Not always rock n roll and sequoias !

[allysnell]

Don't talk to me about ivy spent last Tuesday ripping the stuff off an oak tree to try and reduce thee weight on some of the outer limbs and hopefully prevent the tree being nailed in the winter storms. It covers up so many problems like where to anchor your line, grabs everything and showers everything in grot. Priced it for a day but should have done for 2! You live and learn.

[timbernut]

I love the feeling of satisfaction when I've released a choked tree from its ivy bonds. Found a dead ferret 50' up an ivy covered sycamore years ago!

[Paul Cleaver]

ivy - the scourge of the climber - dangerous when climbing - an irritant at best.

 

this job had to be done with a mewp - wind chill of - 8, look at the thickness of the ivy at 50 foot

Edited November 3, 2015 by Paul Cleaver

[Marc Lewis]

When it goes well it can be quite satisfying, when it doesn't, it can make you use language you never realised you knew.

[Couldyajust]

A couple of years ago a farmer employed me to go along his riverbank & certain hedges reducing all the ivy covered trees.

He wanted them left covered in ivy for the wildlife habitat it provides but reduced sufficiently so that if/when they drop they would not catch overhead cables or block the full width of the river. Horrible job to complete but he was happy with the end result.