General Tree pics

[Andy Collins]

banging out holm oak, and a couple of pops across the road, BT eventually arrived and dropped the phone lines roadside, then it was go fighting the diminishing daylight as the drizzle came down. The BM came in handy for the rake up too:001_tongue:

[Mr Ed]

Nice! I love seeing 8 wheelers in timber. What was once the mainstay of the timber haulage industry is now marginalised by artics.

 

Nice Volvo. Shame its missing a HawkFawk on the front...

[josharb87]

banging out holm oak, and a couple of pops across the road, BT eventually arrived and dropped the phone lines roadside, then it was go fighting the diminishing daylight as the drizzle came down. The BM came in handy for the rake up too:001_tongue:

 

big kit

[Ross Smith]

mattyf,

 

nice job on the horse chestnut,how do u get a nice compact shape from them,do you use your own eye or the groundys?

its all in the eye and and experience but groundies can help if they are any gd.1 of the many things ive learnt thru contract climbing.gd judgement from the tree,saves you going back up but good groundies are a god send

[skyhuck]

Gob looks ok to me... Just to be different. I certainly would'nt put a big gob in straight away, if you look at the first pic with the hollow stem a bigger gob would have been into the crappy stuff and resulted in a much weaker hinge. I'd rather a smaller gob of solid timber than a big one of rotten / hollow stuff. You can always make a small one bigger but you cant put a big one back.

 

 

The fact that a tree is hollow is no reason, IME, for not using a big gob.

You just leave two THICKER hinges at each side, no problem, its just the same as the letter box cut.

 

The reason I would have used a large gob would have been to make it go over easier, as Ed has explained.

 

Its very simply about fulcrums, if you get a tin of beans and put it on a table and put a pencil 1/4 of the way under the tin, try pushing the tin so that the edge of the tin in front of the pencil touches the table.

Now move the pencil to the center of the tin and push the tin again, it will require much less effort.

[Peter]

Of course, if you make the gob too big, and there is weight against the direction of fell, the tree can just fall over backwards. Very embarrassing.

[skyhuck]

Of course, if you make the gob too big, and there is weight against the direction of fell, the tree can just fall over backwards. Very embarrassing.

 

Are you speaking from experience??

[David oakman]

Nice volvo bm andy who owns it ?

[Peter]

Are you speaking from experience??

 

Purely conjecture.

[Mesterh]

Just out of interest what do you fellas reckon a big gob is? 30%, 40% etc. Or are we talking over 50% only?