the 'todays job' thread

[Mick Dempsey]

Felling the last sticks.

[Mick Dempsey]

On the last day it was blowing a hooley and raining, I felt like I was in a washing machine climbing these. All done now.

[Ian Flatters]

Nearly finished the easy section and a quick couple of jobs.

[Mr P]

A few decent takedowns over the last few days and got to try using a jack in the back cut of one of the stems.

 

The jack was only rated to 2 tonnes and therefore didn't look at it considering the back lean it had to fight. A bit of an oversight on our part but thankfully had a manitou on site to help out!

[Mr P]

On the same job a rotten sycamore.

 

In the last photo you can see my lunch bag at the bottom for some scale. The manitou struggled with it a bit!

[Ian Flatters]

A before and after shot of a section of clearing we did on a old mental hospital site.

[John Shutler]

Yesterday mornings oak reduction of upto 2m

 

 

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[Mick Dempsey]

Sequoia takedown today. Used the Zig-Zag!

[Mick Dempsey]

Not enormous, maybe 85 ft. The branches snap off nicely, haven't done one for years.

[Mick Dempsey]

Bit of a back lean towards the house which always gets the butterflies going, but a 2:1 pull with the tractor did the job