the 'todays job' thread

[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.

 

 

 

 

[kram]

Robinia acacia, first was a pollard, lots of rot at the previous points.

 

3 more to remove. Awful thorns, about 30 to dig out of my fingers. They always seem to get the painful bit, in the joint of each digit!

[dan blocker]

51 minutes ago, kram said:

Robinia acacia, first was a pollard, lots of rot at the previous points.

 

3 more to remove. Awful thorns, about 30 to dig out of my fingers. They always seem to get the painful bit, in the joint of each digit!

You get the cup this week for a top job, but a God awful job😳. Haven’t done one for a few years and don’t want to do one again🤔. They only grow to get ya😳

[woody paul]

Start Monday and finish midday today 7 Limes re-pollarded 8 years growth. 

3 loads of chip and around 4 ton ot logs all left on site. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Very decent size oak to take down.

No lean, but a lot of back weight towards a house and septic tank.

4 and a half hours in the harness.

Sore back tonight!

[AHPP]

 

Was that side still on when you felled it?

[Mick Dempsey]

Yes.

[logman12]

Been getting wood out with my bad boy forwarder and antique tractor