Stunt Felling. The advanced course.

[gibbon]

Nicely done.

[Tommy_B]

Spot on Tom. Really nicely done

[Mike Hill]

That is entirely one of the most skillful and gutsy jobs I have seen on here in a long while.I congratulate you and your crew who saw that one go well.

[josharb87]

Awesome job Tom!

[David Humphries]

Mewp, Mewp, Mewpity-Mewp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Big ol' baws Tom

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[Stephen Blair]

You will kick yourself in years to come for not videoing that mate!

[slack ma girdle]

How the job is risk assessed and carried out will depend upon the skill' date=' competency and experience of the people carrying out the work.

 

Tom's method involved no work at height and went all according to his plan.

 

Avoiding work at height is what we are supposed to do where possible.

 

In most cases, other factors would dictate dismantling a tree like this.[/quote']

 

I am just asking a question. I am not trying to say that the way Tom did it was wrong. I was just curious to the reasons of why.

At the end of the day every body went home safely. A good says work.

 

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Check ALL the simple things first.

[Tom D]

Mewp, Mewp, Mewpity-Mewp.

 

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:lol:

 

 

The reason for felling is simple, to dismantle that would have taken days, I did contemplate felling each stem individually, however although 2 of them would have gone of their own accord the third would have required winching, this would have involved being 15' up stropped in to a heavily back leaning stem as it was winched over. I have done this before but it is not the safest of operations and best avoided. The other reason for felling is cost, don't get me wrong I am not taking chances for the sake of a few quid, but at the end of the day I have bought this timber standing, I make my money selling it at roadside, time is money.

 

We have managed to fell process and extract on average around 15-18 ton a day, this is with 2 men the first week and 3 the second, this is not bad but any delays would seriously affect profit.

[Robert_S]

never climbed it to knock lumps out because he's too fat from eating at the APF, just getting lazy, i bet you were back in the valmet before the tree had settled on the ground

 

Great job mate

[Andy Collins]

It's hard to think of something original to say that isn't what someone else has said, nicely executed job from planning through to fell, tree is on the deck, everyone is safe, wHat more can you ask for? Good job Tom