Topping at 200 + feet

[RC0]

Short clip topping a fir at over 200 ft.

 

Followed an alternative method of topping in the second clip.

 

Watch both in HD. Thanks

 

 

[TIMON]

Nice clips Reg, is that a 560xp on the first one?

(And C4 on the second I presume!)

[Stephen Blair]

Nice videos!

I was at Cathedral grove when I was 14! I've to you that before.

What was the reason for the first removal Reg?

[RC0]

550, Ti. I got it for climbing, not much else.

 

Stevie, a fair of big hazard trees came out over the last couple of days. Most of the footage I got was unwatcheble....because of the rain and sawdust etc. Root, heartrot and just stone dead like the second vid. The tree in the vid was pretty straightforward, just very tall. I topped out a big leaner that was probably 250, but the footage was rubbish as I used a chest mount for the camera....silly idea. They blew up some trees of similar size, but i wasnt able to film as was elsewhere in the grove. At least I got the one dynamite vid....be it a much shorter tree at 140.

 

This was Martin Evans' job, a member here, from Coventry. Good bloke. Good treeman.

 

A couple pics, although dark and and hard to see. Missed the tops coming off on both trees. Ah well. Rain throughout the first day....70-90k winds and rain the second day. Week before was beautiful, still and frosty. Murphys law:biggrin:

[silky fox]

The Silky saw finishing the backcut off,brilliant! the first video has such an eerie silence about it once the cutting has stopped....the mist and the view and just the faint sound of a distant saw. On the second i wasn,t awake enough to read the description. too busy checking it was set to 1080p and headphones to maximum...almost blew my eardrums out! (In a very good "Wake the hell up" way)

[Tom D]

Nice Reg, I wish we could use explosives.

 

 

I am daydreaming about topping leylandii, a whole row of them BBBBBBBBBBANG like a zip undoing.

[scotspine1]

Nice work on the first vid Reg, don't fancy that height if the wind picked up strong, when you drop lengths of timber out at those heights is the client worried about damage to the base of the other trees? or is the priority just getting the dangerous trees down and accepting some collateral damage to the others growing around them?

 

Only reason I'm asking is that the name Cathedral Grove gives the impression the trees/forest are of some value historically/old growth etc.

 

 

 

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Edited December 11, 2014 by scotspine1

[Rich Rule]

Nice couple of clips there Reg.

 

Sounds like overall it was an experience. Would you do it again?

[rowan lee]

Took a while to hit the deck that top did in clip A. Cool Clip mate.

[atree]

Great stuff reg!

 

I went through there couple years ago.Shame i couldn't stop as i was on the bus to tofino