the 'todays job' thread

[Gray git]

Tried that, my Mrs is of the thinking that if I do it badly the 1st time I'm made to do it again till it's right so now I get a man in to do the stuff that'll take me a lot longer..

[johnanderton]

Beech tree job nr Bolton , council lifted the tpo , pretty soft at the base

 

 

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[John Shutler]

 

Hollow beach dismantle

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Hollow, like a very hollow thing !

 

 

Tricky looking job John.

 

Any fruit bodies present?

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[John Shutler]

Hollow, like a very hollow thing !

 

 

Tricky looking job John.

 

Any fruit bodies present?

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a large old Ganoderma spp bracket about where we put the GRCS and a series of smaller brackets on the opposite side extending up to about 10ft or there abouts. I wasn't expecting it to be quite so hollow...

[John Shutler]

It split in half when we felled it

 

 

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[David Humphries]

A meter off the top would of sufficed, no ?

 

 

 

 

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[John Shutler]

it was originally down to be reduced

[RC0]

Spent most of the day in this big fir. Previously stuck by lightening, so a 15ft dead top, and associated damage spiraling up the trunk. Had lots of big deadwood to remove also, and end weight reduction on about a dozen 30-35 ft limbs....had to be rigged to, so awkward.

 

I used a single strand (static) to move around the tree, as there was a lot of up-and-down climbing through to top 80ft, to give me the best line angle so I could get to the ends of the limbs. The tree was about 150 total. Getting out on the limbs is always easy enough, getting back without the 2:1 of a doubled line system takes quite a burst of strength and gripping power....but overall still the smartest way to get around such a densely-branched tree.

 

Previous breakout/limb failures left large portions of the trunk covered in hard, sticky sap.....just what you need all over your line. I should have gotten some pics of just how disproportionately long some of the limbs were....and 12in in diameter. But i was busy, so didnt really think to at the time.

[Gray git]

3 days for 2 of us of solid hedge cutting, no tidy up just cut and move on, 2 days on big yew stacks that were planted in 1902 then this monster beech. Iv actually climbed up the middle with the long reach to be able to do the 12' wide top. 12ltrs of aspen used and no bad head's which is about the only bit that don't hurt tonight!