the 'todays job' thread

[Mark Bolam]

Is that the Stihl battery pole saw, or petrol?

[Rob Dempsey]

44 minutes ago, tree-fancier123 said:

thanks for the reply - bigger than anything I've tackled in terms of sheer length

It looks geometric and neat, they must be pleased with it.

It did occur to me a decent size tractor and flail could trim most of the sides, not as nice a finish

 

 

Thankyou, a tractor and flail got as high as he could reach on the first pic mick posted, I was surprised how good he make it look being conny but only les than half way up in any case. 

[Rob Dempsey]

7 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Is that the Stihl battery pole saw, or petrol?

Battery saw, a recent addition which so far is awesome. ideal not to have to start it up everytime you have to use it. 

[Rob Dempsey]

26 minutes ago, Rich Rule said:

Well done, looks great, but **************** that.

 

When I used to do a lot of hedges in the UK we measured them…. 1 man for a day in a conny hedge is known as 1 misery.

 

So all in all, how many misery’s did it take?

A total of 7 misery's including trimming, made survivable by stihl comms so I could listen to my audiobook 😂

[Mark Bolam]

41 minutes ago, Rob Dempsey said:

Battery saw, a recent addition which so far is awesome. ideal not to have to start it up everytime you have to use it. 

Thanks.

They do look good.

 

Must have been a Godsend on that job.

[Mick Dempsey]

Now I think about it, petrol pole saws are always a ballache to start. 
You have to lay it out, make sure the saw head isn’t touching the ground etc. 
 

A battery one is much more usable. 

[AHPP]

 

[5thelement]

Last couple of days removing these two 26 metre Douglas fir.

Yesterday was pretty still and hot but it was a squally and windy day today, which made lowering things a bit tricky due to the proximity of the neighbours barn. 
Attached the Eder winch for good measure on the fells.

Timber cut to 2.1metre lengths, they will be uplifted tomorrow by the local sawmill. 

[AHPP]

What a perfect example job to discuss multi tree rigging. Assuming the majority needed rigging at all, I would have limbed the left one up to a very small top and installed a rigging point. Then I would have rigged the right one down on that, pulling the pieces away from the wire and wall. I might have done it top down in sticklebrick pieces or bottom up in single/multi limbs or a mixture of both. I certainly wouldn't have done any negative rigging on the right one and very probably wouldn't have done any on the left either (since the lawn was apparently fair enough game for a massive top anyway).

 

Why did you cut out the rigging point furthest from the wire and wall first? Why were you negative rigging?

[5thelement]

8 hours ago, AHPP said:

What a perfect example job to discuss multi tree rigging. Assuming the majority needed rigging at all, I would have limbed the left one up to a very small top and installed a rigging point. Then I would have rigged the right one down on that, pulling the pieces away from the wire and wall. I might have done it top down in sticklebrick pieces or bottom up in single/multi limbs or a mixture of both. I certainly wouldn't have done any negative rigging on the right one and very probably wouldn't have done any on the left either (since the lawn was apparently fair enough game for a massive top anyway).

 

Why did you cut out the rigging point furthest from the wire and wall first? Why were you negative rigging?

The first one was stripped and topped on the first day with no wind or rigging required. On the second tree the wind started to pick up, quite blustery on day two. Rigging off the first one to lower the branches from the second would have created an unmanageable/unnecessary swing and the sidewind would have smashed them into the building which is 3 metres behind the tree. 
Everything  came down easy enough with no drama or damage doing it this way. 

Edited 16 hours ago by 5thelement