MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
We will be in touch
Got my eye on this thread. Could be "interesting" 😕
Don't let us down now, after all this build up we will need video content please, pretty please 😉
I wonder if anything has happened yet?
was hoping this was an update 🙁
What you really need it what we've got at work a 50ft reach 360 with a set of hydraulic tree shears. Much fun can be had with them 🙂
Sorry guys, no winch in the post this morning. 🙁
I'm sulking more than you guys.
On the plus side, I cleared my escape routes and got a strap 2/3 the way up the tree.
LOL
My Fergie has a loader.
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Just to keep things ticking along....... You really need to sort the weeds in that yard. And are the logos and valves lined up?
My Fergie has a loader.
and the log splitter primed and ready for action 🙂
McMoonter you have to promise to post pics of the err.. Tree Removal Plan In Action! What's the TRPIA countdown?
Kevevs, I'm still waiting for my Tirfor to arrive. I'd hoped it would be here today. So, Monday morning I'm in Edinburgh, if it's here and the weather is still good, I'll have a bash in the afternoon. It gets dark here around 3.30. I don't think night felling is officially recognised as safe.
I put a couple of straps about 30 feet up the tree today. Even that high the girth of the tree is wider than I could reach around with my arms. iDaves pic wouldn't be that far out if I tried it with the Fergie.
cool. I think there's a few of us anticipating a happy outcome. Y'know, just in case we happen to be in the same position in future (not likely). Pressure's on mate, Sort that ****in' tree out!
Definitely get it filmed...with two cameras in case one gets squashed.
I'm expecting a more epic version of this...
Mcmoonter, don't worry about it being dark. This a shared STW experience! I'm sure Troutie could sort a night felling light to ensure the show goes on.
Windblows are a touch unpredictable.
Yours looks simple, but complicated by the shed.
Usual approach for clearing a wind blow edge would be to sever and pull back the stem, however I can't see our tractor winch pulling in fast enough, even kicked into 1080, for the stem to clear the shed before hitting the deck. The hydraulic ones I've played with were slower still.
Next option would be sideways. However the little Fergie and tirfor will not be upto the job if there is even the slightest complication, shouldn't underestimate the ability of one branch to suspend a whole tree. You don't just have the weight of the tree. but the forces acting on it too.
Sideways with the aim to skid down the tree to the left of the shed if space is too tight to tie to other tree as earlier. Tractor winch behind tree in position to pull lengthways, snatch block to the side for sideways pull, big breakfast and strong shoulders for winch clutch.
Seen, but not tried, is a massive selection of pulleys, cables and counterweights to gently lower offending tree in stages after severing it.
40 ton hymac - can dominate most domestic situations.
Set fire to it is the most genius answer I've seen so far.
explosives
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Napalm Strike.
Any update? Just back from the Puffer and was a bit busy and didn't have tinterweb access...?
Time for a "What Chainsaw For My Pool House" thread
*adds to favorites*..
I can't help thinking that even just waving a video camera in the general direction of this process is an almost certain kiss of death for the pool house.
re: the pic - I did wonder about building a frame to catch the tree above the pool house if the worst did happen?
McMoonter, may I suggest that you have someone reliable standing by with two '9's already entered into a telephone 😉
Good luck & don't forget the pics / video / whatever!
I'm going in!
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OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!
you coudl have rented a tree surgeon for the cost of posting that lot 😉
Having worked for a tree surgeon for a while.... good luck...
*runs away and hides*
There goes my chance of getting any work done this afternoon. Who's doing the filming?
Please tell us that there is explosive charges in those boxes 😉
[edit] good luck btw
Who's doing the filming?
My mum! I've got more faith in getting the tree down than getting it on film.
ski - I think they're traumatic amputation first aid kits.
I'm almost weeing with excitement.
can someone tell me the twitter feed for this event?
I'm alive, the Pool Hoose lives!
It didnt fall exactly where I hoped. 😕
But no damage done to life nor limb.
I'm off to audition for Fred Dibnah's stunt double.
My mum took fright and ran off with the video when it fell.
This comes pretty close to the rush!
HURRAY!
You should have put the camera on a tripod. Mothers are not to be trusted with extreme videoing.
Is there no footage at all then?
*sharpens pitchfork*
Nice one, been watching this develop and been desperate to know the outcome - who needs telly eh...
The winch worked a treat. It pulled the tree almost reburying the root ball. I could see a bend in the tree under the winch tension.
I think my felling cut wasnt level. Thats probably why it fell to the side.
Thanks for all your support on this one!
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Yay, STW party in the pool house!!
+10 MAN points!
Thank god, I can have a wee now! LOL
Good work sir!
Like the stump/free bird table 😉
Choptastic.
Well done that Man!
A happy ending. Well done that man!
f**** woo and hoo!
have one of these
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now altogether everyone:
*for he's a jolly good feller, for he's a jolly good feller.....*
Anyone else feeling a little let down? 😉
Hmmm, has your pool room got a nice log fire?
Can see another project in the planning 😉
Yay! You are STW's conduit to manlyness. Better build yourself another log store.
I like the way that you've protected your head from 10,000kg of falling wood with an orange plastic hat.
I know what portlyone means, we had wanted drama, suspense (literal and actual), a degree of panic and people rushing about shouting "don't panic..... keep calm... " a lot. But what do we get, ruthless efficiency Well done! You are legend.
Have tree surgeons been found out? Have they been selling snake oil to the HSE obsessed?
Top job 😉
hurrah, IN YOUR FACE TREE!!
well done. but something has been bothering me while following this thread: what is a pool house? is it the place you get changed in next to your swimming pool? if so, where is the pool? or is it a place you play pool?
i am confused.
I like the way that you've protected your head from 10,000kg of falling wood with an orange plastic hat.
LOL
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The Medal, Cloak and Mantle of Awesomness should forever remain around theneck and shoulders of Surf Matt.
I've started clearing up. As the sun is setting, it feels good to be alive and out doors.
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woop!
good work that man!
I have to say that I think I would quite like McMoonter's life.
what is a pool house?
Little more than a folly. It is located bewteen two pools.
Here's how I built it.
https://picasaweb.google.com/mcmoonter/PoolHooseStudioProject2009#
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This and the balance bike thread are my fave things on STW in years. 😀
Good work all. As the old thought experiment goes:
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to [s]hear[/s] start a thread on it, does it make a sound?"
Top work. 😀
RIP Beech tree.
McMurderer.
*raises glass* - except i'm in work so it's a glass of water 🙁
Good work and I'm glad you survived to tell the tale! You can tell Forth Ports they can go ahead with the biomass plant at Rosyth now and you can keep them in fuel for the next decade or two; probably without putting much of a dent in your log stores!
Top work! Well done fella (double meaning there!)
What's your next brush with adrenaline going to be?
Excellent work - did you decide what sort of tree it was in the end? Beech or Sycamore?
What's your next brush with adrenaline going to be?
Watch this space. What elastoplast for......?
EDIT. I think it was more Beech than Sycamore.
Best face the music over at Arbtalk.
I must admit, I am finding it hard to temper my jealousy of McMoonters lovely home with my admiration of his tree felling skills.
#conflicted.
😉
I quite liked mcmoonters sidestep of this problem over on arb talk with his 'I'm an artist not a merchant banker' line!I must admit, I am finding it hard to temper my jealousy of McMoonters lovely home with my admiration of his tree felling skills.
The boy did good!!!
'Pool Room' I was expecting somewhere used for playing a game involving sticks and balls. Not a room for surveying your swamp!!!!
Hooray.mcmoonter - MemberI'm alive, the Pool Hoose lives!
Well done.
*raises glass* - except i'm in work so it's a glass of water
I have 7 words for you
'Gordons Gin and Tonic in a Can'
nobody in the office will suspect a thing
Well done.. great job... there I was saying get a man in and by the power common sense, its job done!
Nice one McMoonter. Showed that tree who's boss eh!
*heads over to Arbtalk
class diy disaster me thinks
No wonder we are short of work with so many experts.
Arbtalk as bitchy as STW shocker 🙄
mcmoonter - Member
Little more than a folly. It is located bewteen two pools.
Nice one. Just how big is your [s]garden[/s] estate?
How did you get the wire up the tree MC? front of the fergie?
How did you get the wire up the tree MC?
Whisper it, a 30ft ladder. It was waaaaay too scary to climb.
Well done McMoonter, top work! I'll say it again, (despite getting whinged at at the start of this thread) Proper man stuff. Well satisfying. Bet you are glad you didn't just get a man in now, think of the cash you've effectively earned, you can treat yourself to some shiny bike stuff now with a clear conscience!