Todays job

[Rupe]

Took down a good size Lime tree today for the local council. The tree officer had identified it as having Ustulina deusta and needed to be removed.

 

[Rupe]

Not a crane or bucket truck in sight!! /forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Rupe]

Usual rigging shot!

 

[Rupe]

JUst the trunk to go, using the traditional pull it with truck onto logs method!!

 

[Rupe]

Too heavy for crane on the log truck so we quartered it lengthways. Man, that took hours!

 

[tod_k]

I'm a huge fan of the re-de rigging, nice.

 

[Sawdust]

Where's the log truck. All I see is a hay trailor. /forum/images/graemlins/whisker.gif

I love these graemlins...

P.S. just bustin balls /forum/images/graemlins/brows.gif

 

[stevebullman]

looks like you had more fun than me today, i just ended up painting my truck
btw, you heard for nod lately?

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Here's a Cottonwood I had to remove last week.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Funny part about this job is that the Blackjack oak in the back-right was harder to get down than the bigger cottonwood! I am always telling people that I find shorter trees can be way harder to remove than larger ones. No leverage and less room for error.

 

[Rupe]

Steve, lets have a look at this truck then! I got a message from Nod saying he was ok and back at work.

 

[stevebullman]

yeah i heard from him, but that was ages ago now.

i'll take a pic of the truck tomorrow if i remember. its looking quite smart for an ldv. painted up the chassis and had some new ali drop sides put on.
havent got high sides as yet but im not sure i really need them at the moment. all im doing is freelancing for other companies, the trucks just for firewood. as and when i need to chip i'll probably knock myself up some ply sides

 

[Rupe]

I've just spent the weekend re building the chip box on my truck. I got some prices for an aluminium box, but it wasn't just the price that was a problem, not having the truck for up to a week was not possible. Is yours a double or single cab. Mines a single so I had to make some compartments for road signs etc.

 

[stevebullman]

mines a single. i dont think im going to bother with tool compartments when i get a chip box sorted. unless you get a whole seperate compartment in front of the tipper they seem to just get in the way.
did you see the brit-tip unit at the apf?? that was pretty neat.

 

[Rupe]

Yeah it looked really cool but I didn't dare ask the price. With a big tall chip box you would be overloaded when full up so there is plenty of scope to add boxes or compartments. I like to have everything with me everyday and theres not much you can fit in the cab. My previouse pics in th eyer riggs thread show the basic setup, I've changed things a bit since and wil post some pics when its done. Works starting to get real busy now so it might take a year or so!!!

 

[Rupe]

found their site

http://www.brit-tipp.co.uk/arcul.html

the one showed here doesn't look as as good as the one at the show.