the 'todays job' thread

[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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[aspenarb]

We removed the trees pushing this wall over a few months ago and had to wait until now to get TM in place to remove wall and destump.

 

Dozens of big stumps to dig out and 200mts of leaning/cracked wall ranging in height from four to six feet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Furious day but all done by 4pm, just grading and clean up tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

No mucking about there Bob, good work.

Edited May 29, 2018 by Mick Dempsey

[shillo]

Some from the last few weeks