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No one even knows its there. And the ones that do dont give a fcuk. Country full of ignoramuses

2 or 3 times as much, not even joking. Its a disaster when you have to leave the job tidy, like in someone's garden. The worst is when youre working on gravel and the bits get all mixed up into it. Here though we'll just push it all back into the ditch with a tractor. Its really fcuking...

Another ivy giant Disgusting

I had used them before and was impressed but I found the doubled wedges gave more lift on that tree. Ill try it again tomorrow

We finished this job on Tuesday. There was one leaning ash 9 feet away from medium voltage power lines with a transformer. It was also extremely dead. Dry, crispy, crumbly outer branches. Smelly, off colour timber in the top half of the tree. What's more, right underneath it was the septic...

Heavy side lean, keep it on course.

Back to removing ash die back trees. The first two pictures are of relatively healthy specimens but the customer wanted them removed as he's building a shed beside them. When in doubt leave a big hinge. The tree on the right is alive and healthy, the two on the left not so much...

Mostly fences. But some trees had old buckets, horse shoes etc embedded in them. I've seen worse.

The last big trees on this job. Nearly all of them had to be climbed to set a pull rope. I just wedged this one though. Perfection! See the bit of rot in the middle. A lot of trees had butt rot on this site. The corner tree, it was particularly hairy. Rotten in the centre...

On and on it goes. 1 more day should see us out. Another high stump, everything is full of metal here I purposefully put my hinge in the root flare on this one to help steer it away from a building. It worked. Just another spruce. There's a bit if rot in some of them. If...

We started another big job with big timber today. Big big spruce trees again. These ones aren't as tall but theyre thicker. Theyre also full of barbed wire. They've got big ignorant buttresses (root flares) which makes them awkward to fell. Its hard to get your cuts to line up right. I...

There was one spruce overhanging a power line. It must have uprooted in a storm and the ESB (Irelands state power company) cut it back with the silky saw on the end of the insulated rods until it was clear of the lines. Obviously if it fell again it would land flat on the lines so the...

We got all the trees done and dusted in two days then spent another day putting up new fences and cleaning the place up. This ash was taking some kind of root rot, I felled it at head hight. A good view of the outfit. I had to top a birch and a sycamore. Check out the ivy off the...

We did a big site clearance job this week. 28 trees removed, mostly big spruce and a handful of big ash. We brought in some contractor friends of ours, they have all the heavy machinery. The site is a little cottage owned by some Germans. Father, mother and son. The son is probably...

Trimmed a beech hedge back to have a slant. It looks bad now but when the new leaves come in April it should look great. I saw a massive red stag on my way home. Biggest land based mammal I've ever seen in the wild.