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Gallery => Video Clips => Topic started by: wurzel on January 27, 2018, 08:39:50
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Just for entertainment, I decided to speed up a day's work and take a larger than normal lump out of a tree I had to dismantle,as rain was coming in and I wanted out of the tree..
https://youtu.be/CTP9U2r_U5Y
Beats doing it in little bits like this!
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You're a Lumberjack and you're OK.
Destruction is always more fun than doing the Installation. Take tiling as an example :)
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I could watch that type of work for hours :thumb:
I've got a large ash to limb but it is overhanging an A road on a bend.
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Yes, ripping stuff down is always fun, clearing up after...well...
Sounds a good fun job Hugo, traffic management in order there!
If there are any cables running through it you might get a freebie, they like 1 metre clearance from them...
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Bloody hell.
Just think how many YouTube hits you'd have got if that had gone wrong... :shock:
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Right.
Two things bother me about this.
1. Why do you use a 4 stroke chainsaw?
2. How much did you pay the catching team, I wouldn't have paid them a penny, one appeared to take a step backwards instead of taking the easy catch.
Disgraceful behaviour.
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Great work Wurzel :thumb:
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Hello Mr Wurzle, can you elaborate on the cables.. 1m clearance thing.?
I’ve a cherry with telephone cables going through it that I’m looking to reduce.
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Top man no messing :thumb:
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Tlp, slight difficulty there....they were paying me! :dance:
You're right about the bad catch attempt, he baulked, more practice needed... :old:
Utility companies require the 1 metre clearance from their cables, and have a god given right to come and service this right of way if they deem necessary, if they were to be informed the tree is interfering with the cable, chances are a team would come and prune back, in doing so they have an obligation not to wreck the tree, and abide by good practice in pruning, all at their own expense...I think you get the idea...
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When I was at school, a girl in my class was called Teresa Green. How daft can parents be. That said I knew a boy with the surname 'Box' and he had a sister called 'Lydia'.
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King Orry, I'm not arguing with what Wurzel stated regarding Utility companies cables in general but I will tell you that I worked for BT for 39 years and have lost count of the number of people, home owners & contractors that I billed for damage to BT wires.
BT will quite happily run cables through trees & have them touching it, despite it being a fault liability in the future.
BT will now charge for anything & everything they think they can get away with, which would include coming out to drop & replace the wire so you could prune the tree or coming out to repair any damage you may do by pruning the tree.
Basically be very careful how you go about pruning the tree!
Electricity cables could be & probably are completely different.
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Bt, or open reach,are a bit sharp, but we have had some joy with them round here.
The electricity companies are much easier to work with in general.
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Cheers for the advice Wurzel and Barbel Mick, I’ll investigate options.. carefully. :thumb:
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Bt, or open reach,are a bit sharp,
Ah! Openreach, yes, could never get used to calling it that!! Mind you it took me 20 years to stop calling it the GPO!! :crazy:
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Used to have an old gpo van, Bedford HA it was, lovely old van! :old:
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:thumb:
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King Orry, I'm not arguing with what Wurzel stated regarding Utility companies cables in general but......
Power cable touching tree = electrocution potential in "perfect storm" conditions. That's why power companies are obliged to and do trim cables around any power lines.
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Leyandi GADS!!!!
I rarely get to knock out big lumps, I've been a tree surgeon for the last few years, my work is mostly safety clearance on overhead power lines up to 33 thousand volts. were sub contracted to Scottish Power
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Good to have another climber on board! :thumb:
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I've been a climber for 14 years now, I work for a local family run company.
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Aches and pains coming soon after that time! :old:
I used to run a small family firm, I just contract climb now, mostly in woods and waterways for trusts.
Getting a bit long in the tooth now at 59,but I still chuck a rope up. :thumb:
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I'm 40 this year, didn't train to be a climber until I was 26, but for the last 11 years I've been one of the lead climbers, it sure is taking its toll, sore knees from using the spike's for hours on end, sore back from pulling stupid shapes to get out some limbs to avoid the overhead powerline, the list goes on, I can see me getting a few more years in then having to find something else to do.
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If I had it all to do again I would have quit earlier, but it keeps you sane....ish. :whistle:
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I'm the same, I should of got out years ago, but Hello ho, beats working in an office.
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Just wondering, but from my own experience of watching tree surgeons at work round here, isn't it like, REALLY F***KING DANGEROUS!?
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It is, but the nature of the job means the professionals are highly trained, like myself, I have had thousands of pounds spent on me for training over the years, and currently have so many qualifications in tree work it take 3 cards to show them.
Anything with height is dangerous, but being skilled eliminates some of the danger. however, accidents still happen, and I have scars to remind me.
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Freddy, I think it works on the Darwin principle. The crap ones don't hang around long.
There's a joke in there somewhere...
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We just need one more on here and we'd have three fellows......
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Freddy,its only dangerous if you have an accident...
I had one a couple of years back,but I turned over a new leaf and touch wood I've knot had one since... :)
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Dangerous job yes, but the views are fantastic at times.
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Good to see Wurzel is on form tonight! lol I thought I'd be sycamore puns by now but those are oak-ay.
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Yew are barking up the wrong tree there tallpaul. Alder good ones will be gone with people cherry picking the poplar ones causing others to pine because they missed out.
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Yes, I can cedar problem developing already. We need to conker our fears and contin-yew as we started!
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no need to get beechy you to, you can have a laurel laughing and bramble away all night, this post is pur acer by the way.
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I felt a bit of a sap with my puns, knot now, after you lot rooting out more I realise I was barking up the wrong tree,hopefully this won't end up another truncated thread of puns, stemming from my silliness...
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No need to feel seedy. You should branch out instead and then you willow feel birch better.
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Thank you Paul,us elder members do come out with some corkers...
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I'm going to go out on a limb here, you two are fab, picea of advice, take a leaf out of each others book and keep up the good work.
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You wood think acorn-y joke or two, tree-mendous as they are,could make people sycamore.
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Fir goodness sake, I've just twigged this is a budding problem on here and Acacia didn't lealise it's running rings round other stuff and needs stemming.
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Holly cow, we need to spruce up our act and deal with this thorny issue...