A crane pick

[Ledburyjosh]

A dead fir being removed 

 

Edited 22 hours ago by Ledburyjosh

[AHPP]

I’ll ask the obvious question then. Why not just chunk it down? 

[Ledburyjosh]

The head on it was crispy, and over the fence and Llama pen below. So dropping branches was a limited option without rigging, which was also limited my 60m rig line, the rigging point would have been about 32m up.

The stem and whole Tree was also weighted quite a bit towards where the wagon is sat. So free falling logs would have also been a pain to get them going without tag lines. As well as needing to put a gob in from both sides on the lower half with a 661, which is hard.

 

We also looked at a straight fell, but to consequential should the slightest thing had gone wrong. Primarily an unknown hing quality, it Autumn the lower 1m of the stem was a Honey fungus garden on all sides.

 

So the short answer, a crane had it done by 1330 with no damage or stress and way less fatigue.