the 'todays job' thread

[Mark Bolam]

Logging doesn’t get better than this.

Me and Macca on the saws ringing at waist level courtesy of a Intermacato Tigercat grapple with a good op.

[AHPP]

Logging doesn’t get better than this. Me and Macca on the saws ringing at waist level courtesy of a Intermacato Tigercat grapple with a good op.

 

 

I enjoyed the peak version of that last week. Was booked to climb. Ended up just watching a lorry grapple saw snip down trees, occasionally ringing up logs held by it. Felt like cheating.

 

[nepia]

Similarly I was actually paid to use two tanks of fuel in a 'day' cleaning up larger branches ready for the chipper that had come off a big Turkey Oak in Bromley.  The grapple saw took its time and had the tree down to a 25' stump in 2.5 hours.  Timber lorry then arrived, loaded the big stuff and we left site at 2pm after a 10am start (M25 closure had delayed the grapple saw).

Almost felt like cheating but not quite.  My back was heard to say 'I love that machine'

[josharb87]

Felled a DED elm and pruned a maple (seen in last pic) 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Both in the same day?

[josharb87]

Yeah, crown of the elm was off and out by lunch. So one of the guys went up the maple, the other raked up/grounded for the prune/straight felled another small elm. Away by 3.

 

back tomorrow to grind the stump (not going to be nice, growing on bedrock pretty much)  and prune a chestnut  

[Khriss]

@josharb87 big lumps and nice tree house too! K

[AHPP]

Poplar pollard. Neat little zig zag predirect to keep the rigging all slick and in-line. Little things like that set up in the first half hour of the day make rigging for the next six hours of the day nice and boring.

[Doug Tait]

55 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Poplar pollard. Neat little zig zag predirect to keep the rigging all slick and in-line. Little things like that set up in the first half hour of the day make rigging for the next six hours of the day nice and boring.

Nice, looks a big job. Can't help wonder which pocket you carried your phone in though...

 

Is that a hole in the ground beneath the tree?

 

[nepia]

I spy with my little eye shiny screwgate carabiners  👍