David Humphries

This dead little fella nearly got through my safety net.

The access road that this Ash sat on, did not originally get on to my Tree Risk Radar.

I came across it whilst driving around checking after a big blow.

Needless to say my Risk Zones have been reviewed and ammended.

Day 2.

This old fella was knocked over by the wind in Jan 07, one month after i had inspected it.

No potential stability issues noted at the time.

Boy that breeze was strong

The Property owner suddenly got very concerned with the rest of his trees.

Good luck to you Arbgarry, soak it all up like a sponge, and squeeze out the occasional bad habit.

Short memory and Short cuts aflict us all at times.

Difficult to make a judgement from just a few shots, but who on here would consider a climb dismantle on this one ?

Joe Public should all be sent on common sense courses.

Why would even the most fool hardy not see that as a seriously potential Hazard.

Interesting Post Steve.

Dagmar for Primeminister!

Forget Prime Minister, imagine a union between Dagmar and Prince Harry !!!!!!

We could be talking Masters of the Universe...........

:scared::thumbsdown:QUOTE]

 

I hope these Beeches were in decline in some way.

 

Even in the name of getting experience, the above is a big No No to most of us here.

Nice piece of work there Ed.

Is your own still running ?

BTW we run Wessex and Vermeers as well, but it's Bandit all the way for me.

Hats off to you boys.

That is top Tree Managment.

Huck, i dare you to say there's no place for MEWPS in Tree Town.

Right choice and use of equipment for that piece of Art Work.

Inspirational stuff Sherbrooke :congrats:

My understanding is that it is a parasite, but generally harmless to its Host.

We tried grafting some on to Limes at our site, from a load we obtained from an avenue of Veterans that were felled at Hampton Court a few years back,

unsucsessfully it has to be said.

http://www.mistletoe.org.uk/

I got to get me one of these babies !

What do ya reckon?

http://www.unic-cranes.co.uk/crane.php?crane=706

What saddos, I was doing the same yesterday afternoon. A windblown Ash, was going to photograph it and tell you all it was my attempt at a coro cut.

Sounds like a competion in the making !

Out of interest Huck, what saw/s did you use for the Coros?

And was it priced into the job? In terms of time, fuel and hassle.

This sounds a tad anal, but ive been looking at and photod natural branch breakages and they appear to include an element of Fracturing, so we're going to try and add Fractures to the branch/trunk ends before we start coronetting, think this helps make it look more realistic.

Is that your apprentice in the cab with you in the third Pic?

Very good Coros Huck,

Only your third attempt, then im impressed.

It's obviously not rocket science but they can go V wrong.

That would blend in nicely at my site.

looked a nice one. Why was it removed?

:dito:

I found out today that a 25 year old van driver was killed by a falling tree two days ago in Whitburn, near Edinburgh.QUOTE]

 

I hope that West Lothian have records of their Tree Inspections.

 

I wonder if the Tree was uprooted purely by the strength of the wind, or whether there were other primary causes of failure.

 

HSE state that there is a one in 20 million Risk of being killed by a falling tree in the UK.

 

Sadly Mr McDonald was very unlucky.

Next week we've got Treevolution coming down for four days, to train the team in CS41.

This will be a refresher for two of us and training towards assessment for the junior members of the team.

Makes me want to go back and re inspect all my road side stock

What specie is it in the top pic?

The athorities really liked my speach today about retaining monolith trees in our parks. I shoved them your pic (the top one) and they really liked the idea. Is it allright with you if I use your pics in the future?

 

I will hopefully do a badly funghi affectedted Maple look nice as a Monolith feature in a small pocketpark in the near future.

First picture is Salix alba. Very easy to coronet.

Glad you are making use of the pictures, thats what this forum is all about. Feel free to keep showing them.

Good luck with your mono, post some pictures if you get a chance.

Please make sure you write down somewhere accessable, that someone will need to monitor the on going condition.

The first time I worked in Germany my main groundie was so good he'd be holding the fuel can almost before I knew my saw was running out of gas!

Those Hermans are so damned efficient !

But they don't like it up um !!

Fruedian slip here i think/hope...... blah blah blah !

Nice one.

in New Zealand I watched the line clearance guys using hydraulic pole pruners ..

I quess in that situation the saw is self tethered via the hydraulic hose.

If you were to use a pole chainsaw in a mewp, then it really should to be tethered to the cage.

Hazzard obviously being the drop.

Are there any other implications to consider, SWLs etc...?

It is far too easy and inviting to overreach whilst in the cage when your work position is a tad short.

This is when the pole would be best used in an aerial situation.

The idea was to get straight back on the horse and ride it, so to speak and you probably couldn't have picked a worse job to throw yourself back into.

 

I was a little apprehensive when the roots started to move, although I did know it was only the tree sitting up with the weight off.

Hats off to you Kemosabe !