General Tree pics

[Steve Bullman]

Must be bigger than it looks!

 

its a good 100ft mate........like i said, pic doesnt do it justice....plsu its leaning over the fence in the pic...not actually looked over the fence myself but i believe its a play area there.

[bob]

its a poplar son

 

have not come across that species is it southern thing

[Steve Bullman]

yep....and once its safely on the deck im gonna treat all the lads to a nice cold shandy

[Dean Lofthouse]

Is there two stems there Steve, hard to see from the photo but it looks like a dead stem in front.

 

We took a big pop down last year in my wood, was the same 100ft.

 

The pop was leaning away from the felling direction at an alraming rate, enough to start lifting the root ball out of the ground.

 

We decided to fell it just to see if a standard hinge would hold pulling it back upright and over the other way.

 

I anchored my landrover to a tree and put the winch about 80ft up, we positioned the landy around 40 degrees to one side of the felling direction and then put a hand winch in the same 40 degrees the othe side of the felling line.

 

The idea was to have some control should the hinge break. If it did, it would have gone across an access road and taken out three mature oaks.

 

The fell went like clockwork, it winched up like clockwork and taught me just what the hinge on a stringy wood like poplar can take.

 

Good to experiment every now and again.

 

Videoed the whole job, but on tape, if I can find out how to transfer i will post it.

 

Hope your dismantle goes well

[Steve Bullman]

sure it will....its pretty straight forward really....id be tempted to fell it with a matador.

 

and yes, the front stem split out last year sometime i believe

[High Scale]

Is there two stems there Steve, hard to see from the photo but it looks like a dead stem in front.

 

We took a big pop down last year in my wood, was the same 100ft.

 

The pop was leaning away from the felling direction at an alraming rate, enough to start lifting the root ball out of the ground.

 

We decided to fell it just to see if a standard hinge would hold pulling it back upright and over the other way.

 

I anchored my landrover to a tree and put the winch about 80ft up, we positioned the landy around 40 degrees to one side of the felling direction and then put a hand winch in the same 40 degrees the othe side of the felling line.

 

The idea was to have some control should the hinge break. If it did, it would have gone across an access road and taken out three mature oaks.

 

The fell went like clockwork, it winched up like clockwork and taught me just what the hinge on a stringy wood like poplar can take.

 

Good to experiment every now and again.

 

Videoed the whole job, but on tape, if I can find out how to transfer i will post it.

 

Hope your dismantle goes well

 

Hope you can post it, sounds good.

[Mr Ed]

sure it will....its pretty straight forward really....id be tempted to fell it with a matador.

 

and yes, the front stem split out last year sometime i believe

 

Get me and Peter in. I'd fell it....

[Dean Lofthouse]

Get me and Peter in. I'd fell it....

 

What, and waste half a days play in the canopy?

[bob]

get a mewp in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sorry

[Dean Lofthouse]

Good idea!!

 

What for filming steve in action. Be good that, filming level with the crown.