Arghhh
Pissed down this morning and I got soaked.
But got to use my new ratchet puller. A big azzed umbrella tree split and 1/2 failed but the other half was over a shed and stuck in some tall palms, bad spot, right in the bottom corner of yard with fibro fence, colour bond fence and a shed. So I thread a rope through and tensioned her up to a big pine in the yard.
Luckily the palms were there, got up high enough in the umbrella to use my Wolfe pole with hook to shove a false crotch up the palm as a rigging point and we lowered bit by bit after cutting with the HT75 fully extended from my crappy high point. We were setting the lowering rope with the hook and cutting with the HT75.
Snappy crap those umbrellas. Now, honestly, the only way you could prune these would be a lop job.
Was cut and leave.
So I cut, got paid and left.
Was like most umbrellas, multi leadered to ground area but no VTA of decay etc, just split but was rotten inside, all roots rotten beneath. Pretty odd, unlike any others, no borers or termites. Unusual, I reckon have to start drilling the trees now, even the last edition of the aborage IML wrote that many silkyoaks they tested were significantly decayed yet no VTA, no fruiting bodies etc.