Trees you've cut

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Some trees from the last few months.
I'm getting less big trees and more smaller awkward stuff. A lot of climbing jobs where lots of trees have to be topped or reduced, nothing really worth taking photos of. I'm getting a lot of hedges too, which are safe and straightforward but also boring and hard work with lots of clean up.


The second photo was a job where I felled over 100 trees around a football pitch. We had a forwarder on site which stacked the trees in halves or thirds in the car park then a tractor came with a pto driven chipper and chipped the whole lot. I wasn't there for the chipping but apparently they filled 4x 30 ton artic lorry loads and made another big pile of woodchip in a field.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Splitting today. Boring job.

 

[justoldsaws]

This big redbox was cut for the mill but a hollow in the center, easy work for the 394 with 404.

 

[justoldsaws]

Tis lots is all cut and split now and is air drying for firewood.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

The usual sort of job I get now.

 

[Catfishclark89]

Red oak yesterday evening

 

[Catfishclark89]

Another red oak from last week. One shot mid fall.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Finally, some "tree cutting"!

 

[davidwyby]

The stuff flying from the hollow trunk is

 

[davidwyby]

 

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[davidwyby]

I think I beat wedges for 15 mins. I wanted to though, test wedge bangers.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Now that's more like it, real trees!




I cut the tall dead one in the middle and the much smaller dead one to the left of it that you can barely see.




I have to go back tomorrow and cut the rest of the ones on the left, it got too windy today.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Got in on a site clearance job.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

The biggest of the lot

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Massive holding wood and the wind still took it off course.
30-40mph side winds

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Good big dying ash tree.
Took me 7 hours solo, other man couldn't make it.
Now we have to go back and split everything plus an even bigger pile of logs on Saturday.
Fun times!

 

[Squareground3691]

Good big dying ash tree.
Took me 7 hours solo, other man couldn't make it.
Now we have to go back and split everything plus an even bigger pile of logs on Saturday.
Fun times!

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Do you have the EAB beetle over there , ?

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Do you have the EAB beetle over there , ?

No, but we have ash dieback disease. It's a fungus that rots the tree. In the early stages of the disease the timber becomes hard dry and brittle, particularly in smaller trees. After a few years the timber gains moisture and turns to mush, this is more noticable in the bigger trees.

Giveaway signs are big black lacerations in the bark, all the end branches being big and thick as the smaller twigs have died and fallen off, dry looking bark that often flakes and peels, no leaves, only leaves around the core of the tree, new shoots growing straight out of the main stem to try and replace dead limbs that have fallen off, off colour sap wood and dark black or brown rot in the Heartwood.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

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