Tom and crew had to retrieve a big oak that fell in a pond a few years back .That didn't go so well .Got the trucks stuck,dropped the saw in the water .
I have been doing a lot of tree removal from the creeks that run through my property. My 346 almost went swimming Sunday. I got damp once this year. One of these days I know I am going to fall right in. There are worse things.
Oh yeah HEAVY, and that's before it hit the water.
From time to time washies lose their heads over here too...some kind of fungal infection, the top can go as quickly as a couple days...
IN hurricanes they are the worst affected palms, just fold over about 10' from the top.
They are next on my S*&t lost after Canary Dates...rugged thorns and dirty
I'll use my pintle for a rope anchor point. A note, if you don't grease your pintle ring/ hook, you will wear them down. I put a plastic bag over the rope/ hook area to prevent greasing the rope.
I'll also flip my pintle hook slug upside-down when pulling at an angle that would pull the rope into the gate/ latch of the hitch if it were right-side-up.
Easy enough to put a lowering device in the hook, as needed.
I don't know why it failed. If I did some research, I'm sure I could find some fungus that rotted away the inside.
Good call on flipping the pintle hook upside down. I didn't like how a lot of the force was on the top part of the hook. I'll make a mental note and next time it'll surely get flipped. I was gone put the porty on it, but it was tied to a tree at the time and I didn't wanna hafta retie it.
you could have a bollard with cleat welded on the passenger side of the step/ hitch, opposite the plug. Alternatively, have a bollard welded on a receiver tube and mount below the pintle.
...or get a bms belay spool to compliment your p-o-w.
palms dry out real quick when they die, done several like that here, after about a year theyre like a spounge and they fall apart, my buddy bumped one next to the tree he was climbing and it bent in half
good job rigging it out
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