Nice fell with a bottle jack

[18 stoner]

Two plastic wedges and the back of an axe would been better. All that cutting to notch out the hole for the bottle jack. Rubbish

 

Or a high lift alloy wedge:thumbup1:

[18 stoner]

Was good to watch though all the same, but as we all know we couldnt use bottle jacks in this country as they are not fit for purpose:001_rolleyes:

[Jamie]

to my mind it's guys playing at being big redwood fellers.

 

Jamie

[santacruz]

I use bottle jacks regularly for edge trees. It will shift a tree a wedge wont even touch. It will send over trees so back weighted that when youve put your ally wedge in and finished the cut the wood above and below the wedge squashes and the tree sits back anyway. I always have one in the car for such ocasions. If you can wedge it if not jack it over.

[jojam]

I use bottle jacks regularly for edge trees. It will shift a tree a wedge wont even touch. It will send over trees so back weighted that when youve put your ally wedge in and finished the cut the wood above and below the wedge squashes and the tree sits back anyway. I always have one in the car for such ocasions. If you can wedge it if not jack it over.

 

so do we!Your right about the wedges being squashed into the stump,happens with the jack sometimes too.All that effort banging in wedges,you get the tree down,your knackered then you've got to do the same with the next tree!Still handy to have the hi-lifters in aswell to spread the load especially on a windy day like most this week!

[treebloke]

finally note there new HSE approved ultra-light helmets!

 

Couldn't see any gloves either.

[Mark Bolam]

That will be because they aren't compulsory any more.

[Gray git]

Stubby 20t jack made keeping this big beech from sitting down on the saw bar till it was cut up and winch could pull it over, much safer than trying to take in 1" of cable at a time. ALLWAYS BACK UP WITH WEDGES.

 

[Lorry thompson]

I like it and cant see the problem with it, wouldnt use it on every tree but can come in handy

[Xerxses]

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