Horrible week finally over!!

[Mozza]

This weeks weather has been truly horrific, I have been soaked to the boxers everyday this week by 8AM, working in these conditions makes work all the harder im sure youll all agree, To top it off the job i was on was a nightmare too, We had to section fell around 70 mature sycamore and ash that were on an old disused cobbled road behind a row of houses, Every tree over hung the gardens of the houses, Every garden had a green house or shed, The ground was that boggy we could hardly stand up, Could only just about track the chipper in it was that bad, i went to fell a stump yesterday and as i lifted the 66 (chest hight) up to put the back cut in a went flying down the slippy banking on my arse in all the mud, just topped my week off nicely did that!!!

 

Worst week this year for me!!

 

Anyone else have fun in the rain???

[MattyF]

 

Anyone else have fun in the rain???

 

no!!truly one of the worst deppressing weeks of the year....if id of known it would be this bad i would of flown some where hot for the week ,what a perfect end to one of the crapest summers this countrys ever witnessed...

[Peter]

Pretty poor here too, massive ivy covered lionstailed oak to reduce yesterday, pouring rain all day, no fun at all!

[Rich Rule]

my week was subbing for a school contract which had to be completed before the kids are back next week. 5 days of thinning, lifting, cutting back and reducing. To top it off had to reduce a large Sugar Maple yesterday in winds with cars phonelines and windows and in the afternoon when the arse end of hurricane gustav finally met up with us I was reducing a London plane in winds and driving rain. v.v. greasy and a right pain n the arse. still it is the weekend now... don't you just love it?

[Rupe]

I had monday off and then worked tuesday wednesday and managed toi get everything done without getting wet. We had to rush as the storm clouds were all around but didn't let rip until 3.30 ish.

 

Then we looked at the forecast and cancelled our hedgetrimming job. I spent two days inside building my new workshop which in a way is an investment for the future.

 

LIfe's too short to work in weather like that. No one needs the money that much and the damage it does to your kit and your enthusiasm is considerable.

 

Also, what kind of risk assessment would allow anyone to climb in that weather? Defeats the object of having a risk assessment if after you've covered everything else you say "well if we don't work we don't get paid so lets just do it anyway"

 

Next week is looking better and all me kit is still clean and dry!

[Andy R]

Pretty poor here too, massive ivy covered lionstailed oak to reduce yesterday, pouring rain all day, no fun at all!

 

ivy was on our menu for thursday as well...2 large willows, one to remove the other to tidy up.

We craned the one down throughout the downpour, can't stop once the crane is on site...it was a building site so after an hour of rain it looked like glastonbury..

Here's the other, spec = deadwood+remove ivy:thumbdown:

[atree]

Not a good job in the rain,u got any after pics?

 

Its been the worst winter here for years so much rain,although its nothing really compared to back home in scotland

[Andy R]

no mate, I took the before with the intention of doing some befores and afters of the 2 trees but the rain was so bad I lost interest on what anything looked like..the jobs in the cotswolds and on thursday it never stopped all day...very depressing. But with the crane on site we had to finish, normally we would have let the job run over with such bad weather. We also lifted a very large yew out that was full of rosethorn...snedding that out was probably the worst thing I have ever done in my life..

[atree]

yeah thats always the way,spring is on its way here so hopefully thats the last of the rain,hope u have a dryish winter

[Patchwork]

mid week i was standing in a flooded, very fast running river in waders getting fallenbranches out form a willow, half way through the day stumbled on a rock and the waders filled to the brim with murky water... wasnt a very good day