the 'todays job' thread

[RC0]

some hooking today between 2 grand firs. The target tree had an awful bent top so it was decided to reduce it slightly with a view to maintaining the new height at 3 year intervals. Grand firs are notorious out here for producing weighty tops that inevitably fail. Their growth rate is phenomenal.

 

The branches in the very tops are brittle, but this technique produced 3 points of contact, that being the line-redirect, and 2 of the hooks on two separate branches. So it was a safe transfer. The throw was probably 25 feet but the transfer much less by the time Id cinched up the lines.

Wrong setting on the ground camera, which is why it looks all squashed. Sorry. Tree looks passable at least.

 

I worked alone at that property today. All pruning. They got nothing under 100 ft.

[skyhuck]

Nice one Reg, thats pretty cool, did you have the Mission Impossible music playing in your head while doing it??

[silky fox]

Great set of pictures that give a birds eye view of a very cool manoeuvre...

[RC0]

Nice one Reg, thats pretty cool, did you have the Mission Impossible music playing in your head while doing it??

Just the sound of my own grunting, Dave....with a few Fs and Cs thrown in.

 

I had to lighten up the upper part of the adjacent fir, first. Had a very bad union about 40 ft from the top. Notice all the resin bubbles along the trunk ? They pop all over your rope. So by the time I was ready to swing across into the other tree my rope was just a sticky mess. Makes for twice the work. Grand firs are the worst for it out here.

[skyhuck]

Just the sound of my own grunting, Dave....with a few Fs and Cs thrown in.

 

I had to lighten up the upper part of the adjacent fir, first. Had a very bad union about 40 ft from the top. Notice all the resin bubbles along the trunk ? They pop all over your rope. So by the time I was ready to swing across into the other tree my rope was just a sticky mess. Makes for twice the work. Grand firs are the worst for it out here.

 

Yes I topped a biggish one (well biggish for over here, maybe 80ft) last year in Padiham, I ended up changing my lanyard for a new length of cord and my 020 still has some resin encrusted on the handle, sticky, sticky!!

[MattyF]

Came a across a large Feild maple today that had came down in the winds last night....

[Jonny Burch]

 

Oh and this is ongoing...

 

[Steve Bullman]

All by hand Jonny? Too small to bother getting a harvester in for i assume

[Jonny Burch]

All by hand Steve!

 

Customer wanted done that way. On day rate who am I to argue

[Ian Flatters]

Some nice pictures coming on recently.

 

My not so impressive tasks today. Kept the tasks simple due to the wind.

 

Quick repollards on 2 willows. Clearing a part failed willow up.

Starting a dyke clearance so the broads authorities dredger can can in.