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Garry Brockley

I actually took the camera with me today it always gets left on my desk when i leave, so here are a few poplars we dropped today, i was doing the line clearance work and jeff was using the two 5 tonne winches on the back of the tractor good day had by all. i decided to climb without spikes today to push my self to get into position i find i get lazy when spurring.

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newguy18

Nicely done,spurless removals,not really my thing.

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OutofMytree

Good pics!

JohN Dee

Eeek, no spikes on a removal - atleast it was a humane removal

Lol, good work nice pics That last photo where the tree is leaning, is that the tree falling?

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Garry Brockley

Yes we'd just hit it with a husky 357 and a 5 tonne winch se the wind was getting up in th wrong direction, you can see the wind go through its hair as it falls,

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Eric Frei

There was plenty of foot holds anyway.

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Garry Brockley

there were until i got to the leaner in the first picture that one leaned over the green houses i rope lowered everything natural crotch system. camera batteries died after taking that one i had some crackers for limb walking 20 feet out and the camera goes down aaaarrrggghhh frustration.

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Garry Brockley

Had a willow to do on friday the customer wanted a 50% reduction so i gave him the talk and he agreed to let me do my work then he could comment, he was afraid that the dead wood would hurt one of his grandchildren and the tree might fall onto the road, I went for dead, damaged, diseased and crossing then reduced the tips.
he was really happy with the result and had never seen a tree pruned like that he thought you had to lop and top.
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After:


then i came across this poor ash on the road side this is nottinghamshires idea of tree care im writing to the main contractors tonight about this.

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OutofMytree

Nice canopy thinning there galbee. My sort of job.

Garry Brockley

Me holding up a beautiful beach in the local park, where i now take care of the trees as of last week.


and the second oldest tree in linconshire dates back to 1634

and a beech in change

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Garry Brockley

Thanks mate I try my best weeping willows are the hardest to do because they are so weak and getting to the tips is hard at times. someone had perviously attacked it low down barber chair left lopped branches ect, so that took a bit more work but i love this type of job.

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Eric Frei

Nice work, congrats on the new contract.

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newguy18

Wish there were more of a market for that kind of work here,congrats on the new contract.

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Garry Brockley

Today was a seriously busy day turned 25 x 50 foot poplars into this

and these

hard long day but a good one

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newguy18

Were you able to fell them or did you get to use a bucket?

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Garry Brockley

straight fell with a 15/20 mph side wind got interesting at times got 20 tonne of logs from them all in all keep the people with wood burners warm over winter

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Garry Brockley

One of todays pruning jobs before and after! I had to make some bigger cuts than i wanted as the little darlings(kids) had ripped the lower branches and split them lengthways, this tree was just a mass of criss crossing branches, pictures don't really do it justice.

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Garry Brockley

The last few days have been spent dismantling these beauties they were both in severe decline














And some burls for leifr

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phill ellison

hey Galbee, good job mate, can you please tell me what them trees were.

Garry Brockley

Aesculus Hippocastanum (horse chestnut) 150 years old by local recollections

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RC1

Nice thread all round Galbee

Look forward to the next chapter!

Garry Brockley

thanks reg not on your scale but i do ok i actually miss doing the roadside trees it made life interesting to say the least. Yes iv'e got to start learning about palms and Eucs for feb then im starting my dip arb hopefully too.

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RC1

Nonsense man, we can only deal with what's put in front of us mate

Garry Brockley

Well this week has been a whole lot of different elements i started working with some forresters i done some climbing to dismantle the tops out of some trees that were over the road and done some tonnage while i was there just to show i wasn't "just another bloo*y treesurgeon"
this is the forwarder they were useing




Then it was off to do an electricity take down these Fraxinus were completely f***ed you can see the hole left by the branch falling off i had to brace the tree before i climbed it.

it was like piccadilly circus with people taking pictures from every house while i was climbing do a cut turn around and there is someone with a bloo** camera clicking away.













then i finished the week by trimming 100 meters of 6 meter high hedging jeez i hate leylandii
so i finished with one of these

be safe
G

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Garry Brockley

well last weeks jobs ended with three silver birch being dismantled they had telephone wires alongside and through them with power lines and a road to the right so a slow careful dismantle plus they were iced up, it was -6 in the valley where we were so not many photos taken as my hands were too cold to carry out small operations.






then friday afternoon while the clear up was being done i nipped off and climbed this cider euc hey we all have our things, mine is climbing any tree i can get up,



be safe
Gal

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Eric Frei

How do you prune a hedge at 6m ht? Cherry picker?

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Garry Brockley

cherry picker if you can get one in but on this one we used a magic carpet (scissor lift) and ladders used both because the access was poor on parts, its a crap job to do, you get conifer rash and gummed up to hell, those cutting get everywhere and i mean everywhere.

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TrevMcRev

Usually find a few trimmings in your undies after those

Urban Treecare NZ

damn undie rash hate those bits that end up in your wallet and you go to buy something and all this sawdust and bits of hedge fall out better than moths i suppose

newguy18

lol,i usually have more sawdust than money in my wallet.

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