the 'todays job' thread

[Mick Dempsey]

Tricky half dead ash over buildings, wires etc. 
Lots of tag/pull line work. 
Finish it tomorrow. 
Was a good day of teamwork and no dramas as it goes. 

[AHPP]

Tricky tree. 

[Mick Dempsey]

‘Twas. 

[AHPP]

How did you find the RCW?

[Mick Dempsey]

As a bollard, it’s fine. 
The winch thing is still unused in anger. 
We found the prussick thingy milked modern rigging ropes. 
Fine on old style three strand. 
 

[slack ma girdle]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Tricky half dead ash over buildings, wires etc. 
Lots of tag/pull line work. 
Finish it tomorrow. 
Was a good day of teamwork and no dramas as it goes. 

Those clay tiles look like they will break with just a light kiss of sawdust.

Good work Mick

[peds]

8 minutes ago, slack ma girdle said:

Those clay tiles look like they will break with just a light kiss of sawdust.

Good work Mick

 

So many targets!

[AHPP]

I did a chestnut like that over a paper thin (and listed…) tin roof in London. Something like 6 or 7 foot dbh. Walloping great branches. 12” bar wasn’t enough. Nothing under a convenient rigging point. Was using a (clutchless) petrol capstan for lifting at the time. Not easy. Groundsman was brilliant. Three days. Felt like it. 

[Peter 1955]

First time I have had a job worthy of inclusion here, and remembered to get photos. Leylandii hedge lowered by around a yard, plus or minus a foot. About fifty yards or so, my little Makita battery saw was very handy, as was the Kombi Polesaw with a 16” bar from an 023. Two short days to cut it, the easy side has just about been gathered up, just the awkward one to clear. The original plan was to chip it on the wasteland at that side, but it could cost the client more that way than if we drag it through the garden and dispose of it ourselves. 

[peds]

Nice weather for it.