threading the needle

[Dean Lofthouse]

why isnt it this felling from 12ft acceptable???

 

so it would have pleased h&s more for 2 guys to be in a mewp all day, reaching out of a mewp, step cutting small sub 15kg pieces moving the basket to chuck into the dropzone, where more manual handeling would have had to take place.

 

 

Nowt wrong with high felling, comes in handy in the domestic enviroment

 

As for the mewp, why do you need two men

[Dean Lofthouse]

Would there be scope in a nptc felling a tree from a mewp course, or is felling a tree off the ground just a nono?

 

where is the difference in knocking the top out of a tree and felling a tree? and is there a height we shouldn't fell tops out from say between 0 and 20ft?

 

Felling trees at height is no problem except when they have a structural fault or a lean

[timtree81]

thats blower must be the turbo one

[treemeup]

sorry, couldn't resist.

love that woodland work dean! doesn't come along often enough where i am now. There is definitely room for some sort of schooling in these methods though surely? ok maybe they need to be backed up with some more detail than dadio gives but wouldn't it help, rather than just the crazed teachings on site while fueling up the saws? and obviously some experience to boot!

[treemeup]

Felling trees at height is no problem except when they have a structural fault or a lean

 

this is what i thought. was starting to wonder how i still have my tickets...

[old snake]

I wonder what these guys would say if someone said "you cant knok big tops out anymore":001_tongue:[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGVAgXx6Oo]YouTube - Tree felling with Helmet Camera[/ame]

[John Shutler]

I wonder what these guys would say if someone said "you cant knok big tops out anymore":001_tongue:

 

gets me every time that vid

[josharb87]

Nowt wrong with high felling, comes in handy in the domestic enviroment

 

As for the mewp, why do you need two men

 

i dont know, i would have thought that to move the basket over the dropzone whilst holding onto the branch might be easier with 2 sets of hands-one moving one cutting and holding, im sure hse would prefer this method?

i guess i must be old skool, climbing and all that

 

 

 

dadio hasnt implied that this is the best way to do it, or worded anything to imply he is teaching, just videoed a straight foward job that he, an experienced tree worker, has completed. then explained in detail how he done the job.

 

there are plenty more videos and pictures on this site doing work far more complex than this video, which no-one needlesly picks appart or says it shouldnt be posted because some newbie might think its the only way to do things

[Dean Lofthouse]

 

 

 

dadio hasnt implied that this is the best way to do it, or worded anything to imply he is teaching, just videoed a straight foward job that he, an experienced tree worker, has completed. then explained in detail how he done the job.

 

 

I'm not reffering to this video

 

Nowt wrong with it apart from it was a 1 out of 10 stunt fell

[josharb87]

I wonder what these guys would say if someone said "you cant knok big tops out anymore":001_tongue:

 

they now need an appropiate sized mewp and take the tree down in handable pieces

 

yeah right!