Aerial inspection

[David Humphries]

Came across a good vid of an inspection

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ouF1IONxqw]Logical Tree Management - YouTube[/ame]

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Parker]

Nice clear video, thanks for posting

[treeseer]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6ZeC2gPDzk]Great Falls White Oaks Aerial Assessment - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAxxk6ojeMs]Great Falls White Oaks Aerial Assessment pt.2 - YouTube[/ame]

 

first assessor noted "high risk from lightning strike and big dead limbs".

Edited December 14, 2012 by David Humphries
Language please Guy !

[David Humphries]

first assessor noted "high risk from lightning strike and big dead limbs".

 

 

Hand held or helmet cam Guy ?

 

 

 

 

 

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[redmoosefaction]

1:35.... that's my problem too, birds have attacked the crotch over several years.

[David Humphries]

1:35.... that's my problem too, birds have attacked the crotch over several years.

 

Lucky you !

 

 

Does one inspect aerialy, Moosey ?

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[JonnyVine]

Wow, its a different world isnt it

 

Makes the Robinia I last inspected look like a shrub

 

Good vid David

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Hi all,

 

Just on the subject of 'aerial tree inspections', the AA Arborist Working Group ('AWG') are currently working on a guidance note to assist undertaking these where there is no clear instruction as to what the client/owner/consultant wants checking, i.e. a general instruction to undertake a climbing inspection of a tree.

 

I'll let you know when it's published / available.

 

Cheers all..

Paul

 

PS IN case you're wondering what AWG is, it's a group of industry base arborists who come together with a view to producing guidance and providing assistance to benefit the industry and those who work witihin it. Hence if any of you have good ideas you feel would help achieve this, and you're prepared to put the time in to follow them through, then please get in touch with me or Jaime Bray...thanks!

[treeseer]

Sean and I did a session on this in oz last year; handout fwiw:

 

Current Topics in Aerial Assessment by Guy Meilleur and Sean Freeman

Background: ISA provides past issues of its research journal and Arborist News magazine available free to all at International Society of Arboriculture. Just click Education, then Publications, and you can read and download articles whenever you like. Two examples are August 2010’s Climber’s Corner on Aerial Assessment, and October 2009’s Detective Dendro case featuring the aging arborsleuth and his young team ascending trees to assess and treat lightning damage.

Thanks! to tradeshow vendors here today for their generous loan of gear. Please check out their offerings of diagnostic equipment and other kit that is key for work such as:

Sizing Up Status: Tree owners love learning exactly how tall and wide their tree is, so they will pay you to climb to the top and drop a tape measure. What could be easier? US arborists boost appreciation of large trees--and their tree care providers!--by nominating trees at http://www.americanforests.org/resources/bigtrees/nomination.php

Check out Veteran Trees Group Australia at Veteran Tree Group Australia to see how ancient trees down under are brought to light with video and still cameras.

Get a Grip on secrets in trees by shedding your gloves. Feel for bumps and bulges and striations that reveal powers within. With practice, hands can learn to hear the tree’s stories.

Curiosity about Creatures: From cockatoos and woodborers to more beneficial birds and bugs, the interaction between critters and trees can be significant. Climbers trained to see and collect them in bags and boxes and images provide valuable services to tree managers.

Translate body language by pushing and pulling on limbs and watching their response. Climbers can often see the best locations for pruning cuts and supplemental support cables.

Tapping suspicious areas with special hammers can reveal hollow areas without damage. Learning to use tomographs can make climbers valuable members of a consultant’s team.

Probing the width and height of hollows documents defects without drilling.

At the 2006 ISA conference, Dr. Dan Marion described an appropriate response to Tree Risk. Using a soft tape measure, Dan checks the relative size of defects and their host tree parts to track battles between host and pathogen, allowing trees to be responsibly mainatined over time.

When you can, set the saw aside and use other tools, like your hands and your mind and your heart. Touch Trees, and they will show you right ways to care for them, and much more!

[David Humphries]

Non cutting aerial work can be so variable, from safety inspection through to survey & study.

 

We often get quite varied oportunity to evaluate decay/dysfunction in both specimen & habitat trees, document fungi, measure (small) champions, study veteran trees & the 'odd' one offs, like a recent audio project.

 

Always interested in seeing what others are up to away from chainsaws whilst up in zee trees & what equipment is being used for both assessment & documentation. ?

 

 

Guy your spot on using that relevant phrase "Touching trees" (getting 'up' close & personal) is the only way to 'learn' what's going on upstairs.

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