And thou art dead, as young and fair

[bob]

was the climber a gypsy

or do all your climbers like pegs:001_tongue:

[MasterBlaster]

I woulda skipped all the drama and simply pulled the entire tree over. You had the equipment and the stump was sound. It's not always about speed, bit it's nice when you can start cleaning up ASAP.

 

It looked like a nice job.

[David Humphries]

I woulda skipped all the drama and simply pulled the entire tree over. You had the equipment and the stump was sound. It's not always about speed, bit it's nice when you can start cleaning up ASAP.

 

It looked like a nice job.

 

Like I said earlier in the thread Butch, the fell zone is all over a delicate habitat, as it's host to Tube web spider - atypus affinis

 

A ton of Chestnut crashing down on top wouldn't really be seen as sympathetic managment, and I really wouldn't want the local Ecologists breathing fire & brimstone down me neck

 

Thanks for your kind nod, always appreciated.

 

Btw, I had the chance recently to meet & chat a little with a compatriate of yours.

 

His name is Lee Klinger, an Independent Scientist and Consultant from California.

He was giving a talk on Forest Vegetation and Soil Succession, top guy and real interesting work the guy is doing up in the Pacific northwest forests.

 

 

 

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[Stephen Blair]

hahaha good stuff monkeyd

 

well except dragging to a crappy chipper

 

should of set up a speedline straight to it, save all the draggy draggy and squashed spiders:001_cool:

[David Humphries]

should of set up a speedline straight to it, save all the draggy draggy and squashed spiders:001_cool:

 

 

 

Yeah fair call Stevie, we talked around it but decided against, probably should have though.

 

 

 

 

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[Rowan the Bruce]

Nice photos and good job there Dave.

[Stephen Blair]

Yeah fair call Stevie, we talked around it but decided against, probably should have though.

 

 

 

 

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they are a nice idea for the top stuff but the lower ones are a pain, if you spend time doing one like reg would do with a pulling line and stuff then fair enough, but it was a pretty crappy crown, the leader was off centre, and it wasnt very thick up top. i passed a hc yesterday that i tottempolled last year beside a horse arena as it dropped a big limb while the arena was in use, the tree was stone dead to the eye, but it has started to grow again, i will get you some pics. maybe there is hope yet for them, a healthy pollard certainly does some trees the world of good. i have given elms a few more years with my heavy handed approach to tree work:001_smile: