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This afternoon we re-pollarded a good healthy ash besidea house that used to belong to a member of the band westlife. The man who owns it now is my dentist, that's how I got the job 🤣 We used a pulley block set in another stem of the tree and tip tied the re-growth stems so they would swing...

Another job from this morning. A big, rotten, hollow beech growing put of the ditch on the boundary between a row of detached houses and some waste ground with a few horses. I climbed it to set a line for pulling. We used a tirfor winchto pull it over. We didn't really need it as it was...

Took down a couple of big enough western red cedars this morning. There was a digger on site to pull/push them for us. We pulled this first one. And we pushed this bigger, second one. I found metal in the second one. Made a balls of my 114 link chain. Awful bushy trees that...

The stump from this tree.

Here's some more pictures showing the extent of the damage. This was the better of two trees, another company took down another, worse one. Needless to say the landowner was horrified when the original job was done. I wasn't really surprised when I heard the name of the culprit. He's...

Okay I got a good one. Today we took down a poplar that another, well respected tree surgeon had "pollarded". He must have just cut straight in from the back each time without any sort of notch or back cut because each stem he cut off peeled off several feet. Some even peeled all the way down...

Not yet. Someone wants me too on a big spruce. I don't know if it's a good idea. Do the lower branches of the tree act as a counter weight to the top swaying in the wind or do they just catch the wind and add to the likelihood of the tree uprooting too? I'm not into "topping" or reducing trees...

We haven't really done any big or interesting jobs lately. These are from today.

Big old red cedar. I counted 100 growth rings. I got to keep the timber, might make a table.

Spruce reductions, if you can call it that.

Can't kill a 1.9 octavia

Bought this 2015 vw transporter for €12,000 on thursday. The 08 skoda octavia was starting to look a bit beaten up after being used as a work van since November. I was regularly pulling a 1350kg tracked wood chipper with it. Not ideal for a 1.9 litre car. My old work "van". The back...

There was a lot of timber in this one tree.

Ash removal. Who needs a tractor or a winch when you've got a beaten up 08 octavia?

Cedar reduction. Now they want us to come back and reduce it even more. Tree won't survive but they dont mind because they just want an ivy pole for their bees and the house left safe.