Trees you've cut

[They call me Mr. Kibbs]

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


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Pretty countryside!
Anyone ever let you leave one like shown in your 1st pic?

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Pretty countryside!
Anyone ever let you leave one like shown in your 1st pic?

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 despite the fact it makes up a lot of our work. My mentality is to either have trees or don't. There are zero trees less than 30 meters away from any buildings on my property but I have lots of trees where they can't fall on anything in a storm.

 

[davidwyby]

The whole show. Ported 3120 screaming in a cloud of red dust for 10 minutes.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

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 to the ground.


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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.


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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 been cutting trees in this area for 40 odd years and somehow still has a good name after pulling off several stunts like this. Although, this is by far the worst I've seen.


The timber was actually sound near the stump but well *f-worded closer to the top.

The stump from this tree.