the 'todays job' thread

[Mick Dempsey]

9 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:

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

Hell is the word for that, hoped it’s priced accordingly?

[Marc Lewis]

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...

I quite like it but it's so easy to over do and 'lions tail' it I.e. like above pic

[Ty Korrigan]

15 hours 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.

 

 

 

This is exactly the spec we get given by 2 local councils for the mature oaks which can't be reduced heavily without hat racking them.

The locals buy houses adjacent to trees then complain about leaves, acorns, shade and the ever present menace of a tree that moves in the wind.

So we are made to strip them out, thinning them drastically for more light.

I hate gathering up bundles of epicormic and the climbers are not fans of spending hours shaving stems with Silky's.

Overhanging branches reduced or removed but the height left untouched, only thinned.

Council does this every 4-5 years, I've already worked on some trees twice since moving here.

   Stuart

 

 

[slack ma girdle]

12 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Hell is the word for that, hoped it’s priced accordingly?

Nope i haven't priced a job this badly in about 15 years. Never to old to learn

[Mick Dempsey]

11 minutes ago, slack ma girdle said:

Nope i haven't priced a job this badly in about 15 years. Never to old to learn

Ha ha! 
Jobs like that wake you up in the middle of the night decades later!

[AHPP]

My lunchtime view of a beech yesterday. I thought I was making excellent progress. Turned out my watch had stopped working at 10:46. Caught on when schoolchildren were returning home while I was chogging.

[Joe Newton]

Naughty beech in Wicksteed Park from yesterday. Plasterer noticed the split on Friday and we removed it the next day. I was kinda hoping it would've come down over night with the storms and saved me a lot of trouble.

[MattyF]

Some from the last few days , willows where easily dealt with bagging an old 16mm lowering rope high up and pulling out with the chipper winch... made a change from cutting every things into little bits...



Gutted though to see this on a site my father and me cleaned out all the windblow 7 years ago ... now it's just flat.

[Pete Mctree]

@MattyFlooks like your going to busy for a bit !

[Andy Craig]

One for the weekend, nice multi-stemmed mess that already had a previous large tear out and neighbour was told about the rest of the tree being not in best condition. Aw well.