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Living in a log cabin on Porcher island. Olden days long gone. A self portrait here with tripod and the Russian Zenit. I lived in terror because fierce storms would seriously sway the tall firs and hemlocks around the cabin at night for howling hours and I was sure these tall close trees would snap and crush the small cabin with me inside. Hell ! One night was so bad I actually left the cabin and slept on the nearby beach in the rain !
This is a 2-track barely a road through the forest with this tree precariously ready to fall over. I decided to take a chance since there was no place to turn around. I'll upload a photo of my new car later. (this is why we need a sarcasm font). BTW...the only thing holding this tree up is the tree it's leaning against.
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After a few weeks of removing crown collapsed Archontophoenix cunninghamaiana - Bangalow Palms which died in the 2019 drought we finally got the site almost clear enough to commence planting trees in the immediate area. This area was once dominated by subtropical Bangalow Palms.
It was a sad day when we found it necessary to cut down almost 50% of our lush rainforest palms which had previously lined our creek.
Incidentally the creek is known as Main Arm Creek (formerly Bangalow Creek), a name we gave it many years ago, because of the large number of Bangalow Palms growing along its banks. It was renamed as Middle Arm Creek, on 6th July 2021 and at that time the western arm was named West Middle Arm Creek. Further along the creek many Bangalows survived the 2019 drought but in this area just 6 palms survived.
Given the serious impact of the 2019 drought and the expected future drought scenarios we have opted to plant large and drought hardy rainforest species to replace the the palms.
With the planting area by now now almost free of plants, before we could start planting there were still a couple of large dead trees to be cut down while the opportunity prevailed.
The tree in this image with the winch and chain attached was cut down the previous day and as expected its base landed in the creek and it did not fall to the ground. Because of its height, it hung up in the branches of a large Melaleuca salicina tree. This was not unexpected and we were fortunate that a friend was able to assist us with a powerful winch and chain.
After anchoring the line to a large tree stump we planned to slowly winch the tree up out of the creek, while gradually pulling its upper dead branches clear of the trees holding it upright so that it could eventually fall to the ground.
This process took an hour and a half until the tree finally pulled clear and fell to the ground.
Miraculously no damage was sustained to any existing trees, either small or large in the felling area.
In total there are 5 videos loaded here in sequence on Flickr which record this operation. They show the various stages of the tree felling operation.