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Tree Felling
Rusty Hinge wrote:
Hello Rusty A grand could be realistic, but it might be a lot cheaper (I've felled and burnt similar trees for half a days work for two guys, 100-200 quid). But a job like yours, worse case, might take 3-4 days for 3-4 guys (and I'm talking absolute worst case). RH Very, very worst. We took down two poplars in North London. RH They were polled at about twelve feet, and the three trunks RH on one and the two on the other were over 120 feet. Yeah. We used to specialise in the dangerous ones at one time, and some of the worst were a stand of five 100' douglas fir that grew on an unstable bank another 20' above a major roadway which in turn was 20' above a busy beach in Salcombe, surrounded by other roads and had a house directly underneath. Took ten of us (three climbers, three groundsmen and four muppets) five days to dismantle and remove, including 3 days hire of a 100' crane and traffic lights so we could close the road. That was about the most expensive single job we did and was knocking on the door of ten grand. I was quite happy to be a groundsman on that job, and not having to work up there. The crane driver wasn't too careful either, freewheeling lumps of wood down of about 1/2 a tonne and then slamming the brake on at the last minute, causing the back of the crane to lift up. Got rid of him after the first day and used another firm. RH The main boles were nearly six feet in diameter at the RH bases, and our 36" Pioneer power saw only just met in the RH middle when we came to take them down. Tricky with that size and with rotten boles. We kept a big sthil just for those sorts of jobs with a 5'6" bar imported from America (not a fun thing to start on a cold day, and if you stuffed it in the dirt we were made to sharpen in on our own time - 12' of chain takes a lot of setting and checking to sharpen so it cuts straight). I've seen a guy use that saw 30' when taking down a wind-damaged scots pine at Greenaway House (Agatha Christie's place nr Torbay) - quite funny since he couldn't brace himself, the torque from the saw kept pushing him away from the tree. RH Because there was nowhere to take them down in one go we RH (about five of us) spent four days taking them down from the RH tops downwards. Definately a slow job, and not one you can rush. Need a good bloke on the ropes, both above and on the ground too. Seen quite a few near- misses from a manic climber, and more from an inexperienced groundsman. TBH, I'm quite glad I got out of that line of work. RH Our charge was one thousand five hundred pounds, but that RH was thirty years ago. The nearest quote he had to ours was RH three thousand, and one company wanted ten thousand. Eek. It's amazing the difference - I'm pretty sure a lot of companies take one look, think "Bugger that!" and put in a silly quote because they don't want the job. -- Simon Avery, Dartmoor, UK Ý http://www.digdilem.org/ |
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