SeanKroll
Treehouser
Just a thought I have...
Sometimes in rare occasion, you might want to beat an area, rather than rig down into an area, like if you have a dead tree.
I had a tight spot to fit a dead cedar. 2x2' grid plant-spacing, with heavy, heavy landscape cloth, in the landscaped area where I was able to cover one 'soft' plant with plywood and build a log crib around it to drop in. As I was trying to prevent bouncing out, and most of the brush was already gone by the time I chunked it down, I grabbed an old piece of 8" foam to try as a disposable cushion. It worked.
I've heard of thick plywood, with straw bales on top as a way to protect some flat ground from spar impact.
Forever ago, I sub-climbed for another company and they were a chunk-it-down company, like so, so many up here, and I presume everywhere. The speedline was almost too much for them to manage, through their hangovers, to get the limbs down in the tight dropzone over pavers. We used two layers of tires and horse-stall mats onto as a crash pad, which worked out.
In hindsight, plywood on the ground first would have been a good move, if it wasn't actually done. Been forever.
I wonder about plywood layers on the ground, a layer of rounds (top ends cut into one plane with a long bar), and then more plywood on top as something to bounce things off with enough dispersal of energy over the plywood-round sandwich to protect the ground. If I could chunk onto a wood sandwich rather than rig down chunks, I imagine there might be good application sometime, like shallow water line/ dead tree I did a long time ago. (Reg's recent Easy One video had me thinking, about bridging, armoring, etc.)
Similarly, I sometimes will run across big flagstone areas. Seems like a tarp on flagstone with chips on the tarp and overlapped plywood/ mats may prevent flagstone damage by preventing point-loads/ concentrated loads from a mini-loader.
Upcoming, I have a big-ish birch to remove with a rhododendron right at the base of the tree. I think that it might be better to nail steeply angled 2x4s to the birch, like a teepee, and layer up some plywood. Once the tree is gone, the rhododendron will be the screening between the house and road, so it may be important to protect it, in a bad spot.
Two 4' 2x4s, and two nearly 8' 2x4s for a rim, and one sheet of plywood can make a strong shallow-box-like protector that can be strapped to the tree over the plant. Dropping stuff right on the wood shield might be easier than rigging some. A steep angle will deflect material to the ground.
Around here, there is commonly delicate plants right around the tree. That same 2x4 rimmed plywood could make a little platform with shorty 4x4s for little legs to prevent trampling ground cover and such at high-end properties.
Working solo, or with a busy groundie, I think how it might be easier to build a deflector on the ground, with stuff I'll already mostly have onsite, and just let stuff fall, rather than guiding and throwing branches and such.
Thoughts?
Ideas?
Pics?
To a degree, just having the tricks is something to be able to offer customers. Reg commented how, all too often, the contractor will lead them to believe that collateral damage is just part of the deal. I like to offer that we can not disturb a thing, if that's the objective.
One of my previous clients had a $60k tree-house built for his daughter. Everything was 'perfect' at their property/ events center.
Sometimes in rare occasion, you might want to beat an area, rather than rig down into an area, like if you have a dead tree.
I had a tight spot to fit a dead cedar. 2x2' grid plant-spacing, with heavy, heavy landscape cloth, in the landscaped area where I was able to cover one 'soft' plant with plywood and build a log crib around it to drop in. As I was trying to prevent bouncing out, and most of the brush was already gone by the time I chunked it down, I grabbed an old piece of 8" foam to try as a disposable cushion. It worked.
I've heard of thick plywood, with straw bales on top as a way to protect some flat ground from spar impact.
Forever ago, I sub-climbed for another company and they were a chunk-it-down company, like so, so many up here, and I presume everywhere. The speedline was almost too much for them to manage, through their hangovers, to get the limbs down in the tight dropzone over pavers. We used two layers of tires and horse-stall mats onto as a crash pad, which worked out.
In hindsight, plywood on the ground first would have been a good move, if it wasn't actually done. Been forever.
I wonder about plywood layers on the ground, a layer of rounds (top ends cut into one plane with a long bar), and then more plywood on top as something to bounce things off with enough dispersal of energy over the plywood-round sandwich to protect the ground. If I could chunk onto a wood sandwich rather than rig down chunks, I imagine there might be good application sometime, like shallow water line/ dead tree I did a long time ago. (Reg's recent Easy One video had me thinking, about bridging, armoring, etc.)
Similarly, I sometimes will run across big flagstone areas. Seems like a tarp on flagstone with chips on the tarp and overlapped plywood/ mats may prevent flagstone damage by preventing point-loads/ concentrated loads from a mini-loader.
Upcoming, I have a big-ish birch to remove with a rhododendron right at the base of the tree. I think that it might be better to nail steeply angled 2x4s to the birch, like a teepee, and layer up some plywood. Once the tree is gone, the rhododendron will be the screening between the house and road, so it may be important to protect it, in a bad spot.
Two 4' 2x4s, and two nearly 8' 2x4s for a rim, and one sheet of plywood can make a strong shallow-box-like protector that can be strapped to the tree over the plant. Dropping stuff right on the wood shield might be easier than rigging some. A steep angle will deflect material to the ground.
Around here, there is commonly delicate plants right around the tree. That same 2x4 rimmed plywood could make a little platform with shorty 4x4s for little legs to prevent trampling ground cover and such at high-end properties.
Working solo, or with a busy groundie, I think how it might be easier to build a deflector on the ground, with stuff I'll already mostly have onsite, and just let stuff fall, rather than guiding and throwing branches and such.
Thoughts?
Ideas?
Pics?
To a degree, just having the tricks is something to be able to offer customers. Reg commented how, all too often, the contractor will lead them to believe that collateral damage is just part of the deal. I like to offer that we can not disturb a thing, if that's the objective.
One of my previous clients had a $60k tree-house built for his daughter. Everything was 'perfect' at their property/ events center.
