Cut and chuck vs rigging.

[mistahbenn]

Hey its not rocket science or brain surgery is it.

[jomoco]

I distinctly remember some fat boy euc removals, tight up on the buildings of a quad courtyard, totally concreted in, maybe a foot of dirt around each tree. At 30 feet up the trunks were still 4 feet in diameter. Even quartered they'd bust the concrete, and stood an excellent chance of slapping the bldg if caught using a Hobbs.

 

The solution was making a huge bed of stacked interwoven semi truck tires to catch the quarters pushed off at that height. Two big chiptruck loads of used tires, some of which were badly mangled upon the job's completion, zero damage to the courtyard.

 

I'd love to have one of those huge Hollywood stuntman catch bags for an easier to transport means of catching fat trunk sections over concrete n such. Maybe with a Kevlar cover?

 

Bombs away!

 

Jomoco

[mistahbenn]

cool! Wheres the vid Jomo?

 

Cut and chuck this - [ame]

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[Mark Bolam]

I fell everything in one.

Or free fall everything.

Or cut and chuck everything.

Or rig everything.

Or cut and chuck some and rig some.

Or free fall some and rig some, or cut and chuck it.

It all depends on my mood, really.

[Joe Newton]

I fell everything in one.

Or free fall everything.

Or cut and chuck everything.

Or rig everything.

Or cut and chuck some and rig some.

Or free fall some and rig some, or cut and chuck it.

It all depends on my mood, really.

 

 

I've heard that one time, you felled a tree then rigged it back up.

[Mark Bolam]

I don't like to talk about that one Joe.

We all get the wrong tree sometimes.

[arboriculturist]

cool! Wheres the vid Jomo?

 

Cut and chuck this -

 

Old school rigging, big ropes, timber hitches, minimum kit, well planned, controlled rigging - worked at treat.

[jomoco]

cool! Wheres the vid Jomo?

 

Cut and chuck this - ]

 

Nicely done Benn!

 

I was wondering what you'd do once between those bldgs?

 

You'd have needed a lot more tires without those long skinny dirt strips mate!

 

I did those courtyard removals in the late 80's long before youtube n stuff!

 

Always enjoy your vids Benn. Use Jimmy Cliff for the soundtrack of your next dredful removal. The harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all....

 

Jomoco

[mistahbenn]

Haha cheers Jomo. Good idea.

[mistahbenn]

So what happened to the discussion?