Lake Taupo Crane job

[Taupotreeman]

As we still haven't quite got the arb unit set up for council, and as this job was too big forme and just one other guy to tackle we called in the contractors. The job was to remove some decent sized gums of the bank along with weed species from down the bottom on the lake shore. The job also ended up being a training day for not just the contractors but for me as well. 41 and my first crane job. was well chuffed to get a play and might even see if I can do a bit more sometime with these same guys.

[Taupotreeman]

Few more.

Edited July 20, 2011 by Taupotreeman

[DrewB]

looks warm down there ian.....good effort chap

[David Humphries]

Interesting & fun looking job Ian

 

Why were the trees coming out ?

 

 

 

 

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[Taupotreeman]

Interesting & fun looking job Ian

 

Why were the trees coming out ?

 

 

 

 

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Not sure if you can make it out in the photos but the Gums were on the edge of and down a sheer pumice cliff. The drop to the bottom was between 20 and 50 feet. Pumice is not very good at holding and they had one large Gum that just fell over into the lake. No wind, no warning. That's one of the reasons why the tops were dropped into the lake. We weren't keen to risk anyone up the tree with all the movement going on breaking out the tops. The guys spent a day with an EPV or MEWP, plucking out the side and then dropping the tops. The stems were then all taken out by direct lift.

[David Humphries]

Pumice is not very good at holding and they had one large Gum that just fell over into the lake. No wind, no warning. .

 

 

 

Sounds like a good call

 

 

 

Any specific target below, or just the hassle of getting them out of the wet stuff ?

 

 

 

Thanks

 

 

 

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[Taupotreeman]

looks warm down there ian.....good effort chap

 

Poor old Laurence had to get his waders on. It's those cheap boots the scape buy. Tried to talk him into Meindles cos his feet were frozen. Pity we didn't do it a couple of days before because the weather was crash hot.

[Taupotreeman]

Sounds like a good call

 

 

 

Any specific target below, or just the hassle of getting them out of the wet stuff ?

 

 

 

Thanks

 

 

 

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Just water. we had about 6 feet of lake shore then it was into the drink. The guy at the bottom doing the training was wearing waders to hook up some of the stuff. We really only had to worry about upsetting the local iwi by dropping stuff in to the lake but safety comes first and the whole lot actually tidied up really good. Just a bit of leaf litter and the odd bit of dead twig. Managed to do several lumps in the one lift as well. we reckon there were about 20 trees with 40 odd lifts which took around 6 hours. This included all the training as all of us on site were new to crane work.

[DrewB]

yeah i was working in taupo last week mate contracted in to remove some gums, absolutely gorgeous day with views over the lake. cold in the morning though. that lake would of been cold for sure

[Taupotreeman]

Whereabouts were the Gums Drew?