45° limbs

[Mark J]

[manco]

pull on your big boy pants, approach with a ladder and put said ladder into each stem as high as you can go, then use 2 loop slings girthed around the trunk as footholds/handholds, tied in as appropriate.

 

alternatively, cry off sick and never get back to them.

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

Just get ladder ,with  proper technique  it’s easy. For job like that I have 15 m monster rarely use it but when need it it’s priceless.

Edited January 17 by Sviatoslav Tulin

[Jerry Lynch]

It's been scientifically proven that spike marks above ladder height do not affect tree health.. 

BG Nobb (1989) "Aluminium ladders in tree work, a lawnmowers perspective" University of Dumbuggery Press

[woody paul]

9 hours ago, manco said:

pull on your big boy pants, approach with a ladder and put said ladder into each stem as high as you can go,

Then just cut it off with one cut, will make it easier next time. 

[maybelateron]

There is no shame in declining a job that you don't really want to do. I'm not saying that is the case here, but it is always an option.

 

 

[peds]

Choked slings around the stem for feet for sure, and if you don't want to teeter around on top of it, go underneath it. Takes some getting used to. 

[Mark Bolam]

Lapsed pollard heads aren’t much fun for sure.

Don’t be scared to price a MEWP in if you need one, you didn’t let the tree get in this state.

 

I did some crack willows for a mate a few years back over a fibre board roof of a commercial garage next door.

It was seriously risky stuff.

 

I told him to never let them get like that again.

One was so bad we had to fell it.

 

Guess what?

They’re even worse now.

 

He’s cost himself £500 extra for a MEWP next time he wants them done.

[AHPP]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

Lapsed pollard heads aren’t much fun for sure.

Don’t be scared to price a MEWP in if you need one, you didn’t let the tree get in this state.

 

I did some crack willows for a mate a few years back over a fibre board roof of a commercial garage next door.

It was seriously risky stuff.

 

I told him to never let them get like that again.

One was so bad we had to fell it.

 

Guess what?

They’re even worse now.

 

He’s cost himself £500 extra for a MEWP next time he wants them done.

 

I freelance climbed some poplars (spready, not lombardy) next to busy train tracks. Was meant to be removals. Turned into twiglets. Told the guy I was working for that twiglets was moronic, they'd grow back and bits would forever be falling off over the boundary and his client would be letting himself in for massive headaches with the railway people in future. Would have liked to convince his client of my logic but it's not for me to usurp my paymaster. Did them as low as possible for a fighting chance that they might be maintained from a ladder by a plucky gardener. Got paid, made a note in my phone to politely refuse future engagement and set the sat nav for home. 

Edited January 18 by AHPP

[Mark Bolam]

‘It’s future work isn’t it?’

 

This idiotic attitude can be witnessed all over the place.

Always specced by someone who isn’t the unlucky bastard who will have to climb them next time.