General Tree pics

[Stephen Blair]

It was mate but someone had tied some rope round the trunk many years ago and was becoming very dangerous. The cavity in the last pic was from ground level to about 20 foot up. Was a very nice climb though.

 

slippy slippy i bet, great smell off them:001_smile:

[old snake]

Wasn't too bad SWB,they do smell georgeous though. It was one of the nicest climbs ive done for a long time,sun was shining,no wind and was all done and dusted for dinner:001_smile:

[old snake]

Heres some more pics where the rope had been tied.

[Stephen Blair]

what a waste of a good tree, i did a smaller gum years ago that went the same way

[John Shutler]

these pics are from a very small job i did taking down a sninny woodland ash leaning over a power line, it was pretty sketchy and didnt really fancy climbing it, so i climbed the one next to it and traversed accross to knock the top out. i had to set 2 lines onto 2 other trees to stop it springing back after id taken the top out. at one point i dont mind admitting i didnt think i was going to be able to do it but i couldnt face my brother(my groundy) ripping the piss out of me for ever for chickening out. anyway the customer was stoked and ive got a load of work off the back of it:001_cool:

[Steve Bullman]

nicely done mate

[Stephen Blair]

its hard work setting up the 2 ropes and getting up there but great fun when you get into it, i did all my practicing in a missmanaged wood when i got started and most of the trees were about a foot wide and 70 feet high, tricky wee tree mate well done

[John Shutler]

its hard work setting up the 2 ropes and getting up there but great fun when you get into it, i did all my practicing in a missmanaged wood when i got started and most of the trees were about a foot wide and 70 feet high, tricky wee tree mate well done

 

hehe the ropes were the easy bit. couldnt wait to get back on the ground and hand the invoice over

[Pommie]

heres a method i use for tying a rope off when setting a pull line. its sometimes hard to isolate one limb to send up a running bowline, specially on pines for example. what i do is send up the throwline into the crown and out the other end....then i send my pull line up and tie the end off at the base of the tree aboved the felling cut

 

The Aussie guy s use this technique to fell palms

[Steve Bullman]

The Aussie guy s use this technique to fell palms

 

ahhhh that just goes to show they even read arbtalk in australia:001_tongue: