Big Beech Fell

[Brushcutter]

Hi

 

Big beech fell today 138ish DBH. No picture of the tree before. It had a limb out that back size of a medium tree. I recon there was a tonne in that alone.

 

Had a pull line out to the tractor as a back up, Had 2 holding wedges 2 high lifts and a 12 tonne bottle jack in the back to lift it over.

 

Got it over nice and safe. Not the best felling cut in the world. I went very high to avoid all the krech, tension cracks and sprial grain. The dropping away ground round the base wasn't too good either. Its over and everyone went home safe. End of the day thats all that matters.

[Brushcutter]

Rest of the pics.

[Tree Man Tom]

Not often i get to fell a big'un like that, but its gotta be the highlight of the year when i do! lol

 

I would have gone for a bigger, deeper gob though. But like you say, everyones still in one piece, which is all that matters.

[Johny Walker]

have you got a bad back me lad,

[chris23a]

Did you manage to hit any of those cows?

[sean]

what was the reason for the fell??

[Brushcutter]

Not often i get to fell a big'un like that, but its gotta be the highlight of the year when i do! lol

 

I would have gone for a bigger, deeper gob though. But like you say, everyones still in one piece, which is all that matters.

 

90% of my felling is for timber the other 10% is for safety stuff. So small gobs come with timber felling. Some nice spalting in the butt might skid it out and try to sell it. This was a safety fell. The aim had to be spot on due to the weight of the back limb and not damaging good trees around it. There was a rot pocket behind where my gob finished and a tension crack on the other. I was happy with the amount of rot in the fact cut so didn't want to risk going bigger and finding crappy wood for a hinge.

[sean]

could you not have left it as a 4-5 mtr monolith......fantastic habitat as the one next to it?

[Brushcutter]

could you not have left it as a 4-5 mtr monolith......fantastic habitat as the one next to it?

 

 

Its all in a habitat pile in the wood now. Just a different kind of habitat making the wood more diverse. The one next to it fell over long before my time. It was a tough call to make but we had some top bat experts out to survey the tree and ok'd it.

[testcricket01]

looks like a good job to have gotta love felling big timber like that. crash crash crash