the 'todays job' thread

[Al Cormack]

Less than 4 min on my own, quicker with someone to help guide the pipes in.

What rotator is that? I need a replacement that swaps easily from a clamshell to a woodcracker.
Cheers

[Husqvarna King]

9 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

More hot fir action!

 

Moving 2 mètre sections roadside.

Lovely set up mate, must be even more annoying for you when customers have poor access, gotta love a 24" alleyway ?

[Mick Dempsey]

Well it doesn’t happen often, certainly not as often as in the UK where every square foot of space has extensions, conservatories etc. But I take your point.

 

I usually just hire an extra pair of hands and charge accordingly.

[Mick Dempsey]

Timber lorry came today, he had to back down a narrow farm track and negotiate a couple of decent stems through a couple of ancient stone pillars and wangle them onto his truck.

 

He gets it for free so no moaning allowed!

[Ian Flatters]

A couple of pictures from a few jobs and 2 chipper pictures I took and edited that I liked.

Thankfully I doing less and less of the climbing work as the guys are keen to take over.

[Steve Bullman]

Worse places to be working

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

Back to the snapped cherry I looked at a couple of weeks ago.

The beekeeper had been in and enticed the swarm into a hive last week, so the client, who we work for a fair bit, was keen to crack on.

The tree had fallen over a boundary, so neighbours fence, shrubs, ditch, lights etc. all came into play.

It had taken down a couple of hornbeam coppice stands with it as well, just to add some interesting tension and compression issues.

The tree was surveyed last year and appeared to be healthy.

The only sign of anything amiss was a 3” dia pecker hole at about 6’, which was missed.

Disappointingly very little comb and no honey when we sectioned it.

Some good lumps for turning and a decent 4’ section recovered for milling though.

[Gray git]

Not today but last weekend made this little addition for the botex

Idea is grinder can travel up against headboard and with clamshell fitted tidy up of big stumps will take hardly any time.

[David Humphries]

On 23/05/2018 at 22:19, Mark Bolam said:

Back to the snapped cherry I looked at a couple of weeks ago.

The beekeeper had been in and enticed the swarm into a hive last week, so the client, who we work for a fair bit, was keen to crack on.

The tree had fallen over a boundary, so neighbours fence, shrubs, ditch, lights etc. all came into play.

It had taken down a couple of hornbeam coppice stands with it as well, just to add some interesting tension and compression issues.

The tree was surveyed last year and appeared to be healthy.

The only sign of anything amiss was a 3” dia pecker hole at about 6’, which was missed.

Disappointingly very little comb and no honey when we sectioned it.

Some good lumps for turning and a decent 4’ section recovered for milling though.

Nice

[David Humphries]

Tricky dismantle of a good sized DED Elm over a busy north London Bus route and parked cars. Team Leader Ali Nicoll up top.

 

New apprentice Tom on his first decent sized rigging/clear up job, learning the ropes.