Interesting tree removal by arborists.

[turnkey4099]

Very tall dead mountain ash. Lots of go-pro of work up high. Hated to see that good wood going through the chipper.

Other vid links along with it. I have that one saved to go back and watch others.

 

[Oldman47]

Link?

 

[Xjcacher]

 

[turnkey4099]

Sorry about that.

 

[crotchclimber]

What do you mean good wood? It's dead eucalyptus. It was at a botanic garden and I'm sure they had more use for mulch than logs. Return the nutrients back to the soil where it grew just like what would happen naturally when the tree fell.

 

[unclemoustache]

That's been posted here before, but it's an awesome video. Excellent work from guys who know what they are doing and have all the fancy tools. Makes me want to rescind my climbing 'retirement.'

 

[JeffHK454]

Cool video..makes me glad I do what I do for a leaving...it scares the pee out of me thinking about hanging off the side of that big old dead tree.

 

[turnkey4099]

What do you mean good wood? It's dead eucalyptus. It was at a botanic garden and I'm sure they had more use for mulch than logs. Return the nutrients back to the soil where it grew just like what would happen naturally when the tree fell.

Caption says it was mountain ash...although I've never seen one anywhere near that size, diameter? yes, Height? Nope.

 

[zogger]

That's been posted here before, but it's an awesome video. Excellent work from guys who know what they are doing and have all the fancy tools. Makes me want to rescind my climbing 'retirement.'

It certainly does look like fun and a decent way to make decent bucks. I thought about it a lot back in the 90s when I lived in Atlanta and was doing a little steel climbing off and on for tradeshows and concerts, went to two different tree jobs after being offered work, turned them both down though, trees around here, old yard trees, seems to be the rule, most people allow them to become inundated with six generations of poison ivy vines..I passed on both job offers. Heck, oakzilla in my yard now, when we moved in I had to axe off the vines at the base, and when they dried, yanked down as much as I could.

 

[crotchclimber]

Caption says it was mountain ash...although I've never seen one anywhere near that size, diameter? yes, Height? Nope.

Mountain ash is a common name for Eucalyptus regnans. They are neck and neck with Sequoia sempervirens for tallest tree species.

 

[Jeffkrib]

Mountain ash does grow tall the largest recorded specimen was a tad over 500ft.
Its not very good as firewood as it grows relatively fast and burns fast. The mountain ash forests on the outskirts of Melbourne was the epicentre of the 2009 black Saturday bush fires where 173 people died. I remember watching the news on that day. Fire fighters were confronted with 60mile/hr winds 2% relative humidity and 118deg fahrenheit in the shade. The trees were 200 - 300ft tall with the fire crowning through the tops.
The only thing that stopped those fires was when the fire front reached the ocean.

 

[turnkey4099]

Mountain ash does grow tall the largest recorded specimen was a tad over 500ft.
Its not very good as firewood as it grows relatively fast and burns fast. The mountain ash forests on the outskirts of Melbourne was the epicentre of the 2009 black Saturday bush fires where 173 people died. I remember watching the news on that day. Fire fighters were confronted with 60mile/hr winds 2% relative humidity and 118deg fahrenheit in the shade. The trees were 200 - 300ft tall with the fire crowning through the tops.
The only thing that stopped those fires was when the fire front reached the ocean.

Apparently there are different species called 'mountain ash'. The big tall ones are the poor quality, the mountain ash around here diesn't grow tall and rarely gets to be large diameter. The wood is about the heaviest I have ever handled after curing.

Harry K

 

[Oldman47]

Around here a "mountain ash" is not an ash but a small ornamental. I have no idea its actual identification but one that is over 4 inches dbh would be a big one.

 

[JeffGu]

Yeah, in Australia they call one of the eucalyptus trees Mountain Ash... I think there are actually several trees in the U.S. called that, but I don't think any of them are actually ash trees...

 

[unclemoustache]

Around here a "mountain ash" is not an ash but a small ornamental. I have no idea its actual identification but one that is over 4 inches dbh would be a big one.

My parents in MT have some mountain ashes - the ones that have survived are now over a foot in diameter.