PITA -Removal

[Mark Chisholm]

I'm a little worried about posting another job where I was in the bucket (Roachy), but I can take it!

Anyway, here's a Silver Maple that was a real pain to remove.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

It was about 3" off of a two story garage/apartment.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Like in Todd's pics, backyard primaries are everywhere near the beach in NJ. Here there's 3 phase behind the tree (to the right in this shot).

 

[Mark Chisholm]

And there were two sets of house lines triangulating under this tree where we had to lower everything.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

I had two lowering devices on this tree and ropes hanging everywhere.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Here's an interesting shot. I'm laying on the roof slicing some wood.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

The only good things about this job were the ability to use a bucket and tractor and to be able to drop some of the trunk. But then the stump had to be ground along with the huge root mound that it sat on.

Alright, let's see some new pics from someone else. Anyone?

 

[Rossturner]

Hi Mark,Was the power turnerd off when you did the work,Here in england we have to request an outage if the tree is in/above the live zone of the conductors.I work in utility & have only used a bucket a few times,the rest having to do it the hard way Rope & Harness.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Hey Ross,

No not here. The power co.s don't want to interruptpower- it means less $$$. They will usually do it in tricky scenarios since the last thing they want is a fatality, but it doesn't happen too often.

 

[tod_k]

Mark, at least I had plenty of room from the primary. PITA