big chestnuts and perfect day

[josharb87]

first bigish job of the year, kicks off with a bacon and egg bagguette to die for and cuppa tea from a roadside van

get to job in grounds of ely cathedral by half 8ish, crisp winters morning, 2 nice big chestnuts i surveyed a while back, old pollards, big regrowth stems, clear underneath, spikety spike, crash bash, repeat . . a helmet cam would have been ace for felling the tops out

farmer/pub owner comes along, wants all the big wood comes back with teleporter and big grain trailer, pays us a bit of £££ another bloke turns up, pays us more £££ for smaller bits

nock the first ones brush off and down the tree at 10 am break time precisley, go get a huge breakfast bap and cuppa tea from cafe, finish docky, up the next one whilst lads are chipping the first still, spikety spike crash bash repeat done in half hour, cuppa tea, back up the first to get lump wood down, the cathedrals 6th form school dinner ladys take pity on us outside, ask if we want some hot food... silly woman OF COURSE!!! 3 course posh school meal and more tea

back to work and local paper turns up takes loads of pics, story of high profile trees in next weeks paper.

load the first ones cord straight into farmers trailer, fell the stem, more pics taken, pose a bit

load hiab up, go to farmers tip wood, new tip site always good

 

home check emails, won a tenner on lotto

 

some pics starting from initial inspection to felled first stem

 

3rd to last pic, stem still standing, the saw propped up against stem is a 660 with 30" bar for refrence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bact tommorow to fell remaining stem, shift wood and grind roots out. . . with another 3 course dinner with the 6th form girls, ho hum

[Hodge]

if only all jobs were like that!

[Andy Collins]

Beautiful place that josh, though I find the scenery better in the summer time:001_rolleyes:

[Doug Blease]

Great pictures! If you didnt eat so much you would have done it in a day.

[Mozza]

Green with envy mate :lol:

 

AWESOME day that Josh

[Stephen Blair]

well done mate:thumbup1:

[White Noise]

Beautiful location . Great job . If I were you I,d drag it out and get a third days grub and another cheeky look at the talent:biggrin:

[josharb87]

sawdust: i want youre landrover

 

andy: too right! the scenery 'reveals' its-self more in summer

 

doug: lol, but why cut a nice job short and miss out on food???

 

apbell:might just randomly turn up one lunch time saying we're working in the grounds somewhere!

[MattyF]

jammy git! going out in weather like that mate you need a few perks though!

[Mozza]

sawdust: i want youre landrover

 

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Dont we all mate, Its sweeeeeeeeeeet as!! :thumbup1: