fell or climb?

[Mark Bolam]

Climb and rig out in big sections with a block set well below the cuts.

 

Make sure you get footage....

 

[gibbon]

I.didn't see the video 1st time. No way I would climb that.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I.didn't see the video 1st time. No way I would climb that.

 

 

ive done several trees that where split from a hole to cake hole, one struck by lightning and half the stem was gone (longtitudinaly, the wobble was most unatural, like a wave motion rather than a swaying! and the remaining crown on top of this had a very wierd rotational sway! orrible:biggrin:

 

not as knarly as the seqioua though, lightning again, trunk into 6 segments again longitudinally.

 

stoopid is as stoopid does!

[Tom10]

I think you could climb if you could get an anchor in an adjoining tree? deffinately not without, the thing looks like its about to go... Can't see very well in the video what the neighboring trees are like... and rig it off in big lumps

 

Wouldn't bother though - seems far more sensible to ratchet strap hard up as high as you can... fell and have a clear escape route!

 

My opinion but very hard without seeing it in first person.

 

Good luck!

[gibbon]

That beech is ready to go. I think if he puts the job off a week or it will fell itself

[Joe Loggs]

Get heli-loggers in :-)

[skyhuck]

Climb.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

That beech is ready to go. I think if he puts the job off a week or it will fell itself

with a little help some wind and rain and she is down, thing is, would you wanna hear that someone was under it after we left it!

 

the safe mode, throw line, get a rope round as high as poss and pull in direction away from other half till failure, it wont take much!

 

[Mesterh]

I would rather strap it up and climb than try to fell.

 

I think you are totally right and it will explode while putting the gob in strapped up or not.

 

I would prefer to do it on a less windy day though when it isnt moving about so much.

[Stephen Blair]

I can't see a problem felling it, explode!! How?

I would even be tempted to forget about a gob, just go low and and feel what way it wants to go.