Beech fell

[Peter]

Little beech I felled the other day, 65-70' tall, 32" diameter at felling height, used a 25" bar. Significant backlean, over gardens/houses behind. No external signs of decay. Being felled as the building on the left is being demolished and rebuilt. Had a tracked chipper to pull, wedges as backup, set the pull rope by throwline.

 

 

 

 

[Peter]

 

 

[skyhuck]

Very nicely done!!!!

 

Nice big gob!!, always helps IMO!!

[David Humphries]

Couldn't the crane in pic two, have just reached over and lift & layed it down for ya?

 

In terms of the evident fluting there didn't seem to be huge ammounts of central decay.

tr seemed okish.

 

Nice picture set peter.

 

 

 

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[Peter]

I think it would have stood forever left to its own devices. The decay seemed walled off nicely, and it had put on huge amounts of stem thickening in the last few years, as you can probably see in the top of the last pic.

 

Are you saying the fluting is an indicator of central decay?

 

There was certainly no holding strength in the hinge where its discoloured, just sheared straight away.

 

Felling was more fun than crane on this occasion...

[Big 'Ammer]

Good stuff!

 

Some days lucks on your side and you just miss those nails! Looks like a close one on that stain on the bottom of the gob face.

[Peter]

I had a spare 660 standing by, you can just see it by the corner of the scout hut.

[18 stoner]

Very nicely done Peter, and a nice set of pics.

 

In hindsight, if you knew the extent of the central decay prior to cutting, would you have possibly cut a shallower gob? It appears from the pic of the stump, if the hinge was further forward it would have had much more holding wood and would have been wider too.

 

Just throwing my thoughts forward:biggrin:

[Mozza]

Nice job Pete

 

Like Huck says, Nice big gob

[Peter]

Very nicely done Peter, and a nice set of pics.

 

In hindsight, if you knew the extent of the central decay prior to cutting, would you have possibly cut a shallower gob? It appears from the pic of the stump, if the hinge was further forward it would have had much more holding wood and would have been wider too.

 

Just throwing my thoughts forward:biggrin:

 

Yes.

 

As it was, there was plenty of holding wood, I bored through the hinge, so I knew there wasnt much hold in the discoloured areas, and left the sound hinge wood thicker to compensate.