the 'todays job' thread

[Rich Rule]

No machinery today…. Only manpower.

 

Half the tree crapped itself as it split in two and took out the power line and went into a stream.

 

That was a while back.  Today we had to rig down the still standing side.  Cable and a couple of outbuilding to avoid so we rigged everything back into the woodland.

 

 

 

 

[slack ma girdle]

Making a wet Alder carr wetter with a series of dams. Got the digger properly stuck.

[woody paul]

Back to clear up big oak from other month that came down when I was there..With loader on site it gives scale of how big it is.

[peds]

Crikey!

[woody paul]

Bit of scrub bashing with Wessex scrubmaster on fendt 304, 12ft high sallow and birch. 

[slack ma girdle]

The start of 350m3 of Poplar.

For once a flat site, and dry underfoot.

[woody paul]

Last couple of days reducing this beech back to retain it for a bit longer, do to rot at base 

[Mick Dempsey]

This lime was a maiden that I started a pollard cycle in 2008 ish.

First two pics (with blue pick up) are of its first ‘repollard’ in 2015.

Last three are today’s job.

The original couple I worked for are deceased, so their three sons use it as a holiday home, which has a nice continuity to it.

Almost certainly the last time in this tree.

[peds]

Proper pollard! 

[Mick Dempsey]

24 minutes ago, peds said:

Proper pollard! 

In a way it isn’t, at least for the purists who think pollards should be started at an early age, this started as a topping/reduction.

But very little, if any, rot in the pollard heads, so all good for the moment.