31m Dead Sequoia Dismantle

[SamTree]

Great video Sam. How are you finding the zigzag with the wrench? Also what was the cherry picker doing?

 

Cheers Steve, yeah really get on well with the Zz and wrench been on it about 6months now and cant fault. It was great at the start of using srt as you can keep the wrench on your belt and add it on as and when you feel, so you dont have to dive straight in.

 

Srt was great for this one, Colin fired me in a line with the big shot from the MEWP which made it alot easier (the last sequoia i climbed was hard work)

 

Thanks

[SamTree]

Good video, I guess the cherry-picker was up to catch some video you didn't get to use.

Guess the abruptly ended visual was a dead battery. Keep em coming 👍

 

Right on both counts 👍, i did get some picture of it on the deck when Ash had finished, ill upload when i work out how to get them off my phone ☺

[SamTree]

Good size stick!Groundies must love picking your stubs up..

 

i see what you mean, i did think that myself when i watched it back, would save a fair bit of cutting and picking up. The brash was fairly when confined and we could sck the ST8 right in so was no prob.

 

Cheers

[SamTree]

A few pics

[Gray git]

That's a bigun for sure looking at the stump, that'd be fun for someone to grind out!

Bet you were glad to have the st8 for chipping up as it's twisty horrid stuff to get into a machine.

Like the last picture.

[SamTree]

Was that a giant redwood? AKA Sequoiadendron giganteum? Also, any idea what killed it? I mean, in California these trees can live to be two or three thousand years old, and appear to be pretty resistant to the bugs that might try to attack them. So it makes me wonder how old this tree actually was, and what ended up afflicting it.

 

I thought that redwoods could grow about three feet a year or something close to that, but in England, where it is probably cooler for much of the year, maybe it grows much more slowly. Assuming three feet a year is accurate, that would make the tree only about thirty years old or so.

 

Any answers to my questions that are possible would be greatly appreciated. I just love the idea of spreading the giant redwoods to as many places as it is possible to grow them, and it is a bit disheartening when I hear about one of them dying prematurely for some reason.

 

Tim

 

Hi, to answer some of your questions the tree had most likely died due to an infection with honey fungus, you can see the white mycelium in one of the pictures attached.

 

From counting the rings we came to an age of about 140. Would be great if they could get to that size in 30 years, we'd be busy 👍

[Ollie]

Was that a Wellingtonia or coast redwood? We took a coast redwood down the other week. Not as big as that one, we reckoned only about 70 years but still a fair size. Is the trunk getting milled? Its great timber.

[TGB]

Nice one!

[SamTree]

Was that a Wellingtonia or coast redwood? We took a coast redwood down the other week. Not as big as that one, we reckoned only about 70 years but still a fair size. Is the trunk getting milled? Its great timber.

 

Hi, yep it was a wellingtonia, i believe some of the timber is going to carvers, the last peice is aprox 15ft long and 9ft accross be interesting to see it picked up 👍

[john p]

Was that a Wellingtonia or coast redwood? We took a coast redwood down the other week. Not as big as that one, we reckoned only about 70 years but still a fair size. Is the trunk getting milled? Its great timber.

 

 

Think James and Sam might be having it Ollie, James will quarter saw it on site to make his thrones.