Pine Hell

[bjam1964]

Only a fellow experienced tree surgeon could fully understand the difficulty and brilliance of your work. Just loving that head-cam field of view - are there any out-takes?

[Ian C]

Well done mate, good job. Why did they come down? they looked health enough or was it that the owners just wanted rid?

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[grumpydavesmith]

Awesome video!! Where you get the cam?? I want one!!!

[Treewarrior]

:thumbup1:Great Vid. Must have cost some with the crane.

[RC0]

Cutting with with total conviction Gibbon, sign of a good treeman.

 

You used the crane for only part of the job, how come?

 

Nice work and video

[gibbon]

Thanks for the positive comments. To try to answer the questions-

 

It was just one tree. I had inspected the tree earlier in the year. Sparse crown, heterobasidion at the base, pine shoot moth and red band needle blight too. Wasn't dangerous but certainly declining.

 

The whole job was a nightmare. My mates yard is just up the road, he was taking the chip and moving the timber. His father inlaw dropped dead and the weekend so he couldn't help. The job was underpriced from the start and the highways agency limited us to not put any traffic control up till 9.30 and be off the road for 3 as its a primary route. We only had 2 days.

 

Didn't have the room to crane down the brash into a single carriageway. 2nd day the crane turned up with an agency driver who just lost it. Couldn't set the crane up as planned. Had to call my mate out who rigged up the crane on shortest possible rigg for that crane at 5m. This meant we had to rig down the stems another 4m so he could pick them

 

Didn't get the boom up till 1.15 but managed to get the whole thing dusted and road open again by 2.50, not sure how though. All in all very stressfull.

 

There was a few pieces of brash getting stuck because I was rushing so much. I must admit I felt a bit rusty at the start which made me nervous, but alls well that ends well.

[alex_m]

Very impressive! Nice tune aswell

[David Humphries]

Nice piece of work Matt.

 

With hindsight, (and more control of the job) what would you have liked to have done diferently within restrictions imposed?

 

 

 

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