Felling towards fences

[Peat]

Thanks for the advice guys. There is a fair bit of millable stuff in there but as its all leaning and its Ash, dunno if it'll be worth bothering with. I've had quite a few ash planks tear themselves apart while milling through tension in leaning trees.

 

Here's a picture, not great but gives some idea what i'm dealing with. Behind me in the photo the power line gets closer to the trees and then through them. There is a fence on the left hand side of the track too but you can't quite make it out.

 

[Peat]

I don't have a tractor btw, but I do have a tirfor...

[Shane]

It sounds like the land owner ia spinning a yarn and trying to get you to do it cheap....

 

If the situation is making you feel uneasy then my advice is to walk away from it - unless you REALLY need the work or the landowner is somehow able to 'lean' on you.

 

Don't get yourself bullied.

[Mark Bolam]

Landowner sounds like a prize cock.

 

I'd do it with the fences dropped or I'd walk.

 

 

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[Peat]

It sounds like the land owner ia spinning a yarn and trying to get you to do it cheap....

 

If the situation is making you feel uneasy then my advice is to walk away from it - unless you REALLY need the work or the landowner is somehow able to 'lean' on you.

 

Don't get yourself bullied.

 

Yeah its good to have some outside perspective on it. The landowner is most definatly able to lean on me, they're my landlord! He clearly had a gung ho attitude to risk in his youth and expects other to be the same (and they often bow to the pressure) but I've said no to him so many times he must think i'm a bit of a pussy! But yeah I'm reckoning the bottom line is either he gets his maintenance man to deal with the fences so my tree surgery mate can scamper up, lop the tops off and I can do a straight fell, or they pay the other crew the grand and I walk away.

 

Thanks for your support!

[C.J]

Telehandler will be quicker than climbing.

[Mortimer Firewood]

Yeah its good to have some outside perspective on it. The landowner is most definatly able to lean on me, they're my landlord! He clearly had a gung ho attitude to risk in his youth and expects other to be the same (and they often bow to the pressure) but I've said no to him so many times he must think i'm a bit of a pussy! But yeah I'm reckoning the bottom line is either he gets his maintenance man to deal with the fences so my tree surgery mate can scamper up, lop the tops off and I can do a straight fell, or they pay the other crew the grand and I walk away.

 

Thanks for your support!

 

Pass him the saw and tell him to crack on.

[gnfencer]

To be fair it's not much of a fence, as it is.

[miker]

gonna say that fence is pretty poor, no proper strainers that i can see, pop the staples out and fell on top of the wire, if you drop the wire right back , say 75 m, it shouldnt stretch , if you smash a post, they are only a couple of £ a go

[theflyingscotsman]

Yeah I'd probably get the fencing pliers out, remove all the steeples and wiggle out the posts as it's got a bend in the fence the wire will want to go straight (and saggy) drop the trees, posts back in tack on the wire..no worries 👍