Chunky Chestnut.

[skyhuck]

Here are some pic's of a large Chestnut we reduced, well I say reduce we all but removed it only leaving the main stem.

 

Big old tree around 200 years old, lots of timber.

 

It was in a grave yard over loads of graves one side and a small road the other.

 

All the brash was cut and chuck, timber removed with the crane.

 

The mog is stripped down (no chipper or chip box) for the craning, as the access was really, really tight, but with the four way steering we got in OK.

 

Sorry the pic's ain't great, camera phone.

[josharb87]

youre setup is simply awesome huck!

[RobArb]

why did it go just out of curiosity?

[tommer9]

Fair play to you mate- excellent job carried out in a proffessional and controlled manner! That looked as if it had a lot of potential for going wrong! Mog looks quite weird!!

[Rich Rule]

Nice work dave. How long did it take? Start to finish. Lot of timber. Are you able to load the back of mog aswell as timber trailer?

[Steve Bullman]

nice job mate....i doubt theres a guy on here not jealous of that crane!!

 

whats going on with the final cut though? it looks like you've done the finished cut somewhere in the included bark zone and the origin of the fork if that makes sense?

[skyhuck]

It had been surveyed and condemned, bleeding cancer.

 

Two days on the top, as the road was a nightmare.

 

Less than a day craning

 

Most timber rung up and left on site, one trailer load of bigger stuff taken up the road.

[skyhuck]

 

whats going on with the final cut though? it looks like you've done the finished cut somewhere in the included bark zone and the origin of the fork if that makes sense?

 

I was asked to just take it back to the main stem, the two large limbs on the left were joined together higher than I wanted to leave them, so I cut down the join to separate them and then cut lower.

 

They are keeping it for habitat, they are hopping it will get some regen but it's not an issue if it doesn't.

 

They did not want any coronets.

[Steve Bullman]

fair enough

[Big 'Ammer]

Excellent work!