the 'todays job' thread

[IronMike]

I'll see your wet ground, and raise your with some not quite so wet ground, lovely timber, and some annoying rhododendrons. 

[Big J]

12 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:

Flat wet woodland, tree quality high, bramble levels low.

 

 

7 hours ago, IronMike said:

I'll see your wet ground, and raise your with some not quite so wet ground, lovely timber, and some annoying rhododendrons. 

Jammy barstewards.

 

We've had 70mm of rain in three days and this is what my ground conditions look like:

 

 

[Squaredy]

12 minutes ago, Big J said:

 

Jammy barstewards.

 

We've had 70mm of rain in three days and this is what my ground conditions look like:

 

 

I hope you are managing to keep my sawlogs lovely and clean!  The firewood boys won’t mind, but my saws don’t like mud very much….😉

[Mark Bolam]

Logging doesn’t get better than this.

Me and Macca on the saws ringing at waist level courtesy of a Intermacato Tigercat grapple with a good op.

[AHPP]

Logging doesn’t get better than this. Me and Macca on the saws ringing at waist level courtesy of a Intermacato Tigercat grapple with a good op.

 

 

I enjoyed the peak version of that last week. Was booked to climb. Ended up just watching a lorry grapple saw snip down trees, occasionally ringing up logs held by it. Felt like cheating.

 

[nepia]

Similarly I was actually paid to use two tanks of fuel in a 'day' cleaning up larger branches ready for the chipper that had come off a big Turkey Oak in Bromley.  The grapple saw took its time and had the tree down to a 25' stump in 2.5 hours.  Timber lorry then arrived, loaded the big stuff and we left site at 2pm after a 10am start (M25 closure had delayed the grapple saw).

Almost felt like cheating but not quite.  My back was heard to say 'I love that machine'

[josharb87]

Felled a DED elm and pruned a maple (seen in last pic) 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Both in the same day?

[josharb87]

Yeah, crown of the elm was off and out by lunch. So one of the guys went up the maple, the other raked up/grounded for the prune/straight felled another small elm. Away by 3.

 

back tomorrow to grind the stump (not going to be nice, growing on bedrock pretty much)  and prune a chestnut  

[Khriss]

@josharb87 big lumps and nice tree house too! K