Horse Chestnut - crane assisted dismantle.

[phil.brown]

Pictures I took of this chestnut dismantle. More to follow.

[phil.brown]

More photos of the largest piece being put on the trailer.

[David Humphries]

Nicely edited video and great folow up shots.

 

Looked to be a well executed removal all round.

 

 

Interested in why the tree was being removed?

 

Any specific decay/dysfunction issues?

 

Cheers

 

David

[Joe Newton]

Apparently it was blocking the light and dropping leaves onto a new patio David.

 

Had to go.

[Marc Lewis]

Good job,

[Marc Lewis]

Good job, respect. Alot of effort and time goes in to organising an op like that. Only needs one part of the chain to fail (break down, not turn up, ill.....) and it f's the whole job up. 45ton that must be one massive tree, not too many that size over here. And then you gotta get rid of all that **** wood.

[RC0]

Thanks Reg,

 

We have had the crane driver before and about 3 times this year. We have found him to be very good, on board with the team, Co operative and skilled ( which can't be said for every driver we have had). It probably wasn't clear from the video, but the landing zone for the picks was quite tight, there was not much room to manuva or slew the crane, we where struggling to land the peices down the road, so had to take it steady. Cheers

 

Thanks for explaining. I have a very similar size chestnut tree to that on video from years back. I always encourage a crane op to start the load in motion the second my saw passes through it. We have that talk before I get up there. Nothing to gain having a huge piece of tree hanging over your head, and it gets the op into production mode from the off.

 

Who actually owned the tree, and why did it come down ? Sorry if youvery answered this already

[Mark Bolam]

Thanks for the additional pictures Phil, and the explanation Sam.

Good work fellas.

 

 

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[sawman]

Hi Reg and David. The tree was removed after detailed inspections. The tree had significant basal decay due to Rigidiporus ulmarius. It also had notable dysfunction throughout two of the primary stems that I'm sure was due to chestnut bleeding canker. A privately owned tree next to the road and very close to neighbouring property. I will try and attach. Couple of shots of me and Phil cutting the stump to ground level. Note the old gate hanging bolts that we found (with saw).

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

Good call Sawman, thanks for the explanation.

That one would have had my Transit creaking a bit.

 

 

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