Greenville crane removal: the walkthrough and the work · Captions available
- Service
- Crane tree removal
- Location
- Greenville, Greenville County
What the job involved
The work footage shows crane-assisted lifting of tree sections and the crew handling material near the driveway and chipper. The edited video brings the site explanation and removal footage together so you can see both the access problem and the equipment at work.
The walkthrough identifies five trees in the courtyard and a separate large oak. It explains positioning the bucket truck close enough to reach the trees beside the garage. The proposed addition and breezeway removal affect how the remaining stump work will be approached.
Equipment shown: Crane, Bucket truck, Chipper.
Planning similar work?
For a removal beside buildings, ask where the equipment will sit, where sections will be lowered, and how stump work fits with any later construction. In this walkthrough, grinding or digging out the stumps is discussed as a later decision; the video does not establish that stump removal or the renovation was completed.
Transcript
We are taking out these five trees back here in this courtyard area between this house before renovation, and then we're going to take this large oak tree out in behind the crane.
We're taking out these five trees here in between this garage and the house. They're going to be building an addition on here. This breezeway here is going to get removed. Then they're going to rip all this stuff out. Then we can come back in and grind the stumps out, or I think they're going to probably dig them out.
We've got the bucket truck set up here in front of the garage. It was super tight to get it in here. We've had to pull the whole truck around, get close enough to these trees to be able to reach everything with the bucket. This is the oak tree over here in front of the house that we're going to be taking out. It's probably the biggest one.
Spoken walkthrough, followed by footage of the removal operation.