the 'todays job' thread

[Peter 1955]

On 08/08/2025 at 20:02, Peter 1955 said:

And Today's Job begat Tomorrow's job. And Tomorrow's Job begat Next Week's Job. 

 

 

Well I finished the job designated as " Tomorrow's ", the severe garden trimming. I reckoned I deserved a drink, and headed off to a local off licence which has a lot of cans you don't see on the shelves at your average supermarket. He also has a couple of keg lines, and while perusing the shelves, I was enjoying a pint. While chatting to a couple of other customers, I landed a fencing job! Blimey, it's not even safe to go to the offie now! 

[Mark Bolam]

[woody paul]

Moved timber out of garden today, from emergency job last week when Copper beech lost big limb. 300m run out around garden so took trolley to make less trips, 

[Ledburyjosh]

Removed a dead Beech.

 

Quite interesting thinking of how to achieve it with a big enough safety margin.

 

The tree was dead, Kretz, Ganoderma and HF around the base. With a sounding mallet it was apparent there was no sound wood in the base.

 

We have a large drop zone, with collateral to the rhododendron underneath being accepted. Some stone gate pillars and a post and rail fence on the drip line of the canopy on one side.

 

I was happy climbing the upper canopy the wood was clearly dry and dead, but big enough to take my weight.

The unknown was regarding the base and the extent of decay/strength of the wood.

 

Considerations were predominantly around knocking big bits and altering the weight bias of the tree without knowing what margins we had before the tree may fall.

 

My final choice on how to deal with it were concluded by not wanting to be in the tree for any big cuts.

 

So the plan was set a winch line for the eder 1800, and another to side line against the weight attached the a 3t digger. Set the cuts at 1/2 height bail out of the tree and let the winch do the work whilst everyone was safe a clear Incase the tree failed at the base. It still took a suprising pull the get it over, the hinge held for more the I anticipated.

 

It worked just fine, I left a bigger hinge than normal as the wood was dry where I put the cuts in. Got out the tree and let the winch do the work. It landed in the right place as planned with minimal risk to anyone.

 

 

 

 

The remaining lower stem I went back up, stripped the remaining branches and winched it over.