Alternatives to Climbing

[ATC1983]

Hi

 

 

I want to take down a 70ft tree out someone's back garden. Now I can't climb, and don't have the ticket to climb, so I can't get hold of a top handle saw either.

 

I'm wondering whether anyone has experiece in bringing in a boom lift to a size to enable circumvention of having to climb a tree, and what type of costs you incurred for this, or whether there are other powered machinery that could get one up sufficiently high to take it down?

[RobArb]

Please get an expert in, for the safety of you and any others involved

 

It'll also probably work out cheaper for you and the client

 

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[ben lightfoot]

Pay a professional to do it? put a bit on top so your still making on it, job done

[tree monkey]

be cheaper to get a subbie climber in to do it with you than getting a mewp plus do you have a mewp ticket ?

[treequip]

A couple of hundred (tops) will get you a freelance climber with saws and rigging kit to put the tree on the floor for you.

[ATC1983]

Don't have EL insurance to contract a subbie climber.

[ATC1983]

And I can hire a boom for £200 odds - about the same. Only question which remains is what to do with the debris - I don't have a chipper, but would be looking to clear most of it away myself, as I want the vast amount of firewood it will produce.

[treequip]

Don't have EL insurance to contract a subbie climber.

 

You need EL if you have got anyone helping you, so are you going to do it alone with a MEWP?

[J.C.H Treecare]

Give the job to an arborist and charge them a finders fee

[18 stoner]

Do you have P.L. insurance to cover trees over 6M height?