110ft redwood

[Big J]

Surely this is reason enough to purchase the £65,000 Unimog?

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/large-equipment/19394-very-usefull-mog-even-if-65k.html

 

110ft mewp on the back and I guarantee the only way you could make the job any cooler is if you had Dolph Lundgren and Arnold Schwarzenegger as groundies.

 

Think about it

[Lorry thompson]

What about that lass off transformers driving the mog

[skyhuck]

My reasoning behind a mewp was i was told it would be quicker by some retired tree surgeon.

 

Retired?? or sacked???

[rbtree]

 

FWIW, here's a slideshow of a recent sequoia removal we did. It was 10.5 feet at ground level, 8' dbh at breast height, 158 feet tall.....weighed about 110,000 lb, produced 2 log truck loads, about 12,000 board feet, bark included, and 70 yards of chips. Took 2 full days, plus portions of two others. 90 ton crane bill was about $4300. I gave them a deal at $6500 labor, a couple grand low. Largest tree dto be cut in this area in 13 years, residentially....I wonder if anything larger has been cut anywhere in the US, except in Redwood country.

Edited August 30, 2010 by rbtree

[Samuel]

10.5 foot giant sequoia removal

 

FWIW, here's a slideshow of a recent sequoia removal we did. It was 10.5 feet at ground level, 8' dbh at breast height, 158 feet tall.....weighed about 110,000 lb, produced 2 log truck loads, about 12,000 board feet, bark included, and 70 yards of chips. Took 2 full days, plus portions of two others. 90 ton crane bill was about $4300. I gave them a deal at $6500 labor, a couple grand low. Largest tree dto be cut in this area in 13 years, residentially....I wonder if anything larger has been cut anywhere in the US, except in Redwood country.

 

some great photos there

[Nick B]

That is a great set of photos well done on a good job

how long did it take just to clear up the sawdust

[Maxwell]

10.5 foot giant sequoia removal

 

fantastic photos! would love the chance to make some furniture with some of that.

[rbtree]

That is a great set of photos well done on a good job

how long did it take just to clear up the sawdust

 

Thanks, Nick...

 

Wasn't so much the sawdust as it was the huge quantity of bark that sloughed off easily, especially where it was disturbed by crane slings and the self loader's grapple.

[Jon Lad]

That is a great sequence of photos.

[MattyF]

Biggest welly i have felled was a dead one from a mewp,took a lot of time and effort from the job,timber is as light as any thing when dead but pretty brittle i would would go for a mewp personally though if you dont have room for a crane and it has to be done quick, big saws are a night mare on spikes but like using on the ground in a mewp cage....that said if it was my job i would probably want to climb it and crane it out in large sections if you could get a crane to manover in there!!??