Umm-yea -he deddddd !

[Khriss]

Well, friday was a lovely day, just a huge, very dead willow on a footpath, totally decayed, probly 70-80% t/r no-where for it do go-cept in thart field -boy! Are we gonna climb and rig it down? Ummmm -that will be a 'no!' Heavily leaning, bat check was done, put sink cut in, only 3-4" of sapwood left -tree started cracking at that point. Poked side cuts in to stop barbers chair snap out-then 'Alll clear !- Achtung ! ' Barely got the back cut in-as it tore away an crashed just where I intended it to go ! ( smug )

 

Kx

Edited April 27, 2010 by Khriss

[Khriss]

Then as Paul the Pointer ( dog ) was very sweaty after all his labours of sharpening saws, making tea an cooking beans, Mike and I found him a place to cool off an wash the beans staines off him ( no one asked if me bum needed similair care )

 

Kx

 

( Ah-no -it did not )

[Khriss]

And a lil closer -showing extent of decay, no fruiting bodies, a soft-rot, pulpy fibrous cellulose remnants, could have fruit bodies inside-but nothing indicating a vector, no bark or trunk damage, no pruning wounds , root plate in wet soil but had grown like that for cir 70 yrs ? Odd

 

Kx

[The One-Armed Horseman]

Khrisss is a legend, he gave me no time to sharpen the 46 and stormed on with the mincy 357 (16" bar). It was a wonder to behold. Good placment too. I wonder what the dinosaurs thought?

 

p.s. camera phones are rubbish.

[Khriss]

Will use an MS200 next time s'all you'd have needed - ( Trembles ) nothing holding the thing up,

 

Kx

[Stephen Blair]

what a horrible big tree, nice fell

[Paul Smith]

You get all the good jobs Khriss, I went to Basvagas!

[BigMcD]

Surely it's not all bad Deer Man......I'm sure this was you last Monday!

[Khriss]

Yea -was ! We flung his flask up there on the big-shot -heheeee ! -lol, k

[Khriss]

Thankyou fr you kind comments -all. Actually, of all the big trees ( over 3x bar length) this was the most dodgy Ive done, it was in imminent danger ( in tree timescale terms) of collapsing -big tension failure cracks all around the back of the butt - ( small panic-farts escape at this point !) K