Beech tree pruning vid.

[Rich Rule]

Jesse did a vid a while back of pruning some oak trees recently in Germany. It was mentioned in that thread that I had an avenue of Beech trees to deadwood and various other bits and bobs.

 

It was a dry day and sunny so the go pro came out. Not actually a lot of work to do in the tree compared to some of the others, mainly treecare, deadwood and removal of some hangars. It was also the first day I have climbed on the Compact bulldog bone with a clean rope.

 

It isn't the usual crash bash type clip, more of a relaxed pace showing pruning. Some might find it boring but it makes a change and you can't please everyone.

 

The whole climb time was 21 minutes for starting to film to hitting the deck, but I managed to capture some of the bone in action.

 

The bulldog bone gets better with every climb, or that could be me just getting more used to it.

 

Anyway, on with the clip, set to HD and hope you enjoy.

 

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[Treemoose]

Ey good video Rich, nice and chilled out. Bulldog bone looks interesting. I'd like to get into SRT this year and start broadaning climbing techniques

[Darrin Turnbull]

Nice video , music was good aswell.

 

 

Did you remove the rubbing/crossing branch.

[mistahbenn]

I likes that bone

[James Atkinson]

Any link mate? Not working on my iphone

[Gerbutt]

That was a nice vid! How much was the bone including post Rich?

[David Humphries]

Thanks for taking the time to edit and share Rich

enjoyed the tune, thought it fitted with the pace of the visuals nicely.

 

Bone looks good and moves smooth.

I can see our team moving from the wrench to this in time.

We probably wouldn't don't have the dirty rope issue as much as you have

 

Out of interest (I'm sure the spec was to clean out the dead wood entirely on safety grounds) but what's your thoughts on shortening the dead branches and leaving stubs instead of stripping them out?

The saproxylics (& the feathery things that feed on them) would forever be in your debt

 

Also that nasty girdling root at the base will probably be a significant issue in the future

 

Nice vid mate

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[Rich Rule]

Thanks for the comments.

 

Darrin, the work was minimal and only some crossing branches were removed due to budget. I didn't remove the one you caught in the frame and mostly we removed hangars and the deadwood.

 

David, you are correct all work was on safety grounds. There is a shoot on the site plus public footpath so the main concerns were above those areas. The removal of dead wood plus the finishing cut is probably more an aesthetic thing. One thing in favor of creatures you mentioned was we did leave quite a few stubbs if they had already lost branches, rather than cleaning them up.

[Mark Bolam]

Any link mate? Not working on my iphone

 

Or mine initially.

 

Go into YouTube, 'beech tree pruning', 3rd one down.

 

Nice job Rich, Bone looking good.

 

Lewisham is far more rural than I remember.

 

 

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[Rich Rule]

That was a nice vid! How much was the bone including post Rich?

 

I think i paid just under 200 quid inc delivery. 285$ If I recall.