the 'todays job' thread

[Ian Flatters]

Unusual spec on that hedge, reduce to 4 mètres.  
 
Is that pop? (Or hornbeam)

Lime mick, all being reduced for polytunnels to go up so marks and Spencers can grow posh veg, fruit and salad stuff.

The height is so it can be tree sheared in the future quickly and the sides will be done with a flail.

[Tommy_B]

You still climbing Ian or just machinery these days?

[Ian Flatters]

You still climbing Ian or just machinery these days?

Does climbing on and off machines count? [emoji15] I switched with one of the lads in the afternoon on the first day and spent the second day in the mewp on another part of skinny alders. It was nice to get up and do a bit of climbing but in reality my climbing these days are really just climbing inspections, conifer hedges, or when someone's on holdiay/sick. I'm just needed in the office or consulting too much sadly.

[AHPP]

 

Another interesting top in the wind and a good learning hinge.

Lombardy Poplar. Leaning straight back. Wind coming from behind and left. Had to avoid trashing a fruit tree forward and right but wanted to use the wind to push it so gobbed it straight. Started back cut and got wedges in as soon as possible (white and red marks visible on picture). Finished cut from the upwind side of the tree in case it let go. Was careful to leave the hinge fat that side to resist the top breaking off sideways. Buried the little climbing wedges as the wind came and went. Stood up there and watched it for at least five minutes, mindful that getting impatient and thinning the hinge would be a bad move. Eventually reached an impasse where the wind wasn’t advancing it any more. Nibbled the core of the hinge and thinned the downwind side to get a wedge in at 4 o’clock. Same wind as before was just enough to take it. Fibre pull on the left (upwind) side of the hinge shows the situation nicely.

I cut the hinge disc off to take home as a teaching aid but it got tidied into a bonfire pile. Errant groundie let off with only minor chastisement on account of being unusually attractive for a tree worker.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Hedge planting.

[aspenarb]

Lifted this Chestnut out from behind a garage the other day.The lads stripped it the day before.

 

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Your crane lorry Bob?

[woody paul]

36 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Your crane lorry Bob?

You should know it's not his blue colour. Unless he hasn't got paint brush around it yet. 

Edited November 5, 2021 by woody paul

[aspenarb]

21 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Your crane lorry Bob?

Had the thing for about two years now Mick, the crane is handy enough for this kind of work, good for dragging sticks out of ditches

 

Bob

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Conor Wright]

A pair of rather dead ash. 

Hydraulic power making life easy.