All of these are R2’s own jobs, taken by Robert and the crew.
R2’s tracked spider lift and a telehandler working on a tall fir beside a cabin in CalistogaR2’s tracked spider lift beside a cabin in Calistoga while a telehandler lowers a section of a big firTwo R2 crew in the lift basket cutting the top of a fir trunk, with the valley behindA limbed fir trunk standing right against a cabin deck, with a crew member at the baseThe deck after the fir came out: table and benches around the round opening where the tree stoodCross-section of the cut fir showing the internal crack found in the assessmentTall firs and redwoods against a blue skyTwo R2 crew in hard hats cutting the face notch in a large trunkR2 sawyer making the back cut on a big tree with a long-bar sawA felled log on a hillside with the chainsaw resting on the stumpR2’s spider lift set up on a lawn under oaks, hills and vineyard behindA big tree fallen onto a house after a winter snow stormR2’s sawmill with fresh milled lumber, a skid steer and an excavator in the yardA small shed built from milled lumber, lit up at nightA stack of boards milled from removed treesA blower truck piling wood mulch at sunsetR2’s excavator clearing a burned lot and setting a rock borderA forest lot cleared down to bare ground, the trees left standingLogs laid into an old swimming pool for a hugelkultur project, later topped with chips and compostSpider lift reaching into tall pines beside a houseSpider lift basket up in an oak canopy for trimmingTwo R2 crew members spreading gravel on a cleared pathAn R2 crew member cutting back dry grass on a hillside fire clearing job, cones set out under the oaksDry grass and low branches on a hillside fire clearing jobBig pine logs cut into rounds and a pile of green slash beside a driveway, ready to haulFresh-cut pine rounds and long logs on the ground in a wooded lotA long felled pine log lying on a brushy hillside next to cut brushA county defensible space clearing job: ladder fuels trimmed and ground cover fuel reduced under the pinesA pile of dead branches and old wood in a yard beside a fenced enclosureA long pile of cut brush and limbs along a gravel road, with R2’s machine behind itCut pine logs lying among the trees below a house, a log tong on the nearest oneA big pine broken through the deck and front of a cabin after a stormA pine trunk smashed through the wall and window of a house, a blue tarp behind itA long pine trunk lying across the cab and bed of a white pickup truckA fallen pine across a crushed deck railing beside a houseJon constructing cribbing to support the trunk of the oak while we remove the canopy from the rooftopR2’s excavator lifting a fallen tree off a roof, with the cut rounds stacked belowR2 working after dark under a light tower, the excavator beside a house with a tree on the roofA house with its roof tarped and the yard cleared after a storm tree came off itA big oak limb lying across a porch roof and railingR2 crew member Mike finishes a cut and the excavator helps lift it up and outAn R2 crew member on a roof cutting a fallen tree into piecesAn R2 crew member sawing through a trunk held by the machine beside a houseR2’s excavator lifting a pine log off a crushed shedTwo R2 crew in hard hats cutting the face notch in a large trunk among burned manzanitaFresh wood chips pouring off the conveyor onto a growing pile beside the roadR2’s excavator loading brush into the grinder, a yard of slash and logs behindR2’s excavator-mounted stump planer shaving a stump down beside a cabinThe stump planer shaving a stump down under a treeThe stump planer attachment working into an old stumpA stump taken out and left as a pile of shavingsRobert Thomas in his climbing gear at the top of a pine he is taking downRobert climbing a tall limbed pine trunk with a sawA broken tree lying across the roof of a white house after a snow stormR2’s spider lift raised into tall trees over a small A-frame cabinR2’s spider lift boom reaching up beside a two-story house into a pineView from the lift basket down onto a cut trunk section on the groundA lot between cabins cleared down to bare groundA cleared yard in front of a green cabin with a new gravel pathR2’s excavator grading a cleared lot beside a house, mountains behindA graded lot finished with a curved rock borderA cleared and graded lot with large boulders set in the middleR2’s orange excavator at first lightA square beam on R2’s sawmill after millingThe frame of a small building going up in fresh milled lumber
