happy to climb this?

[MattyF]

bull rope...barbers chair in ash good point

i free felled a well buggered ash few yrs back and she broke out off the hinge before she gained any real direction from gob,i pooed and thought if only id put a pulling rope up there as a safety!!

without seeing first hand the state of this trees trunk and weighing up the amount of remaining sap wood at fell height i cant determine the probability of a barbers chair but thanks for correcting me there matty i was only presuming the trunk was fairly well decayed. apologies

No need to apologise mate , it's good to throw ideas in ... I'm throwing mine , I could be completely wrong have not seen the tree in person so only the op knows or will know on the day what's right but I would have my running shoes on! . I've had quite a few ash barbers chair in the woods now the worse was a sort of reverse barbers chair were it pulled up the root plate before spinning, this one had a fast pull with a big hinge , bad idea! ..The others didn't really give much or were obvious they had too much pressure weight, I suppose you could bore and release on this but I would worry about it being not structurally sound enough for this technique... But would probably go with it but be prepared to drop the saw if it breaks up!! On second thoughts maybe climb it!!! Lol

 

I want to see a vid of this one

Edited May 16, 2012 by MattyF

[wisewood]

Can't add any advice mate but that dropped limb on the left would make a cool dragon:001_smile:

[L200LOG]

First rule is can this tree be done from the ground??

Looks like it can! Fell the tree slight higher if it explodes then it explodes, better for it to explode than you when you squashed underneath it!

PLAN PLAN PLAN is take time think about what your doing don't rush and think of what if this happens or what if that happens!

Anyway take time and be safe!!

Edited May 17, 2012 by Steve Bullman
Removed deflammatory comments

[john p]

Can't add any advice mate but that dropped limb on the left would make a cool dragon:001_smile:

 

now you mention it!£500 and its yours:lol:

[john p]

Thanks for all thoughts,ideas,much appreciated,times like this proves what a great resource this forum is! Pics on tues!

[White Noise]

Bull rope in with a throw line, massive step cut/bodge gob an back cut/make sure if falls cut and pull it over with a vehicle.

 

Here here no targets to damage fell fell fell

[Matthew Arnold]

Is there access for a MEWP? If not then felling would be the only other option. Personally i don't think the tree will barbers chair. With the amount of rot there is at the failure point there wont be enough tensile strength in the fibres to cause a barbers chair. The best way of seeing how much holding wood there is at the base is to cut out a box of wood from one side to the other. That way you can feel for the soft points and see how much good wood is left. Just a thought.

[Little John]

Rap it in det-cord!

[Little Steven]

Rap it in det-cord!

 

Instantaneous decomposition of the substance!

 

or if you don't want to be picking the bits after Little John, use my mog mewp to put a line in and then the Ramsey 20k to pull it.

 

Steve

[MattyF]

Why with such a massive drop zone do people recommend pulling ?? Ash don't like to be pulled ... Ash with head lean don't pull ... It is that simple!!!