Another Bartlett’s Stunt Fell…

[doobin]

1 hour ago, Haironyourchest said:

 

Guessing he's down on truck pulls from watching YouTube fails but not having direct experience. Like everything, there's a right and wrong way to pull a tree with a truck. When it goes wrong, it sometimes goes so badly wrong it ends up on YouTube and adds to the myth.

 

Not too many tracked chipper/tirfor tree pull fails around, because the people who bother to aquire these devices already kind of know what they're doing, regarding trees, for the most part... But trucks ? Every head-the-ball owns one, and uses it inappropriately.

 

Good spot.

[Mick Dempsey]

130+ hp delivered through 4 tyres on tarmac, ideally with a tonne of chip on the back.

 

Obviously don’t put a 17 year old behind the wheel and have a line of communication between the faller and the driver.

 

Beats dismantling a tree for hours every day of the week.

Edited March 3, 2023 by Mick Dempsey

[Mark Bolam]

We’ve pulled plenty with the Tranny, but there’s plenty we haven’t as well.

 

The Kenny Rogers analogy is a good one.

[Ty Korrigan]

On 01/03/2023 at 20:44, Mick Dempsey said:

In fairness, this is not Bartletts. Maybe it’s time to let that drop in this thread.

 

To 'Do a Barletts' has entered the arboriculture lexicon and has become a generic phrase for any misfelled tree.

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

14 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

 

To 'Do a Barletts' has entered the arboriculture lexicon and has become a generic phrase for any misfelled tree.

 

 

Has it? Any examples of this generic phrase to show us on here?

[maybelateron]

I wonder how many people forget to account for the loss of traction that can occur, depending on the angle of the rope, and slope of the ground, and whether the driven axle is at the anchor end of the vehicle, or the other end. For example: Unladen rwd 3.5T pickup trying to pull a big tree with short rope attached high in tree, and truck is driving uphill forwards - not going to be easy as the rope will reduce the pressure the drive axle tyres apply to the ground. Same vehicle, same tree and rope position, unladen, but reversing to pull gives more traction.

[Mick Dempsey]

5 minutes ago, maybelateron said:

I wonder how many people forget to account for the loss of traction that can occur, depending on the angle of the rope, and slope of the ground, and whether the driven axle is at the anchor end of the vehicle, or the other end. For example: Unladen rwd 3.5T pickup trying to pull a big tree with short rope attached high in tree, and truck is driving uphill forwards - not going to be easy as the rope will reduce the pressure the drive axle tyres apply to the ground. Same vehicle, same tree and rope position, unladen, but reversing to pull gives more traction.

Very good points, the towbar provides the safest pulling point on all 3.5 tonners though doesn’t it?

[doobin]

11 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Very good points, the towbar provides the safest pulling point on all 3.5 tonners though doesn’t it?

There's usually a towing eye point at the front which will be just as good.

[waterbuoy]

That was my thinking, esp on larger vehicles

[maybelateron]

10 minutes ago, doobin said:

There's usually a towing eye point at the front which will be just as good.

I have a steel bumper (insurance company informed!) on the front of my Disco 2 with two towing eyes, proves very useful.