Storm Damage

[Tom D]

This was worse than I thought, once we cut through the ivy we found the stem was much bigger than i remember, a lot of soil from the rootplate had landed on the stem, burying the first 6' or so. The rootplate must have weighed 5 ton and was too much for my wee tractor even with the winch tripled. we're going to attempt that today. The vid doesn't really show how steep the bank is, its hands and knees for most of it.

 

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[Ian C]

Nice one Tom, always amased the jobs you lads get up there, down here they would of just left that, very few would of payed good money to get that out. Big old girl aswell. Love that tractor tom.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Good interesting stuff Tom.

 

Would be much better if you could stand infront of the camera like a news reporter giving a commentary rather than editing it on

 

Trevor MacDonald live in the borders!!

[Tom D]

just home for lunch, I love working near home:thumbup:

It wasn't edited on, its the mic on the pov which is inside my clothes, meaning I sound muffled. The reason for the job was a previous flood did £300 000 worth of damage, it was caused by water backing up from a fallen tree.

[Mozza]

Like Ian said, i do love that tractor

 

Looked like a bit of a ball ache but a good job to be on at the same time, Good stuff

[Stephen Blair]

nice one tom,

[Tom D]

a few pics from today, we had to winch the root plate about 200 yds downstream before we could get it out.

[Tom D]

The last clip, this was the root ball being winched down the river, I have plenty of wire on the winch so it wasn't too bad getting it 150yds+ down stream. We used re-directs to keep it in the centre, bt the time I pulled it out it had lost a couple ton of stones and mud, it came out pretty clean.

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[Stephen Blair]

i thought the root looked pretty clean, good job, i bet that was a lot of scrambling about