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  1. rbtree

    Rigging Question

    Se my post #38..... I posted the same fear....side loading forces must be accounted for...no problem if the stem is strong....option is a backguy. Peter Donzelli died when lowering a top of a lightning struck stem, by side loading it- the groundies ran wraps off another tree way off to the...
  2. rbtree

    Rigging Question

    I just edited and uploaded this video, of us felling some firs and yarding some brush out of the woods with the GRCS, tensioning the preset pull lines, temporarily using them as a "reverse speed line" <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie"...
  3. rbtree

    Rigging Question

    I ain't Darin.....but the GRCS allows load lifting which makes many procedures easier.....for storm work, it is indispensable. Low limbs over buildings, swinging branches away from obstacles...etc etc. Sure, there's other options....but none are as convenient to use---5-1 fiddle block set up to...
  4. rbtree

    Rigging Question

    OK, I'll say it, K.I.S.S. dunno if that's what da Blasta meant...but know'n him and his ways like I do.....I'ma jes guessin'... Wow....been a few years since I've seen "Born on The Fourth of July" Taking a puter break....Cruise just confessed to a family that he prolly killed their 19 yr...
  5. rbtree

    Rigging Question

    I think I got the concept, but how would it work with a 1000 pound load?
  6. rbtree

    Rigging Question

    That's interesting. I think I understand your concept, never seen it done........but would put considerable side load on the stem....Ok if it's burly...but would the sideways forces be irksome to the cutter? It looks way too gear intensive to me...the only way to rig the blocks close and...
  7. rbtree

    Rigging Question

    Sure Steve....that can be called the "fishing pole technique" But Butch was butt hitching.....only one block can be used. And, yes, I like to push them off a few degrees to the side, and/or have the GRCS/porrtawrap/Hobbs off to the side by 10-25 degrees.
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