Removed several dead trees from a home in Avonsleigh that were over the top of the children’s cubby house, neighbours clothes line, fence, garden, gazebo and an incinerator.
Nothing was damaged, and the job was done using our well adapted dead tree removal techniques.
Photo’s
I was contract climbing for a Yarra Ranges based tree company a few months ago, and this photo was taken as I took the top of the tree out and caught it on rope.
This meant we could preserve the owners precious garden below, but still remain efficient in the tree removal process.
Angus takes the top of the tree out, and catches it on rope; allowing it to be safely lowered to the ground without damage to the garden below.
A large Oak tree in Mt Dandenong was damaged during a severe storm. One half of it landed on the owners property, the other half of the tree landed on the neighbours.
Sherbrooke Tree Service was engaged to perform the tree removal. Our new 8″ Rayco Chipper was used to create a mulch for the customer and the trunk was cut up for firewood.
Our wood chipper backs up to the fallen Oak tree
Complex rigging and storm damage works are an area of speciality for Sherbrooke Tree Service. The nature of the large tree’s in the Dandenong Ranges coupled with the rigging equipment we’ve accumulated in over 30 years of servicing the area means we are efficient and safe in handling emergency tree works, storm damage clean-ups and complex tree rigging tasks.
Had a job last week where a 70 feet tall dead tree had fallen into another tree over the top of a shed. I snapped a photo with my phone I descended onto it to work.
Looking down onto the uprooted tree over the shed.
After setting a large lowering line in another tree, I abseiled onto the tree below and tied it slightly back from the lowering centre point. This would ensure that as the tree is lowered the attachment point doesn’t shift too far ahead.
I then sent another line opposing the direction the tree will move as it loads up on the top line. This allows me to avoid shock loading the system, and complete control over where the tree goes. Another risk in shock loading the tree was the entire tree could possible snap in half as all its weight is put on one part. Gentle is best.
I then cut and lowered on branches that would affect the tree being lowered. After putting significant pre-load on the lowering device I positioning myself above the tree I was lowering, used a pinch-bar to lever it off the tree it was sitting on.
Then working the two ropes simultaneously lower the tree down.
Looking between the tree's and the corner of the shed: The tree was lowered in between with absolute control.
The photo above is looking down from the top of the trunk, showing the tight squeeze where the tree was lowered.
By using efficient rigging techniques, this job was done in just over an hour. Achieving the same outcome using a travel tower would have taken significantly longer and in this situation been more expensive.
We provide advanced tree climbing and tree rigging services to other tree companies and work throughout Cardinia Shire, including Cockatoo, Emerald, Avonsleigh, Macclesfield and Gembrook.
Our new Rayco mulcher has arrived and it got a test run at One Tree Hill on Mt Dandenong. We fell two tree’s then chipped the heads and branches.
The 8″ chipper can be towed behind a standard four wheel drive, and is fantastic for jobs where there are access limitations.
The mulch is produces is fine and consistent, fantastic to handle.
Our new chipper, chipping the tree branches back into the forest.
The two tree’s were part of a fire break easement that we were helping to clear. The wood was put into the forest using our excavator with the log grab.
By using our excavator on jobs like this, the manual, back breaking work of cutting up all the wood and rolling it aside is forgotten – allowing us to be more efficient and safer.
Graeme carrys a log down the hill while rolling another with the excavator with the log grab.
The four wheel drive tracks throughout Bunyip State Forest were affected by the Bunyip Ridge fire. A large number of hazard trees were assessed alongside the track and were marked for removal.
In October/November 2009, Sherbrooke Tree Service was engaged to open these tracks before the recreational four wheel drive season started.
Aside from the tricky access issues on the four wheel drive tracks, all the works went to plan and the trees were safely removed.
Fire damaged tree over the car park is trimmed with a travel tower
Felling a dead tree across the track
The walking track to the waterfalls needs trees removed
Another one leaves the stump
Aside from removing trees already blocking the track, trees that were going to block the track later were also removed
Trees that had asthetic or habitat importance were pruned and left
Trees marked for removal may have been affected by nearby trees
The intense fire killed many trees. Due to the intense heat very few of these will recover, however the forest is already showing signs of coping
Dead tree over popular 4WD pull over area is removed
Bunyip Ridge in Cardinia Shire had harsh fires that created many natural hazards
Some quick snaps of the vegetation management work we are doing on Mount Bogong.
All of the tree assessments indicated that there was a significant threat to power transmission and distribution services. We have been engaged to remove trees that pose immediate threats to assets. We are also required to prune and monitor trees that are of moderate risk. Being alpine terrain there are a number of environmental issues we must constantly assess, on a tree-to-tree basis.
We were back on Mt Dandenong today. Tree lopping for something different. A few photos of PNF’s 18M travel tower.
PnFs 18M travel tower
The 18M travel tower next to the 160M tower
Ace Tree had their chipper out.
Deciding which tree to chip next
A large Eucalyptus regnans out the front of William Ricketts sanctuary needed to be removed. William Ricketts Sanctuary is located in Melbourne’s south-east in the Dandenong ranges, and is managed by Parks Victoria.
Graeme accesses the tree and rigs a branch for lowering.
Lowering the branches using a variety of techniques.
The newest employee of Sherbrooke Tree Service has arrived.
Our new excavator arrived just before Christmas. This will be used primary for the tree lopping and track maintenance work we do in Cardinia Shire and Yarra Ranges Shire. The excavator has a log grab, or ‘beck’, that is used to grab hold of logs and trees to reduce our handling time. During the fire clean up post Black Saturday, machines like this were invaluable for crews in handling large trees and branches. The excavator will have an angle grinder attachment in the near future, which will make large metal cutting a lot easier.
This excavator will also save a lot of the back breaking work involved in track clearing and track maintenance – another service which we provide as part of our tree hazard reduction in high visitation areas.
Used in tandem with our Lucas Mill, moving logs in and out of the processing area will be a lot simpler too!
A few pics from the Grants Picnic Ground Removals. Quite a number of mature Eucalyptus regnans were removed from the picnic area for public safety.
Took a few happy snaps of the recent Tahune Airwalk work. Enjoy!
