Beech take down 2010

After some delays with planning issues and weather we finally started this Beech tree removal this week but are off due to snow again today. So I'll post the whole lot so far.

This may be really boring but I'll try and explain what is going on so that it may be of interest to some and load of old hat to others.

Start off with nice pictures of the tree!

As you can see the crown is quite dense, not massively tall but quite wide.

The main targets below are the railing fence and the nice expensive cotswold stone pillars! The tree overhangs these railing quite a bit.

To the rear it is easier but still there are shrubs and hedges to be avoided.

What I would usually do it start at the easiest point and make a space in the crown and then rig all the tricky stuff round into that space. Problem here is that that space would be 20+ meters away from the tricky bits which are too low to swing round that far.

Also there is a risk of us getting delayed by weather (thats why I'm home today typing this!!!!) and the easy stuff is all away from the house and I promised the client that if we left it un finished that we would not leave just the stuff overhanging the house!

So the first thing I wanted to get done was this overhang over the front entrance.

I've marked the section I want to remove first. The red upright is the stem overhanging the front and I want to remove whats above the red T line.

I've done it in red cos that matches the pulley I'll use for that section. This should all become clear eventually!

Looks a tricky one Rupe.

Is that BT line an issue as well?

Looking from inside the garden. This is roughly the intended set up, although it actully runs diagonally away from the veiwpoint so the right hand blue and red are further away and the left hand blue is closer.

Yellow is a large ISC pulley. This will be the final pulley for large lumps.

The two blue ones are medium ISC pulleys. These are the actuall lowering points, away from the trunk and one for each side of the tree.

The red one is then the extra temporary lowering point, and this will be moved or removed as required.

The tail end of the rope goes through a fairlead pulley and down to the winch. One this is set up it can be easily reversed to work the other side. This method is great for distributing weight throught the crown.

Looks a tricky one Rupe.

 

Is that BT line an issue as well?

Its just under the right of the canopy, just touching. So will need to take care but shouldn't be too much of a problem.

So now its time to let loose my video editing skills!! This is a bit long, hope it’s some use to somebody. This first bit is just setting the rigging. Start with yellow top pulley, left hand blue and fairlead, then right hand blue and temporary red.

Please let me know if it makes any sense?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oevR56p_t5w]YouTube - Beech Rigging set up..wmv[/ame]

Cant wait to see the rig in action mate. Thanks for the video!

Nice vid, I really liked that double pulley method as a redirect for your TIP. Look fwd to the next installment.