General Tree pics

[Mr Ed]

Rod bracing would certainly prevent it getting worse, I would have installed 3 30mm stainless rods and cranked it tight. I would have pruned a few heavy lateral limbs to reduce weight as an alternative to stripping off 90% of the foliage area.

IMO the job spec was wrong, but Bruce was doing as he was told, so good for him for making the best of it.

[Tom D]

I was thinking the very same thing.

 

Although I'm not sure I'd have a big enough drill bit

 

I know what you mean , i think you can get extensions for those sds type ones but it'd be a real ball ache if they came appart half way through.

[Mr Ed]

I have an 8 ft long bit we use on a 3/4 drive air gun for that work

[Tom D]

I have an 8 ft long bit

 

I bet you say that to all the girls.

[Rowan the Bruce]

My boss just went and splashed out on a box of drill bits for his B&Q pro drill,thought £8 was expensive! So I think we are a long way off an 8 ft bit and an air gun.

However, I did talk to him about bracing after the tree was done and he mumbled something about cable bracing, would this be too invasive?

I gather that rod bracing would be the preferred option, its a course thart i'd like to go on but no training provider down here will run the course.

Things are done a bit differently down here, there are no big cities,no big tree companies, just lots of two to six(the biggest) man crews all trying to scrape a living, only the county council tree crew has a tractor and forwarder, no unimogs, no big trucks due to the Cornish lanes. Cornwall is way behind on lots of things,i.e. no AAAC in the whole county.

This doesn't mean to say that contractors here are less experienced or indeed educated (my boss passed the Pd theory).

By the way when I started to reduce the oak I took less off, and the man turned up and asked me to take off more, there was nothing on a sheet and just the words 40% reduction where uttered. Not very professional, but that's what I have to put up with. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in England though.

[tree monkey]

The wind clamed this one it was only split but the officials decided to rope it and pull with a tractor.I wanted to strap it so it didnt tear all the way down the trunk but wat do you think?

[bob]

at least they didnt say the M word

[David Humphries]

at least they didnt say the M word

 

What...... Mewp, Monolith or Mackerel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[bob]

the 4 letter M word which is usually proceeded with another swear word before it.

[treedave]

What...... Mewp, Monolith or Mackerel

 

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But you forgot mutilate, managed, meripilus, manageable pieces and oh no!......money:scared1: