the 'todays job' thread

[GarethM]

Why do I have images of him climbing trees Fred dibnah style using just the one ladder and a rope.

[Mick Dempsey]

1 hour ago, GarethM said:

Why do I have images of him climbing trees Fred dibnah style using just the one ladder and a rope.

I had quoted it with a cherry picker in mind.

Not Lombardies, hybrids with some biggish awkward limbs.

It became painfully clear in 1/2 hour that it wasn’t going to work, picker too small (17 meter) so on go the spikes and harness and up I went.

Didn’t quite catch a cold on the job, but certainly didn’t do as well as I should have.

Edited October 4, 2022 by Mick Dempsey

[Mark Bolam]

Hopefully you’ll do better on the fells mate.

[Mick Dempsey]

Be retired by then hopefully!

[Stephen Blair]

Proper job!

[John Shutler]

Interesting job down in NZ

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Saw bits and bobs of that on IG.

 

Very impressive.

You do get the idea  that’s coming out of the public purse, so that’s why you get the Blackhawk.

Edited October 4, 2022 by Mick Dempsey

[Mick Dempsey]

On 30/09/2022 at 22:43, AHPP said:

 

Rare for me to turn a job down but turn down topping some pops I did. Three bloody meaty stems, going out in all directions except up. Proffered spec was wallop it back to three twiglets and whatever wouldn’t fit through the chipper. Tricky rigging. Hemmed in by the worst sort of garden shit. Sheds everywhere. Roads miles away. Basically unviable for a crane. The inevitable takedown will be a proper job but at least can be planned at relative leisure while the tree stands healthy and unmolested. Performing the hack the customer wanted would have started a countdown culminating in calamity and given whoever eventually climbs it to remove it a way harder job. 
 

As is always the case, pictures don’t do it justice. 

 

Now that’s a job for a Blackhawk!

[AHPP]

3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Now that’s a job for a Blackhawk!

Bit loud. Must get my airship off the ground.

[Mick Dempsey]

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