the 'todays job' thread

[aspenarb]

Our chimp took out the canopy of this leaning Ash that was above some lines and entangled in the trees on the opposite side of the road, lifted down the sticks with the crane.

 

Dont think I would have let him up there if I had known about this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Stephen Blair]

Middle bits not that important mate!    Good job Climber chimp!😂😎

[Mick Dempsey]

Saturday morning freebie for my Brother in Law.

Triple plat poly rope, natural crotch, crash it down and walk away.

 

Should have listened to Blur and Oasis on the way for the full 90s experience.

[Ty Korrigan]

Whilst I lie here, dull with Covid, I read about others poplar based adventures.

Last week we breezed past this job from September 2021

A staged removal because the owner needs time to get his head around the changes to his chateau driveway.

They will be felled in 5-7 years.

The lombardies measured 29m.

We reduced them to 19m and stripped them to bare poles.

The reason was multiple failures through root decay caused by Armillaria and classic lombardy heartwood decay but I was unable to i.d a fungi for that.

In retrospect, I could have got in a MEWP to save the climber.

The result has exceeded both the clients and my own expectations.

Which is fortunate because he was very anxious not to lose the ambiance of the long driveway.

I also found a large Sparassus crispa on a Douglas stump I felled in 2013

   Stuart

 

 

 

[Joe Newton]

On 29/10/2022 at 21:24, Ty Korrigan said:

Whilst I lie here, dull with Covid, I read about others poplar based adventures.

Last week we breezed past this job from September 2021

A staged removal because the owner needs time to get his head around the changes to his chateau driveway.

They will be felled in 5-7 years.

The lombardies measured 29m.

We reduced them to 19m and stripped them to bare poles.

The reason was multiple failures through root decay caused by Armillaria and classic lombardy heartwood decay but I was unable to i.d a fungi for that.

In retrospect, I could have got in a MEWP to save the climber.

The result has exceeded both the clients and my own expectations.

Which is fortunate because he was very anxious not to lose the ambiance of the long driveway.

I also found a large Sparassus crispa on a Douglas stump I felled in 2013

   Stuart

 

 

 

If they were 29m then that climber has to be 5m tall.

[josharb87]

10 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

If they were 29m then that climber has to be 5m tall.

Jokes on you joe, that’s big tree dom on a busman’s holiday 

[Joe Newton]

48 minutes ago, josharb87 said:

Jokes on you joe, that’s big tree dom on a busman’s holiday 

Fuck. They're at least 200' then. 

[Ty Korrigan]

Yeh yeh, I'll give it to you.

This image doesn't show the older ones at the start of the driveway.

These show a later section, cut lower because they shade a veg garden on the estate.

The ones further on are younger still and were left largely untouched.

The large gaps in the rows are were we either previously removed trees with honey fungus or ones that fell down due to it.

 

Edited October 30, 2022 by Ty Korrigan

[Joe Newton]

23 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Yeh yeh, I'll give it to you.

This image doesn't show the older ones at the start of the driveway.

These show a later section, cut lower because they shade a veg garden on the estate.

The ones further on are younger still and were left largely untouched.

The large gaps in the rows are were we either previously removed trees with honey fungus or ones that fell down due to it.

 

Okay mate. As long as he wasn't wearing spikes on those reductions. 

[Ty Korrigan]

5 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

Okay mate. As long as he wasn't wearing spikes on those reductions. 

 

Why not? they are coming down in a few years anyway.

Also, have you never noticed that Lombardies often sprout from such wounds?

My moral compass is fine with spiking in this case.