Felling dodgey big ironbark | solo felling.

Eric Frei

First of all I'll tell it to you the way it is.

Took near an hour to set the pull rope.

Shot the branch with big shot 18oz bag, wouldn't come down. Now luckily after many shots it didn't get stuck and came down. I gave the big shot heaps too, near pulled it to the ground so I could get a lot of line up and over the branch I shot. (might need new rubber now)

To isolate branch in the end I had 4 bags on the line so it would run. I had ...

1x 20oz bag
1x 18oz bag
2x 16oz bags

Then I pulled up a light 12mm rope which is 50m long, and it just got it done. Then with that rope pulled up the 22mm double braid rope ... yada yada yada set the rope with shackle so no rope on rope friction, set the redirect pulley for the ute etc etc. Now almost 2 hours gone setting up.

Ironbark's bark is like plates of steel, if the line goes under a plate (which it did) you are pretty much stuffed.

Ute was downhill but on soft ground due to recent rain so not good.

Now the tree was ugly, the video doesn't do it justice ....

Combination of wide screen shot by customer and normal by me. I left a lot of the cutting footage in so people could see the crap that goes on, I chose that cutting position as the preferred place to fell it ... was between all the abominations!

I did have wedges inserted to back me up.

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Ace Master

EKKa.....Speilberg.
Excellent ... good to see you have a go.
Hey! were do you get the time for all this filming.
You have to come down and do some filming for me of my crew.
keep it coming Aussi.

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TrevMcRev

Good call on not climbing that one. Ugly inside alright. Lucky hingewood was sound(ish)

Did you pull more with the ute to get it over or did it go with just that bit more cutting?

Eric Frei

Yeah I ran back to the ute, jumped in and give her a real good 4wd burnout!

Then I was sliding sideways following the contour of the land and had to stop or would have slid into the wire fence. The tree was just teetering and then came over.

It was like "Aye captain, warp 9 sheee nort gonna take it"

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