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Great update....good reasoning. Glad to read you!

Good videos...slow enough movement to actually see something. What got my attention is if you do climb and bomb limbs watch out for them hitting other trees and coming back towards you as they fall. They can sweep you from the spar.

:lol: Love it! Pictures whenever you get the time to do it.

haha...got it. I'll stand down.:D

Editing is a bitch. I figured that was too long for most people to want to watch but I got better things to do than edit it down to what I think somebody wants. Spell Feller can dig into it or not as he wishes it's just there.

My main lifeline was in a nearby tree for a high TIP. I ran the high line right beside the victim tree. I climbed the lifeline and then pulled myself over to the victim tree to do the work. The tree I was taking down was falling over...root upheaval. I guyed it one day, returned next day to...

I see lots of other tall trees nearby...perhaps a high line that lets you work off of it so you don't have to be "in the tree" you are taking down. They can be time consuming to set up but let you do the work without relying on the tree for life support. Just don't let any bombed limbs (or...

Ha! Snuck in there! Good explaining on hinge loads.

And if someone ends up "releasing" the holding line be sure they know not to wrap any ropes around body parts (hands often get wrapped by non-knowers) and they don't use a standing hip belay to hold the rope...and they aren't standing on any rope/bights that can snatch the bejeezus out of them...

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