60 odd meters with a dead top

[browncow]

This is a rather hastily edited vid of removing the dead top of a Tingle tree over an access rd to a popular tourist destination in southwest Australia. We pruned about 15 of these trees on the last trip ranging from 50 to about 65m tall.

 

The top 1/2 to a 1/3 of the trees are dead owing to a massive bushfire 50 years ago. Makes for a bit of puckering at times when your spikes punch through into nothing

 

The only hazards below are the road and the other vegetation - mostly the lower branches of the tree being worked on are to be preserved.

 

Sorry no tunes, just grunting and groaning.

 

[western]

Excellent video bro! Fairplay my friend you have a set of ball on you to do that!!! I'm very impressed. Keep up the good work and stay safe. Regards western

[kev7937]

Pooped it just watching the vid!!

 

Did you manage to gob on your groundy from there?

[AlvinD]

Definitely fair play

[Stephen Blair]

Nice 1! The timber looks hard as steel on the outside and soft and crumbly in the middle!

I love a no nonsense video!

[Mark Bolam]

Hardcore.

 

I'll play that again next time I cack myself doing a forty footer!

[Le Sanglier]

Good vid, I definitely prefer revving chainsaws and nervous breathy grunting to music anyway. Well done.

[Gerbutt]

Did you see the face on the tree in the last frame?

[geoff]

Good vid, I definitely prefer revving chainsaws and nervous breathy grunting to music anyway. Well done.

 

Me too,a gutsy climb that too.

[18 stoner]

All credit due. Not too many would take that challenge!