powered pole pruner within the canopy??

[Steve Bullman]

Have you never had a branch you couldn't get to the tips of, Steve?

 

 

Theres always a better way than a powered pole pruner for such tasks

 

When I first started climbing we used to use pole saw(not powered) for deadwooding..pain in the backside to manouvre round the tree with them. Eventually I ditched them in favour of climbing each limb instead, which in turn improved my climbing no end. Theres nothing that can't be reached one way or another

[Joe Newton]

Theres always a better way than a powered pole pruner for such tasks

 

When I first started climbing we used to use pole saw(not powered) for deadwooding..pain in the backside to manouvre round the tree with them. Eventually I ditched them in favour of climbing each limb instead, which in turn improved my climbing no end. Theres nothing that can't be reached one way or another

 

Yeah I put that in a later post, responding to Adam.

 

How thorough are your typical deadwoods?

 

Nothing subliminal in that question, but sometimes there are teeny dead twigs that I'm asked to get, right on the outermost tips. Most of the time I could climb to them (with a bit of muttered swearing) but some I don't think I could in my current capabilities.

 

I find the pole silky to be a much quicker and easier way, although this may highlight the differences between someone with much greater experience than myself. Perhaps I'll go the same way with more experience.

 

Gotta get out there soon on a weekend and put it to the test!

 

 

 

Interesting comment about "specific deadwood" Adam.

 

Where I work I'm usually specced with Major (anything likely to cause damage or injury) or Minor, being abso bloody lutley everything, right out to small twigs on the tips.

 

In leggy trees these can be a real pain, if not impossible to get to, and I sometimes find a pole silky (although annoyingly cumbersome) to be more efficient, in both time and energy.

[Steve Bullman]

Varies really. If i'm asked to get everything, then everything it is

[likeitorlumpit]

awful thing to use in the canopy. Heavy/cumbersome and getting the angle right is a pita. otherwise, I don't see any reason not to use it:biggrin:

Personally, I think almost any branch that needs a chainsaw to remove could be reached by climbing. The Wolf pole snippers though, they are often useful for that oh so delicate twig removal.

[Joe Newton]

Varies really. If i'm asked to get everything, then everything it is

 

Fair enough. Impressive without a pole silky.

 

Next deadwood, I'm not gonna use it! I WILL become great!!!

 

 

 

 

one day.

[MattyF]

I used a powered stihl pole saw with some mega extension years ago on one of the biggest reductions I have

[Steve Bullman]

It's a state of mind more than anything. If you think it can only be done with a pole saw then thats all your mind will allow you to do.

 

I remember a while back when we first got our hands on a pole hedgecutter. I carried out some hedging that same year on hedges I had been doing for 5 years previous......I was baffled out how i managed to do these jobs previously as I was only just managing to reach them with the pole hedgecutter.

 

Its all about pushing yourself

[Joe Newton]

Right. The little git stays in the shed then.

 

I really do see your point on the state of mind. Similar to most advances in arb tech (and I've mentioned this in another thread previously), it can sometimes make things easier, quicker, safer etc. But you still need to be able to do the job without it. One day something will break, or be in the shed back at the yard, etc.

 

Plus I want to be able to do something that my team leader can't

[scotspine1]

Have used a powered pole-chainsaw whilst climbing during storm damage work (hung up, tangled branches under a colossal amount of tension/compression etc) the idea being is that you're removing yourself from near the danger zone where you could get trapped or whacked in the face if you were using the regular chainsaw etc.

 

Occasionally use a polesaw during pruning work (crown reductions/deadwooding) sometimes just the single lightest extension of the Hayachi.

 

Knowing when to use polesaw in the tree and using it well is a real skill that should not be sniffed at.

 

polesaws = great tools

[littlerob]

have climbed with a powered pole saw stihl ht101 to get one branch climbed about 16m to a point on a tree for some reason got the wobbles not to go any further up didn't feel safe and was about 3m from the branch that needed to come off so came down climbed back up the the ht101 attached to me got the the same point and had the reach to cut the branch job done branch was about 5 inch diameter