Poplar

[Rupe]

Heres some pics of a fairly straightforward poplar tree removal in a school yard

 

[Rupe]

Base cleared and ready to start, after a cup of tea of course!

 

[Rupe]

Lunchtime. The tree had been topped heavily in the past, and there was no central top anchor point. The central stem had decayed back about 10 feet, so had to use the side stems for lowerering. The left hand pulley was in an ideal location but a bit weak so backed it up to the next larger stem. More height would have been better but not possible. Everything swung round and through the gateway quite easily.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

I like using multiple rigging points too. I almost always do. The only thing different for me is the tea break. /forum/images/graemlins/drinking.gif

 

[Mangoes]

I'll post my Cottnwood job from today here amongst the other Poplar pics.

 

[Mangoes]

Half way to completion I bombed this estimate cause I thought the limb would fall out once some of the low limbs were cut. 'Not so' said the tree 'now young mangoes you must climb.' I had to cut the tear that was holding the branch up. Pretty big trees, there's another 3 like this on the property, all topped about 25 years ago, what a shame. I think these would be bigger than the one I climbed in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago if they hadn't been topped.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

What's up with the pic Mangoes? Having trouble on your end or is it ours? Let's see the pics again.

 

[Mangoes]

Try That one again, I think bedtime came around and I shut down prematurely.

 

[treemann]

When I bid storm damage or broken branches I always bid worse case senario because it seems to happen that way more often than not.

 

[Mangoes]

Looking for input. I posted a picture of a very large, very topped Cottonwood a few posts earlier. It had some storm damage and I cleaned up the mess. However now the client is looking for prices to retop the trees. I have a disdain for tree topping but these are the ONLY trees for several hundred feet in all directions of the property. They have suppremely large girth for our area, DBH of 6-7feet for each of the 4 trees. It would be a loss to see those trunks gone...... but should they be retopped. I feel that if I were to either remove or top them that I would use a crane and bucket truck. I don't feel that I can trust those suckers to rig off. That being said the trees are on a NW faceing waterfront with a big lake on which NW winds get pretty high so maybe they're strong enough...... my gut says crane though.


Thoughts.... anyone?