Windfall trees

[slack ma girdle]

This be windblow

[Watercourse management]

This is my wind blow.

[TIMON]

@Stubby always leaves the brash, cos (according to him) God hates him anyway.

If only he knew!

[TIMON]

This came down right outside my front door 2 years ago. Glad it didn’t go the other way.
197 years old..

[spuddog0507]

If you want a proper game of pick up stix we cleared this in 2018 1.75 hectares of spruce windblown on some very wet ground and before any one says it, why didnt you get a harvester in, ground conditions just to wet ,

[spuddog0507]

5 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:

This be windblow

that is something like we get offered, just a massive tangled up big mess,

[sandspider]

13 hours ago, Watercourse management said:

This is my wind blow.

How're you going to deal with those? Winch out of the water then cut up?

 

(I have a couple of trees down in my stream that I need to deal with at some point).

[roys]

I ain’t a professional tree cutter, but my amateur approach would be to secure with a rope, cut it, then winch it in, that is what I did with a similar one last year that was over my pond in woods.

[Watercourse management]

Plan is at the moment is to attach a pulley block to the dipper arm of our 13 ton 360 and then use the hydraulic winch of the chipper to dismantle the crown and winch it across the river as we have limited access to the far bank, then strop the trunk cut it off and let the water flow bring it to the bank.

If we get this far without disaster we should be able to track it up stream to a meadow with a more stable bank where we can cut it up and get it out.

If we let anything float down stream it will lodge on a weir with not a lot of access.