the 'todays job' thread

[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 Friday at 19:24 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.

[Doug Tait]

14 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Legally?

About 4m3.

 

🖕

Vive la France.

[NJA]

2 hours ago, AHPP said:

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. 
 

Nice!  Where is that?  Just wondering how far Wallace timber travel

[peds]

5 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

10 cubic metres of chip. 

 

Jesus, I would have underestimated the everloving tits off of that one. It looks dense all right, though.