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Originally Posted by moose

I used to work casually as a labourer with a tree surgeon mate of mine. I have watched him do some mighty impressive stuff felling trees.
Once saw him fell a 40 metre pine tree in boronia (highly populated melbourne suburb) and place it right between two fruit trees next door (3 metres apart) that the owner didn't want touched, without touching them.:eek:

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skinny pine tree? :)

i doubt that would be legal now... you would have to block it down

Methinks and with due respect to the dead and the survivors, some arborists should do a course in basic physics - car pulling tree = 2 tonnes. tree = 100 tonnes + angle of the dangle factor + gravity = car launched in to low earth orbit... slingshot factor, i love the trebuchet!

GQ

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Originally Posted by EchiDna

skinny pine tree? :)

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Not at all, a bloody impressive thing to watch. Wouldn't know about the legalities personally. My mate ended up getting out of tree work because of all the cowboys getting into it and massively underquoting, which of course leads to a reduction in safety.