MEWP Usage

[APC]

Cool. Just to reitterate, I wasn't planning on doing a tandem bungee from one. Well, I'm not now anyway!

[treebloke]

I have never been 100% comfortable with MEWPs, we have a 22mtr and I think the more you use them the happier you get with em.

[David Humphries]

Really interesting one yesterday.

 

Poplar struck by lightning about 2/3 years ago.

 

We noted the trunk was begining to delaminate.

 

Closer inspection led us to cordon off the area due to the daylight seen through the trunk. It was not going to be a climbing dismantle.

 

Our Denka was not going to set up on this slope, so hired in a Teupen 30

 

Last shot shows the crack closed after the canopy had been removed.

 

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[David Humphries]

The Teupen was a good choice for this job in the end as we didn't really want the footprint of the mewp anywhere near the drop zone of a potential canopy failure.

 

Perhaps a 34/38 may have been a better choice, but the 30 did the job well.

 

As the upslope section of the canopy was being removed, the gap started to increase in the trunk delamination, so it then became a tickle operation until happy that the right parts of the canopy were released to limit the widening. Eventually as the canopy was removed the crack closed, which gave us the oportunity to leave the tree as a Haba-lith instead of complete removal, which was on the cards at the start of the day.

 

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[David Humphries]

a few gratuitous mewp shots, cause it were just like thunderbird 2

 

 

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[Peter]

I was going to say I would have climbed it, but I would probably have dropped it in one and been home in time for lunch.

 

Nice job though!

[Johny Walker]

I was going to say I would have climbed it, but I would probably have dropped it in one and been home in time for lunch.

 

Nice job though!

 

peter its l/a if in doubt splash out

[Dean Lofthouse]

There's a lot of boom bend in one of this last set of shot !

[David Humphries]

I was going to say I would have climbed it, but I would probably have dropped it in one and been home in time for lunch.

 

Nice job though!

 

I'm not sure even from the perspective of comfy La La land that this was a climber Peter.

The crack opening & closing was disconcerting & at £400 hire, it was a no brainier. All the daddies going home to respective offspring was the focus.

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

There's a lot of boom bend in one of this last set of shot !

 

Well there was a lot of cake at mid morning pastry break

 

 

 

 

 

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