the 'todays job' thread

[Stephen Blair]

Topping and chopping!

[AHPP]

3 hours ago, kram said:

An ash that I didnt want to climb! A dead stem on the left, the one behind looked ok but had no strength when moved. Big wounds on this side. I know ash can be brittle. I didnt go much past the 3 extension ladder, I swapped to the easy connifers and let the experienced guy do the ash.. if it didnt have the wounds or was a different species, I'd have no problem with it.. irrational?

 

 

Rational but gay. 

[peds]

Just a little crown lift on this sycamore.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Lime repollard, 20 years or so since the last one. 
10 cubic metres of chip. 
Windy as hell, but pretty straight forward. 
Early finish. 

[AHPP]

Yesterday. Did actually do some work from about 11:00. Someone else had done a load of climbing earlier in the week to get the machine hire down to one day. 

 

21 tonnes of beech standing up (and about the same weight of telehandler). Ganoderma, brackets, getting soft in the butt and a little above the crown break but no real voids yet. Caught early by vigilant tree owner and regular drill and resistograph tests. 
 

From tree, back to watching other people work. 
 

 

4.2 tonne bit below the crown break. One little bit below that was less. Machine lift capacity is 5 or 6 tonnes close in. 
 

 

 

And back to watching. Blowing and loading logs in this instance. 
 

Edited March 7 by AHPP

[Joe Newton]

3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Lime repollard, 20 years or so since the last one. 
10 cubic metres of chip. 
Windy as hell, but pretty straight forward. 
Early finish. 

20 years?. Like hell?

[shillo]

4 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

20 years?. Like hell?

10 cube of chip? like hell?

[Mick Dempsey]

Two full transits. You do the math(s)
 

[woody paul]

5 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Lime repollard, 20 years or so since the last one. 
10 cubic metres of chip. 
Windy as hell, but pretty straight forward. 
Early finish. 

That's a fair size canopy Lime tree, I've got 6 to re-pollard I did around 10 years ago the have gone mad with regrowth.  

[Mark Bolam]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Two full transits. You do the math(s)
 

Legally?

About 4m3.