Fat pin oak, tiny backyard!

[mistahbenn]

Here is a removal of a fat pin oak, in a tiny back yard. At first Cosby uses the bucket to clear the tips of the lower branches from over the garage and roof, to make rigging easier. Had good weather until the last day when cutting and picking the wood out, so clean up was harder!

I used a snipe on the trunk fell to minimize bounce, worked a treat.

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[MasterBlaster]

Mighty mighty awesome tree and a great job! LOL @ your groundies!!!

 

[mistahbenn]

Haha Butch! Those guys were the customers! They took most of the pics, and had a laugh taking pics of themselves with the saw (not running!). The guy did actually get involved with groundying, and turned out to be brilliant! I would hire him in a jiffy

 

[Ian Flatters]

Ben, Great job and i can safely say the uk doesnt have many trees close to that size.

 

[mistahbenn]

It actually turned out to be 3 in the end Ian... the rain made cleanup alot harder, and I carried about 15 garbage loads of sawdust from back to the front!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nicely done. Hella lot of tree to TD in a small space. I love jobs like that ... What a great tree.

 

[stig]

Great tree and great job!

 

[Tucker943]

Big tree and great work. A lot of work in that situation. As physically demanding as that tree is, IMO there's a lot of mental work there too. You seem like a top tier climber.

 

[mistahbenn]

Cheers Tucker and everyone. Yes some mental work goes into every dismantle in confined areas... But once a good rigging point is established, and room is made then removal is pretty straightfwd. All the eyes were on me for the first day, especially the neighbor who was really paranoid, but after watching for the whole day, he offered the use of his driveway if I had wanted it, before we started the job he refused to let us put the bucket there for the removal. I ended up climbing it all, so we could chip as we went along.

 

[mistahbenn]

A trick of the camera shot...

 

[MasterBlaster]

What's up with that?

 

[mistahbenn]

Some people though the entire piece was cut thru and I was still tied into it.... But I was just removing the gob.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Oh, I see it now - cool!

 

[cory]

Great job and pics.

 

[bonner1040]

I love it, but lets hold full congratulations untill Murphy weighs in. There may be some finer technical points we missed.

 

[mistahbenn]

Ready and waiting! Funny though I've never seen him do this kind of work.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I think he only takes jobs he can use his skid steer on.....

 

[bonner1040]

Great work and great pictures Ben! I miss big takedowns...anymore it seems I only get to use my spurs in dreams.

 

[flushcut]

That is one meaty SOB right there. Well played sir!
I have to ask why was it removed?

 

[MasterBlaster]

I don't think I'd want such a giant so close to my house for several reasons.

 

[flushcut]

I think I would go the opposite, now if it were a silver maple or willow forget it that thing is coming down but an oak I would keep.

 

[cory]

Speaking of skid steers, how did y'all get the big wood out of there.

 

[SkwerI]

Cory, I see tracks from their mini. At least they didn't have to hump it out by hand.

 

[mistahbenn]

I think it came down because they were paranoid about it and also to let more light in! Cory, we hired the mini Vermeer, with the bucket on, really hard to load the wood onto just a bucket, but thats all they got. I told them at the hire shop to get a grapple attachment, they are considering it.

 

[flushcut]

I see!