the 'todays job' thread

[Burgess]

Is that Pensford?

[Rich Rule]

Cobra Brace and end weight rj's of a stand of mature Lime trees in a pro in Oslo.

 

 

 

 

Rich

[Rich Rule]

We went to work on one of the oldest and largest Black Poplars in Oslo this week. The tree had to be heavily rj'd 10 years ago due to decline and some storm damage. We were sent there to deadwood, thin and take some weight out of the ends. Just to give some scale to the thing, I am 6 foot 4 so you can see trunk size. The central dead leader would have needed the 88 to get through it. As it was I removed the fingers from the top stem with the 441 but could have done with a 66. Left the main part of the dead central leader due to wood pecker holes. We had a 23metre meep on site provided by the Kommune. The tree had to be retained as is is in a busy park overlooked by a number of Embassy's.

 

Trunk shot, before and after.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rich

Edited November 28, 2015 by Rich Rule

[Mick Dempsey]

Good pics.

What time does it get dark up there in the afternoon Rich?

[David Humphries]

We went to work on one of the oldest and largest Black Poplars in Oslo this week. The tree had to be heavily rj'd 10 years ago due to decline and some storm damage. We were sent there to deadwood, thin and take some weight out of the ends. Just to give some scale to the thing, I am 6 foot 4 so you can see trunk size. The central dead leader would have needed the 88 to get through it. As it was I removed the fingers from the top stem with the 441 but could have done with a 66. Left the main part of the dead central leader due to wood pecker holes. We had a 23metre meep on site provided by the Kommune. The tree had to be retained as is is in a busy park overlooked by a number of Embassy's.

 

Trunk shot, before and after

 

Rich

 

Corking Tree, nice work Rich

 

 

 

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[Rich Rule]

Good pics.

What time does it get dark up there in the afternoon Rich?

 

 

Mick, dark till about 8.15 am and then gets dark in the arvo around 4 - 4.15pm.

 

Thanks David, there was 2 of us in the Mewp. One to operate and one to cut.

 

There were lots of historic bracing in there to avoid as it looked just like deadwood. We managed to get the tree done with 3 setups of the Mewp. But it was a full on day due to light issues.

 

The truck in the morning picture is a 7.5 t MAN which was about a third full and we had a few large lumps of dead we used the Avant to lift. There was also a 3.5t Crafter that had about half a load of dead logs.

 

 

Rich

[Rich Rule]

few more bracing pics.

[silky fox]

What a beauty Rich.. Did you use roperunner?...or BDB?

[Rich Rule]

Single line mate on the Bulldog bone.

 

I do have a rope runner as well, but not climbed on it much. As the BDB is well worn in it is a dream to use.

[Darrin Turnbull]

Impressive. Usually a cold job doing bracing in the winter.