After limbing a tree up, we will use the rigging line and the portawrap we were using to VSL long sections of trunk. It is way faster than rigging out a bunch of smaller pieces, and it does insure that it doesnt go anywhere.
The rigging line just gets tied off below the notch and then loced...
Yessir. I used another alpine butterfly (or inline bowline?) towards the other anchor tree, and then an all rope MA setup and locked it all off with 3 or 4 half hitches on the bite.
Yes it smashes into the red rope, generally we wont use our climbing lines for that one :). In truth we will use a crap rope, or a scrap for that, but it has never cut it or anything.
A munter or some way to hold the tension on the VSL is required to guide the load down. If the VSL isnt...
Sure, no problem. It is essentially a speedline (or zip line) but instead of moving brush or logs laterally, a taught rope is set between the cut and a 'target' on the ground. This directs the falling log into a specific target zone and contains any 'post impact' movement. There are a lot of...
Moving some big sugar maple logs, FAST
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(I felt like this got lost in the other thread, and continuing to post different topics in that thread didnt make sense, so I broke...
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