the 'todays job' thread

[Mick Dempsey]

6 hours ago, AHPP said:

Ladders are great. What would you rather do: Thrust/flip through big low branches, ivy, fences etc or stroll 35' past it? You'll look really like a proper tree surgeon doing the former.

 

Bear in mind 35' gets you to the tie in point of 70% of UK arb work and within 25' of when a 37m rope on DRT runs out, which is the next 20% of work.

It does get a bit sketchy climbing to the top of a triple pushed up against a tree, especially as mine has taken a bit of a battering, it really needs replacing in all honesty.

I usually run with just 2 sections, bring the third for the odd tree that warrants it, plus it’s much easier to manhandle.

 

[AHPP]

I’m 5’8” and 11 stone. I usually have a bigger boy put the ladder up for me. 

[Rich Rule]

This tree has been on the cards since April.  PICUS test was performed and they decided to take it out as it was growing out of an embankments and with a heavily weighted crown and lean towards the property below.  Few cables to contend with and a steep bank meant most has to be speedlined and then rigging the stem and 1-2 metre sections till it was small enough to fell.

 

Cold and fresh today and done and dusted.  No clearup thankfully as there were four flights of stairs to get to the tree.

 

Someone else can deal with that shite.

 

Cross section was where the Chaga shroom was located about 1.5 metre from the floor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dan Maynard]

Back to the tree last night, after bee bedtime to plug the hole. Today was able to climb the elm on the left to set a line, then transfer across above the nest using my RC grapple.

 

Only I haven't got an RC grapple so fcked about trying to cling on while fighting to get a line through the ivy. Knocked the tree back to a pole, cleared up, then used a pole saw to cut the rope off the bung so as to be a few metres away when the angry bees came out.

[peds]

Outstanding work. 

[Dan Maynard]

31 minutes ago, peds said:

Outstanding work. 

It certainly is a thing of beauty now, the trained eye can just detect the pruning cuts.

[Mark Bolam]

Nice one Dan.