the 'todays job' thread

[TTownsend]

  On 16/09/2019 at 18:28, Khriss said:

Quite like Holm oak from a distance. K

That’s what I would of said if the TO didn’t state it being otherwise

[Alex O]

  On 16/09/2019 at 20:35, TTownsend said:

Andy ?? But yeah, company I work for does all the tree work there. We cover all the national trusts in that area, so like Barrington Court and Lytes Cary

Haha sorry don’t know who Andy is, yeah nice areas to visit haven’t been for years

[slack ma girdle]

A bit of winch assisted felling.

[Mick Dempsey]

Lovely, lucrative grinding day.

Pops all around a footy pitch, 4 years felled so easy grinding, flatten it out and flail repeatedly to leave a decent finish.

 

5 days a week of this would be nice!

 

 

Edited September 17, 2019 by Mick Dempsey

[shillo]

  On 06/09/2019 at 19:08, woody paul said:

All week on conifers 90m long and 9 m wide bit tight for space round back and loader was kept busy, chipping up next week.

 

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nice having the lift platform. we did one once and it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be with the platform, trying to boom in without damaging the remains of the leyland and scrabbling about on my knees in the basket to try to level off cuts etc. 

[woody paul]

  On 18/09/2019 at 17:02, shillo said:

nice having the lift platform. we did one once and it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be with the platform, trying to boom in without damaging the remains of the leyland and scrabbling about on my knees in the basket to try to level off cuts etc. 

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As it was so wide we zip lined tops off via bigger stems picker was used to rig and cut as lower down as could get then when i had done each tree or two would get in tree and cut to finished height.

Edited September 18, 2019 by woody paul

[aspenarb]

Forgot to post up  that windblown across a footpath from the other day that had the hornets nest in the middle.

 

 

The adjacent field stayed dry enough to get the truck alongside so craned it out of there.Twas a lump.

 

 

The chimp wanted to be included

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Nice Bob, looks like some superb firewood, not for the goblins I hope?

[Ty Korrigan]

Oak next to the new metro station in North Rennes Brittany.

I've been observing and periodically deadwooding this tree since 2011.

Given the size of the brackets and the construction work behind the owner reluctantly decided to remove it.

During the expropriation of the terrain, for the metro extension, the city built a bank of earth over the roots which perhaps hastened it's decline.

The stump, once lowered, had a hollow deeper than a rake handle though still alot of supporting wood.

The chip was delivered to a local parks department, the crown hand split with a Fiskars X27 and 7m of stem kept for milling, more of which I hope to post later this Autumn.

Big lumps and felling done using a 500i running a 90cm bar, something it does with ease. 

Image of me is just for scale, one of my guys felled it.

Last image is of the client,  who asked to climb the tree. With help from the rigging pulley, he got up to the anchor point, totally unafraid, took in the view and got himself down mastering the friction knot very well ascending and descending.

  Stuart

 

[TreeswingerPerth]

Loving the climbing wellies ?