Impact matts or boards

[Shane]

Have used old pallets in the past - bulky and heavy to move though

[Dave Alviti]

Either brash mat or a ton bag filled with rankings/sawdust works well

[woody paul]

Either brash mat or a ton bag filled with rankings/sawdust works well

 

Ton bags could always be half filled with woodchip if you have good access to move them.

[Stephen Blair]

Either brash mat or a ton bag filled with rankings/sawdust works well

 

That's what I've always done:thumbup1:

 

Exept once took a load of tyres and then missed them when I felled the trunk

[Mark Bolam]

Ekkas foam.

[enrieb]

Seriously, has anyone ever managed this, gas mains are usually under the road and a good way down.

 

Well not quite gas pipes, but a friend of mine had some very large poplars taken down in his back garden by some traveller types who did the job for a fraction of the price quoted by professional tree surgeons.

 

For the next five years his garden would flood every time there was a few days of rain. He suspected a blocked drain, eventually he had a company come round and to to unblock it, but they said they couldn't shift the blockage. So he had to dig down to where the blockage was, before finding out the drainage pipe had cracked and collapsed in, hence the constant flooding.

 

Although it cannot be proven, that it was caused by them. It was in the area that the 'travellers' were chugging down extreemly large sections of the trunk, (they had no rigging kit) and if they had of used a rigging kit it would have to have been the most heavy duty one money can buy for the size of the wood they were dropping.

 

This was a few years before I started tree work, so I didn't know any better than he did at the time.