Blowing stuff up

[Taupotreeman]

Short and sweet. Mate of mine posted this on Facebook. He'd told us about it when we caught up with him a couple of weeks ago. From what I recall the tree/s had fallen over a track and access was difficult so they decided to just obliterate them where they were.

 

 

Thanks go to Ross McIntyre

Edited April 14, 2012 by Taupotreeman

[arborlicious]

Aren't the statements 'over the track' and 'difficult access' oxymoronic? A couple of DOC workers and a chainsaw would have made less mess.

 

Guess they had permission from Mighty River Power to blow something up in the vicinity of a power station albeit the smallest on the river.

[Taupotreeman]

Apparently there was no safe way to stabilise the root balls to get in and cut the trees. Having seen the photos I can understand why. DoC workers? Most of them have limited chainsaw skills at the best of times and I doubt any would have had the skills to deal with this if Ross wasn't keen.

[felixthelogchopper]

[arborlicious]

Ah, that second picture explains things a bit more...damn steep.

[David Goss]

Ooh I want a shot of that! Sod chainsaws we got explosives!

[Stephen Blair]

Treelanches!:

I was told about them on my NZ trip through the south island.

That's real tree work that is:thumbup: