Monster 135+ Poplar reduction

[NickinMids]

How long did it take in total...?

Did you do it all without spikes..?

Thanks

[Steve Bullman]

absolutely no need to justify your work on this Steve, thats a top job mate, but you know that anyway. There is nothing more that can be done with such trees, bloody awesome job fella.

 

Cheers. Nearly forgot this pic which is one you'll probably appreciate

[Steve Bullman]

How long did it take in total...?

Did you do it all without spikes..?

Thanks

 

Good question.

 

Day 1, after all the faffing around I probably had about 3 hours boshing out the lower crown then spent the rest of the day having a bit of a clear up.

 

Day 2 with the mewp, about 5 hours climbing for me, with Andy doing about half the tree from the mewp.

 

Day 3, a 3 man team were back to clear up which was a long day for them, mostly due to the problems of raking up all the crappy twigs from the meadow grass. As you can imagine the clean up area was quite large.

 

No spikes

[Steve Bullman]

Well done Mr bullman. But I have to ask, does one have there penis hanging out in the first picture. Lol ��

I would love to be able to answer yes to that

[MrPaul]

Absolutely superb, hats off to you good sir!

[NickinMids]

Good question.

 

Day 1, after all the faffing around I probably had about 3 hours boshing out the lower crown then spent the rest of the day having a bit of a clear up.

 

Day 2 with the mewp, about 5 hours climbing for me, with Andy doing about half the tree from the mewp.

 

Day 3, a 3 man team were back to clear up which was a long day for them, mostly due to the problems of raking up all the crappy twigs from the meadow grass. As you can imagine the clean up area was quite large.

 

No spikes

 

Thanks...and I would have been brickin it in the MEWP until I got tied in

[mistahbenn]

I would love to be able to answer yes to that

 

Haha it does look like your penis. (Erm, how would I know what it looked like?)

[wicklamulla]

That is indeed a Monster with a capital M ! Steve thats alorra alorra work and just looking at the pics has me wanting to lay down on the sofa and catch some more ZZZ's. The Scale of that thang is massive and you must have felt 'how am i gonna reduce this with a climbing saw!' I did a black pop bout 18 months ago and he was only about 38'' across the base and topped out at an estimated 120' so was alot smaller all round but the crown was well spread out and it took me bout 2 days of actual climbing to reduce it. It really made me tink 'what the hell am i doing up here' as i had no groundie (i know i'm a bad lad and shud be in the sin bin) and at times i felt disillusioned with the task but soldiered on. I nicked me prussick with the climbing saw at about 100' and that gave me a fright! I was not happy with the reduction points and the finished result but the customer was insistent, when i did some more work for he on udder trees a year later he admitted we shud have had more off the pop ! I love the photos of that pop u did as it really gives some idea of scale. Ok i need the sofa now. Proper job man.

Edited April 28, 2015 by wicklamulla

[Steve Bullman]

Thanks! Just finished editing the video and waiting for it to upload to youtube

[Darrin Turnbull]

Thanks! Just finished editing the video and waiting for it to upload to youtube

 

 

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