Imprisoned trees with HUGE epicormic, to climb or not to climb?

[MattyF]

The lime should be fine. You can rig it down small ish, there's loads of big limes around here that are old pollards. Well into 90ft too. Done a fair few of them. The ash I'd be more wary of, but it's not exactly very big

 

 

Think it's an ailanthus mate , probably a bit softer than lime or ash!! would say that's an easier tree as you could anchor off one of the stems over the shed and use one off the middle bowl for rigging with no worry of any thing breaking near your anchor out.. At the end of the day the climber being safe is more important than any property.

[ClimberGuy]

Great thread, liking the way most folks think, namely go with what your guts and experience tell you. It is a sad thing when pencil pushers get to tell experienced pros how they may or may not operate. But that is the way the world is getting to be, more and more.

 

We have OSHA here in the states, which is probably not nearly as ever-present as your government's similar representatives. In more than twenty years of construction work, I've never once seen an OSHA rep in the flesh. I get the feeling you guys have folks looking over your shoulder constantly. In the U.S., in my experience, it is the general contractors that are standing over the worker's shoulders and monitoring safety practices, and that is because it is in their financial interest to do so. The fear of higher insurance rates causes them to be fairly strict with the safety protocols.

[Al Cormack]

Think it's an ailanthus mate , probably a bit softer than lime or ash!! would say that's an easier tree as you could anchor off one of the stems over the shed and use one off the middle bowl for rigging with no worry of any thing breaking near your anchor out.. At the end of the day the climber being safe is more important than any property.

 

 

Definitely Ash. Wrong trunk markings for ailanthus.

[MattyF]

Definitely Ash. Wrong trunk markings for ailanthus.

 

 

That's not ash leaves or trunk though the bark is typical of ailanthus pollards I've worked on.

Look at original pic up close.

[Billy]

 

 

Both TIP and rigging pulley on top of a good 5M of regrowth, rigged most of the tree as dropzone was only on 1 side, including some fair lumps of timber from beneath the first cuts, no problem.

[Al Duffill]

Reckon it's a Robinia not ailanthus. I'd anchor, somewhere, on them all, no worries, this is a bit more than epi (epicormic growth), this is re-growth, imo. Trust your own capabilities.

[MattyF]

Reckon it's a Robinia not ailanthus. I'd anchor, somewhere, on them all, no worries, this is a bit more than epi (epicormic growth), this is re-growth, imo. Trust your own capabilities.

 

 

Good call ... Could Evan be walnut .... Definitely not ash though...

[Al Cormack]

Haha. Someone will be saying it's Hornbeam next.....

[MattyF]

Just waiting al .....

[Mark Bolam]

You two are idiots.

That's clearly not a conifer.

 

 

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