What's in that tree?!?!?

[Mike Barcaskey]

Check out this link.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.asp?brd=1719

 

[MasterBlaster]

Three days to TD a tree?

 

[R Schra]

Three days to TD a tree?

They were digging out the center when one of the men hit the headstone with the shovel.

I asume bringing down a tree with a shovel can take up to three days

 

[vharrison2]

Three days to TD a tree?

Right?

 

[treeseer]

maybe it took 3 days cuz they were moving the wood out with a handcart or something. Drivin a truck in a cementery may =not be too popular.

Did anyone else notice the article saying that the tombstone moved up as the tree grew????

 

[itsgottobegreen]

They got lucky. They could have hit the stone with a saw blade. That would have really been bad.

I have heard somewhere else someone found a civil war rifle in a tree. But they found it with the saw.

 

[TimberMcPherson]

Its taken us 5 days to take down one tree. I know one tree that would take 3 weeks to do.

Cool find!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Ha.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Bring it on, mate.

So to speak.

 

[TimberMcPherson]

Tree size aint the problem, access and exposure is. Its on a bank so steep that any piece let go would ride its way into the house 120 feet below (heck an 020 would do the trip if you tried to place it down on the ground anywhere around the tree). You could use a chopper to piece it out but theres nowhere for it to process the debris unless you closed the road (which you wouldnt be allowed to do.)
Each bit has to be rigged, cut, retrieved and taken about 100m (alot of that by ladder)

 

[Koa Man]

I have done 2 removals that took a week to complete. That is cutting down the tree and removing all the debris. Both were back yard jobs that required a lot of rigging and only a wheelbarrow access. I see trees here that I guarentee and would bet my life on, that even a 5 man crew would not be able to complete in less than a week.

 

[Shaun Bowler]

My company had contracts with Cemeteries. If the graves are old they deteriorate creating soft spots, 8 feet under, and the trcks would get stuck.
One time we worked at a cemetery that had wooden crosses. We had an Oak removal. The guys pulled up the crosses so they would not be damaged. When the job was done they could not remember which went where. So they put them back, never heard any complaints.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Graves are always fun!

 

[vharrison2]

I saw that in the portal, where was that????????

 

[MasterBlaster]

The National cemetary we have here. That tree was $6500.

 

[vharrison2]

Nice

 

[Lawn Masters]

impressive TD there. finding objects in the tree without hitting them with a saw is great.