Beech take down 2010

[Rupe]

Mine was 70m and I ordered a new 60m by mistake! The company I was workign for paid for it but kept the other two bits of rope in approx. 40 and 20 m lengths. WOuld have been handy for smaller stuff.

 

70m is only ever really necessary if rigging from a different tree a way away.

[Doug Blease]

I could tie my shoe laces with mine now.

 

Sorry, derailed your thread. Rope geek time! Thanks for the videos mate, they are really good.

[atree]

Nice work rupe.

 

How long has the job taken you so far?How long have you got left?

[Rupe]

Well. we are a bit overtime already. We lost 2 days last week to weather but I can't count those, they get counted on the days lost per year and every job has to make up for them not just this one, but we did work 3 days last week on it and today so that makes 4 so far. We made good progress today, I'll put some pics/video up soon. All chipping is done and just trunk left, and all wood thats down is gone.

 

We are not back to it until thursday as I have other things that I need to get done, so overall this is dragging on a bit now, but six days total is what I estimated so we could be ok, and if not then the firewood I get will make up for it, but not till next year!

 

I'm doing approx 4 hours climbing a day, the rest is transporting woodchip etc. It takes an hour to unload woodchips, then I get back and fill up with wood which takes 2hrs to unload (different location) we are also selling quite a bit locally as unseasoned wood which is good.

 

Seeing as there is not much work on I can't afford to bring in extra people and vehicles so I'm just ticking along myself. Its surprising what you can do with one truck!

[Stephen Blair]

nice one rupe, hows the truck doing? happy with it?

[Rupe]

All good mate. Takes 2 ton of logs and a ton and a half on a trailer no worries!

[Rupe]

So this is where we were last thurday!

 

[Rupe]

Then this is 2pm today ( we missed out friday, rained all day)!!!!

[Stephen Blair]

well done, looking good, when others see a big stump they have no idea the work involved in removing such a big tree.

[Rupe]

Spent the rest of the day driving chips/logs all round the county.

 

Got some video today but had battery problem with the head cam! I forgot to get some more lithiums so had to use energiser standard ones, got 3 shots, about 15 minutes!!

 

Anyway my digital camera has video mode so we used that a bit. Will edit something together, I'm sure. Its a shame cos we did a lot of lifting today getting the heavy branches off. I'll post some pics for now.