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So I sat myself down and studied and can now really appreciate this post. Thanks I have been reading your "rope" thread quite a bit too.

It's vomiting, but I suppose it could be case of the green apple quick step if one ate some rancid meat. Bad meat can give you a real case of the backdoor trots or as my sons would say since they were 5&6 respectively, "making numbers 3", "oh yeah boys what is that?" Asked 29yr old me "It's...

This one is called "Getting the Cart Before the Horse" or "All Bark and No Bite". It was 2004 I had just harvested a bunch of Ohia on the island of Hawaii and was hired to build a series of antique Hawaiian style timber frame structures on 15 private waterfront acres. I had an apprentice 4 years...

"A knot is either exactly right or hopelessly wrong, make only one change and either an entirely different knot is made or no knot at all may result." Ashley Book of Knots. I believe that I understood about a third of Kenny's lesson. In the world of knots 33% there is 100% failure. After this...

I know that guys have used it before, but I really was sold on it when I saw a crew taking down rigging on a sailboat and I guess that they overlooked a starboard shroud. The step of the mast was a ball and socket type giving no directional hinge just a mere pivot but with that shroud "hinge...

Has anyone else used this "hinge stay" technique for heavy side lean in areas where the potential of hinge "miscalculation" is unacceptable. Maybe I'm mediocre at best but I have found that if the trunk dia. is insufficient for fancy cuts or the tree is compromised or is of a poor quality fiber...

möbius strips abound in that print

I hope you guys aren't talking about my crude drawing. Hahaha.

B-Smith that MC Escher drawing made me dizzy 😵

He is 6'5" 350lbs+/- BTW This here is a diagram of my "hinge stay"

Yeah those are tall boys for suburbia in any other place than the PNWet. That's my ironworker friend on his first 2 removal ever at his own house. I can give him a ribbing about not listening because 99% of the time he does what is right. I have never let him endanger others or himself. He...

Tree09, that video was a perfect answer to Tommy _B's question, but what is up with the camera man's heavy breathing? Seriously I was a little concerned that it was going to transition to a fetish flick at some point! To not break out in nervous laughter I had to imagine the camera man wearing...

I call this one, "When your only tool in life is a hammer or I was just given a hammer and it's the most amazing tool I've ever seen in my whole life!" First if it's my licensed company I would never have let this occur... Same ironworker friend has now succeeded at removing no less than 3 whole...

I have a keen interest in any trade knots you have and really appreciate your thread in rigging. I fantasize about building a cabin off grid using my capstans and maybe a couple of derricks.

At one time most building trades spliced their own cable and rope or wire rope and line. Today the vast majority has shifted to prefabricated or manufactured slings and rigging. Don't get me wrong my friend has a good many a knot up his sleeve. So far my favorite is the equalizing bowline for...

Bad habits like unsecured ends is probably why building trades aren't allowed to to rope rig any longer.

Yes always secure the end of a clove hitch.

Mr. Beranek is the clove hitch ok when lifting cylinders like tree trucks vertically even when finished? I always used a half hitch or 2 and a timber hitch when lifting or dragging trunks from the end.

I have a recent story about trying to "lead a horse to water and get it to (think)" . I have a former ironworker friend that wanted to learn to climb but wouldn't use tree trade knots. He did a great job of removing a Hemlock that we rigged into a Dfir not 15' away. The Dfir had a block in the...