Deading the Reds

[David Humphries]

Here you go David, get your rope out.

 

 

 

:001_tongue:

 

I was thinking along the lines of using nellie to give me a bunk up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Barney]

Nice job to have. Did you get any busy bodies come out with the usual 'your not taking them down are you?'

[Andy R]

Thankfully no.... we're pretty well known in that village, do alot of work there. There's 10 welly's in a row there and I think I've climbed 4 of them altogether...

 

Unfortunately they lost 2 of the row last year to fire...Someone had a bonfire and it caught one of the 2 tree's and they went up like a pair of 100ft roman candles... So there is a gap now in the row and you can just make out the singed ends of the tree on the other side of the gap to the 2 we did today.

 

2005

 

2008

 

We didn't get the job of clearing the destroyed ones up thank god, each house in that row owns one or 2 welly's, alot of responsibility. The bloke on the opposite end has started growing Ivy up the 3 he has in his garden, it must have reached 40ft at least now, and is 2 or 3 ft thick. BIG mistake. You would definitely need a mewp to get up them now.

Edited November 19, 2008 by Andy R

[Ian Leach]

Nice pics Andy, did you manage to try out the rope again?

 

Ian

[Andy R]

Yes mate, did the left with your old rope and the right one with the bosses 40m sequoia...Little bit happier with it, tried some marlow 9mm prussik cord and it worked fine...Still feels a bit weedy in your hand though, put it up against my old blue streak and there's little to no difference in actual thickness....Just feels different.

[Paul Barton]

I had always thought that wellies were quite fire resistant. I guess maybe the thick bark is but the foliage ain't?

[Andy R]

I had always thought that wellies were quite fire resistant. I guess maybe the thick bark is but the foliage ain't?

 

Spot on mate, the foliage caught very quickly, the bark was blackened top to bottom quite badly. All the branches remained in place so the wood didn;t burn, just the greenery. The fire brigade were called out and all they could was watch and hope. I went and had a gander the next morning and it was a very sorry sight.

 

The singed one on the other side of the gap is actually re-shooting on the burnt ends...It also has a slightly blackened bark at the base of the tree.

[MasterBlaster]

Nice, big tree! I bet it was a blast to trim.

[Paul Barton]

Ok cool - thought that 'fact' may have been an old wives tale when you said two had caught fire!

 

Great pics, must have been fun. Did you have to use a throw bag to get to the first branch?

[MattyF]

looked good fun!,i am quit envious....been a long time since i worked on a big welly.