CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Yeah ,,, and after a lil cheese grating .. you hope you charged more.. LOL We wont talk about how heavy the 066 gets ... LOL
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Gord
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It was for a golf course that we work for periodically so we charge them hourly. I spent a short day climbing and then we bucked it up in another half day. We didn't do any cleanup.
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Drella
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That was always my favorite part of doing work for golf clubs,, no clean-up.
Their boys stood await with a tractor and giant flat steel skidder than they would pull the debris onto and then burn- all in one shot. In fact, it was at a golf course that I first joined my employer. And if that constant work of up and down and back up again all day doesn't detour you from tree-work, then nothing will.
Burnham
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Yup. Don't recall whether Jer refers to it that way, but some spur climbers around these parts do.
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Bounce
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VERY nice work! I don't bother to spur climb big trees anymore either. It's just too hard and takes too long. I like to rope climb at least the bottom 40-60 feet, if not the whole thing.
It sounds so wierd to hear myself say that rope climbing is faster than spur climbing.
It sounds so wierd to hear myself say that rope climbing is faster than spur climbing.
Burnham
Woods walker
It really comes down to how long it takes to set the climbing line. Out in that golf fairway...if you have a decent target limb then it's a no-brainer.
Walk into a natural stand and consider the challenge setting an ascent line can be...it can literally take hours in a big oldgrowth like Gord showed. In that case it becomes an interesting case of choosing the more time consuming method versus the less physically taxing one...trying to figure out which is going to be which.
And in some situations you might think "no problem, an easy tree to set the line in" only to be proven badly mistaken...but you don't know that from the getgo, only in hindsight.
rbtree
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Burn, Scotty Altenhoff's (arborist for city of Eugene, and canopy researcher)wrist rocket is just the ticket....it fires fishing line and about a 2-4 ounce weight. Too bad it's no longer made. Oxman has one too...but he also uses a crossbow..
wiley_p
Climbing Up
It took me just over 5 hours to get a line set in a 190'-200' Fir near Mt. Baker. That same limb, the first limb on the trunk, broke off a couple of weeks later. With the understory, shooting angles, it was a bear. Eric Schatz hooked me up with some arrows that help. (if they make it to the ground) The tree was not to be removed, was just using it as a rigging point, hence the suckfest. I could have gone up in hooks in less than 2 hrs.
Burnham
Woods walker
I have one that I built myself...and it is a good tool. I call it my Little Shot. The Bigshot set up with fishing reel is a good one for this task, too.
Even with the Little or Big Shots, this stuff still can give you fits.
High Scale
Trust fund lobbyist.
That sky and me shot is great, you look tiny.
Nice vid.
Nice vid.
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Gord
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I've almost thrown fits trying to set lines in old redcedars, some of them have nothing but really droopy limbs, can be really difficult to set a line even 40' up.
I remember this one being a big big pain, but still a lot easier than trying to gaff up.
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misterTee
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Great pics and video Gord, what a whopper of a tree. You looked very smooth indeed up there. I hope you won't mind if I share this with the guys on a UK forum (arbtalk) as well?
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Gord
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Nope go ahead misterTee
Old Monkey
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Your tie in point looks like a dead branch in the pictures and on the video. I am supposing that that was just the way looked and you had a good branch?
