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"andrew.heggie@xxxx.ntl.com" 12/05/01 10:03am >>>wrote;

The drama of seeing a full crowned tree felled and hitting the floor (the
noise, the sweat, the emotion) means we probably don't see these things fall
as we think we do, perhaps professional fellers get a lot more blasé about it

You get quite a good view sitting on the winch tractor, the wind is
quite impressive also, even at two tree lengths.
AJH
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You remind me of the time I felled a very large and heavily dressed H Chestnut
snugly into Guildford Lido car park. A jolly band of Council Officers turned
up for the spectacle and insisted on adding weight to the anchor line despite
my caution. As the tree gracefully keeled over it crumpled flat and the
captured wind within the crown erupted as if from bellows to pick them up and
dump them in a pile.
Some days I found particularly rewarding.
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Ian.....................
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PS. Mike B would remember this fondly Richard.
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                                              
                                                      
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