Mission impossible...

[Ty Korrigan]

We have been contacted for the second time by a chap with a knotty problem.

Property with a lake that is part of a system that feeds a canal.

The access to the property is very limited, down a narrow waterside track cut into the lakeside banks and lined with large leaning trees.

In particular, there is an oak leaning to heavily it has fissured and could go anytime.

Problem is, this access track is used daily by the family car.

Client also has an obligation to keep the lake clear of debris so just felling the tree into the lake is not an option unless it can be removed.

Question is...how?

We can't get any decent sized machinery along the track, the families car only just does it!

One option we are considering is a helicopter...

After all, it may just be a hiding to nothing but you never know...the quote may be accepted:001_rolleyes: I wish!

Any-one out there with any experience using helicopters to remove fallen trees or heli-logging perhaps?

Regards

Ty

Oh, I will try and get some images next time I'm passing.

[Tree Man Tom]

K.i.s.s

 

Keep it simple stupid

 

Climb it, mewp if you can't. Drop into lake small, winch out, use small boat. Etc...

 

Yes a heli would be fun but sounds like you over complicating the job

 

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[difflock]

If sufficient room to allow access for a famly car, should be sufficient room for a smaller/cabless high HP compact tractor with a forestry winch.

Using "pully blocks" if appropriate to multiply the pull.

5t to 10 t to 15 t to 20tonne

therefore smply drop into lake and winch out piecemeal.

Or a Trifor.

Or a high capacity hydraulic winch anchored to the butt of the fissured Oak.

[kentjames]

How big is their family car? Would a MEWP squeeze under it? Some of the JLG and Genies are 2m closed height and yet will go up 12m? (and out 6m which might be useful if its leaning over water)

 

Or climb it

[kentjames]

Or just raise the crowns of the trees lining the route in first - removes the access issue all together and improves the property access.

[muldonach]

Get a small boat that is stable enough to use a saw out of if necessary, a couple of snatch blocks, tirfors and a quad bike, if available a 3 tonne digger could be useful.

 

Fell the tree over the road and into the water, and extract it from there using the quad if possible to reduce small enough and the tirfors / digger if you have to pull lumps of timber up the bank.

 

It will take a while and be a pita but it sounds do-able given a sense of humour and some determination.

[Wolfie]

Climb and rig Ty - just wear a life jacket and put some water wings on the chainsaw.

 

 

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[Ty Korrigan]

I suppose...I could blow it up...?

My Great Uncle George was captured at Dunkirk after slowing the Germans doing just that.

I forgot to say, the trunk is very badly fissured, you can put your arm through it:blushing: and that 5 other Arb companies have refused the work already.

The client 'may' have money, he may not. I done a quote for a Hollywood actor with a chateau in the Loire last summer. He had money but wouldn't spend it!

Later...

Ty

[Rich2484]

How wide is the water? Could you not just drop a net accross to catch the tree if it floats down stream after dropping it? The net would then catch anything else that goes in....

 

Like your saw. surely climbing would be ok as if you went over it would be a softer landing than on hard ground...

 

The net could be attached by long line that goes further up past the tree so you could pull it in once tree is over and haul in the tree or bits that it catches...

 

 

Just a thought.