the 'todays job' thread

[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

[AHPP]

Poplar pollard. Neat little zig zag predirect to keep the rigging all slick and in-line. Little things like that set up in the first half hour of the day make rigging for the next six hours of the day nice and boring.

[Doug Tait]

55 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Poplar pollard. Neat little zig zag predirect to keep the rigging all slick and in-line. Little things like that set up in the first half hour of the day make rigging for the next six hours of the day nice and boring.

Nice, looks a big job. Can't help wonder which pocket you carried your phone in though...

 

Is that a hole in the ground beneath the tree?

 

[nepia]

I spy with my little eye shiny screwgate carabiners  👍

[Mark Bolam]

2 hours ago, AHPP said:

Poplar pollard. Neat little zig zag predirect to keep the rigging all slick and in-line. Little things like that set up in the first half hour of the day make rigging for the next six hours of the day nice and boring.

Boring and efficient.

 

Nice one.