My name's Aaron Graber with ventrac and today we're on site with a power bucket
and grapple and we're gonna take care of a downed tree. We're doing this project
today with the ventrac because it's perfectly suited for these conditions.
Today is January 13th and we're in Ohio and it's about 45 degrees. It's pretty
comfortable out for January. We've been dealing with several days of 40 to 50
degree temperatures and that doesn't seem like it's going to stop for the
next week or so. We're also coming off of about an inch of rain in the last couple
days and whenever you get conditions like this the winds are coming out
strong and the ground is saturated and sometimes you get trees falling over
like that because of the way the ground is. We need to be using a ventrac on this
property because we're gonna be making a lot of shuttles to move this tree. We're
gonna cut it up and we're gonna take all the limbs off and cut it into chunks and
there's actually a spot all the way on the back side of the property that we're
going to dump it all but to do that we're gonna have to make a bunch of runs
back and forth. This makes the ventrac perfect for this
project because we're not going to leave any marks in the yard when we're done and
we're not gonna tear anything up during this whole process. We're only gonna
leave one mark in this yard and that's cuz it's our camera guy's name. Alright
let's get started.
So we're probably halfway done now. We've got a lot of the limbs off you still got
a little bit of cleanup to do but we're down to the main trunk and we've got
quite a bit of weight left which is why we want to tackle the root ball next. So
we want to try and knock some of this dirt back off into the hole before we
cut any more of this tree. That way it doesn't stand up on itself when we cut
too much off and get too much weight down with that dirt. So I'm gonna take
the tractor and use the bucket to peel away some of that dirt knock it off try
and get it back into the hole lighten it up as much as possible so that we can
continue to cut the tree and take care of the trunk and we'll do a little bit
of cleanup and we'll be on our way.
So that's it for this project. It took us about two hours to cut up this tree and
remove it and haul it away to a different part of the property. We
actually made 31 trips along the same path and as far as I know there is no
other machine in the world that can do that amount of work and do that many
passes over the same area on a property and do that little damage overall. If you
look around there's some debris and some sticks and stuff left over from the tree
actually falling and some needles and a little bit of dirt around but if you
look at the grass and everywhere that we're driving it's like we were never
even there. So it's pretty impressive and with a lot of work with a machine that
otherwise didn't do any negative effects to the property. We're able to bring in a
little bit of dirt after the fact and level this area off a little bit so it's
ready for replanting another tree or shaping this bed again and growing grass
or whatever the property owner wishes to do. What do you wish to do? I don't know.
I wasn't expecting this to happen.
It will be grass.
That's probably what I'd do. So we always want to hear from the audience at the
end of these videos. Something interesting something that captivated
you guys. So we do have one last question if this tree fell and we weren't around
to hear it did it even make a noise?