the 'todays job' thread

[Old Mill Tree Care]

So yes we could have probably pushed them over but we have the winch and didn't want to risk it going wrong!

 

Just press the button rather than messing with wedges!

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Ah, press the button. I assumed you'd been toiling over a Tirfor!

Lol!

[Old Mill Tree Care]

The big timber starts to come out to the haul road.

 

[Johny Walker]

Video of the felling today.

 

felt knackerd just watching ,

[TIMON]

Enjoying a rare day off today.

Afternoon tea in Coventry cathedral.

 

 

Nice work if you can get it. 🍰

[RichieR]

Enjoying a rare day off today.

Afternoon tea in Coventry cathedral.

 

[ATTACH]197769[/ATTACH]

 

Nice work if you can get it. 🍰

 

Can you bring me back any 2 from the top 1 from the middle and 3 from the bottom please

[TIMON]

Can you bring me back any 2 from the top 1 from the middle and 3 from the bottom please

 

 

 

 

Bit slow Rich.

[RichieR]

That's just plain cruelty

[Dave Alviti]

I don't get it. Why put a winch (tied on too low) on such small trees that you could push by hand or use a felling lever.

Maybe the men in the picture are 16ft tall and the trees are bigger than they appear.

Or maybe 120mph wind in the wrong direction.

Maybe I'm missing something.

 

 

Why is the winch cable too low? I've felled trees much bigger than that with the winch cable not much higher, if the winch has got the power there's not much point in climbing it surely?

[jomoco]

Rather telling n depressing day to be honest.

 

Sudden Oak Death(Phytopthora ramorum) is knocking off most of the elderly coast live oaks in San Diego county, trees 8 times older than I, toast.

 

Today's job reminded me of the stark difference between arboriculturally astute clients compared to run of the mill homeowners.

 

Sequoia semps or coast redwoods are the tallest trees in the world currently, but the CA drought has put the screws to them here in S D county, not actually killing them, but browning them out enough to give the false appearance of death by simply looking at them from 20 feet away.

 

Upon close inspection however, new green foliage is discernible on almost every main lateral. Almost as if they're mimicking Dawn Redwoods(Metasequoia glyptostroboides) when they brown out n play dead annually.

 

My arboriculturally astute clients informed of the play dead appearance of their coast redwoods take my recs to simply give them a deep watering every other week rather than remove them because they look dead.

 

But today's client didn't care, insisting it be removed whether dead or alive, simply because the fire dept declared it dead and a hazard. 70 feet's small for the species, but here locally is not bad for a fairly rare tree in this county.

 

At least my brother'll have some decent lumber to turn or burn!

 

Even buzzard's can have a conscience I guess.

 

Jomoco

[mendiplogs]

Enjoying a rare day off today.

Afternoon tea in Coventry cathedral.

 

[ATTACH]197769[/ATTACH]

 

Nice work if you can get it. 🍰

 

Hi TIMON nice one there mate looks good thanks Jon