Couple tops from Cathedral Grove this week. It all I really had time to video.
First shows a 35ft top cut at approx. 200ft. Second is a big leaning top cut at 150. Unfortunately because the camera/climber is attached to the tree, it doesn't really pic up the extent of motion experienced by the...
Been up at Cathedral Grove, couple of miles up island, helping out another company. Mainly hazard tree work....topping, falling blasting etc. I was just there for the climbing.
Some pics from a dead fir. Had to resize to low res for the forum, so not so clear. Tree was probably 220ft. Left it...
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This fir take down was part of a recent job of about 12-14 trees. Approximately 165 ft tall, but easy work. The log was the hard part....at least, safely getting the bottom part down the hill on my own today....rigging and roping of sorts. Lots of pics.
We do a lot of tip reduction on firs. Fast growing with often brittle and end weighted limbs that pop off indiscriminately....reduction pruning seems the most logical in and around residential areas. Several times Ive tried to video this type of work....but gave up part way through because it...
If you've never heard of this. The selected trees in a forest are stripped, topped and appropriately flagged. They are then cut at the bottom all for a strip of holding wood in the centre....and picked by sky crane helicopter at a later date. A better alternative to clear cutting I believe. Some...