Check this out.-Graehme McMahon

[Stumper]

http://www.sherbrooketreeservice.com/files/Tahune-Day3_web--wmv.wmv

 

[Mr. Sir]

Wow!!! That was incredible! I've done some hairy trees, but that looked just plain crazy. Is there a story to go with that vid?

 

[Stumper]

There probably is but I don't know the story. That was one hairy scary tree.

 

[Skwerl]

In-Freakin-Credible!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yeah, I posted that here (from the Buzz) about a week ago. Pretty cool!

 

[sotc]

wow i cant beleive that tree was standing!

 

[PCTREE]

How much did they charge for this tree???

 

[top hopper]

That was amazing!!!

 

[Newfie]

Pretty cool. Massive tree.

 

[tntree]

The kind of tree that gives you nightmares the night B4 climbing. Amazing!

 

[TheTreeWiseMen]

.....and the one your boss gives you on a Monday morning, after a particularly excessive weekend.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Monday my ass. With my luck with "Bosses" they'd give me that at noon on friday! Ha.

 

[TheTreeWiseMen]

mind boggling vid though...

 

[MasterBlaster]

The cameraman did an excellent job, as well!

 

[No_Bivy]

the sound track should have been......
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[The Branch Doctor]

That's hardcore! I like the set up they used with their rigging lines. Don't think I've seen a set up like that. Anybody familiar with how they rigged it?

 

[Old Monkey]

I have been playing on google earth looking for the Tahune Air Walk. Found it. Look for the Huon river, Tasmania.

 

[sotc]

looked like multiple guy lines and double rigging points maybe

 

[squisher]

Wow , that was amazing!

 

[MasterBlaster]

I didn't see shit in GE.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

the sound track should have been......

Funny, but I really liked the soundtrack. Beth Orton is the vocalist, and her fragile voice is a great juxtaposition to the vid.

 

[RIVERRAT]

Camera work wuzz FREAKING FANTASTIC!!
Watching him work that rotten stick I learned something I will use on a tree coming up in a couple of weeks.
VERY COOL!!

 

[MasterBlaster]

What, the straps?

 

[RIVERRAT]

What, the straps?

Yes! & just the reminder from watching him, To Stay Smooth.
Do what I do & dont hurry it.

I like the sound track also. It added to the surreal air that the camera so greatly captured!!

 

[chris_girard]

It looked like a pendulum swing drop on some of the pieces that were rigged off.

Similar to what Don Blair, Ken Johnson, Robert Phillips and Mike Majors did on that big leaning redwood back in 2001.

It helps to reduce the shock loading on the line by swinging into the drop rather than just dumping the pieces straight down into the lowering line.