Tree Falling | Dandenong Ranges, Belgrave, Mt Evelyn Tree Removal and Lopping

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Feb

Large Tree Felling Marysville

Posted by admin at 5:26 pm

We’ve been doing some work with the Department of Sustainability and Environment in Marysville, cabling mature Mountain Ash away from a public access area.

We used tree jacks for many of the trees, others we set large cables and winched over with the DSE D4. The object of the works was to make safe a walking track that passed below many of these dead trees. Graeme has decades of experience in mature tree felling, which makes the task of assessing and planning for works a lot easier in the forest environment.
In many of the below photos you will notice most of the trees are felled from boards. These are used in steep terrain where it is difficult to safely work on the tree.

Feb

Wood Chipping One Tree Hill

Posted by admin at 12:06 am

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.

Cat Excavator carrying some logs down the hill.

Graeme carrys a log down the hill while rolling another with the excavator with the log grab.

Jan

Vegetation Management Mt Bogong

Posted by admin at 11:00 pm

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.

Dec

Removing Mountain Ash Mount Dandenong

Posted by admin at 8:13 pm

Similar to Grants Picnic Ground removal, Graeme hangs the tree upside down and then uses a crane from Campbell Cranes to lift the long limbs off.
Ace Tree and Ace Tower were there on the day helping us out with their chipper and 60m Tower. Once the limbs were removed, the heads were felled and the log sections lifted.

Dec

Large Stump Rips From Ground

Posted by admin at 6:47 pm

When removing two mature Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) from Tarabolga National Park, Graeme suspected that the defect would cause the stump to tear from the ground as the tree departed. A hazard many tree loppers and tree fallers need to place a lot more concern when dealing with tree falling in all operations.

Nov

Olinda Falls Head Fall

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This large dead Eucalyptus regnans was threatening a viewing platform over the top of Olinda Falls in Yarra Ranges Shire. The tree had a bee’s nest, and had a thin shell at the base which had been burnt out in a previous bushfire. After using explosives to safely remove the large limbs, Graeme then fell the head away from the viewing platform into the forest.

Sep

Helmet Cam

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Sep

First Limb, Main Entrance

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In the main entrance to Sherbrooke Forest, there was a large Eucalyptus regnans which had three 120′ long branches overhanging the car parking area. Graeme removed these by lopping each and catching it onto itself in order to protect the facilities below. To do this safely, Graeme needed to be able to egress from the departing limb and stay clear of the spar. The video shown is the first of three.