Tree removals overthere

andrus kokerov · Oct 19, 2016

Hei!

Got a job coming in next to a busy road (main street of a small town) and was just interested how would other companys in other countrys do the job. I added a photo of the tree. Its a willow tree that needs to be removad and the worksite cleaned up. How would you approach it? Climb it? Buckettruck? Crane? Rigg it? How meny groundies? What machines? Its about 70ft high and has meny stems. The road must be opened as fast as possible.

Climb safe!
Andrus

NE Tree · Oct 19, 2016

Looks like a big nasty Andrus. I think personally, from looking at the picture, that it can be done in any fashion except felling really. People can only work within their means. A crane would be ideal and the fastest but would cost you the most potentially. That's what I would do if possible. It would take forever in a bucket or climbing but you would maybe only have to close off half the road. Hope this helps. -Steve

CutHighnLetFly · Oct 19, 2016

Where I live, I'm pretty sure there's no way of doing that without a detail officer/ traffic control officer.
But I would piece out that brush from a bucket truck like real fast, then rig some logs. Doesn't seem to bad tho man. But I'm in another country so it's easy to say from here!

CutHighnLetFly · Oct 19, 2016

@LimbLoppa
I have a feeling this would be easy beans for you. you rip roadside removals all the time no? And there's not even primaries all up in that things skirt whaaaaaaat

islandarb · Oct 20, 2016

Fuck the bucket....climb the nasty thing and rope chunks....looks fun to me...nice shape...block half lane and let the crew clear stuff quickly...do roadside first...then the otherside....thank god for no primaries up that shit....have fun...remember I am on my couch...

ROYCE · Oct 20, 2016

Yeah, What swing said!! I too am on my couch. Like others have mentioned it can be done by any method you mentioned. It all depends on the tools you have available. Personally, I would use a crane on that tree. Take those stems in whole and feed them directly through the chipper. Fast, efficient and can do a lot of that work while traffic is passing. Once you get ready to cut and lift you can stop traffic for about 5 minutes or whatever.
That would be about 3 hour's with a crane? Again, on my couch!!!

Boomslang · Oct 20, 2016

How would I approach it? Notch, backcut, and a pull the bastard in the direction of the camera. I've become lazy and uncaring of being an inconvenience to people.

How would I approach it as a professional....climb and rig. If you take your time you wouldn't even have to land anything on the road. Of course I'd still have traffic control, you know, for safety reasons and shit.

Daniel · Oct 21, 2016

set the bucket truck up on one lane of the main street, park the chipper on the side street... set up a lowering line for a LZ in that grass on the corner and swing everything in there..
Looks like the wires are across the street. the only concern othere than traffic control would be the pole.. Always tough to tell from the small screen. With the skid steer feeding the chipper and the 75' elevator I wold think less than three hours to put the tree on the ground...

Raven · Oct 21, 2016

In my experience I've found that small towns are easier to deal with than big ones. I would push for a street closure permit, pull in a crane, bucket, clam truck, have all the room you need to do your job safely AND no traffic to deal with at all. If you throw the big iron on it you'll be opening that road by noon. (I'm in my kitchen BTW)

JustinK · Oct 21, 2016

How big is your chipper? If it can take those whole stems then block lanes accordingly, fell towards where the picture is taken from, one at a time. Doesn't look difficult to do from that angle. Winch into chipper (facing against traffic flow, its blocked, remember?) have another truck on stand by to chip into while another dumps.

I'm not on a couch, but am on lunch break, from thousands of miles away, but that looks like cake with some chip capacity and an 18-20" chipper with a winch, and a lane closure or two.

colb · Oct 23, 2016

Apply for municipal road closure. Verify OSHA-readiness of crew and equipment. Calculate rough lean direction and force of entire tree. If it can be tipped at ~10:1 advantage towards the camera then brace the trunks to each other with 3/4" rods to mitigate for those low bark inclusions, tip tie 1-3 times at a suitable height with consideration of the willow wood characteristics, and with lines leading to a winch and/or whatever else gives the 10:1. Put a log 3' from the base to protect the sidewalk, cut low to avoid bark inclusions between multiple low codominant leaders, and drop towards camera. Cut each leader into three pieces for grapple truck, starting in the road.

Alternatively, get the crane.

Alternatively, climb for it on the off street side, leaving one or two clean leaders with which to swing street material efficiently off the street, either by catching or by swinging and then letting them fly. If you want to mitigate against swing, rig the branches over the street to pulleys and dead end the rigging line to your working spar and attach the pulley midline between the dead end and a block pulley in the off-street side. You can small ball that all day long with 1 minute traffic stoppages.