How would you attack this?

[Mark Bolam]

What do I win?

[Mr. Bish]

looks like an interesting job.

 

I'd have used an axe and a unimog.

[Big 'Ammer]

Nice job, well planned and carried out.

[Rupe]

Looks about right. I think I would have used a GRCS on the base of the tree, pulley at the tope and another pulley out on the split section. Then rope through that pulley and tied off on the main tree, so there are two ropes out to the split stem. That would give give good stability and also its doubles the power of the GRCS. (called double whip tackle in sailing, DWT)

 

Then a ratchet strap near the base to stop the bottom getting away, winch it up and rathet it in at the same time. Once up, maybe put a higher ratchet in to hold it all together.

 

Then leaving the ropes in place, move the GRCS to another tree, (with a redirect if necessary) then winch it into the woods as you have done.

 

No heavy machinery, only footprints.

 

Oh, and I really dont like tirfors!! Everything about them seems like hard work!!!

 

 

Good job, well done though.

[WoodED]

Your tracked chipper must be huge, Ed

 

nope tis just a timberwolf 190 ftr, but ul be amazed what you can pull with it

[WoodED]

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

 

ahh,, it looks abit bigger in that photo,, mayb the tracked chipper would struggle