Liriodendron reduction

[MasterBlaster]

Nah - tree paint has rejuvenating qualities in it - like asphaltum!

 

[Jonny]

They made the right call.
Kill it now rather than a few years from now when it'd be a mass of sucker growth and decay.
Plus this way they only gotta pay you once

 

[pantheraba]

Hella top! Did he gut that hinge?

 

[MasterBlaster]

If not, I woulda!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Bam!

 

[Mick!]

It’s a big lump to take from the spurs, chapeau!

 

[stig]

Hella top! Did he gut that hinge?

Nope, we wanted the hinge to hold for as long as possible, to keep the top near the tree, there was not much room to drop it in.

He bored from one side with a 36" bar, set the hinge and tripped the top.
We had only a very slight pull in it, just enough to tip it over, so it went nice and controlled.
Richard is a master of dropping big tops, he has done a lot of them.

 

[SeanKroll]

I want to joke, what is the big bar for?

Then I wonder, who wants to bore-in with a 36" bar, from spurs and lanyard?

 

[stig]

Me, too.
Richard very much prefers tripping big tops from behind to avoid any risk of it splitting downwards ( Circle of death) or barberchairing, so he always bore in.
I don't think I could do it, but he has perfected it so it doesn't even look hard or awkward.

I think my story of having a big beech top barberchair on me 25 years ago is what started him doing it that way.

I put two chains around them and cut from behind.

 

[stig]

Here he is at it again.
That one had a hell of a head lean plus Fomentarius.
No reason to bore, with the chains in place, but that is just how he rolls.

 

[pantheraba]

I put two chains around them and cut from behind

A man after my own heart

 

[SeanKroll]

He's pulling the trigger, so whatever gets him thru safely is good.

Way to top a tree!

 

[squisher]

Hella tops. Props to Richard.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qGeDUiXFKRo

 

[stig]

Somebody taught him well