Scaffolding - stem removal

[testcricket01]

I haven't seen that vid. But there are no other trees nearby to put the Hobbs on and because the roof of the aviary has been built around the stem, you couldn't put the Hobbs on the base of the sweet chestnut as the lowering rope wouldn't fit through the mesh roof of the aviary.

 

with no pics hard to picture the tree but just a idea this is the video the end is where he screws in metal eyes to lower the timber.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf5ixX-4N0s]YouTube - Ash tree removal part 3[/ame]

[Jon Lad]

Reg ended up chucking wafer thin discs on that Ash.

 

There's always a point when further lowering becomes impossible.

 

We blocked down the last 15' of a big Horse Chesnut once from a tower scaffold (cut everything into cubes of about a foot).

 

Time consuming, and man, the sawdust!

 

A scaffold co. would do it, but you might have some awkward working heights between lifts.

 

Good luck.

 

I haven't been asked to quote for it yet, so this is all academic. I just wanted some feedback on this as a method, as I suspect the tree may have to come down at some point. But it would be a difficult and time consuming job however it came down.

[Tree Man Tom]

Sounds like the perfect excuse for a helicopter take down

[skyhuck]

Rip the stem into 4 (by cutting a big cross down the center of the stem) then lower three of them off the fourth then slab that down.

Edited February 22, 2010 by skyhuck

[testcricket01]

Sounds like the perfect excuse for a helicopter take down

 

we was saying today how we should have got a helicopter in or a sky hook for this weeks job never mind on go the waders instead lol

[MattyF]

Go for it !!have only once done it on a very large beech that was in a extremly restricted,no mewp or crane could of touched the area,plus 2 big glass conservatorys under it, took 2 days to get the top out half a day getting to a point where it was ridiculus working of spikes with an 88 so had a tower put up, took about 2 hours then had the trunk down in the rest of the day,was great as we could have one guy sawing on the 88 and 46 and another chucking down the rings(cubes!)would of been a night mare otherwise

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

whats wrong with doing it the axemans way, making slits and inserting planks in a helical system, remove as you come down?

[Jon Lad]

whats wrong with doing it the axemans way, making slits and inserting planks in a helical system, remove as you come down?

 

Are you being serious?

[Stephen Blair]

i dont want to shoot down your scaffy idea, but if there is room to erect scaffold then there is plenty room to take down a trunk, you could turn a tree into sawdust if you were keen enough. Just get the biggest bar you can and cut at an angle and slice and slide it all down, or even rip it down in planks. Working off stuff like scaffold is very restrictive, you also have very little purchase when trying to shove bits off, and you would have to dodge around the metal work pita i reckon, good luck anyhoo

[Tree Man Tom]

Are you being serious?

 

Yhhhh, i suspect he is...