the 'todays job' thread

[Peasgood]

15 minutes ago, arborlicious said:

Not something I do very often in Australia but spent most of Tuesday cleaning up an English Oak. I don't have the 'before' picture but the main thing I'm questioning is how bad is it for the tree to clean all the leaf fluff off the branches–especially heading into summer?) 

 

The owner wanted to see clean branches so lots of faffing with the silky.

 

A bit odd to do your best to make an oak tree look like a gum tree, especially when the first thing the tree will do is to try and grow the "fluff" back again.

Customer is always right of course.

[Mick Dempsey]

Bit of a ‘clean out’ there, my old boss would say (if I overdid it) that it looks like gutted heron.

 

Not one for the purists, but you did what you were asked and got paid, good job.

 

 

 

[slack ma girdle]

2 hours ago, IronMike said:

Something a bit different today! 

 

Birch bundles off to become horse jumps. When I first spoke to the chap doing the job, he said he was hoping for 500-1000 a day. I bawked, but actually I think I moved about 300 perhaps, in a few hours so the initial target is achievable! 

 

Bed extension coming into its own today.

Is that for Nick Milner by any chance?

[slack ma girdle]

A massively tangled mess of hell. After 2 days of rigging there is still about a 1/3 of the crown left.

Edited November 19, 2021 by slack ma girdle

[IronMike]

23 minutes ago, slack ma girdle said:

Is that for Nick Milner by any chance?

Correct. 10 points to Gryffindor!

[arborlicious]

1 hour ago, Peasgood said:

A bit odd to do your best to make an oak tree look like a gum tree, especially when the first thing the tree will do is to try and grow the "fluff" back again.

Customer is always right of course.

It was my last day contract climbing for this company–too many differences of opinion. The boss seemed to want everything over-pruned (Eucalyptus, exotic deciduous or palm) so the customer thinks they're getting better value.

[arborlicious]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Bit of a ‘clean out’ there, my old boss would say (if I overdid it) that it looks like gutted heron.

 

Not one for the purists, but you did what you were asked and got paid, good job.

 

 

 

I'll have to say that in future - no 'gutted heron'

[Dan Maynard]

Not something I do very often in Australia but spent most of Tuesday cleaning up an English Oak. I don't have the 'before' picture but the main thing I'm questioning is how bad is it for the tree to clean all the leaf fluff off the branches–especially heading into summer?) 
 
The owner wanted to see clean branches so lots of faffing with the silky.
 

I think that's called lions tail, have seen it warned against. Chance of sun scald on newly exposed bark, ends of branches will sprout more.

Customer always right, discuss...

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, IronMike said:

Birch bundles off to become horse jumps.

Vic and Chris used to tie with birch withes not plastic baler twine.

[IronMike]

1 hour ago, openspaceman said:

Vic and Chris used to tie with birch withes not plastic baler twine.

I'm just there for extraction, the felling and processing is not my department! 😉