Jumped from a quick family trip to Darwin into a long backlog of jobs.
Back to a small community adjoining national park, mostly regrowth, but high rainfall area with some of the taller pockets of karri getting back up over 60m now. One of my grandfathers worked in the timber mills in what is now national park, recently picked up the contract for the climbing side of tree works with the conservation department, so some good technical stuff, big trees on cliffs, in cave entrances, old habitat trees, lightning etc.
First part of job was insurance, cleaning up a big marri had felled during storms (few weeks of +100km/h) earlier in the winter, part of the crown had fallen & landed on shed, another section failed, hung in crown & loaded up everything above house. To dangerous to climb in the wind, had to fell it from ground against lean, into the wind. Then removed a smaller marri above water tank (in photos). Our climate is seasonally wet & dry, so many rural lots rely of tank water storage over the five-six summer months without significant rain, hence losing your water storage due to fallen limb is undesirable. Couple of hours for Dolph Lundgren to get it down into narrow gap on one of the firebreaks.
Have been using the Vermeer to 'spring' the zipline when working on trees with lateral spread, works well, can pop limbs & smaller blocks over objects nicely, just have to dial in the timing with climber & machine operator.
