Category: 02 Cherry tree removal

Cherry tree intact. Full of brambles.

Sun 8 Aug 2010 / 20:10

The tree has been reduced to a six foot trunk ready to be winched.

Mon 9 Aug 2010 : 19:59

Chris’s Tirfor winch is rigged up between base of the other cherry tree and the top of the remaining trunk.

Mon 9 Aug 2010 : 20:02

You push the Tirfor’s long handle back and forth to inch the cable through the body of the winch, which in this case is pulling the tree over. The idea is to lever the tree over onto its side and then carry on winching it out sideways.

11 Aug 2010 / 20:03

Pulling it over.

Mandy logged it all up (for the wood burner), chopped up all the branches and put them in the burning pile. The pile of brambles in the foreground was intertwined with the tree.