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  1. Thor's Hammer

    Rigging Failures

    I've had a tieback on one side break whilst hauling in a big tush. yarder and tower went clean over with me inside, threw me out the cab. Tractor powering the rig ended up hanging by its hitch with the back wheels 6ft off the ground.
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    Rigging Failures

    What is it with damn fool people who start to pull to early?! it used to drive me round the bend, you'd tell them 'DONT PULL UNTIL I SIGNAL!', and lo and behold, your half way through a back cut and the whole tree barberchairs and rips out the ground. Jeez guys, dont you get it? I WANT TO BE...
  3. Thor's Hammer

    Rigging Failures

    Never broke a lowering line, but I've sure busted some steel cables and rigging. When you start doing cable logging, the forces go off the scale compared to tree rigging. We've ripped whole trees out the ground, snapped them in half at 18'' dia, torn anchor stumps out the ground, snapped 1"...
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