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Half inch sounds reasonable. The more horizontal the pull line's angle is, the more you are trying to tip the top over. The more steep the line-angle is, the more your pulling force is trying harder to compress the wood downward, rather than pull the top over. What climbing system are...

Did you get an after-topping hinge pic? A flat line-angle (?does everyone, anyone refer to it as line-angle?) greatly increases your effective/ horizontal component vector force. Long ropes are required in big trees. Two rope joined for hand-pulling force is legit. Zeppelin Bend, for me...

Smart to pull them apart, especially since dead and not green. I've called WRC "velcro tree". If you want to hang a tree being felled in another tree, WRC like to grab and hold on. 👍 Good work. FWIW, be sure to avoid branch cores in your hinge. Plenty in conifer tops. Sometimes, old...

Read about pruning, 3 point pruning cuts, branch collar cuts, reduction cuts heading cuts, thinning cuts. Root zones. Local diseases. Portland is much drier and hotter than Olympia. Different issues, and many the same. SRT and DDRT work better together than either alone. I run heavily SRT...

That's about 3 hours, probably. Portland is about 1. I am SouthSoundTree (as in South end of the Puget Sound) on TB, and older posts here. I'm pretty isolated during Covid-times. As with other rope-access work, climbing is commuting, work-positioning is getting comfy at the work bench/...