the 'todays job' thread

[5thelement]

On 29/11/2021 at 20:34, MattyF said:

Some from the last few days , willows where easily dealt with bagging an old 16mm lowering rope high up and pulling out with the chipper winch... made a change from cutting every things into little bits...



Gutted though to see this on a site my father and me cleaned out all the windblow 7 years ago ... now it's just flat.

I was informed today that there is up to a million tonnes of wind blown crop at Keilder Forest. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Nice job on the cedar, but grim work to do. 

[Joe Newton]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Nice job on the cedar, but grim work to do. 

Cheers Mick, it wasn't awful to be fair, lots of passes down the crown and back up again and a lot of detritus collected in my clothing along the way though. It was quite nice to stick with a silky all the way through, haven't done that in years. 

 

I can just about enjoy a job like that as long as there's no more than 4 hours climbing involved. 

[MattyF]

I was informed today that there is up to a million tonnes of wind blown crop at Keilder Forest. 

I was chatting to a harvester driver today who had been called to clear wind blow on the forest roads and he recons the estimate was less .but that could be just for the west of the forest where we are.. I did have the FC ringing up on Sunday for hand cutters to get the roads opened around spayed Adam as they recon it's been flattened but again I've not seen it first hand.. it's bad though , village up the road still has no power or water.
It's going to deflate the market for sure !

[Gray git]

A few from last week out with the Merlo sowing us again how good and safe it is on storm damaged tree's in dodgy place's, no need to get in and scramble about with a saw or polesaw weighting for something to try and take your legs out.

[Andy Craig]

Big horse chestnut removal this week, riddled with honey fungus, base wasn't as far gone as everyone thought though. Loader coming tomorrow to take the stem away.day one

day twoday three plenty of spectators to put the pressure on

[Mick Dempsey]

I’d have been tempted to pull it over in a oner at 9am day one, if the hedge was going to get smashed anyway, but I wasn’t there.

Edited December 8, 2021 by Mick Dempsey

[woody paul]

Just now, Mick Dempsey said:

I’d have been tempted to pull it over in a oner at 9am day one, but I wasn’t there.

Was thinking the same, room to drop why not. 

[Andy Craig]

Would have done so but there was a lot of weight towards the house and the base looked questionable before we cut into it, at least at that height if the hinge crumbled it wasn't going to hit anything. Could dig into a lot of it with just my finger 

[bigtreedon]

First tree of the day