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Daniel, I questioned Rick on that exact concern. He needed to be where he was to load the logs.... and likely didn't want to be behind the back lean. He had protected the trailer with a log laid at an angle on it...and must have thought the top would be OK. He said and planned to use his boom...

You're exactly right, Limbrat..... I often don't thi9nk clearly under pressure....I think that pick was the one that I noticed the wraps starting to cross over, and I was worried they'd bind up, so I took a wrap off, which meant I couldn't hold the piece.... thanks for noticed what I know I did...

Interesting thought, Reg, but we really needed height...It was the lack of it that caused the problems with the first pick...not enough lift...AND, as I'd directed Pat to move the tie point down to at give us some height and a slightly better line angle, I then realized that he needed to make...

It twarn't even a son of a beech, there, young Jedi Warrior...It was a scrubby plum.... and one lead survived.....

Yurp. But I need some fine young nubile wench ( es) to bed down with. Headed there now, sadly, only with a fantasy.....

Finally, the vid. The snafus we had are obvious--look closely for the two which could have ended much worse, one, the GRCS being jerked upward on the first pick, and the log truck shaking when the huge log almost tagged it. Yikes!!! <iframe width="420" height="315"...

You got it, Jack... Two awesome Fat Tire ales into the evening....that's plenty for this health nut... Got the vid being saved, then next is Youtube... and it will debut here and on FB...... Be there or be square..... It's raw, no text, fancy embellishments, or head cams, let alone music...just...

Thanks, Gerry. I have to get a good vid editor.. Final Cut, Avid. Premiere, which do you recommend, or is there anything cheaper that would be good enough for my needs? It would have to be capable of handling 4K, which I will likely be shooting within a year! I'm just waiting on a replacement...

Quite a story, Al. I'd not think that catalpa would be very rot resistant. I'm mad at MovieMaker for crashing when I was 95% finished editing a vid down to 9 minutes...and for an old memory card for crashing. There was only one vid on it from yesterday. I had downloaded Thursday's vids, but not...

What were you saying, sonny?

Look for it, sir... I may have seen it, but what with early onset alzheimerzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......well..... Have you seen the Drop Test vid from years ago, which Jerry filmed.... GRCS Hobbs shenanigans involving a Volvo dropped into the rigging?

Not a chance, Benn! Heck, imagine the forces created by even a small diameter 17-21 foot log's center of mass falling a minimum of 18-22 feet.....or, hell, calculate it... a 1000 lb lg would generate at least 18000-22000 lb...double that for the rigging point. Years ago, a good local co, now...

Pete, the butt hitched rigging was rigged with 9/16th DS Composite, double braid, spectra core. Excellent, resistant to any heat glazing. The gin pole rigging sling was a 5/8th 12 strand spectra, which glazes easily, and did.... I don't like how it looks, just past the awesome 12 strand tuck...

Well, I'm drinking Bridgeport, but I do like Dos Equis.......like Ricardo.

Al I just bid $1900 on a wide spreading, and hazardous tree you do know about, catalpa.. Hope we get the job, it will be a bit challenging.... maybe we can slam it out, but think it will be close to a day's work.

Douglas-fir.... the four rigged logs scaled out at 680 board feet.... betcha over 7500 pounds! Yikes. The butt logs netted another 1600. So, while the rigging was time consuming, and dicey, it saved us cutting what would have been close to six cords of freakin firewood.... And, saved the bid...

Nope. Not Pat! And I've never considered anything that big, aloft anyhow, until I got the new rope. And Pat isn't very good at facing up big cuts, especially direction wise. It was critical that the logs, especially the first one, not hit the rig tree. so, he had to re-position his face cut, and...

Sure, if you're Reg or Graeme.. Look for more images and video sometime soon. Thanks to a new full static dyneema 9/16 Plasma core rigging line by Puget Sound Ropes---- forget Samson, this $800 line rules) rated at 29000 tensile, and a well place fir for a gin pole, we were able to rig two...