General Tree pics

[Jason James Gairn]

Thanks. I could fill another 200 pages with some of the shots I have. This one is good though. Pruning some huge Tipo trees in a prestigous garden in Argentina this summer.

 

I have been to BA a few times and they have some amazing trees in that City, never saw any work being done on them. What was your experience like? Were you outside of BA? How did you get work there? etc.

[gibbon]

Buenas Aires was a cool place. We were only there for a week 5 and a half days were working though so it was a brif visit. We were asked to do some work at a diplomatic residence and had a local firm doing the ground work.

 

Did you see the enourmous fig in the park where all the crafts are sold on Sundays? We paced the radius at 30m. Huge lateral branches propped up down the strees in into and outside Cafe. The women there are awesome, so beautiful.

[Jason James Gairn]

Buenas Aires was a cool place. We were only there for a week 5 and a half days were working though so it was a brif visit. We were asked to do some work at a diplomatic residence and had a local firm doing the ground work.

 

Did you see the enourmous fig in the park where all the crafts are sold on Sundays? We paced the radius at 30m. Huge lateral branches propped up down the strees in into and outside Cafe. The women there are awesome, so beautiful.

 

Yes saw that tree amazing. Pretty sure I've got picture somewhere.Yes the women are beutiful for sure. How did you get the work? I bet you were paid buttons.

[Jason James Gairn]

Not my pic (found on google) but this is the one I saw.

[High Scale]

Today's fell, Beech tree, I knew there was going to be trouble when the saw started to pinch immediately I started the face cut, the saw continued getting pinched in the cut, the same started to happen with the back cut and I realized the tree was in a very bad way within, no resistance completely rotten.

 

The tree let out some very loud bangs and we could see the holding buttress starting to crack and split, the 88 had barely cut one side when the tree sat on the tip and wouldn't let it go, the tree then let out an impressive crack and the buttress gave way, I have a short video of it the rear buttress literally explodes out of the ground.

 

In hindsight I think I wouldn't have bothered with the face cut and used a faster saw to cut through the back.

Edited December 18, 2008 by High Scale

[scotspine1]

Huge tree highscale, was it just Ganoderma? Did you have a pull rope or was it weighted in direction of fell? difficult to tell from pics.

[Paul Barton]

Ha ha - you look well chuffed with yourself Carl! No wonder - big fell mate!

[High Scale]

Yes Tim, two trees condemned last year, nothing was done until it's neighbor snapped like a carrot a while back, the tree I cut was very heavily weighted in the right direction.

 

Paul, I was smiling because I lived.

[Pete Mctree]

Nice Carl. Big tree and brown trousers in the same day

[Steve Bullman]

looks like it went early! must have been fun mate, well done