the 'todays job' thread

[Dobson89]

17 bales

[RobRainford]

20 bales

 

We have a winner

 

20 bales with a bit of room left

[Thomas Flower-Ellis]

As you rightly point out, a majestic & beautiful looking tree

I bet you guys had a great climb around it.

 

Intrigued as to the the need for the dead wooding ?

In terms of risk, is it a very heavily visited tree ?

 

 

thanks

 

David

 

Hi David! Yes, the tree is located in a heavily visited park next to a museum. This particular Beech had large, broken-off sections hanging in the canopy, waiting to give some unfortunate soul a headache . We removed only the riskiest bits, so hopefully left plenty of habitat for fungal (and other) friends. On this job as a whole, we spent a couple of weeks safety pruning some of the most "exposed" trees and installing Cobra systems in others. Great work

[felixthelogchopper]

hope this has worked todays job fell and burn all leylandi

 

An excellent philosophy to live by.

[csservices]

Todays job was planting the hedges to finish the fencing job I put pics on of the other week, ground was rock hard, had to start the slits and then had the customer watering them for me so could get the spade in deep enough to be able to plant, all done 150 beech and 160 hawthorn, sore knees and bad back in the morn, I'm getting too old for that kind of job

[Chris Sheppard]

Spent this morning finishing off forwarding some firewood on a local estate, nothing odd about that on the whole, but was such a nice site to be working on.

 

It's some woods surrounding a lake which is far enough off the beaten track to be a bit of a haven for wildlife, there were Swans, Canada Geese, Pinkfeet, Moorhens and Mallard as well as a few odd Pheasants and a Buzzard or two floating about.

 

It was also a bit odd as there was barely any brash or stumps to deal with as a Mulcher had been through a week or so ago so i was like a motorway in places (apart from where the mulcher wheelings were 4ft deep )

 

Over Friday, Saturday and a couple of hours today I got 47 loads out. working on the downside and sayign 2T per load, I'm pretty chuffed as that was all with the kubota and little trailer and yesterday saw 26 loads out - just don't look too closely at the stacking though as it was all ramdom lengths from about 6ft to 14 ft - it's stacked a lot neater than I'd expected it to.

 

Another thing a bit unusual was that I think almost every part of the job so far has been done by Arbtalkers, even if they are lurkers

 

Few pics of my view from the tractor. It doesn't look it in the photo, but the stack is about 130ft long and between 8 and 10ft tall.

Edited April 21, 2013 by Chris Sheppard

[Old Mill Tree Care]

You sure that's 90ft Ali ??? I would of said 70ft at a push, it could be just the photo angle, will watch the video when I get home not had chance to watch it yet mate

 

 

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Maybe 85ft, 90 sounds better.

Don't care really. Got it down without even squashing grass.

 

 

Sent with my iPhone from me, to you!

[Ian Flatters]

You sure that's 90ft Ali ??? I would of said 70ft at a push, it could be just the photo angle, will watch the video when I get home not had chance to watch it yet mate

 

 

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Using some clever stuff its 79.6ft

[matty71]

It was also a bit odd as there was barely any brash or stumps to deal with as a Mulcher had been through a week or so ago so i was like a motorway in places (apart from where the mulcher wheelings were 4ft deep )

 

 

A bit like this?

[Chris Sheppard]

It was also a bit odd as there was barely any brash or stumps to deal with as a Mulcher had been through a week or so ago so i was like a motorway in places (apart from where the mulcher wheelings were 4ft deep )

 

 

A bit like this?

 

That'd be it Bet he was cursing a bit.

 

My poor little tractor would barely straddle one of his wheelings in places!

 

All that's left to come out now it where he's not managed to get with the mulcher and I can't get over the brash.

Edited April 21, 2013 by Chris Sheppard