advice needed (chainsaws and rivers)

[morten]

rite I went to price a job today a customer phoned and said he had a tree that had failed :lol: so I get there and its one of the big willows have fell in the river

this is my first big river job

I now how I want to do the job its just the trunk can I put the bar of the saw in the water to cut it if not I have no idea how to cut the trunk wood up

im going to tirfor most the tree out

I will post pics later I would say 50 % of the tree is well under water

any advice would be great

cheers martin

 

As everyone else is saying: No problem cutting with the entire bar submerged in water. And even if you wait for 6 months, and the water has thermally hardened (a.k.a. ice), you just go ahead and cut through that ice, too.

 

Been there, done that

[burrell_]

so I had a bash at it today started of really bad first hand I put on the tree go 2 wasps decided to put there arse in my hand is soon killed them first wasp sting iv have god is hurts

[burrell_]

more sorry love taking pic of the work I do

[burrell_]

more

we had to lift that last limb out the water with the tirth

this is how we left it tonite back tomorrow to finish cleaning up

[MATTMOSS]

I have done a few trees in rivers/water.

Once I had to go to a massive Beech tree that had gone across a river, the first day I spent cutting it up and stacking the brash and cutting the logs into manageable pieces to be winched out and up the bank.

It was an awful job, that night there was torrential rain and the river raised its level by two feet and when I got back there wasn't even one branch left! It had all gone to the next county I'm not religious but someone was looking over me that day

[burrell_]

yeh I enjoyed it as its the first one iv done but its a slow painful job

and u smell of river all day glad I didn't put a price on the job would have bin about 200 short of what I thought it would cost

[spudulike]

Have you read Swallows and Amazons - all that messin about on water:lol:

 

Nice job and clear up - that trailer even had a straight axle:blushing::lol:

[hedgesparrow]

whats wrong with the smell of river good for hands and complexion. love working in or near rivers never get many jobs to do in rivers if i had half the chance would love a job working on a river looking after it

[Yournamehere]

(Zombie resurrection noted)

Thanks all. Top advice all round. All noted. Job jobbed.

(Nothing major - just some long fallen marginal willows and lots of deep soft silt: chest waders + least favourite chainsaw + long bar + good dry out afterwards. And lots of re-sharpening cos of silt.)

The job is a good one!

Happy days,

Yourn

[Steven P]

Cheers for finding this one out YourNameHere - taken a couple of smaller trees out the river this winter so handy to know I was mostly on the right track. Learning points for The Boys will pulleys and more knots.