{"id":983,"date":"2017-05-16T02:37:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T02:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/?p=983"},"modified":"2017-05-16T02:37:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T02:37:58","slug":"when-they-need-a-34m-red-gum-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/2017\/05\/when-they-need-a-34m-red-gum-in-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"When they need a 34m Red Gum in Sydney&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/slPssmA7m-8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We <a href=\"http:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/2016\/07\/massive-tree-moving\/\">posted about it previously<\/a>, but the job description was:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Find\u00a0massive, 34m high red gum (Euc. camaldulensis) that was scheduled for removal due to a road-widening project\u00a0near\u00a0Bendigo in Victoria<\/li>\n<li>Cut it in half vertically, reduce it to two sections (still over 30ton\/section), and crane lift it onto two trucks<\/li>\n<li>Transport it (on two low-loaders w\/ 6 car escort) from Bendigo to Sydney. \u00a0This involved closing a section of the Melbourne ring road, and blocking one side of the busiest interstate freeway in the country<\/li>\n<li>Re-assemble the two halves to\u00a0incredibly tight margins of error within an already constructed 6 storey high climbing frame<\/li>\n<li>When complete, the whole tree had to be free-standing and self-supporting<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enspec.com\">ENSPEC<\/a> were project managers for the whole job, and the climbing, cutting and rigging (and even some of the engineering!) was done by Joe Harris of <em><strong>into trees<\/strong><\/em> and Juri Megarrity of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspecttrees.com.au\">Aspect Tree Management<\/a>. \u00a0The tree now stands within 3 seperate levels of high-ropes challenges at <a href=\"http:\/\/skypeak.com.au\">SkyPeak Adventures<\/a> in Parramatta.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We posted about it previously, but the job description was: Find\u00a0massive, 34m high red gum (Euc. camaldulensis) that was scheduled for removal due to a road-widening project\u00a0near\u00a0Bendigo in Victoria Cut it in half vertically, reduce it to two sections (still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/2017\/05\/when-they-need-a-34m-red-gum-in-sydney\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,113,14,43,111,114],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aspect-tree-management","tag-enspec","tag-into-trees","tag-joe-harris","tag-juri-megarrity","tag-sky-peak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intotrees.com\/Content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}