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Looking at the context (nothing worth saving) I’d just cut from the bottom, get your escape route sorted and bollocks to the rest.

All left logged on site as firewood. Ps, I don’t have a log truck. I do have a sawmill guy who will collect decent firewood or stuff for milling. But he wouldn’t come out for useless crap like this.

And before any of you start getting a fit of the vapours, it lost a stem last week, exposing this rot in the middle.

40 year lapsed pollard of a lime tree. I brushed it out, young lad chogged it down. His first real chogging down experience. He was pleased with himself.

Pas mal. Just wondering how the reality of winding things up is going. I’m maybe 2 or 3 years behind you and am curious how one rationalisés it. You got a plan for retirement?

Laski are a Czech company, pretty decent by all accounts.

How are you feeling?

I’m guessing he wants to retain the support tree. In these situations I climb the support tree, get nice and high, then nick off bits from the failed tree, very VERY carefully, keeping an eye for changes in the way it’s sitting. Eventually you either get to the central holding point, or it...

A wisteria I planted 10 or so years back, then started training it along the front of the house.

@Maximalist have you ever used a woodchipper? What sort do they have in Russia?

Bizarrely here in France guide bars are measured in ‘pouces’ (inches)

Battery saw is heavy, I know what you mean.

S’funny, because i notice a lot of peeps run 2 climbing saws these days. A smaller echo 2511 or a Stihl 150 like you for the smaller jobs and a 201/540 35cc (or in your case a ported 194) for the takedowns. Go back a few years you ran a 200t or the like for everything. For me it’s a 2511 and a...

What do you use as a climbing saw these days Rich?

I Watch this from time to time. A triumph of sticking to the plan, not panicking, and trusting the process.

Apologies if seen elsewhere. This was the tree of the week. Big oak to remove back weight and fell (then leave) Just two of us. Me aloft, youngster running the ground. Ps, more work pictures needed, Max is doing all the heavy lifting on this thread lately.

I’d guess 10/12 years.

We have Glastonbury this year, same multi artist festival thingy. I wouldn’t go at gunpoint, but me and the wife love watching it from the comfort of our sofas, glass of wine in hand.

Brings this scene to mind.