Protecting patios etc

[Dbikeguy]

Ladder next to the trunk, cut thin rings and pass down, will be quicker and lighter than carrying all sorts of random stuff into and out of the garden.

[Stubby]

8 hours ago, Dbikeguy said:

Ladder next to the trunk, cut thin rings and pass down, will be quicker and lighter than carrying all sorts of random stuff into and out of the garden.

Then all the time gained will be lost when using the snow shovel and wheel barrow  clearing up the extra saw dust . Not to mention the extra fillups on the saw .

Edited June 23, 2020 by Stubby

[P.S.tree]

I used to deliver casks of beer in the noth west where we used heavy duty mats to drop 60 - 120kg cask down in to pub cellars, i always thought they would be perfect for this situation. 

[Steve Bullman]

I reckon a old thick and firm memory foam mattress would do the job

[Dan Maynard]

Then all the time gained will be lost when using the snow shovel and wheel barrow  clearing up the extra saw dust . Not to mention the extra fillups on the saw .

Once you've got a couple of barrows of sawdust and a few rings you've made yourself a mat anyway. Wouldn't be too bad.

[Dan Maynard]

Here's my stem question, this beech had the top taken off about 10 or 15 years ago, it's 40" at the base and 30" half way up where my ladder reaches. Overall I estimate 30ft high.

There are ganoderma brackets and a big hollow sound in the middle around some old wounds, I dug down to the roots and they were soft enough to cut into with a spade. It leans. I said to the customer that I wouldn't want it near my house.

So I'm not very confident to spike up the stem and rig slices off and frankly my rigging kit isn't big enough. MEWP and drop chunks 30ft to the ground? Verge so no-one cares.

Yes that is a power line through the adjacent Holm oak.