storm damaged lime

[testcricket01]

working on a estate that we do the trees on now. they have spent alot of money on these 3 limes in reduction work and re reductions etc etc. we deadwooded all 3 of these a few weeks ago. yesterday went to clear up one as one of them had snapped out at about 5ft where a old cavity was, whole tree was riddled in saddleback fungus. lucky for the client it failed into another lime as to save the lawn. we used the grcs and stein dual bollard to lower the whole stem in one section to prevent as little damage to the lawn as possible. 2 of us cleared the tree in the day. back tomorrow afternoon to stump grind. not a thrilling video i mainly made it cause of gareth falling over

[Stephen Blair]

Gutsy climbing mate.

[dexta]

Bet he felt a tit tripping over, and glad you have posted it on YouTube . Nice bit of lowering

[Mark Bolam]

Good thinking outside the box there James, and as Stevie said, some ballsy climbing.

[josharb87]

Very cool lowering!

[Joe Newton]

Very cool lowering!

 

Seconded. Lots to be said for good kit like that!

 

I had to climb down a hung up oak limb recently. Similar size, but with an inexperienced groundy, and two phone lines below. Technical stuff!

[testcricket01]

Cheers fellas, lowering wasnt as smooth as hoped. Really needed a winch or rope to my truck to pull it to aid in getting it out of the other lime. We got there in the end. Only other thing i would have done in a ideal world would have been lowering the rest of the lime coming down, but wasnt going to chance it off that tree could have anchored a pulley from another tree but would have risked damaging the anchor tree. Other than that all went well. I think the 16mm rope was tested as you see in the pics the outer strands started to snap, thats a brand new rope only used twice before this.

[woody paul]

Other than that all went well. I think the 16mm rope was tested as you see in the pics the outer strands started to snap, thats a brand new rope only used twice before this.

 

And in the video someone was walking under limb

Good job but .