Skyline timber and tree extraction

[Mozza]

That fire log cooked my hot dogs in about 30 seconds!! worked a treat!!

[Buzz]

I'll stick the pics up I have off my phone tomorrow :-)

[Buzz]

How about some figures Ed ? Like 400 tons of timber chipped in 3 days for instance ;-)

[Mark Bolam]

Awesome effort fellas. I have loved this thread. The pics of the site in the mist were mint. I will visit it when I am next in the lakes.

 

Would you do it again Ed?

[Tom D]

Looks like a geat job Ed, Did you already own all that wire rope or did you buy it for the job.

 

 

 

This reminds me, I read once that when they built the west highland railway over rannoch moor and other boggy bits they felled loads of trees and lined them all up on top of the bog, then they covered them with stone and laid the tracks on top. In those conditions I bet that timber is still good as new.

[Mr Ed]

Yes I'd do it again, but at a better price. I did this job far to cheaply.

Rob, we have been told that they used exactly the same process (laying down timber) when they straightened the A590 accross the bog we've been working on, and thats only about 10 years old.

[ScottF]

Really tricky work done with professionalism and skill. Well done!

[Mr Ed]

Haha, found some more -

 

LAST pics - honest...

 

If skylining, do not put foot on slack pulling stump to tie shoelace, as I will feel a moral obligation to slip the choker off around your ankle, yanking you across the site on your back..

 

Also, if you insist on trying to walk across the landing, be aware that the trees are stacked 10 ft deep. If you fall in, your work mates will insist on sitting round and laughing at your puny attempts to escape..

[Mr Ed]

[Mark Bolam]

Ed, who's who on the photos?

 

You should post a team shot with names.

 

I'd buy you all a beer just for putting up with the horseflies and mozzies if I meet the lads at shows etc.

 

I am slightly disappointed that you didn't all grow massive Grizzly Adams beards though....