Beech take down 2010

[Stephen Blair]

did that lump with the branch get hung up on a lower limb?around 2min 30 sec

Edited January 24, 2010 by Stephen Blair

[Rupe]

Nice one Rupe. I must admit, whe the first pics went up, I didnt think it looked that big and wondered how long it would take. But that is a fair sized tree and your doing a really good controlled job.

 

I love the bit at about 3.20 where you put your toe on the butt as it breaks away. Have you also had one of those kick you in the nuts as it breaks away?!?!

 

Just our of interest, whats the brand of lowering rope?

 

Sometimes the but wants to poke you in the guts!

 

Its a Yale double esterlon 13mm rope form HB's. Will switch to 16mm for the larger bits, hopefully tommorow.

[Mark Bolam]

That butt is looking bigger and bigger Rupe!

 

Looking forward to more already!

[Rupe]

did that lump with the branch get hung up on a lower limb?around 2min 30 sec

 

I had to go and look at the orginal footage to see.

 

Nearly!. Ther eare two pegs that I left by mistake and it heads towards them and would have got stuck. My groundie is too good though, and he held it and let it swing back away form them before lowering. The lowering point is away from the stem so it wanted to swing back away from those pegs.

 

Then after that is the one for the goofs video, then I had a word with myself and made a bit more effort!!

 

Not had much hang up this time, but whne it does the GRCS really comes into action. Of course preventign hang up in the first place is better.

[Stephen Blair]

ha ha, its human nature to try and get away with things rupe, i am terrible for it. I have an idea of how big the trunk is, its got the conker shape to it, you know the type with out the spikes, a bit like a pear. I hope you are keeping a note of the loads of chips and logs. My biggest beech had 30 plus high sided transits loads of logs, about 4 of chip(6 inch chipper) and about 4 loads of sawdust. It wasnt a 3rd of the hieght of yours but wider than a wide thing.

[Doug Blease]

I have the same lowering rope, albeit now in two bits after an anonymous groundsman made a boo boo. Great rope considering some of those are big bits.

[Rupe]

Sawdust will be a pain!! Beech always seems to produce little woodchip cos of all the gaps betweent branches but this one was as dense as beech hedge!! The guy that lives there had it crown lifted in 1952 and not a thing since! He actually crown lifted it himself with a wire saw on a wire! Top old geyser!

[Rupe]

I have the same lowering rope, albeit now in two bits after an anonymous groundsman made a boo boo. Great rope considering some of those are big bits.

 

my last one got cut in half just before christmas! I did a couple of days for another company and came away with a brand new rope!

[Stephen Blair]

the huge one i did was at the corner of 4 gardens on a replanted banking, the only time i ever had an 088 on a harness, 3hrs slicing and chucking a horrible limb, it was only about 10 feet off the deck aswell, it ran right up the boundary fences, i cutn chucked the whole tree, if only i knew about gcrs, saying that it was about 10 years ago. £3k though i got back then, most expensive tree i have ever done, 2 weeks it took me and 2 lads, we had to carry everything out for about 60 yds, PITA. middle of summer though, sun tan tastic lol

[Doug Blease]

Aaahh. I thought about trying the Liros equivalent because its much cheaper. But I must admit the yale is amazing. Cant afford to keep replacing every time someone cant look where he is snedding.

 

Mine was 50m. The cut was made at 23m.......RIP