freak occurrence or poorly built wall or school boy error

[David Riding]

Removed a medium / large leylandii today, bout 2ft at base next to telephone cable. Dismantled untill it was a meter above cable and felled the rest parallel to cable. Used the "Haine" technique and felled it high to miss patio wall. Also chose that height to fell as above that point was start of multi stem. Chunk felled must have been less than half a tonne. It landed 3 feet short of wall. Impact on lawn messed the wall up. Anyway, what the title says????

 

1st photo: height felled (wall in background)

2nd photo: damaged wall (front curving out)

[Peter]

Should have got a professional in to do it.

[Dean Lofthouse]

ha ha, I delivered two bags of logs to a guy on the edge of the moors, no traffic for two days, no logs. so doing him a favour I battled through and got the logs to him, I reverse up a long drive that was a total white out and hit a wall under a snow drift.

 

He went ballistic, so I have to go back and spend 1/2 a day rebuilding this wall which is also a 24 mile round trip.

[Mr Ed]

Looks like you used the 'Thorman' technique to me. Very similar to the 'Haine', but usually involves something getting broken

[Peter]

I would have felled the whole tree in one, phone line and all, and gone home for lunch.

 

Half a tonne, what a poof!

[David Riding]

I would have felled the whole tree in one, phone line and all, and gone home for lunch.

 

Half a tonne, what a poof!

 

 

I did consider temp removing cable and felling it in one as there was room,

[Johny Walker]

ha ha, I delivered two bags of logs to a guy on the edge of the moors, no traffic for two days, no logs. so doing him a favour I battled through and got the logs to him, I reverse up a long drive that was a total white out and hit a wall under a snow drift.

 

He went ballistic, so I have to go back and spend 1/2 a day rebuilding this wall which is also a 24 mile round trip.

 

is the motor ok ?

[Dean Lofthouse]

is the motor ok ?

 

I never checked to be honest too busy taking flack

[David Riding]

Should have got a professional in to do it.

 

Professionals are expensive, bricklayers are cheap

[Peter]

Anyway, to answer your question, looks like a wall in poor state of repair to me, however it is always difficult to persuade the customer of this after the fact.

 

What did you do?