Leaning Western Redcedar

[Gord]

We may have this job to remove this cedar tree, hauling everything away. I'm not sure what the most efficient way to approach it will be. I suppose we'll run a speedline or trolley type system to get rid of the brush but I'm not sure what we'll do with the wood...square rigging on a leaner like this won't be much fun I'd imagine. But neither will packing it up the stairs off the beach. Maybe we'll get a barge, I don't know, have a look!

 

[Gord]

View from the beach.

 

[Leon]

Wow, I'd seriously be considering that barge option.

 

[jimmyq]

cool location Gord. dont forget to take some shots of it coming down if you can. Looks like fun!

how far out would you have to anchor the barge to keep it from grounding? might make a shallow angle for your speedline.

 

[Kevin]

How about a bonfire on the beach Gord?
Good wood for kindling.
A cedar that large here would almost sure to be hollow.

 

[RyanCafferky]

How about this option: Get the brush out using standard techniques up through the yard and then drop the log onto the beach, cut it into lengths you can get into the water and float them out to a boat ramp. You could possibly use the boat with a mechanical advantage system to pull the pieces to the water with. If you tie all the pieces together they would float like a mother duck and all her chicks.

 

[NickfromWI]

Why do they want it cut down? Looks like a nice tree.

The mother duck system sounds cool! I wanna see pics of that!

love
nick

 

[RDMOTT]

That's my summer house and I don't want that tree removed.

 

[Gord]

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That's my summer house and I don't want that tree removed.

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Great! I wasn't looking forward to it anyways.

 

[MikePoor]

That area is beautiful. Looks like a cool location to work at. I like Kevin's beach bonfire idea!

 

[Roger_Barnett]

Hey Gord, Is the job gonna happen?

That's an awesome tree! I'd crown reduce and thin it, maybe install an anchor from it to one of those firs at 20 feet off the ground or so....like 2 4 ton Cobra systems....

 

[mrtree]

If you are at Gibson can't you get Relic's old boat and haul the dam log away. I am sure that is how the Beachcombers would have done it.

 

[Gord]

We did this job a while ago so I thought I'd finally post these pics.

Just starting in this pic.

 

[Gord]

Most of the lower brush off. Cedars are terribly tangly making the rigging a pain using a zipline set up.

 

[Gord]

View from the other side.

 

[Gord]

I bombed a bunch of wood down onto the beach...

 

[Gord]

And then we hoisted it up with a winch set up on a floating rigging point.

 

[Gord]

Another view of the wood on its way up.

 

[Gord]

I was able to chunk down the last 25' or so and toss it.

 

[Gord]

Done for the day. We actually spent over two days on this tree, slow going with all the little limbs on the speedline, even bouquet style, and then a good drag to the truck. We split and hauled all the wood as well. Used a little Muck-truck to get the wood up the hill.

Video of zipping some limbs down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQVuUbt0Vk