo4435 Honestly, I'm not sure what the whole situation was. All I know is that when I showed up to climb, everything had to come out the direction we took it. I will say that neighbors yard was so full of dog poop, that I could smell it from the tree. It was terrible 🤮
@zaccheus yea they probably bark all the time and if you could smell it imagine what the homeowner goes through on a hot summer day.im sure left stumps high so fence didn't blow over
@robertvannicolo4435 Haha maybe that was why we left them high. I was happy to take them down further, but boss man said to leave them 🤷♂️
👏👏👏 Excellent job ❤
Yer tag line always for me. Cheers
Just thinkin gradle rig. Yer pulls em together hard but then flows on over. Great vids cheers
@julianalderson3938 are you talking about span rigging?
Great job buddy as always I hope everything is going well God bless
@@br-dj2ti Hey Bill! All is well! Thanks for checking in!
@@zaccheus we're so close to each other I would love for us to work together sometime I think it would be awesome experience
Did you consider a speed line for the tree that was farther in? It’s hard to tell distances/angles from the video.
@johns3106 yes is did! In fact that was my plan originally but then I realized that I wouldn't be able to get all of the wood put that way and the system I did use allowed me to get more wood out on the ropes.
Great job being mindful of saw battery and ground crew by taking your cuts, when allowable at the stem. There is only one common thing people do more to bother me then making a bunch of cuts and stubby pieces of wood to pick up...
Stay safe.
Haha fair enough. This job especially couldn't afford stubs 😅 I go like to leave stubs sometimes for crane work or GRCS stuff. But in that case, it's a little more reasonable I think.
I have a question about yoir equipment. Why yesterday did you ise amd electric chain saw and tpday you ise a gas powered? Isnt gas powered the better option for all jobs?
@krismarie4837 Great question! Gas saws are great and have had many, many years to be perfected. Electric saws are new and still have lots of room for improvement, but even though they could be better, they have some features now that make them really nice to climb with. For example, it's really nice to not have to start a chainsaw while I'm un in the tree and they don't make as much noise so it leaves communication open in case someone needs to say something at the last minute. On the downside, that little electric saw did have enough power to make those big cuts on that bigger wood very efficiently, so I used a gas saw for that. If I had a bigger electric saw, I would have used it.
Greetings from the BIG SKY of Montana. You guys must know a fair amount of gravity to do this one.
@@rogerdudra178 ah, I'm sorry, you'll have to explain what you mean. I'm not tracking 😅
@@zaccheus Falling logs display a sense of gravity that you guys seem to understand.
@@rogerdudra178 I gotcha I gotcha. Thanks!
That was awesome work
What kind of rope are you using for your lanyard?
@@matthewmartin6783 yale confetti
Awesome job brother
@toddjacks8288 Thanks, Todd!
Hey buddu! Were you using an L1D as rigging bloc?
@@andremelloz not here. I’ve never used one of those before. I typically stick to Omni blocks and isc blocks
Nicely done!
@saws_n_stuff Thanks Mark!
What would you do if no tree or additional tie down points in air nearby like this one had
@Jlogo I wpuld have pursued a controlled speedline to get the brush out and the negative rigged the wood down to the roof. It would have been a good bit more challenging, and there would have been a greater risk of damaging to roof by walking over it a bunch.
@@zaccheus 10-4 hell of a gig there
@@Jlogo thanks!
awesome work man!
@@jeb_jebson thanks Jeb!
I watch vids after few beers n its not cool. Nice job bro.
What bar and chain do you use on the 500i?
@@iiiii4560 I like the 25" light bar and full chisel round file chain that I have on there. I keep a 36" bar in the truck, but I don't find myself using it very often.
@@zaccheus what do you use to keep it sharp?
@@iiiii4560 Just a stihl file kit with a round file and guide and a flat file and guage for the rakers.
God bless brother ,I wish I could help ,doing a fantastic job
@@alexanderslawncare thanks man!
Nice work brother!
@chriss2981 thanks chris!
EXCELLENT Removal Job! A thing To consider when cutting big rounds is to noodle them first then cut for less weight to handle. # Reg Coates video.
@@richardf9137 Thanks! I'm not familiar with noodling. Throwing pieces is a last resort for me most of the time amd so I rarely do it. What is noodling?
Awesome work
@paulkelly1702 Thanks, Paul!
Great job!
@@RhondaHughes-d5q thank you!
Just a thought. Considering the garage roof is not too steep, you could put six tires on the garage roof with a sheet of plywood on the tires. You could drop some heavy stuff on that target without damage.
@thomascanfield8571 We wpukd have had to pick up and carry off of the roof then.
nice puzzle for sure! removing the busted looking fence was not an option? wouldve made things easier i guess.
I'm not really sure, I assume it wasn't an option because it wasn't offered to me when were figuring out a plan for the day. I'm just a contract climber. So I don't do anything with the customer or the neighbors.
Better safe than sorry, always take your time and be safe.
@@waynebarnes4082 absolutely!
nice work
Have you been busy with the storms two weeks ago?
@bioniclife Nah, not really. I do very little storm work. Most of the time my schedule is too full and it's a problem for me to move my schedule around more than it is for a tree service. I think I fixed one small broken limb for a friend, but that's been about it.
Is that span rigging?
@Kaizen747 some might call it that, but I woukd call this transfer rigging as the load is transfered from one system to the next. In my mind, span rigging is when you use just one rope between two high points and the load hangs from a block, pulley or carabiner that is latch onto the rope.
We do heaps of this. Nice work but yer sometimes small bits. Sux but works in tight spots.
Why didn't you cut and rig them onto the roof, then toss them over the side? I'm truly curious. Great job btw!
@charleswolcott1126 Great question! There are a few reasons. It more hazardous for people to be walking around on the roof with their hands full of brush. Especially if they have to approach and edge. It's just harder to see everything. It's bad for the roof to lay big pieces of brush on the roof. Obviously this on already had holes in it, but bossman was adamant we were not allowed to cause further damage and I certainly wouldn't want to anyway. For the same reason we woukdnt be abke to lay pieces of wood down to cut them up. I probably wpukd have had to rig smaller pieces to get them to fit on the roof. Thanks!
awesome video!
@@spiercevaughn thanks!
i was waiting for you to cut a rope😅 what was the Stihl that you were using? i have 270 with a 16 inch bar, but my craftsman seems to run better
@jimsmith9819 I was def super careful to avoid cutting a rope. There just wasnt much room to worl with all those ropes up there 😅
The gas saw I used was a MS500i with a 25" bar. It's probably my favorite saw.
Maybe try cleaning out the spark arrestor in the muffler on that stihl. Sometimes that get plugged up, and it's an easy fix.
I can’t believe those people let that building go to crap like that. I was always super nervous walking on peoples roofs. We have a lot of tile roof houses out here in Cali and ya just can’t walk on them. The liability is just too high. Breaking a single tile can cost you a whole new roof cause not all tiles are the same and sometimes you can’t get a replacement tile for a repair cause they don’t make them anymore. My neighbor is currently struggling with that problem.
@SirensC3 Oh that's no fun at all. I definitely wouldn't want to risk a roof like that. We have a color match law here in Ohio and if an insurance company has to replace one shingle and the old ones are too faded to match, they have to replace the whole roof. Shingles are a little more sumdurabke, but the sun makes them soft.
Nice work Great thinking work nice video
@@HansvanOostende thanks!
Could you include age of trees. Whenever I bond with a tree. I like to imagine what all it has lived through. This tree comes off as a senior citizen
@ScottyPimpinATL haha often I don't have time to stop and count the rings. You may be interested to know that when I was layer looking at the cut end of the log, I noticed that one year all of a sudden, the rings got tighter and then slowly opened up again. I imagine this was when the house was built. Digging the basement and installing the driveway probably damaged the root system and slowed the tree's growth rate for 10 or 20 years until the root system recovered.
@zaccheus I have a love-hate relationship for trees. This year, I went on a full assault towards the Chinese Privet. It's a never-ending battle, needless to say. Some have disguised themselves as trees. My main objective is to rescue the North American bamboo.
I have also had a huge issue with wood post beetles from my neighbors taking wood chips. That's a whole other situation, tho.
I personally feel the trees have been dying off more rapidly over the last 5 years as well. I often find myself spotting out dead trees and feeling like it is unnatural.
@ScottyPimpinATL we have had a lot of dead tree recently as all the ash have been wiped out by the ash borer beetle. Seems like there is always a new disease threatening some species.
👌 nice
@dutchdog804 Thanks, man!
Apparently there aren't any required setbacks from the property line for structures.
Many cities require 5 feet between the property line and any structure.
This was a super old, tight neighborhood with narrow streets. It was built to house workers back when the place was an industrial town. I imagine they didn't have setback laws back then, but neighborhoods like these are probably why those laws exist now 😅
That was a mouth full
@@izzy123412457 🤙
@@zaccheus still watching.
Almost got clipped by that one cut. Whew
@@izzy123412457 I'm not sure which one you mean. I thought I had pretty good cuts on this job 😅
@@zaccheus you did, it was the one that came back at you. Glad you caught it time.
Love your videos, I m impressed in how respectful you are to your crew.
@@izzy123412457 oh oh oh, yes, I forgot about that one. It cpulda been worse for sure 😅
such great skills there;
what state are you in?
Oh wait, just read Ohio in your bio.
I'm originally from Indiana. I thought the trees looked familiar.
@barbaratheillustrator02484 Yes ma'am! We are in Canton, Ohio. There were Norway maple trees and I'm sure they also grow in Indiana.
@@zaccheus aaaahhh, thanks for that info. Helpful.
@@barbaratheillustrator02484 You're welcome! Thanks for watching 😁
Good morning z. As I sit here smocking a dress the bug has bit me again!
can't you tell me the name of that rope rig and the different parts you need to buy or some kind of Link or the name of it please please please please please please please.
When I get out of church by noon I hope I'm ready to order it
PS I'm even going to wear my bike helmet when I go in the tree😂
@deadmanswife3625 Haha, a bike helmet is better than nothing, but don't put too much confidence in it. A helmet is for protecting you from falling objects as much as it's for protecting you from bumping your head.
The ropes, harnesses, and devices I climb on are all really expensive I'm happy to link them in the video description, but I wpuodnt expect anyone to want to buy them unless they could make money with them.
There are some more cost-effective methods out there that are maybe a bit better for getting started with. I can make a video about that specifically if that would be helpful for you.
@@zaccheus 2 minutes before I zoom Church yes that would be so so so so so helpful to me. Yay
@deadmanswife3625 Alrighty! If the weather is good this afternoon, I'll film something and edit it as soon as I can.
Big crew
@Kaizen747 yeah, three on the ground is approaching luxury status 😅
This would have been a great candidate for span rigging with a tag line less people involved in the rigging, or even a controlled zipline
Those were definitely two possibilities. I heavily considered a controlled speedline but neither that nor span rigging wpukd have offered enough clearance over the roof for the trunk wood on the first tree. Transfer rigging offered that plus a little more control than span rigging so I chose to go with transfer. I do have a controlled speedline video coming up thats going to be pretty sweet.
My cat gave me a dirty look when you switched to the gas chainsaw 🤣
Hahah probably didn't like that sound 😂
Rigging the dream!
@@jeffschroeder9089 haha thanks man
Impressive
Hopefully you got paid well ! I wouldn’t leave that property till I had cash in hand ! If homeowner can’t repair a garage roof for a few bucks paying you guys a few grand for that very tricky and professional job ! Yes I would be dubious
@regstokes7171 Everything was taken care of. I think they were waiting until the tree was gone to repair the roof.
So did it take an act of Congress to get completed? Lots of 🤑💰
@aaronjackson5862 Haha I have no idea what it cost. We spent plenty of time on it, thats for sure. I'm just a contract climber and I don't ask about pricing. That's my clients business 😅
Really put that guy on top of the garage in danger a few times
I did or he did?
@ You Did. You’re in charge. Not only did he almost get knocked off the roof right away due to you not telling him to double up his line or be concerned with where he was positioned, he was then right underneath the swinging pass of another large limb again just after that (when multiple of your limbs made contact with the roof before and after). I mean you basically said in the video his contact with the branch and rigging choice was your fault. I don’t see how anything that happened/could have happened that day wasn’t on you… 👍
You’re not nearly old enough to be able to think of yourself as an expert in tree removal. There are many instances in your videos that show this with close calls. I’m also not saying you know nothing, obviously you do. But you should either switch to excavation only quickly or lose the bravado. I doubt UA-cam would ever see your accident video, but you would bear the consequences for the future.
@ Oof, that’s a pretty tough opinion man.
I don’t believe the climber should be the foreman on the job. The foreman’s job can be best done when he or she isn’t focused on climbing. Even more so, I don’t think a contract climber should be expected to be a foreman.
I also don’t believe the climber should be responsible for setting the correct number of wraps on the fraction device. I often help groundys with a suggestion when they request it, but they are ultimately responsible for that function if the crew. There are so many factors that go into how the rope runs on the bollard or the winch on a given day and a climber doesn’t have as much information to work with as the person holding the rope. I’m sure I don’t need to explain that to you.
You’re right, I have plenty to learn and you won’t find a single video on my channel in which I claim to be an expert. I’m fairly well educated in the matter and my biggest claim might be that I have a better understanding than most. As anyone in any trade should know, book smarts only take you so far and anyone claiming that they can no longer benefit from further experience is a fool.
All of this to say that I showed up to this job, met the crew for the first time and we knocked out a job with limited resources and limited ground experience. It could have been better. It could have been more text book, but nobody could have gone home any healthier than they did. I am thankful for that and I’m also thankful for the education that this job provided and that I was able to share that with the world. Also thankful for your comments and thoughts on the matter.
I would like to see what it looks like from the ground
Thanks for that feedback
Is that a Norway Maple?
@@davidfoster9073 yes!
I can't get a great look at the leaves. Is that a red maple? Elm? It's killing me lol
Norway maple?
@@devinbarcelona4437 It is norway maple!
@@zaccheus I asked too early. I saw that as the video went on and you got in the wood.
Very well said about the small rigs seeming silly! Wise notion good sir
Makes it look too easy !
Good rigging
@@emmetdonohue9545 thanks!
Why didn't you zip line the limbs out using the tree you where in and a tag line
@dharc6982 I considered doing that. It might have worked for the limbs, but it would not have worked for the wood.
😮 tinggi sekali teman 👍 , hati hati
Thank you! I do my best to be careful and follow the safety rules 😊