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any bloopers guys.. i was hoping this thread would kick off.. or do you all have to much pride ;)

 

Thankfully no one's got any photos, but I think I managed the biggest barbers chair I'd ever seen earlier in the year. Reckon it must have gone 30ft or so up :blushing:.

 

It was a skanky pop with a back lean and swept butt of around 90/100ft. We were winching it against the lean too and it really didn't like it. Had 5 others to do the same, next one went better but we resorted to ratchet straps.

 

On the same job managed to strip a rare youngish Chestnut back to a pole with the end of one of the branches off one of the Pop on it's way down right in front of the landowner :blushing: We knew it was going to be tight but......

 

To be fair, it was a pig of a drop zone (full of young trees) and he was given the choice of one day crash bash stunt felling and accept a bit of risk or best part of a week to dismantle/lower etc.

 

Did redeem myself with the other 4 but it really rattled me for a while.

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The weirdest tree i've done. Had a big forward lean on it cut the face in and bored in to cut back to the dogs tooth. Sat on the saw before getting to the back. The guy i was with decided it was no time to dogs tooth and did a

straight fell. And barbers chair was the result

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Tree still had a better hold behind the stump than I thought and the spades were not in deep when they just folded under themself :blushing:

 

Ouch. Little bit of heat will bend them back, bit of plating over it be as good as new.

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Lots of heat big bars a press then sod it cut them off and start again but make them a little shorter this time, so far still pointing the right way....

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