Trees you've cut

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

We topped these cedar and leylandii trees outside a local town at the beginning of this week.

It was a bit of a congested site, there was a house, a few makeshift sheds, parked cars and an insulated power lube running through the middle of it all. In fact the power line was running right through the middle of a multi stemmed cedar.

They were two very wet and windy days on top, I haven't been up trees in such strong wind in a while. We had to rig two tops down just to stop them getting blown into the power line.





here i am using the boot of my car as a step ladder, do not recommend.








hopefully this picture shows the windy conditions. Keep in mind I'm only twenty feet off the ground here, this tree was 70 feet tall.




piece by piece






The customer had his own wood chipper

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Today was another very wet and windy day.
We felled a big, big ash along a quiet road for someone.
It was riddled with dieback but still safe to climb.
It was leaning back over the road and over some small sheds.



You can see the lean of the tree and all the little dieback shoots in this picture








We rigged down everything that was hanging out over the road and sheds and then just felled what was left out into the field.

We had a digger there to push it over but we would have worked it on our own with all the back weight gone.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Today we cut down some more windblown spruce trees.
Thistle on a hill beside a house that some Americans live in.
A really quiet, out of the way place. You have to drive up a gravel road that goes through two gated fields to get to it. Really nice.
Anyway, some big trees blew down in the storm there.







One of them was fairly rotten.








There was one remaining spruce that didn't blow down. It was also the biggest.
What's more, there were low voltage cables behind it and then the house behind those.
I got a friend of mine to come with a digger to pull it over for us. The lad is only 23 and has 5 diggers, 4 tractors, silage baling outfit, tri axel low loader, slurry tanker and agitator, hedge cutters, a tarmac spreader and now he's on about buying a tree shears. Works non stop. He started out doing fencing but does literally everything now.






Then we went and reduced a cedar for a neighbour of mine. A neighbour who doesn't like to part with money.
One of the guys got his first climb in.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Today we removed some dead ash trees from around a house.

Although this big one was actually healthy. The people in the house were panicking over it after the storms.






We also took down this little sycamore beside their gate.
Turns out it was rotten in the middle down near the butt.






Back to storm damage tomorrow.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Ivy

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Today we removed some dead ash trees from around a house.

Although this big one was actually healthy. The people in the house were panicking over it after the storms.


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We also took down this little sycamore beside their gate.
Turns out it was rotten in the middle down near the butt.


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Back to storm damage tomorrow.

Be careful, your on camera ! Lol

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Be careful, your on camera ! Lol

I never actually saw the cctv camera.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

A country job if there ever was one

 

[sawmikaze]

I hate the mud at this time of year.

I'd prefer it was 10 degrees.

 

[Ketchup]

A country job if there ever was one



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Nice chip-van. Does it dump?

 

[Maintenance Chief]

I hate the mud at this time of year.

I'd prefer it was 10 degrees.

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That's a big tree.

 

[sawmikaze]

That's a big tree.

I hate cleaning up pin oak on a good day, the mud just made it worse.

 

[Ketchup]

I hate cleaning up pin oak on a good day, the mud just made it worse.

They suck to prune too.
The snow is melting here and all the work seems to be in a muddy yard of re-constituted dog crap. Not my favorite time of year.

 

[sawmikaze]

They suck to prune too.
The snow is melting here and all the work seems to be in a muddy yard of re-constituted dog crap. Not my favorite time of year.

We're supposed to freeze here again for a few days, we're gonna get it in while we can.

 

[Hinerman]

Ivy


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You get a lot of ivy. Do you have poison ivy there also?

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

You get a lot of ivy. Do you have poison ivy there also?

Thankfully not.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Speaking of ivy, this roadside tree had a lot of it.
All we had to do was remove broken branches and the one limb growing put to the power lines.






That road is busier than it looks. It was interesting being a few feet above moving arctic lorries and 50 seater coaches.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Work in progress.
Felling the trees across a river because no drop zone on the bank for climbing and rigging plus it would be hard to extract timber and waste afterwards.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

More from the same job.

 

[Brush Ape]