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[Angus]

Hello friends,

I've cut together a very short edit of 1 of 3 trees we did last year, on a job in grants picnic ground.

(it was actually four if you include the pre-job tree).

 

Due to being a very busy tourist area, the job had to be done as quickly as possible, remain open and also have minimal interference with traffic.

 

The solution was to get to the job well before peak hour traffic, and pre-rig and cut all the major branches from a tower (180').

This meant that when the crane and chipper arrived, the crane only had to setup once, and there was no lost time in cutting branches.

The chipper backed straight up into the lowering section, and branches could be lowered with the crane straight to the chipper.

 

Since the heads were already cut and statically hanging, there was no need to stop traffic again.

 

As the larger wood starts to come down, chipper is moved and log truck is loaded with right next to crane.

 

Everybody was off the job by 3pm, thus missing the end of school peak and the next wave of tourist buses.

 

The dark start of the video is at about 5am, Graeme had another tree about 100m away that also needed to be done, and since the travel tower was all he needed to do it, he did that before he went and pre-rigged the other three trees.

 

the link directly to the video is this.

 

there is a page with different size, quality and format versions of the same video here.

 

Regards

Angus

[billythegoat]

Thank uou for sharing Angus

[Benji MacNab]

The solution was to pre-rig and cut all the major branches from a tower

 

Very difficult work made to look easy. Congratualtions to you and your team.

 

I dont follow why didn't you just lower the stems from the tree? Can you explain?

[Angus]

why didn't you just lower the stems from the tree?

 

If I've understood the question properly, the answer is there isn't enough time.

 

The process of lowering, returning rope, processing and cycling (each meaning a road closure) would take far too long given the volume of material that needed to be processed.

Each time a limb was cut, the road needed to be closed.

The mere task of lowering the branches let alone handling it once it got to ground would've been a nightmare. The crane lowered them because it can lay them in the right direction to be fed into the chipper.

 

Also, if the branches did tangle themselves it becomes extremely difficult to free them, given the weight. There is a lot of people and equipment doing nothing if no branches are coming down. The crane simply lifts them in the direction they want to leave the tree.

 

Hope that answers what you meant.

Thanks

Angus

[bob]

spot on work there boys it is a pleasure when all things go to plan

[MasterBlaster]

If I've understood the question properly, the answer is there isn't enough time.

 

The process of lowering, returning rope, processing and cycling (each meaning a road closure) would take far too long given the volume of material that needed to be processed.

Each time a limb was cut, the road needed to be closed.

The mere task of lowering the branches let alone handling it once it got to ground would've been a nightmare. The crane lowered them because it can lay them in the right direction to be fed into the chipper.

 

Also, if the branches did tangle themselves it becomes extremely difficult to free them, given the weight. There is a lot of people and equipment doing nothing if no branches are coming down. The crane simply lifts them in the direction they want to leave the tree.

 

Hope that answers what you meant.

Thanks

Angus

 

 

Yep, that's the answer!

[Pete Mctree]

Nice smooth operation. Thanks for sharing

[Benji MacNab]

If I've understood the question properly, the answer is there isn't enough time.

 

The process of lowering, returning rope, processing and cycling (each meaning a road closure) would take far too long given the volume of material that needed to be processed.

Each time a limb was cut, the road needed to be closed.

The mere task of lowering the branches let alone handling it once it got to ground would've been a nightmare. The crane lowered them because it can lay them in the right direction to be fed into the chipper.

 

Also, if the branches did tangle themselves it becomes extremely difficult to free them, given the weight. There is a lot of people and equipment doing nothing if no branches are coming down. The crane simply lifts them in the direction they want to leave the tree.

 

Hope that answers what you meant.

Thanks

Angus

 

Thanks, I understand now, didn't realise there was an issue with cycles.

[RC0]

:cussing:Dam those Australians.....they're good at everything!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great work:icon14:

[David Humphries]

Hats off to you boys.

That is top Tree Managment.

 

Huck, i dare you to say there's no place for MEWPS in Tree Town.

 

Right choice and use of equipment for that piece of Art Work.

 

Inspirational stuff Sherbrooke :congrats: