hazardous tree removal | tree rigging | Mt Macedon

tree rigginginto trees recently made the trip up to Mt Macedon for a couple of days spent removing a large, decayed eucalypt.

Although the upper canopy and even some of the higher structural timber was solid – and heavy! – the lower trunk had several pockets of advanced decay.  The crew took it slowly and carefully, often using a secondary rigging line to control swing and limit shock loading.

We were lucky enough to be able to stay onsite, so our morning commute to work was a fifteen second walk down the garden.  By early afternoon of the second day the tree was on the ground and we could start cutting firewood… lots of firewood…

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