Few pics from today... putting the new stein lowering device to the test.....

[Xerxses]

-16C and sunny, lovely day for it!

Did one yesterday as a warm up...

this one is a tad bigger and overhanging lamppost, hedge and two other trees. Stripped the two sides from most of the branches but saved one as a "crane" where everything overhanging was swung from and lowered on a heap for the lorry to pick up.

Pretty full day and groundworkers didnt have much time to take pics.

Descided to fell the remaining tree as the ground was frosen and it did fit!!!

[Mark Bolam]

Nice.

 

What gloves do you wear mate?

[Xerxses]

Nice.

 

What gloves do you wear mate?

 

Gloves:confused1:

 

 

I thought gloves are for girls?!?

[Xerxses]

I usually wear these;

 

 

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[slack ma girdle]

I like the first of the felling pics, with the snow being left in mid air, and the slightly blurred branch tips.

I can not believe that it is -16c with you, it was 10c here today.

[Tom2020]

£106 A pair look good tho

 

Nice work as well Like the last set of pics

[Tommy_B]

Big tree. Looked at it and thought, Not that big, then saw the one with you in it and thought again!! haha!! Nice work mate.

[Matt Butler]

nice pics xerxes, looks like a fun job.

 

how come you didn't fell it in one, looked like there migh be enough room in the first pic?

[Xerxses]

£106 A pair look good tho

 

Nice work as well Like the last set of pics

 

Lol! Thats a pack of 12!

They aint cheap but not that dear!!!! Last a longwhile though, goat skin and polyesterlining, warm and comfy...

[Xerxses]

I like the first of the felling pics, with the snow being left in mid air, and the slightly blurred branch tips.

I can not believe that it is -16c with you, it was 10c here today.

 

Its -23C now...(Just had a look) mind you we had -6 yesterday morning thats why I did the 2 poplars now. I needed the tree to be able to "bend" as I needed a few branches to twist and go sideways to make them fit and/or swing...

 

The cold weather came in during the day and we could really feel the cold coming... we had to hurry and finish the bits where we needed the wood to be still soft. Poplar just snaps when its really cold, eventhough it takes a couple of hours before the wood changes temperature.

 

The snow is actually frost building up as the temperature dropped, my rope got all frosty... nice looking, but hands turn wet and cold when your sliding your knot on the rope and melts the frost.