Kingjero

On 25/05/2018 at 13:23, Mark Bolam said:

Nice vid mate, really enjoyed that.

Thank you!

1 hour ago, Steve Bullman said:

Good work.  Looks like they only paid to have it reduced a year previously?

Yes, It was heavily reduced on the side of the house by the former home owners. On the other side there was nothing done.

Popular removal on 02-05-18 in Zwartewaal, The Netherlands 

This is my setup :P, only got a bigger trailer now....With my green van I also went on holiday to Norway 

So if the shed was gone and an exit had been created, why on earth use a crane?

How did you get the client to pay for a crane for such a small tree?

What's you're secret? Lol!

Well, the price was made with the crane, for us it was a surprise the shed was gone, because we saw it when we came there to do the job.

Sweet stuff, but I'm struggling to see how a crane was economically viable?

Talk us through it mate.

Bitch of a drag for starters I guess?

Through a house?

 

 

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Hi Mark,

When we made the price there was a shed right under the tree, and no backyard exit. When we came to do the removal, the shed was removed and there was also an backyard exit where the shed first stood. So we had a bit of luck

Thank you for you interest,

Jeroen

I love seeing floating trees!

So do I and it works so easily, it was my first time at a crane job!

Nice job, what cut did you use to sever the stem?

 

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We used a step-cut

Thanks for posting.

 

Question: did you hire the crane just for that tree?

Yes Mike, Just one tree!

I'm impressed by how you rigged such a short squat tree to hang that close to vertical.

 

Didn't see exactly how you did that with chains, but it obviously worked well.

 

A bit too much up on the CO's part though.

 

Did you rig it with two opposing choked chains?

 

Nice job mate, thanks for posting it.

 

Jomoco

Hi Jomoco,

Yes we used opposite choked chains.

What do you mean with: "A bit too much up on the CO's part though."?

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

Here a video of a small conifer we removed with a crane!

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Damn, crazy Dutch people

Optical illusion on my part.

 

Nice zip cuts! Getting those leaders cut fast enough to land butt first takes a sharp saw with plenty of oomph.

 

Good stuff Jero, thanks for posting mate.

 

Jomoco

Thank you Jomoco!

Jeroen.

Nice work and editing!

 

Pretty big beech to get safely down that fast too!

 

You did speedline some of that brush?

 

Jomoco

Hi Jomoco,

No, we just used normal rigging over the roof. On the other side of the beech we Had plenty of room to drop those branches! Thank you!

Jeroen

Do you know if the research involved decay evaluation, tomograph or resistograph for example?

 

 

 

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Hi David,

My apologize for this late answer. I do not know what kind of research they used.

Jeroen

The Tree Technician gave the advise of removal.

We started at 7.30 at 12.30 it was down it went very easily. The backside of the tree had plenty of room, only some rigging above the roof. But after the dismantle it took 1,5 days to clean it up and stump grind it it was a pain in the @ss. Overtime we had a dull saw due to old nails.

David,

A certified European TreeTechnician did research on the trees. We did not see any fruitbodies but we did see those black bootlaces. The home owners were in tears, It was a beautiful majestic tree. With a lot of iron in it.....

Hi David,

Here are some pictures. The tree had a bit of deadwood. From the outside it looked pretty good.

Nice little vid & treework. Spring is definately further on where you are - trees only just starting to burst there buds & flush with new growth here

Hi Pete, I'm only across the North Sea. The Netherlands, we've had a nice warm sunny week here. Also got sun burned. You can see the trees getting their leafs very fast!

Hi everyone!

Just made a video of a Beech we removed last week. The beech was 100-120 years old it had to be removed due to honey fungus.

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Have a nice weekend!

Good vid king. You should use collar cuts when dead wooding too. Could you not find an old bit of rope to makeshift a strop. If that was me, i would have thrown the saw to catch the strop and at last minute realise i've not got one and watch my saw freefall to the deck. Nice work.

Hi Marc,

Could you explain 'collar cuts'? English isn't my first language so I don't quite know what you mean. In our working vehicle we didn't have anything make a strop. A few times I was pretty lucky because I didn't clip my saw good on my harness but luckily I was still holding on.....

Thank you,

Jeroen

Hi Joseph,

I downloaded from the internet, here are some examples; [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knoUCZ6o6dM[/ame] just look in the description for download links. I always used GoPro studios's but as a iMac owner I also have Imovie which is much easier to use!

Thank you,

Jeroen

First time using Imovie, tried to put some music with it but it didn't work.... But still a video with nice view. No big branches coming down, just deadwood removal. Also forgot my chainsaw lanyard......

Good one jeroen!

Thank you Pascal!

good effort, sycamores are snappy things to work on.

My advice is flush your cuts, don't leave things that can stab you on the tree.

Attach your lowering rope closer to your cut, it's ok further out for steering the limb if that's your intention, other than that there's more chance of it coming back on you and guys on the ground don't have to hold it as long for it to tip over.

On sycamore I rarely put a gob in a small limb, I'll angle the bottom and top cuts in the direction I want them to go, and the undercut is minimal on them, on the small stems just a quick top cut is better, takes the branch by suprise so to speak and saves a lot of cutting and picking up of tiny wedges around the site.

Good job:001_cool:

Thank you Stephen, I'll use your advice on making the cuts next time!

Thank you,

Jeroen