Fun felling/removal job from a month ago.....

[rbtree]

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[rbtree]

The last of a group of six, this 110 footer was about 40-42 inches on the butt, with a good six feet of back lean...with a house directly behind it. We used our spectra core rope, which has near zero stretch and is rated at 19,000 pounds tensile strength, at 9/16th size. We pulled with our dump truck loaded with 18 yards of chips, so had about 20,000 pounds of traction, and on grabby frozen turf

A delicate moment, for sure, but over it came!!

I'd estimate the tree to weigh 12 to 14000 pounds, and to have had perhaps 2000-3000 pounds of back weight that we had to counteract with the pull.

 

[rbtree]

Dragging the butts from across a ditch, onto the turf, where we could reach them with the bobcat...

For the anchor part of the 5-1 mechanical advantage that we used to yard the logs out of the wild area (ditch as well) we set the bobcat and pickup truck up in tandem, joined via a chain, and with chocked tires. The chip truck did the pulling. Worked like a charm!

success!

 

[rbtree]

Dave speedlining brush from the only tree that had to be climbed all the way to the top..to get it to where it could be chipped. While Jerry yards logs from off the slope.

Chipper winch was used to tension the speedline. Down lower in the tree, it was used to actually lift the branches up and zipping them out of the hole, by straightening the slacked speedline.

 

[derwoodii]

Nice work gusty back leaner pull over well done.