Would you climb this??

[Stephen Blair]

Yes , wee dumpy thing , pole pruner would of tacked it I reckon

It's down, you are ok job done:)

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

yeah i guess it could have been retained but to what extent ? i personally could not see it looking all to plesent especially on the grounds of what appears to be a lovely camp site .

 

 

 

nowt wrong with a pollard, and a pollarded lime is Bishops row for honey bees.

[combined tree services]

yeah i guess so , better still fence the tree off and let is do its own thing .

 

but getting back to the thread - job well done and i still would have climbed it (even at 17 stone)

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

me too

[roseyweb]

I don't think the rot in the stem would be then issue but where you could anchor into. Unless your a 10 a day pie eater your weight in a tree is insignificant and you would have to be really unlucky for it to fail naturally while your in the tree. If your 11 stone makes it fail the wind would have felled it long ago

[clyde]

remember rank has it's privileges send up the loon

[combined tree services]

remember rank has it's privileges send up the loon

so once again i would have to sent my self

[Gruff89]

If your 11 stone makes it fail the wind would have felled it long ago

 

Thats what i tell myself after climbing then felling something like that!

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Had a mature lime tree to take down the other day at work on a campsite. I dead wooded about a year ago so knew it it wasn't in great shape.

Checked the tree over and knew that there was server decay, didnt know the exact extent, so knew it would mean getting up there and getting it down as quickly as possible.

 

There was a large drop zone which helped me get it down as quick as possible. A clear fell wasnt possible to due campers and a crane was too expensive (if you can put a price on human life)

 

It wasnt till after i knew the extent of the decay....

 

Just wondering if anyone of you guys would have spent the time with a resistograph to find out the true extent or would you have just on with it??

 

Wouldn't have bothered 'Resistographing' when already condemned BUT instruction to fell, presumably coz suspected extensive decay in butt, and detailed 'VTA' should have indicated all was not well internally.

 

In terms of "just getting on with it" and climbing it, IF anything had gone untoward (unlikley perhaps) AND it was an employee climbing (OR possibly yourself from a personal accident claim perspective) you would probably find it very difficult to defend under the 'Work at Height' hierarchical approach I would suggest even if it wasn't directly related to tree structural condition.

 

In summary:

FIRST - ground level work (straight fell was probably an option as campers could have been moved)

SECOND - MEWP (could have been used as access available and ground suitably hard etc.)

THIRD - climb (most would...BUT! At least here there was no rigging and you were able to work close to the stem whilst removing branches)

 

In terms of monolithing (if such a word) I don;t think it would have stood for long and so removal was probably best option...unless it could have been fenced off maybe....dunno!

 

Cheers..

Paul

Edited August 5, 2011 by AA Teccie (Paul)

[Dilz]

i was going to say why not a mewp? though i would have climbed it, a circle is a strong shape, a pipe is strong, there is some expriment you can do by laying out loads of bog roll inner tubes and standing on them..... good that you didnt need to shock the tree with any rigging, but then again a good groundsman would have prevented that. if there were obvious signs of root heave i would have been a bit twitchy though.