Unorthodox techniques

[Mick Stockbridge]

My groundie gets a slap if theres a mess. Didn't take him long to fear the back of the hand!

 

Too right n all,use a lump of timber and save youre hand.Now thats a good tip.:laugh1:

[Jason James Gairn]

Use a chainsaw instead and chop him up and mail him home in a jiffy bag. That'll learn him.

[Log-ologist]

I know its unorthodox but...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...try using natural crotches for positioning a lowering rope and hey lads (and ladettes) also wrap the rope round the tree trunk to act as a friction brake.

[Peter]

To speedline small pieces of of a tree you are reducing, get your groundy to hold the tail of your climbing line tight and at head height, sling the piece up and run it down on a biner.

[Mick Stockbridge]

To speedline small pieces of of a tree you are reducing, get your groundy to hold the tail of your climbing line tight and at head height, sling the piece up and run it down on a biner.

 

[High Scale]

I was re-pollarding a willow a couple of weeks ago, one side was hanging over an allotment the other side had a clear drop with a nice big leaner leaning the right way, I tied a small line to three of the limbs leaning over the allotment then tied it off on the big leaner I put in face cuts in all three of the allotment side leaners then back cuts, leaving a nice thick hinge.

I then felled the big leaner, as it went over it pulled the three back leaning limbs with it.

 

I think I got the idea from Jerry's book.

[Dean Lofthouse]

When you've dug out a stump and it's too big to hand ball cut a slot in the top and wedge split it into bits.

 

Top tip off someone on here

[Mesterh]

When you've dug out a stump and it's too big to hand ball cut a slot in the top and wedge split it into bits.

 

Top tip off someone on here

 

I've a better one use a stump grinder

 

Someone had to say it

 

Good tip though nethertheless.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I've a better one use a stump grinder

 

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Mesterh, there's a stump grinder in the background

[MattyF]

Use an ms 200 with a carving bar for removing epicormic growth on pollards alot faster than a silky and more accurate than a normal bar