not long for this world!

[Perkins]

Hard to tell the distance to that building. My thoughts were that simply pulling it could result in the tree twisting and falling sideways. The crown bias looks to be in the right direction, but there are one or two big boughs up the middle and out the back, which I guessed would reach the corrugated sheeting. Still, it defo needs a gob in the front. I think you'll be surprised how much sawing or pulling (or both) you have to do to get it down.

[john p]

It ll stay like that for years eh?

Came down last night, apparently farmer who rents field said he will clear it for the wood! Provisionally booked into to do it Thursday, when the farmer realises he has bitten off more than he can chew !.

 

 

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[codlasher]

Bedford MK?

Looks a very useful piece of machinery.

Off topic MK story...sorry.....

I helped recover one with my old county winch tractor. He'd fell in a ditch trying to get to a Calor gas tanker that was squashing a LR Discovery (belonging to a lady friend who had called me for help) that had slipped into the same ditch.......in the snow of 2009/10. I could and did pull the MK out then the Disco but I could only pull the front wheels of the gas tanker out of the ditch as the Cooks was only rated at 10 tons. The MK driver and I managed to get a belay onto a big beech tree to pull his machine into position where he could finally deploy his powerful 30 ton winch and recover the gas tanker. Two other vehicles slid into us and the tanker as we were doing this job and blamed us for being there....I was impressed with the power of the MK winch. It was very slow but with that amount of pull to hand you can take your time and not pull the front off a wagon!

codlasher

 

PS. the belay was done using a purpose built snatch block that took two of us to lift!