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.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Took down a couple of big enough western red cedars this morning.
There was a digger on site to pull/push them for us.
We pulled this first one.







And we pushed this bigger, second one.








I found metal in the second one. Made a balls of my 114 link chain.

Awful bushy trees that always create a big mess. Luckily for us all we had to do was fell them, cut them in half and walk away. The digger driver then just pushed them into a corner of the field where they'll stay forever. A bit of a waste but no one cares about timber unless it's ash.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Another job from this morning.
A big, rotten, hollow beech growing put of the ditch on the boundary between a row of detached houses and some waste ground with a few horses.





I climbed it to set a line for pulling. We used a tirfor winchto pull it over. We didn't really need it as it was leaning the right way but it felt safer with the winch .

There was rot and decay near the top.





I used spikes and wire core lanyard to get the face cut in as the tree was growing on such an awkward steep bank. The 36 inch bar is a pain to use like this.





It was terrifying cutting such s massive tree with only 3 inches of timber holding it up in places.






I'm glad it was leaning the way we wanted to fell it.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

This afternoon we re-pollarded a good healthy ash besidea house that used to belong to a member of the band westlife. The man who owns it now is my dentist, that's how I got the job

We used a pulley block set in another stem of the tree and tip tied the re-growth stems so they would swing away from the house.





We felled the last stem once the branches had been removed.





The finished product.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Well we had another massive storm last week, the biggest in 60 years.
There's entire forests flattened all over the place.
A lot of people all over the country are still without power and water a week later and with no sign of it to change for another week.
Needless to say we have a lot of storm work ahead of us.


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It's amazing how much work this storm generated for tree men in Ireland.
5 months later and we are still getting storm clean up jobs.
Line clearance companies worked 30+ days straight to get windblown forestry trees off powerlines. Some people were 3 weeks without power. People on my road were 16 days. There's still trees left lying on insulated cables everywhere.
Lots of roads still have fallen trees lying beside them with only enough cut back to let traffic past. Even main national roads. I drove to Dublin and back a couple of times recently and saw about 5 such cases. It's a 2.5 hour journey on one of the biggest, busiest roads in the country.
Forestry guys think they're not going to cut much standing timber for the next few years. Apparently there's 500,000 hectares of commercial forest flattened around the country, but especially here in the north West. Leitrim in particular.


Anyways, we were back at one of theocatiobz in the post I quoted.
Another thing the storm has done is make people panic and cut standing trees in case they too fall down and cause damage. Everyone I speak to is of the opinion that lots more of these storms are coming. Apparently "experts" on the radio say so .


We topped some cedars and tidied up a rough hedge. His shed roof got badly damaged by a fallen leylandii and two of his cedars had fallen onto the church across the road lightly damaging it.














This hedge was nearly growing out horizontaly over the road and was up above the powerline in places.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

We also topped another cedar for him. I think it was topped before. The tracked woodchipper we bought is coming in handy big time for pulling cut pieces out of trees.




The 661 is fun to use in the tree.





He had a big Easter island statue in his garden . I had to significantly lower the cedar tree to make it look good from all sides. Probably a 50% height reduction.





These two windblown Douglas fir trees were 147 years old going by the growth rings. I couldn't believe how tight the grain was. They were only 40 feet tall and max 2 foot wide. I have seen Douglas fir grow like this before, but normally they're big and tall and not very old. This was on dry stony ground so that's probably why they grew so differently.