DIY GRCS

[mtt.tr]

4 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Did I tell you guys about the time I took down a 600 foot redwood in the grounds of the Pentagon using only my Echo 2511?

I had F16’s air dropping fuel and oil.

 

It was an intense 2 hours, but I got it down safely, mainly self rigged.

18’ diameter at the stump.

 

No pics, unfortunately.

 

 

Mate I topped a redwood with toe nail clippers, I swam to the job across the Atlantic ocean in my harness and spikes. 

[Mark Bolam]

43 minutes ago, peds said:

No, but go on, sounds bloody interesting. 

 

Sorry mate, I’m not really allowed to say any more.

National security etc.

 

I did receive a very nice letter of personal thanks from Abraham Lincoln, though.

He was on holiday in Dubai at the time, with Winston Churchill.

[Botty Cough]

I'm just trying to picture swimming in spikes and a harness.....

 

Would this be naked other than these items....🤣🤣🤣

[Mark Bolam]

Don’t be so ridiculous.

That would be dangerous.

[Dan Maynard]

2 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Don’t be so ridiculous.

That would be dangerous.

For a minute there I was worried you'd post a picture.....

[Botty Cough]

58 minutes ago, Dan Maynard said:

For a minute there I was worried you'd post a picture.....

He most likely got plenty of pictures with content like that in...

[mtt.tr]

Another decent grcs job, another firm that didn't believe in the system, tops came out as lumps ready to sned and run into the chipper. 

 

Shed in one direction, river in the other. 

 

 

 

 

 

nice job, frustratingly I lost my snatch block so I had chog down until I could fell it. 

[Mark Bolam]

Handy goalkeeper beside the river there mate!

[AHPP]

11 hours ago, mtt.tr said:

Eucy take down,

 

Awkward drop zone, the lower branches were over 30ft long hanging over sheds and green houses. These i rigged flat 

 

 

 

 

Swung a big top as it's position was unbelievably awakard

 

 

 

Then it was was back to porta-wrap and logs 

 

 

Had a conifer to remove which we pulled up and off the sheds in lumps, saved bundles of hard work 

 

 

 

 

 

All in all it went damn well 

 

 

 

 

 

Eucs and leylandii are like peas and carrots. I did a lovely can-you-just in Birmingham where the client wondered whether we'd have time to also remove ten or twelve, 8-16" DBH conifers in a line. Considering I had just made the last brash cut on a neighbouring eucalyptus with a perfect craning point, we said yes and Hobbsed them all the way to the bank. 

 

Did my first proper job with my proper GRCS the otber day. Lovely thing. It'll have to be a rough, rough job for

me to get the Hobbs out now. 

[mtt.tr]

3 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

Handy goalkeeper beside the river there mate!

 

100% always think ahead and all that.