👍Say what you want, but tree people are surprisingly resourceful and inventive!
Our industry has had to scab and invent from the get go. The huge mature equipment supply companies have been geared toward rock climbing and rescue. Not tree work.
in the past 15 years or so, the tree gear has...
Very nice!
I have that same trolley from mr. poor dwarf ;) he actually gave it to me if I remember correctly.
I used a CMI uplift pulley system. The toothed cam would bite into the rope and made it real hard to release. Used a throw line to release the little lever. Pain in the ass to do...
There is a valid argument for the KISS Term in terms of rigging.
My take on it:
It is a matter of education.
frig about with a ‘tricky’ system that no one on the crew understands, profits dive.
With most crews I have encountered, there is ONE person who is the lead climber, everyone else simply...
High line, movable rigging point, controlled lift/lower. It’s the HOLY GRAIL!
loggers been doing it forever. Unfortunately their ‘walking trolleys’ (I forget the name perhaps mr. Beranek can refresh my memory), weigh hundreds of pounds. Far too much weight for us arborists.
If someone could...
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