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So me and mate decided that it was way too easy to cut a tree and that any professional doing this is pretty much over charged bullshit (pfff - who needs professionals) Cut the tree today (time-lapse will follow as soon as I get round to put it together). The result is : As some might already have guessed, the tree was supposed to come down straight in front of the camera in order to be prepared/ cut to pieces easily. Well. the tree had other plans. Now we have approx. 7tonnes of tree laying across neighbouring garden (on top of the partly collapsed garden wall) Everybody is save. Not everybody is happy. And the misses said "I told you both, you bloody retards, to not do it" Anybody has any good suggestions how to get the tree from that spot now. Cut it up in manageable chunks, but how to make sure it doesn't bounce out of its temporary space/position. There is no access for any kind of machines. Has to be done by hand. Or with small pulley hoist/hand lift. ?
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In late 2015 on Buildhub I had a thread about removing a Huuuuge TPO Poplar Tree. http://www.ebuild.co.uk/topic/16624-removal-of-tpo-tree-after-branch-fall/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eygMw9JE9tY This is an update. The Council forgot about the replacement, but the neighbour did not :-).The Council recommended "oak or beech". And we talked about replacement trees including Turner's Oak. So I will be putting a standard tree in this spring, looking at something narrower than the 15m branch radius of the Poplar but with leaf colour interest and a mature height of perhaps 12-15m, by which time I will be in my coffin ("Here lies Ferd, who was alive and is now derd. There is no more to be serd."). It is prominent on a corner at the entry to a 100+ house housing estate. Options are: Quercus Robur Fastigiata (upright common oak) Quercus Robur Fastigiata Koster (narrower and a little faster) Quercus Palustris Green Pillar (upright red oak which goes red in autumn on the correct soil) Pyrus something something Chanticleer (medium size ornamental pear which goes bright red in the autumn) All are hardy as it is an exposed site. I think I am looking at option 3 or 4. Cost will be about £200 delivered for an approx 8cm girth 3m tall tree. If anyone has any comments they would be welcome. Ferdinand (How to embed a video?)
