Job from hell !

[RC0]

With respect guys they dont appear to be 100ft to me either:confused1:

 

At 2.20 the climber looks to be about 60 ft. Go back to 1.30 and and he's there at that same height with about 15ft of brush above him? I just dont see him needing a 50m climbing rope to reach the floor by the looks of those shots.

 

anyone else?

[A_lopa]

Look close enough to 90'+ to me

[Peter]

At least Timber looks like hes enjoying himself!

[Tom D]

I find pictures and video really distort the heights of things, sometimes small trees look bigger and vise versa. Like Reg I reckon the pics before and after the top is felled out make 100' seem unlikely so I'd say around 70' for these but only Buzz knows what they really looked like.

 

I sympathise with the drag though, up here a lot of the tenemant flats have to be accesed through the building so you can end up taking stuff like that through peoples houses... Nightmare.

[Mike Hill]

Its bloody hard to tell on Video,also standing on a slope above the Tree can be deceptive.

 

Anyway,these guys would deffinatly know as they are true Professionals.[ame=

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[Tree cutter Stu]

Hello everyone

 

I took the bigest one down and striped the smaller one up. The tree's where big about 90 ft but easy to do, i cut and held most of it then cloged it down with the husky 372 then the 395 to about 25ft where caspa felled the butts over and cut it up. The trees where 6ft across honest.

 

The drag was crap im glad i didnt have much to do with that mainly anna draged it with mark. hope that helps a bit

[Buzz]

90' Stuart, are you sure ! Look about 50' apparently

[Peter]

What do you know Matt, you were actually there!

[RC0]

90' Stuart, are you sure ! Look about 50' apparently

 

Buzz, my suggestion that the trees were not 100 feet does not also imply that the achievement of your team is in anyway diluted, far from it….but you wouldn’t be the first person to overestimate or even exaggerate the height of a tree on an internet forum either. That said, having just read through some of your posts you do come across as a down to earth fella, so I don’t believe for a second its case of the latter. However, I do believe like many others you underestimate how tall 100 ft actually is! Now don’t go off on one about having 15 years behind you etc, that’s not the point….people’s perceptions of how things appear (scale and dimension) just interest me personally, that’s all. It’s not meant as a put-down so just be cool.

 

Here are 3 pictures of trees that I know were around the 100 ft mark as we were able to measure them by the rigging lines. Through my eyes all 3 appear at least 20 ft taller trees than those conifers. What do you think?

 

Not that it matters at all now, whatever the height, we’ll never know exactly.

 

That did look a tough job to haul out all of that volume and stay within your budget….although I think the title ‘job from hell’ would better describe the horrific task facing both the paid and volunteer fire-fighters’ down in Victoria right now. Kinda puts our so-called hellish tree-jobs in perspective!

[Mesterh]

We dropped a 65ft syc the other day that I estimated was around the 45ft mark

Seems I've been climbing taller trees than I give myself credit for