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Enjoyed watching that!
At around 15mins when that last piece was going over it looked you were getting ready to unclip and ditch your saw!?

14 hours ago, Rich Rule said:

Decent sized tree there James.

 

a lot of cutting.  How long where you up there climbing?

Cheers guys I think from memory it was 3 days but we had to reduce some limbs on another pine next to it and we lose 2-3 hours a day traveling to and from this site I was far from loving it up the tree as I’d just come back to work and still had the lovely norovirus and was more interested in not letting fluids get out of anywhere shall we say haha

1 minute ago, Steve Bullman said:

Big tree, looks like it was topping 100ft judging by how long some of the pieces took to drop 

yer it wasn't the tallest but spread wise I've never seen a pine like it amazing how it never went over it had started creeping over and over but still stood there glad its done and dusted thats for sure.

i haven't done many videos in recent times but i had to film this tree coming down as it was just massive we had to rig to avoid the trees below the timber they wanted in big lengths to pick up with the estate tractor and timber trailer.  The stem was left as a 12 meter pole which is going to become part of a tree house apparently. 

Rarely come on here anymore but I thought I'd share a few pics that I've got on my phone.

I rig 70/80% of the time but we can turn up with a team of 5 guys to get stuff done it does slow stuff up if there is only one groundy, it all depends on the situation if theres nothing under the tree i wont rig it but 99% of trees we do have something under them we have to avoid. And cutting and chucking to me has more risk of damage as your cutting and holding and throwing say 10 branches instead of lowering one whole branch and is using more energy from the climber as they have to do more climbing and more work in general.

last week i spent 4 days rigging out 3 mature beech which were very decayed some with merip some with gano among other.

Then the friday had to pull over a big ash with the estates tractor into a field and cut it up.

Then monday had to rig out this big spread out pine.

We got a 16ton pto pump splitter on a 3 point linkage all galvanised with 2 side tables on it from Ireland at a reasonable price we are happy with it. Some of the ones from the big name uk suppliers are crazy prices!

Are you proud of this video that you put out ? Where is the finesse? Its just rough ass cut and fall tree work creating alot of dings and holes. Man I would be ashamed. Bad work positioning, one handing cuts that should use two (Just to show you are a pro), bish bosh bash there you go groundys take that and clean it up cos we aint a team.

Im not proud of most of my videos im not a video editor i put it together and post it i havent got time to spend hours and hours getting it all slick and smooth credit to the guys that do put that level of effort in. As ive mentioned we only had to miss the hedge and main drive. The grass is all being dug up so dings in the lawn doesnt matter. As far as one handing yes i one hand a saw not all the time but majority of the time, i dont promote thats how to do it its a bad habit but thats how i do it. It worked out quicker and easier to crash them out first thing in the morning to a pole then go down and clear it up as a team before the winds picked up to a unworkable level up top.

I also liked the shallow angle on your face cut around 11.50 on vid which allowed the limb to snap off early resulting in landing flat on the ground causing less damage to grassed area - good practice and safe in some situations

Cheers glad you enjoyed it.

Hi James ,efficient job ,I worked on that group of trees and in the private garden 20 years ago it's a great shame to see those fine healthy trees go especially as they were planted in the 1860s it looks like there was no decay in them as well and your photograph of the trunk looks fantastic , just how a mature Corsican should look like,I always thought they framed that God ugly building well as holkham hall is not the most beautiful stately home ! still the new Earl will have plenty of timber for his new woodchip boiler.

Let's hope the replacements do well .

There was no decay in them, just remodeling the whole garden. I should think there was 6 back then i saw there was a old stump.

It is a huge estate with some huge park trees from what I remember. Surprised you haven't got Sandringham as its right by you.

Yer we worked at the care home in the grounds once but to be honest they dont want to pay proper money for a job on sandringham were not that fussed about.

Just one thing. Only connected in once for the most of that first tree. tree police are heading your way!!

I only clipped in my main line on that first one to send my saw down to get fueled up, least i used a steel core for once haha. Yer they use us and 2 others not surprising really as its a mental sized estate.

We couldnt fell any of them, they were all badly back weighted and had side leans they were bad enough stripped to poles to fell. had to have abit of thought into where we winched from and also putting a line from the grcs to overcome the side weight and lean. we couldnt touch the main gravel drive hence the lowering the end ones heavy lower limbs over it,couldnt touch the hedge and the other trees also, even if you could winch it over as whole trees you would wipe one of them out. Plus the 50mph winds heading for the house its not a option really.

I bought an early 201 when they came out and used it once it was so under powered it was dangerous! Really need a new one now as my 200ts are getting unreliable so was hoping the new 201 tcm was going to be alot better. Will you drill the exhaust to improve pick up?

I wont drill the exhaust ill just use my trusty 540xpt instead give the 201 to one of the lads to use they love stihl so...

Nice work james and Co is that the new stihl 201 electronic carb? seemed to be going well how do you rate it?

Cheers scott, yer i bought it the friday and started this job the monday so cant give much feedback, i find the choke button flimsy to use and it doesnt seem to cut as fast as you would expect it bogs down low on power. Time will tell its certainly no 200t

Liked the story telling of the day, but found it too long.

Too much branch cutting.

Nice site context before and after.

 

Looked a tidy and efficient job.

 

 

Why were they removed James?

 

 

 

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I always knew it was to long but i didnt want to cut to much i cut loads and loads out as it was.

All i know is they are remodeling the terrace so these are going, i know they have replacements for them going in somewhere

Impressive Trees , how old were they. Read somewhere that 800 years old can be expected.

These were nowhere near that age they were planted in the 1860's

will watch video later when i have time. No problems posting pics today?

I did what i did last night and worked fine so no problems.

i posted some pics in the todays job thread but i have now put together some of the footage i took, a long long video, i tried to make it more a video of the job rather than just focusing on the climbing and limb by limb stuff like my other vids.

i had this a couple of months back when i lost my grandad i had the tree on the deck got the call he wasnt going to last much longer i dropped everything left the guys onsite they had the landy they had to take 2 trips because there was 3 of them and only 2 seats. Bit of hassle for them but If i hadnt of rushed off i wouldnt have been able to say my goodbyes. Some things are much more important than working, i wouldnt ask questions from our lads if they had the same happen take the truck and get there quick sort it out later.

Good job. were abouts was it looks a big old estate.

Was a cracking job to get, it was at holkham hall on the norfolk coast.

Looks a nice busy job james , who did the uprated springs on the l200 mate?

was a great job just a tad windy at the start of the week, it was a firm from up north called jones's springs made them for us and i fitted them.

this weeks job.

Hi TEST and nice size table to 👍Well done thanks Jon

Got to have a big table makes the world of difference on your back not having to bend down all the while picking lumps up several times