On Sat, 15 May 2021 20:33:30 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote:
snip
Yep, none. That neighbour had no access
to the back yard at all for other than people.
So wasn't the tree surgeon
We don't call them that here.
Tree-fella-o?
a person?
Corse he was.
But you said 'That neighbour had no access to the back yard at all for
other than people.'?
So did he only take them down level with the top of the fence?
They werent that close to the fence, easy enough
to cut them off right down to the ground from
beside the trunk along the fence.
Crikey.
What's so surprising about that ?
Cutting a tree down to ground level over a fence?
snip
You can either lower the chogs down (slow, can be risky but often done
when over buildings or breakable surfaces (like paving slabs, bowling
greens etc) or just slide them off (or tip them over, depending on the
height) the remaining trunk and either straight onto the ground
Yeah, that's what he did. He was skilful enough
to not have any land on the metal fence.
They can also bounce into things.
(if it's rough) or onto something that will break the
fall / spread the load if it's someone's fancy lawn,
like a bed of brash (the light stuff you have already
cut off), some thinner limbs or even some old tyres.
I couldn't see what they were landing on. Palm
trees don't have limbs, just fronds and the chunks
of the trunk arent as solid as with a conventional
tree.
Ok.
They were roughly 6' long chunks. Quite tall
palm trees, must have been about 30' to the top
of the trunk.
Ok.
Daughter and b/f took a large ash limb off over a patio laid
with Italian marble slabs and so they had to be *very* careful
and lowered them down with a rope and flying capstan.
Flying capstan must be another another unusual
term, nothing useful shows up with youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...wering+capstan
or try 'Port-a-Wrap' for a product name.
A 'capstan' is the generic term for something that you typically wrap
a rope round to provide friction to allow something to slide under
control (as in lowering a limb or chog) or for the friction to allow
you to then use with a handle as on a boat as a winch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capstan_(nautical)
They often use a twin double handed version of something similar on
racing yachts often nicknamed 'a coffee grinder'. ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS5zPBFcReE
snip
Cheers, T i m