Tree Hugger gets last laugh .

[Eagleview]

Thank you charlz , i have been doing as you said and have had some pretty good results . I think i will ask the phone book people to help me with choosing the right photo and then get them to do the work .

Well , i now have a Tree Hugger Lugger .

Yesterday i bought a 2004 TGA M.A.N prime mover . It has a 460hp engine , Tiptronic auto trans with a retarder and full X axle diff locks . It has only got 540,000 kilometres(335,549 miles) on the clock , about a third of it's life before needing a rebuild . Now i have to find a low loader (lowboy) to go with it to cart the excavator around .

 

[Eagleview]

Tree Hugger gets a new tool of destruction . The Vertical Tree Extraction grab is great for pulling trees out , roots and all , and also for tearing trees apart . But ive decided that a tree shear will leave a neater stump for followup poisoning . So now i have to adapt this thing to the excavator . All i need now is a disc mulcher for shredding brush and a stick rake i can pickup with the grab for a quick tidy up of an area and then drop it off and resume pulling trees .

 

[rox]

You sure do like equipment don't you?

 

[Eagleview]

Never climbed out of the sandbox .

 

[groundcover]

And what a sandbox it is! Nice looking ride for the tree hugger you got there.

 

[groundcover]

Looks like you better get busy and get those trees before they get us!

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[Eagleview]

Well , i got the OVERSIZE sign on today , all i need to do now is rake up 75K for the trailer .

 

[alchemysa]

It's funny you should say that , i was just doodleing in Phototshop , trying to figure out how i could easily remove the backround so i could use it in my phone book add . I think i'll stick to driving it instead . Is there a program i can download to enable me to click on the machine to keep it and lose the rest ? I don't want to rub it out manually as it gets a little furry . I can't decide , which of the 2 photos would be best . Below is my current add but it's to hard to make the machine out . I would like to lift the image and apply it to a lighter background . I'll also add the scull and crossbones sign .

I used Photoshop professionally for about 15 years. Theres no '1 click' way to remove a background like that but its not hard anyway. Use the polygon lasso to chop off the major bits that have straight lines. Then use the magic wand to click onto other colors you want to remove like light blue. Under the 'select' menu theres a thing called 'similar' that will then pick and delete all the other bits of light blue. Then you can have a bit of a clean up with the eraser and the lasso. This took less than 10 minutes. Its rough but I'm out of practice and its low res. If its being reduced real small you don't really have to be that fussy. A big reduction hides lots of sins.

 

[Eagleview]

alchemysa , i'm sorry , ive just seen your post . That looks great , it would have taken me all day to do that . Thank you for your trouble . I think i would need to do a course if i wanted to be able to do that . Even the help links use terminology that i do'nt undertand so i don't know what most of the stuff is .

 

[alchemysa]

alchemysa , i'm sorry , ive just seen your post . That looks great , it would have taken me all day to do that . Thank you for your trouble . I think i would need to do a course if i wanted to be able to do that . Even the help links use terminology that i do'nt undertand so i don't know what most of the stuff is .

No worries. Happy to help.

 

[Eagleview]

I just could'nt live with the Red paint any longer , it looks twice the machine in Yellow . It's been quiet with the crook economy , i saved about $6,000 by painting it myself . So even though the machine did'nt work for 3 days while i did the job , the money i saved is as good as an income for that period .

 

[EddieWalker]

I liked the red paint, but yellow does seem to be more natural for dirt moving machines.

Eddie

 

[alchemysa]

Make up your mind!

 

[tlbuser]

Make up your mind!

nice

 

[tlbuser]

What are you guys using to poison the stumps that doesn't leach into the water?

 

[Eagleview]

Make up your mind!

Your a legend , i'm going to use that .

tlbuser , i use Access and Diesel . It is approved for that use , and being carried into the Cambium Layer by the Diesel , it seems to stay put unlike something water soluble that may run off in the rain .

 

[rox]

Make up your mind!

Alchemysa- That was cool how you changed the color of the machine in the photograph, real nice.

 

[Eagleview]

This is a combined effort . I used alchemysa's tree and boom and i used a Jonyang excavator from the factories website as i was not happy with the photo i took . I had grass in front of the tracks on my machine which would have been difficult to remove . The factory is now painting their excavators Yellow for the Australian market so it worked out great . It looks a little pale here but on paper it looks really good . Thanks again alchemysa .

 

[alchemysa]

The factory is now painting their excavators Yellow for the Australian market so it worked out great . .

Iron Horse. Are they are painting them yellow because they saw yours? Or did you paint yours yellow after hearing what the factory was doing?

 

[Eagleview]

I'm not sure when they started painting them Yellow , it might be like the story about the chicken and the egg .