the 'todays job' thread

[Moose McAlpine]

  On 10/12/2020 at 15:05, Khriss said:

And dec ent felling cut aswell. K

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It wasn't great to be honest. I've only felled 3 or 4 trees before, and  they weren't anything like this big. This was 40"+ at the stump, so needed to be cut from both sides. Gob cuts needed some tidying up, back cut wasn't perfect.

 

It landed where we wanted it though, more practice in time.

[Stubby]

  On 08/12/2020 at 20:14, JaySmith said:

Deadwooding some tall Pop’s. Up there somewhere

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I see ya 😊

[lux]

More of the same for us today, same site again as the photos from Tuesday. Another couple bopped down to the specified heights.

Same again tomorrow. Sadly much bigger ...

[Moose McAlpine]

What kind of tree is that, Lux?

[mtt.tr]

Nice dead willow as a warm up, the other willow has a wood pecker hole about 2mtrs below the ideal anchor and a massive span over a fence and small young oaks got the easy stuff in the afternoon needed my rigging kit to finish up so will be done tomorrow. 

 

Really nice firm to climb for. 

[lux]

  On 10/12/2020 at 19:21, Moose McAlpine said:

What kind of tree is that, Lux?

Which one chap? There’s two in those pics.

One with the burrs and helical form is Sweet chestnut.

The one in the last pic where I’m still up the tree is Horse Chestnut.

[Moose McAlpine]

  On 10/12/2020 at 19:31, lux said:

Which one chap? There’s two in those pics.

One with the burrs and helical form is Sweet chestnut.

The one in the last pic where I’m still up the tree is Horse Chestnut.

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First one, i like the helical form as you said. Wood looks good. Will it get milled?

[lux]

  On 10/12/2020 at 19:35, Moose McAlpine said:

 
First one, i like the helical form as you said. Wood looks good. Will it get milled?

Well if @bigbeech turns up tomorrow It’ll be going on his trailer to be milled. [emoji106]

That log is 4.7 metres long. 3 ft across at the felling cut.

Nearly all the trees are spec’d that they can be left at 5/6 metres. That one is just over 5 ft across at the base so as nice as that bit left standing is it’s too much effort to get out of the woods unless someone makes a reasonably strong offer.

[lux]

  On 10/12/2020 at 19:35, Moose McAlpine said:

 
First one, i like the helical form as you said. Wood looks good. Will it get milled?

And yes , I was pleased the wood was so nice as the top 10 metres of the tree was rotten and hollow. Fair old bit of hart wood.
I cut some burrs out of some of the rubbish to see if any turners are interested.

[Moose McAlpine]

  On 10/12/2020 at 19:40, lux said:

Well if @bigbeech turns up tomorrow It’ll be going on his trailer to be milled.

That log is 4.7 metres long. 3 ft across at the felling cut.

Nearly all the trees are spec’d that they can be left at 5/6 metres. That one is just over 5 ft across at the base so as nice as that bit left standing is it’s too much effort to get out of the woods unless someone makes a reasonably strong offer.

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Good to see it'll get used. Bet you'll get some lovely timber out of it.

 

I thought you'd taken it down to the stump, that remaining section must be huge if it's 5' across.

 

  On 10/12/2020 at 19:47, lux said:

I cut some burrs out of some of the rubbish to see if any turners are interested.
 

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How big are the bits and how much do you want for some?