fell or climb this decayed HC?

[peatff]

AA Teccie, is that armchair arborist Teccie Paul ? I'm an armchair firewood collector and I'd use the ladder. I would cut it in small enough pieces to lower to the ground on a rope to save damage.

[Mick Dempsey]

IMO, don't rig off it.

Ladder then spikes, knock off the pollard heads, lay them out, fell onto them (with pulling rope)

[Mick Dempsey]

You could always throw a line up and do a pull test beforehand.

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

AA Teccie, is that armchair arborist Teccie Paul ? I'm an armchair firewood collector and I'd use the ladder. I would cut it in small enough pieces to lower to the ground on a rope to save damage.

 

Indeed'tis, albeit not such a comfy one today at HQ.

 

Okay, I know I'm essentially "out of the game" here, so to speak, but I really would urge caution at any proposal to rig off that stem...particularly if I was attached at the same time.

 

Cheers..

Paul

[Nick Connell]

I would give the customer 2 options:

 

Option 1 - winch assisted fell, cheaper but more ground compaction damage etc

 

Option 2 - some sort of remote access, mewp or hiab. More expensive but no damage.

 

In my opinion it's not worth taking an personal risk for the money you will make out of that job. Let the customer decide what suits their budget.

[csservices]

Unless it's the angle of the picture it appears to have a natural lean towards the gap between the two trees, I'd use your bags of hedge clippings as cushioning and fell it, can get to much bounce felling big lumps onto tyres.

[Darrin Turnbull]

Swedish torch

 

[Stephen Blair]

How much do they want to spend?

Cheapest way is fell it on the lawn, a few bumps can easily be fixed with a garden fork.

[tree-fancier123]

You could always throw a line up and do a pull test beforehand.

 

sounds sensibleish, although if I pulled a rope and it started to go, imagine it could twist and not land predictably at all

 

wasn't planning on lowering it off, just freefall onto some bags of cuttings.

[tree-fancier123]

How much do they want to spend?

Cheapest way is fell it on the lawn, a few bumps can easily be fixed with a garden fork.

 

I don't think they want to spend anything, but because it's a bit of a safety thing they kind of have to - they didn't ask for a quote, as I do regular work for

them. I'm not expecting it to be a lot, it's not a big tree, just tricky for me to judge as I haven't been up any that far gone.

 

The two things with felling are avoiding damaging the drain, and controlling the fell, at least to within a say 120 degree radius, guess a tiny gob on the good bit and maybe a three inch wide hinge if there's and good wood to make the hinge?