the 'todays job' thread

[Pete W]

 

Knocking a few trees down has certainly opened up the view

[bigtreedon]

Day 2 in Spain..,. Big elm stem (with a tiny Chinese saw and 18" bar)

I was expecting a ms660 when I got there!! Pieced it down til it couldn't hit the house then felled it.

 

 

 

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Good work timon how did that saw handle it

 

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[TIMON]

Good work timon how did that saw handle it

 

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Thanks Don. When I got there and looked at the saw I laughed. It coped surprisingly well. It was right at the limit though. That was the biggest saw available. Not that many trees to take down in the south..

 

 

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[bigtreedon]

Thanks Don. When I got there and looked at the saw I laughed. It coped surprisingly well. It was right at the limit though. That was the biggest saw available. Not that many trees to take down in the south..

 

 

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Looked a fair sized stem ! With a little saw what cc is it 🤔

 

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[TIMON]

It was round about 40cc... it was a case of just getting on with it as there was no way of getting anything bigger. [emoji106]

 

 

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[MattyF]

Nice work especially with the tools at hand , quit jealous you can do tree work in Spain I've looked in to it and it seemed almost impossible! I had one of those little oleo macs years back though and thought it was a great little saw.. I would get another to try but spares where a nightmare in the uk... I had to go back to the yard to get a 395 to flop this ashes top outs last week we where monolithing as I was too chicken to do the second stem on the 576, some thing about standing on spikes with a few tonne over you with no where to go unnerves you .

[Darrin Turnbull]

Nice work especially with the tools at hand , quit jealous you can do tree work in Spain I've looked in to it and it seemed almost impossible! I had one of those little oleo macs years back though and thought it was a great little saw.. I would get another to try but spares where a nightmare in the uk... I had to go back to the yard to get a 395 to flop this ashes top outs last week we where monolithing as I was too chicken to do the second stem on the 576, some thing about standing on spikes with a few tonne over you with no where to go unnerves you . [ATTACH]217838[/ATTACH][ATTACH]217839[/ATTACH]

 

 

Looking good , did you use the Humboldt felling cut.?

[bigtreedon]

Nice work especially with the tools at hand , quit jealous you can do tree work in Spain I've looked in to it and it seemed almost impossible! I had one of those little oleo macs years back though and thought it was a great little saw.. I would get another to try but spares where a nightmare in the uk... I had to go back to the yard to get a 395 to flop this ashes top outs last week we where monolithing as I was too chicken to do the second stem on the 576, some thing about standing on spikes with a few tonne over you with no where to go unnerves you . [ATTACH]217838[/ATTACH][ATTACH]217839[/ATTACH]

Nice work matty I agree so much nicer to be on top of the job saw wise when in the tree

 

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[TIMON]

Nice work especially with the tools at hand , quit jealous you can do tree work in Spain I've looked in to it and it seemed almost impossible! I had one of those little oleo macs years back though and thought it was a great little saw.. I would get another to try but spares where a nightmare in the uk... I had to go back to the yard to get a 395 to flop this ashes top outs last week we where monolithing as I was too chicken to do the second stem on the 576, some thing about standing on spikes with a few tonne over you with no where to go unnerves you . [ATTACH]217838[/ATTACH][ATTACH]217839[/ATTACH]

 

 

Tree work culture in southern Spain is a totally different ball game. They just hack at stuff and it grows back (mostly). Chippers are non existent. Given that and the problems with the economy no one seems to be interested in paying for arbs. For the most part, the farmers look after their own olive, lemon and orange trees with hand saws which is the closest it gets to anything of an industry standard. Perhaps the municipal trees get looked after but it doesn't seem to be anything like in the U.K. I got the opportunity to do it because our international Director loves trees and hates it when they get hacked. The nice thing is they have just planted 160 trees where I was working. It takes them a full 2 days to water them all [emoji106]

 

 

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[dan blocker]

I would go for the spanish weather(except high summer:thumb down:) But defo the Cumbrian views(except in mid winter:thumb down:)