Ash tree removal

Rupe

Rupe

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United Kingdom
This is little saturday job we did. The tree is right tight in a corner of a big back garden, there is a drop zone under slightly less than quarter of the crown, with one limb above the DZ that would do for the lowering point but it was much lower than we would idealy have wanted.

Either sides of the DZ there are Hawthorn trees which are plenty tough enough so many of the higher limbs crashed into the Hawthorns on the way down, one even bounced right up and landed perfectly in DZ.(5.20)

Behind the Hawthorns there are various sheds and houses all belonging to the nieghbours so nothing could go down that way.

Only filmed up to the end of the rigging bit, chunked it down by hand after that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aEj8q9dhrU
 
The neighbours have been complaining about it for years and now want ot put up a new fence, so asked again for it to go. Owner agreed (and has run out of firewood) so down it comes.

No planning restraints in that area so the owner can do what they like, but also they removed the Ivy at the base and found a large wound and lots of decay so best to get rid of it.

Oh, and its an Ash, your name sums it up!!. Good for one thing only. Firewood! The owner has plenty more of them!
 
Nice video Rupe. Its tough to work with those low rigging points but it looks like everything worked out fine.

Pretty country out there too with the river in the background.
 
No, I now what you menan. There are nice Ash trees, I was being harsh! But boundary Ashes are always going to be trouble like you say, and they do make such good firewood!
 
Chris, that river flows on about a mile and then goes through my families farm land, we all used to swim in it as children. Never see any kids in it now unless its a really hot summer.

Anyway after that it flows another 8 miles or so then joins the River Thames heading to London.
 
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Ash only good for firewood?????? I would love to see all of it go to baseball bats, that would take care of the maple braking issue.

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Some of the suburbs of Chicago are doing just that with their Ash being removed due to EAB.

http://www.insidesocal.com/greenspirited/2008/05/all-american-pastime.html


On a side note:

Ash bats break the same amount as the maple ones, however due to their grain, large barrels and skinny handles, the maple ones have a tendency to break in 2 and become much more dangerous to the players. They have changed the regulations for the minor leagues this year, making it required that only North American sugar maple be used in bats made with maple wood and also increasing the required density of the wood, decreasing the size of the barrel and increasing the size of the handle to help with this problem. No changes have been made for the majors yet.
 
Nice video Rupe! I see that you use the cow hitch. I got a couple of questions??? (I only use it for a port a wrap.)

1. Does it make you uncomfortable having it stanionary, with a pulley above your head during continuos roping?

2. When using it instead of a running bowline, do you only use it with a half hitch? And have you had any close calls with it?

3. What are any advantages to using it with both slings and with tying off limbs?

" I do no that there has been a couple of times I could have use a 25 ft. sling when on a big trunk that a loopie sling would not fit around it.

Thank's for any input on this that I can get. Want to start splicing them and would like to expand my boundries with them!
 
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"Ash wood wet,
ash wood dry,
a king may warm
his slippers by."

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Exactly!!

Surprisingly their is not much call for Baseball bats in these parts!!

Firewood prices are going up over here, so if the customer keeps all the wood he's pretty much gettign his moneys worth for cuttign the tree down.
 
Tanner, I'm not quite sure what your asking??

The cow hitch is for attaching the pulleys in the tree, thats all I use it for. Then I tie branches on using running bowline with or without a half hitch or a timber hitch and half hitch together.

Are you confusing cow hitch with a timber hitch?
 
Yes I think that I was. I looked it up, and now I am going to have to tell everyone that I work with that I have been calling it the wrong name for years now.

But yes I have only used it for port-a-wrap. Never used it above my head with a pulley. Do they seem to work good for you on pulley's?

And in one of those glimpses it had looked like you had a half hitch to a timber hitch. Maybe not?

I said that I was going to watch all of your videos. I am still going to do that, cause then maybe I would have noticed more. But it takes so long to download a youtube video, the wife usually takes the PC from me by then.

Thanks, Rupe!
 
have you ever used ahalf hitch with a bowline with a yosemite tie off and a shackle or biner for rigging instead of a half hitch with a running bowline works faster and is easier to adjust the rig for tensioning.. just curious otherwise great job of speedlining and rigging
 
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