the 'todays job' thread

[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 ?

[openspaceman]

26 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

 

 

 

Nice looking stick, how much of the other end had the decay consumed?

[Ty Korrigan]

The decay G.resinaceum had not advanced very much further up the stem than the felling cut.

Cut high because of the rot.

Client declined a resistograph test.

DBH 105cm for 7m until a flare where the crown started.

Fresh oak for the most part is joy to handsplit with the X27.

  Stuart

 

 

[Ty Korrigan]

1 hour ago, TreeswingerPerth said:

Loving the climbing wellies ?

Client, a dapper young French aristo.

Normally dresses like an English gent before the Great War.

Attentive with the cafetiere and a loyal long term customer with a healthy budget for his 'garden'.

   Stuart

[Ian Flatters]

A medium beech with merip we removed today and one of a few birch we took out in a woodland tree belt.

[Kent Arboreal]

Been a wet and miserable day at times, and at other times gorgeous sunshine, but with views like this one who’d work indoors?!

[Mark Bolam]

Cracking mate.

Where’s that?

[Kent Arboreal]

Cracking mate.
Where’s that?

The hill top in Charing in Kent. Lovely part of the world.