How would you attack this?

[Peter]

Winch the split section upright, strap it all together and fell the whole thing into the woods.

[chrisgilltreesurgery]

Are you allowed a Helicopter?

[Rupe]

Winch the split section upright, strap it all together and fell the whole thing into the woods.

 

 

 

Ahhh, the whole thing is going??!!!!! Yes, tie it all up and fell it all together into the woods.

[MattyF]

Would butt winch the split stem out after cutting the remaining little bit of holding wood and fell the other .. An easy one compared to the dirty decayed ash!!

[Mark Bolam]

I reckon you put it on ebay.

 

How much did you get for it Chris?

 

I would have winched the snapper first then the remaining.

[Chris Sheppard]

I reckon you put it on ebay.

 

How much did you get for it Chris?

 

I would have winched the snapper first then the remaining.

 

 

 

Just waiting to see what pics Brett got too and will post rest up

[treesnatcher]

i would attempt to gain access to the field then lift it out with big teleporter and cut up on the ground as long as it was fairly local.

[David Goss]

Winch over the split/hung up limb back into the woods and fell the rest as is.... looks pretty simple in the pics but they always do:001_rolleyes:

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I would winch it back up to its original position, then ratchet strap it into place and dismantle it as a normal tree whilst tied into the remianing good part.

 

Or winch it back up right, then winch it over into the wood while releasing the first wich at the same time, but possibly with a ratchet strap quite low to keep the base in place.

 

Winch the split section upright, strap it all together and fell the whole thing into the woods.

 

Ahhh, the whole thing is going??!!!!! Yes, tie it all up and fell it all together into the woods.

 

ditto (pretty much)

[Chris Sheppard]

On the whole then most of you would have gone with the winch it over then fell the stick - yep, that's pretty much what we did

 

The photos don't really show it that well, but there was very little holding the torn bit to the main stem and it was only really resting on the Ash, rather than tangled into it.

 

But winching wasn't really feasible as the only way we could have pulled would have been into the wood and there was too much chance of the top falling out towards the field as it was already leaning that way.

 

So, Brett went up the main stem and anchored in fairly high. Came back down abd across into the torn bit, getting fairly high ready for the two winch ropes (massive huge skidder and tirfor). Anchored into the Ash rather than the torn bit - was moving a fair bit so maybe for the best.

 

Tirfor was for pulling it upright and the tractor for pulling it over - what didn't help was getting enough angle to pull upright rather than across but once under tension it didn't really have much choice where it was going.

 

Took a fair bit of moving to get it off the ash enough for it to go, but it came down pretty cleanly - little tractor dug it's heels in pretty well.

 

Bit of a tidy up and then onto main stem.

 

Was weighted fairly well back into the wood, so it got intrduced to the 3120. Despite the lean, the wind changing direction didn't help so it needed a bit of wedging, but came down where it was told

 

Buzzed the skanky bit off the butt, snedded it up, cleared the brash, stacked the smaller firewood and it's all ready for the Estate to come in and firewood it

 

EDIT: Just realised they're in a bit of a funny order but you get the jist