SamTree

Nice vid, music went well with the time lapse, good to see what people are up to day to day. Cheers

You can see the now dead cedar we took down in the vid of another dead cedar we took down 5 months before.

Cheers Matt was good fun

Hi, yep it was a wellingtonia, i believe some of the timber is going to carvers, the last peice is aprox 15ft long and 9ft accross be interesting to see it picked up 👍

Hi, to answer some of your questions the tree had most likely died due to an infection with honey fungus, you can see the white mycelium in one of the pictures attached. From counting the rings we came to an age of about 140. Would be great if they could get to that size in 30 years, we'd be busy 👍

A few pics

i see what you mean, i did think that myself when i watched it back, would save a fair bit of cutting and picking up. The brash was fairly when confined and we could sck the ST8 right in so was no prob. Cheers

Right on both counts 👍, i did get some picture of it on the deck when Ash had finished, ill upload when i work out how to get them off my phone ☺

Cheers Steve, yeah really get on well with the Zz and wrench been on it about 6months now and cant fault. It was great at the start of using srt as you can keep the wrench on your belt and add it on as and when you feel, so you dont have to dive straight in. Srt was great for this one, Colin fired me in a line with the big shot from the MEWP which made it alot easier (the last sequoia i climbed was hard work) Thanks

Cheers Marc, yep definatly felt high, and was moving around alot more that i expected, all good fun : ) We had a late start due to heavy rain, stripped what we could out with the MEWP up to aprox 18-20m. I climbed out and stripped the rest and got the top out whilst everyone had lunch, quick chip up and then Colin sectioned the pole down to where the video left it . Ash went back the next day to take the pole down and fell. So short answer 2 days 👍 Ill try and up liad some pics of it on the deck

Hi Rich, its only recently given up, we took down another cedar about five months ago at the same property, it looked a little different then. Its was an interesting tree, we think about 40ft had previously come out of the top, so no high anchor and some large limbs with assosiated decay, but nothing underneath so came down in some large sections. Good fun : )

Ahh, guess its the music, ill change it when i add a clip of felling 2mo, hopefully that will play. Cheers

https://youtu.be/lfVre-2pnV8

Nice job, enjoyed watching that one, some interesting camera work. Was that a hobbs?

31m dead sequoia from today, great fun : )

Sounds like a good long term management plan! Im also finding srt great for reduction work. Nice job

Fair size walnut, what was the reason for retrenchment, just out of interest? Looked an interesting climb, srt?

Hi yes would be a shame if any collateral damage was to occur to the copper beech, it is an interesting tree with an unusual high graft. That does seem a likely candidate, every day is a school day : ) There was a lot of debris in the lower stem section, but the top was mostly clear, there was no large cavities only a few openings through old pruning wounds, there was a lot of black staining on the main stem, so at a guess water may have entered the higher opening and flushed debris out of the lower openings.

Cheers Steve, That sounds like a neat idea, we could have done with some hot food on the second day in the rain : ) Some of the sections of the hollow stem did make some great sculptural pieces for the customer to keep.

Hi David, The machinery made the job a lot more efficient, we where glad to strip out the brash on the first day any only have the timber to deal with on the second in the heavy rain. Totally agree, the tree did look like prime bat habitat, with the extensive hollows and open cracks and cavaliers In the upper crown! An investigative bat survey was carried out by my boss and my self as part of an aerial inspection. An endoscope was used to probe the openings to the cavities but there was no evidence of any activity other than that of squirrels. Although there was a large bees nest in the main stem, luckily there was no bee's but plenty of honey. We have carried out a 1.5m reduction in height to the grafted copper beech to, as you mentioned hopefully mitigate any potential increase in wind loading. We have some more work to do at the site so will try and get some pictures. We were not sure as to what fungal species was at work, as there was no evidence of fruiting bodies, it was an interesting cavity, the main stem was hollow from Apox 2-7m with incipient decay both above and bellow. Any guesses?

Beech removal from last week. Was good to see that it was hollow, as confirmation of what was expected from the tree report and resistograph testing carried out by the company i work for. This also made it possible to pick the sections off with the timber grab. The tree was rigged down as there were 3 man hole covers and drainage system within the drop zone. As these where the only targets this allowed for some big sections to be rigged out, was good fun on the GRCS. Hope you enjoy, cheers Sam

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I didn't realise it was on the register, interesting to see some pictures, Yes the prop is still in place. Ta