Heavy reduction

[spuddog0507]

12 minutes ago, EdwardC said:

As others have said, boring out the hinge through the gob can be used for a number of things; tree with a diameter more than twice the bar length, leaning trees, and I used it on cricket bat willows to prevent barber's chairing. With the willows and leaning trees I'd cut the gob out, bore the centre and then bore in parallel to the hinge on one side then cut back, but not all the way back. Then bore in on the other side parallel to the hinge and cut back, but not all the way back. This would leave the tree held by an uncut bit at the back which you just cut into and the tree goes over.

 

Back in the day I was clearing dead elm. I had a Husqvarna 2100 with a 36 inch bar. It wasn't unusual  to have to bore the trees due to their size. Felled a few beech that needed this technique as well with the Husqvarna.

yes got some big beech edge trees to fell in febuary and about 6 of them are 5ft+ diameter at the bottom,

[spuddog0507]

32 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Good craic/explanations fellas, but above it all well done Dog.

That’s a bloody big tree!

Sitka?

Thanks Mark and yes sitka but not that old really for size of tree, theres 2 more you can see in photo behind this one all simulare size and site was planted in 1957 by Bryant & May ? does that name ring any bells ?

 

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[Mark Bolam]

Cheers.

You can see by the rings she’s not very old. Incredible growth rate!

There’s some brutes at Kielder of a similar age, I’d guesstimate 120’+.

@MattyF would know better than me.

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, spuddog0507 said:

Thanks Mark and yes sitka but not that old really for size of tree, theres 2 more you can see in photo behind this one all simulare size and site was planted in 1957 by Bryant & May ? does that name ring any bells ?

 

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Was there some hybrid poplar on the site? First piecework job I had was pruning B&M poplar plantations to 8ft.

 

I have also felled large wolf sitka at the bottom of a wet valley adjacent the A3 at Hindhead, at 57 year old they were over 3m3.

 

6 years ago I posted a graphic of boring the hinge  and why you can get away with it,

 

 

 

In your case I see you also nicked out a bit of buttress at the side of the hinge to prevent tearing.

Edited October 31, 2018 by openspaceman
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[spuddog0507]

37 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Was there some hybrid poplar on the site? First piecework job I had was pruning B&M poplar plantations to 8ft.

 

I have also felled large wolf sitka at the bottom of a wet valley adjacent the A3 at Hindhead, at 57 year old they were over 3m3.

 

6 years ago I posted a graphic of boring the hinge  and why you can get away with it,

 

 

 

In your case I see you also nicked out a bit of buttress at the side of the hinge to prevent tearing.

no pop on this site all sitka DF and a few scotts pine all larch has gone but there is some fantastic big and i mean big mature oaks and beech big straight 3.5-4.5 diameter and approx 40-60ft poles been there for a couple of hundred years or more i would say,