the 'todays job' thread

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

On 05/07/2020 at 11:51, Ian Flatters said:

A few recent job pictures, playing up the yard, chipping on very soft ground, not thinking and driving onto dredgings, fishing branches out of the water and loving the reach of the platform.

Pic 3 is an awesome photo!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

A bit tricky to do it justice in the pics, but this was a really interesting tree with a single spiralling column of remaining vitality in an otherwise dead tree!

 

Not the sort of tree I'd want to climb every day...

 

 

[josharb87]

Clearing up last weeks work, this chippers for sale “only” 600hp, the replacement will be 750 ?

 

Took about an hour to load

 

 

 

 

 

[gary112]

started hedge trimming yesterday,300 mtrs at one place,all of them i planted,layed,and now trim each year 

[Stubby]

10 hours ago, gary112 said:

started hedge trimming yesterday,300 mtrs at one place,all of them i planted,layed,and now trim each year 

Rewarding to see the fruits of your previous labor . 

[gary112]

9 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Rewarding to see the fruits of your previous labor . 

It is Stubby,i go back to quite a few places like this one

[Mark Bolam]

That’s mint Gary.

Makes some sense of what we are doing here, if you know what I mean?

[Mark Bolam]

The job today was working for a very handy bloke who can deal with any timber we get on the deck.

He has a felling licence for what we were doing today.

I quoted a lot of money for rigging a big ash over the chalet his daughter lives in, and a lot less for an assisted fell across his pond after specific limb (and stem) removal.

He went for the assisted fell.

Our remit was to get this ash down without hitting the chalet.

We did that, then stayed around for what I thought would be the hard part.

Getting the tree out of the pond.

 

His son in law then rocks up with an Allis-Chalmers crawler built in 1938, so we stayed around.

Pinged a 5t rigging rope (which I’d agreed in the price) pulling the main butt up the banking, but all went well.

 

First pull on tree was on a redirect with a LR Defender.

 

Order of pics vids may be cocked up, I’ve had a few.

[Mark Bolam]

First pic for scale, Danny Mac dropping a big lateral.

And it was big.

540 bar length big.

 

First time Dan’s had disco leg in a while.

 

Not a particularly big butt, the 660 with 25” extended the cut, but remember we had dismantled the other co-dom stem earlier before we could fell. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Nice crawler. Good pics.