hollow pine removal

[testcricket01]

working for ian flatters yesterday had this small but arkward decayed pine to dismantle

 

only had one fall shown at start of the video other than that abit of bum slideing and jobs a good'un

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEYPQPTn8ZE]YouTube - hollow pine dismantle[/ame]

[David Humphries]

Good set of shots & vid

 

Have to ask......why not just nip out the tip with poles & fell it?

 

Would of thought that would have been miles more efficient?

 

 

Tidy work all the same

 

 

 

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[Mark Bolam]

Nutter.

 

I wouldn't have rigged anything off that!

 

Bet you're glad they aren't all that shape James.

[mistahbenn]

WOW amazing.

[mistahbenn]

That is one leaner!

[Big 'Ammer]

Interesting job!

 

All down safely and tidily.

 

Seemed a bit of a rigmarole for something straightforward?

 

However, just to play Devil's advocate, how did you justify climbing it as part of the R/A ?

 

Surely it would have felled along the bank, maybe stick a retaining line in off a tree at the rear if it looked like it needed it?

[Ian Flatters]

Basically the client wanted it done with no risk of timber rolling towards the fence and road. So i agreed i would rig it all off.

[Ian Flatters]

Interesting job!

 

All down safely and tidily.

 

Seemed a bit of a rigmarole for something straightforward?

 

However' date=' just to play Devil's advocate, how did you justify climbing it as part of the R/A ? [/b']

 

Surely it would have felled along the bank, maybe stick a retaining line in off a tree at the rear if it looked like it needed it?

 

Well i told james to hold his breath as air is very light so if it failed he would float safely towards the ground like a hot air balloon:001_tongue:.

 

I based it on the report carried out by another consultant a year ago. But also checked for external cracks and weak decay unions that could pose a threat to the climber.

[testcricket01]

couple of my pics off my phone.

[David Humphries]

Ian/James,

 

do you know if there was there any reference on the tree report (if at all there was a report) of what had caused the heart rot?

 

My guess would be Phaeolus schweinitzii.

 

Possible that it may be Sparassis crispa though.

 

 

 

Understand if you're not at liberty to say

 

 

 

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