the 'todays job' thread

[Steve Bullman]

On 12/24/2017 at 10:34, Ian Flatters said:

The last job of he year for us. A dead Wellingtonia which had been topped and died off.

Client wanted it down to weigh up having a carving made from the lower stem/stump.

Had to spend a good few hours restoring the gravel path and cleaning up the huge courtyard area of mud and debris.

Was it the previous topping that killed it, or had it been topped as it was dying back anyway>?

[Ian Flatters]

Was it the previous topping that killed it, or had it been topped as it was dying back anyway>?

 

Hit by lightning in 2008 I was told by the client.

 

The tree was looking quite healthy (as best it could) up to a few years ago then it slowly started to decline and die.

 

At a guess I’d say either it was using up its remaining reserves and has now died or just decided to die.

[tony_t3d]

Short video of the felling of a fairly large Scots pine. I didn't video any of the climbing unfortunately (it was a nightmare!)

[Darrin Turnbull]

looks more Corsican pine to me.

[tony_t3d]

looks more Corsican pine to me.

I'm not really knowledgeable of the sub species of pine I was just going off what I was told. We had planted 100,000 of them over a 50 year period on the site so I assumed this was the same.

Thanks for the correction

[bigtreedon]

Some laurel we cleared today

[aspenarb]

Nothing fancy, just a bit of clearance.

 

Bob

[jmac]

Is that a big trailed stump grinder on the back of the mog? 

[Andymacp]

Big dirty Mac’s today

[bigtreedon]

Down south contracting this week dead sequoia this morning