the 'todays job' thread

[White Noise]

Spirit level job there mate:thumbup1:

 

Cheers Stevie , I would of preferred Hodges approach though . Fell them all Conifers love them or hate them they pay the bills

[Hodge]

Cheers Stevie , I would of preferred Hodges approach though . Fell them all Conifers love them or hate them they pay the bills

 

Tidy job, they are our cash cow, who says money don't grow on trees.

[White Noise]

Tidy job, they are our cash cow, who says money don't grow on trees.

 

I,ll second that

[JimM]

Why would a jack (with a top plate) sink into the rot any more than the wedges??

 

Just this particular circumstance. The rot had left the sound wood as an horseshoe shape. Gob In the top of the hoop and a wedge, then wedges, in each of the legs. Just wide enough sound timber to take a high lift. Carefully matched the depth the wedges went in in each side until it went over.

It would have failed "safe" back and left because of crown weight, but would have damaged a number of young plantation oaks.

Had used a rope and winch all day on others but didn't have the straight pull option on this one and reckoned any sideways stress would have burst the hinge in the wrong direction.

I'm certainly up for some bottle-Jack action though.

[Maximalist]

[Stephen Blair]

Looks like the passer by had sore ears!

[timtree81]

Today's job , Eco plugging a few alders

[Adam Bourne]

First time I've seen anyone use them Tim, is it your first? Or have you seen results from them before mate?

[timtree81]

It's my second time using them , there were 15 stumps that had been treated with Eco plugs 2 years before on the same stretch of river and they were all in decline , it seems a good way to kill a stump

[swinny]

It's my second time using them , there were 15 stumps that had been treated with Eco plugs 2 years before on the same stretch of river and they were all in decline , it seems a good way to kill a stump

 

Do they require so many? Or does it say every 2" around the stump?

 

Cheers chris