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No chance to dabble yet. I'm at a standstill for work. It's been this way for a week and looks like it'll be a bit.

This has been an awesome thread.

Is B going to scold me or you?

bingo. You know what I'm struggling to describe. Wasn't it you that I sold an 044 to with a burnt top end? I'm struggling to remember.

On conifers with no rope work, just skin em and dump the top, and block them down, I do leave some 2 inch stubs. I'm not ashamed to say that. Only on one side of the tree though, and only where I plan on making a pitstop on my way back down to dump a piece of spar off. It's not 100% ideal and by...

I hate rappelling off of a notch in the wood. I've been there and prefer other methods.

I had a hard time finding the right words. Not a stub per say. I've been bit in the butt by stubs. More like certain limbs with the right collar to them. Enough that I can, with a lanyard, get them climb line on them enough to sit my downward weight on them, make my cut above them, move down the...

1st class video. This is a huge help for me.

it was just my tree guy ego rearing its ugly head.

I'm a good climber, just not SRT.

I thoroughly enjoy teaching willing ears. My greatest regret in tree work is having not listened more closely to my mentors. I know for a fact I let too many wise words and ideas go in one ear and out the other.

what I meant was I use a more simple rope set up on my way back down. Ddrt, with a split tail and a lanyard. I was referring to your climb line setup being more complex than my own.

No, in many cases you aren't in a position to descend on a spar. Years ago I got tired of working off my lanyard while working spars down. As a result, I always game plan my spars early on in the removal and leave a nub or a very small stub in select locations on the spar. Not big dangerous...

True. My guys do know that my skinning line is to be guarded like gold. When I move down in a tree, and up comes some brush wrapped up in my climbing line, I flip out. I don't yell at my men, but for that, I scream.

It makes loads of sense my friend.

Good pics B. I've got some awesome building blocks now. You guys rule. Dave, your system on removals looks neat. I myself lean towards a much more simple approach on working spars down. I'm not knocking your system at all, just saying that I myself am a more meat and potatoes sort of guy.

its good you said that. I had a different image in my mind. Guys, forgive my silly questions and ideas. This is 100 % new to me.

Any of you do removals SRT? I don't see myself having any desire to do that. DRT feels like home to me when I do removals and I don't want to screw with my psyche. In fact, I won't tamper with my style of removals.

Brian, I'm still liking your suggestions you made earlier on. Just tossing around tons of options. With srt I gotta start using 200 foot lines I suppose if I tie off to the base of the tree? I have ZERO desire to send a running bowline up a tree and climb from there. No way no how. Not for...

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lM_RpJHxH44" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> How about this rig?