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Wednesday 19 August 2009

Matt, Sam and Graham step up to the challenge.

The tree had a large cavity in the upper crown and numerous Inonotus Hisbidus fungi brackets from within the crown. A climbing inspection was undertaken and the resistograph micro drill was used at 20 meters up to ascertain the extent of the decay. The tree officer was then happy with the evidence and agreed that this TPO’d tree should come down.

Over three days Matt, Sam and Graham took up the challenge of bringing this tree down to earth. Matt did a good job of dismantling it and Graham and Sam managed to keep up with the wood chipper. The pictures show Matt and Sam before doing the final felling cuts bringing the tree to the ground. The client won’t be short of firewood this winter!




4 comments:

kathryn birch said...

My, what a big chopper you have!!!

Jules said...

They are certainly very manly looking - more photos please!!

Jules said...

I imagine huge muscles are needed to carry that chainsaw - I bet he never gets beaten at arm wrestling...

Jules said...

The Oxford Mail has had articles about different groups doing nude but tasteful calendars for charity. Perhaps this is something the forestry team could do...