Nice removal job from a month ago.....

[rbtree]

The job was removing about 18 cottonwood, ranging from 42" dbh to 6", and 40 to 110 feet tall. First 1/2 were done while the playfield was frozen, which allowed us to get out truck/chipper right to the trees, and use a rented bobcat to move the wood to where the debris truck could load it.

 

2nd half was done while elem school was on XMAS break, which meant no traffic in parking area, so we could fell most of those trees too, save the one which we speedlined. Fun job, good profit, thanks to the timing!

 

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Edited February 12, 2010 by rbtree

[rbtree]

The last of a group of six, this 110 footer was about 40-42 inches on the butt, with a good six feet of back lean...with a house directly behind it. We used our spectra core rope, which has near zero stretch and is rated at 19,000 pounds tensile strength, at 9/16th size. We pulled with our dump truck loaded with 18 yards of chips, so had about 20,000 pounds of traction, and on grabby frozen turf

 

 

A delicate moment, for sure, but over it came!!

 

I'd estimate the tree to weigh 12 to 14000 pounds, and to have had perhaps 2000-3000 pounds of back weight that we had to counteract with the pull.

 

Edited February 12, 2010 by rbtree

[rbtree]

ragging the butts from across a ditch, onto the turf, where we could reach them with the bobcat...

 

For the anchor part of the 5-1 mechanical advantage that we used to yard the logs out of the wild area (ditch as well) we set the bobcat and pickup truck up in tandem, joined via a chain, and with chocked tires. The chip truck did the pulling. Worked like a charm!

 

success!

[rbtree]

Dave speedlining brush from the only tree that had to be climbed all the way to the top..to get it to where it could be chipped. While Jerry yards logs from off the slope.

 

 

Chipper winch was used to tension the speedline. Down lower in the tree, it was used to actually lift the branches up and zipping them out of the hole, by straightening the slacked speedline.

[Robert_S]

Brilliant set of pictures mate

[Tommy_B]

Very nice Roger!!

[Mark Bolam]

Spme timber down there RB.

 

Nice setup, nice work.

[Ross Smith]

very cool set of pics,some big wood coming out those trees.would like to of been on that job from start to finish.yankee styles.nice work

[rbtree]

Stand by for some video....and also from a single larger cottonwood removal that was part of a 73 tree job........ where the other 72 trees cost double what the biggie did.

[Mozza]

Great set of pics, Thanks for posting, I bet it was fun felling that one with the back lean, I do like those jobs, Nice shot of adrenaline when the back cuts going in