Trees you've cut

[pavel408]

The tree will die after that but no matter what I say they are still determined to have the job done their way.

If the tree does survive next thing it puts up 4 or 5 new tops and ends up becoming an even bigger wind catcher.

And then you're back in a few years. Maybe not so bad for business

Younger people (below 40) are usually much easier to deal with, they usually want the trees gone and then plant a nice beech or hornbeam hedge in their place.

I’m kinda surprised - I always thought of Ireland and the UK as being full of leafy hedges. And I would expect the old folks stick to the tradition.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

And then you're back in a few years. Maybe not so bad for business


I’m kinda surprised - I always thought of Ireland and the UK as being full of leafy hedges. And I would expect the old folks stick to the tradition.

Tradition here is whatever is cheapest and fastest

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Back butchering more conifers.

The customer is very happy

 

[HumBurner]

Those last two look haggard! Strangled out by the vines?

 

[davidwyby]

Just a swingin

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Just a swingin
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Fcuk yeah!

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Finally, someone who wants trees cut down and not topped.


3 spruce, 1 silver fir and one lawson cypress.





I like using a humboldt when conditions allow. I pike how the butt of the log hits the ground first and then falls flat.






As you can tell i didn't make any side cuts into the sapwood to prevent tearing. Extra hingey.






I hate cypress. Awful messy things.

 

[davidwyby]

Fcuk yeah!

I need to get vids up

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

We had the first proper storm of the winter on Friday.

I got a call about this on Saturday.





Half the tree broke off and landed on the house. The chimney and ridge tiles got roughed up a bit but the house is fine otherwise.





When we arrived today the builders had already cleared the debris off the building the day before.


Heres a view of what was left





I climbed it. It was rock solid.

I got it cut back this much before felling the remainder.





The result.





I haven't invoiced the customer yet. Don't really know what to charge. 3 of us there for 6 hours with a chipper. Hour and a half from home. Dismantling and removal of storm damaged tree, everything either cut into firewood or chipped.

 

[davidwyby]

We had the first proper storm of the winter on Friday.

I got a call about this on Saturday.

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Half the tree broke off and landed on the house. The chimney and ridge tiles got roughed up a bit but the house is fine otherwise.


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When we arrived today the builders had already cleared the debris off the building the day before.


Heres a view of what was left


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I climbed it. It was rock solid.

I got it cut back this much before felling the remainder.


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The result.


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I haven't invoiced the customer yet. Don't really know what to charge. 3 of us there for 6 hours with a chipper. Hour and a half from home. Dismantling and removal of storm damaged tree, everything either cut into firewood or chipped.

$300x9

 

[davidwyby]

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[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Some more butchery in waterlogged ground





"I love my job, really" that's whitethorn, very spiky stuff.





The one fun part of the day





Lots of mushrooms out at the minute, found some cool ones at today's job site.





Don't know about the first one but this second one is a boletus edulus, if it wasn't so far gone it would have been a good one for eating.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

We were working for a professional photographer the last couple of days.





They have a lot of trees and are slowly getting rid of them.




Another case of "just cut it in half"








Smile!

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

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.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

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 mid twenties, it's him im dealing with as he has the best English of the three. He's fluent in fact. The father hasn't great English but he has enough that I can tell he's an ignorant pr1ck.


The son wants all the trees removed but the father likes them and is only letting him cut about 1/3 of them. Only the ones on the windward side of the cottage. Most of our storms com from the west, south and southwest so it was those trees we removed. The rest of the house is still surrounded with 80-100 foot trees. I measured the largest tree we removed at 98 feet exactly.


I got yo do some bc falling





The team in action. Heavy machinery makes light work.





The father wanted the trees furthest from the house cut in half rather than removed. This is how high the last living branches were on those trees. Needless to say I just felled them, if I cut them in half they'd be left with 40 foot standing dead trees.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

We did a big site clearance job this week.
28 trees removed, mostly big spruce and a handful of big ash.

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We brought in some contractor friends of ours, they have all the heavy machinery.


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The site is a little cottage owned by some Germans. Father, mother and son. The son is probably mid twenties, it's him im dealing with as he has the best English of the three. He's fluent in fact. The father hasn't great English but he has enough that I can tell he's an ignorant pr1ck.


The son wants all the trees removed but the father likes them and is only letting him cut about 1/3 of them. Only the ones on the windward side of the cottage. Most of our storms com from the west, south and southwest so it was those trees we removed. The rest of the house is still surrounded with 80-100 foot trees. I measured the largest tree we removed at 98 feet exactly.


I got yo do some bc falling


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The team in action. Heavy machinery makes light work.


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The father wanted the trees furthest from the house cut in half rather than removed. This is how high the last living branches were on those trees. Needless to say I just felled them, if I cut them in half they'd be left with 40 foot standing dead trees.

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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 birch. The customers had cut it at the butt a few months back. Horrible, horrible stuff.





The sycamore had cracks in it20 feet up. I could hear and feel the tree cracking as I made my cuts. Not very reassuring.





We took a bit of the timber for ourselves, they won't notice

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

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.


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A good view of the outfit.


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I had to top a birch and a sycamore. Check out the ivy off the birch. The customers had cut it at the butt a few months back. Horrible, horrible stuff.


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The sycamore had cracks in it20 feet up. I could hear and feel the tree cracking as I made my cuts. Not very reassuring.


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We took a bit of the timber for ourselves, they won't notice


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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 customers wanted it got rid of altogether.

I tied into a nearby tree and walked out onto it.





Once it was fully clear of the lines we just felled the rest.

I need to get into SRT







Check out this guys hilux.
His hand brake isn't working and he claims he doesn't trust it to restart if he knocks it off so he blocks the wheel with a steel toe wellington

 

[davidwyby]

Good show

Hilux seems very Aussie

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

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 should have brought the 394xp. Oh well, the 461 managed just fine.









This was the biggest. I left a good 12 inches behind on the stump. Full of metal every which way.





I cut this one at chest height.





This was a god awful mess. It took 3 or 4 of us and a 3 ton digger with hydraulic grab a solid 5 hours to clean it up. There's more you can't see in the photo.

We had to fell 4 or 5 of them all at once because we got a power line taken down to do tge job and they needed it put back up ASAP.







The trees you've seen in this post are about 1/3 of the total job. Its going to be another long week.

My top guy hurt his arm unblocking the chipper after the others clogged it up feeding it with the grab. He'll be off for a few days which will make the week even longer. Oh well, it's all fun and games.