RegC
TreeHouser
I made a short video about this a little while ago in the rain. It wasn’t very good. The photos here aren’t the best either but there’s plently of them at least. Some from cellphone, and I set a timelapse on a wide angled lens too, picked out the better shots....just experimenting really. Timelapse soon eats up a memory card, I found out.
This is a job from a couple of days ago....remove a previously topped Douglas fir. Was priced as a 4 man day. Full clean up except the logs, just bucked into firewood for someone else to take.
Some stuff down below we didn’t want to damage, shrubs and dwarf trees mainly that were too big to dig out. Driveway, wall and other stuff.
It was gonna be tight completion wise, so instead we decided to go a 2 man team over 2 days, but that be two climbers. The theory being that 2 climbers get more done through half a day than one climber gets done in a full day....that is assuming the tree is big enough that they don’t get in each others way. What tends to happen is the tree opens up faster allowing more and sooner opportunity for both climbers to put bigger pieces down i.e. cutting away the left side of the tree can often make the right side easier, and vice versa....so when this is happening simultaneously, a time advantage is gained overall. Probably Im making this sound more complicated than it is. Anyway, on the right job, it works.
So we basically both get up, blast a load down, get down and clean up, then back up and so on.
Anyway, to the main point. Most of the work was free-falling/cutting but we still needed to rig some limbs....where it was too much work for cut-and-hold, but with no ground help to set up a conventional system. So I set fixed line at a high point to swing limbs away from targets....but they just hang as opposed to being lowered. Once the limb has been severed and hangs under the rigging-point you just cut it free and let fall.
Of course you can hang any limb off itself with just a sling, but its often still hanging over the target....as opposed to setting a line to a high-point which swings it away.
On this occasion I just used a short piece of rope, a prussic loop to set at a given point on the rope, with an loop sling to choke the limb.
One thing to keep in mind is to favour a Butt-tie, as opposed to a mid-tie....as with the latter as you cut the brush away while its hanging the log side of the tie might eventually rotate and whack you. Hope that makes sense.
Ive added some other pics too from the timelapse thing, not really relevant to the rigging but just how the job finished up. Mid way through day 2 an adjacent tree got added to the job, which was alot smaller and easy enough to get down through. Thanks.
This is a job from a couple of days ago....remove a previously topped Douglas fir. Was priced as a 4 man day. Full clean up except the logs, just bucked into firewood for someone else to take.
Some stuff down below we didn’t want to damage, shrubs and dwarf trees mainly that were too big to dig out. Driveway, wall and other stuff.
It was gonna be tight completion wise, so instead we decided to go a 2 man team over 2 days, but that be two climbers. The theory being that 2 climbers get more done through half a day than one climber gets done in a full day....that is assuming the tree is big enough that they don’t get in each others way. What tends to happen is the tree opens up faster allowing more and sooner opportunity for both climbers to put bigger pieces down i.e. cutting away the left side of the tree can often make the right side easier, and vice versa....so when this is happening simultaneously, a time advantage is gained overall. Probably Im making this sound more complicated than it is. Anyway, on the right job, it works.
So we basically both get up, blast a load down, get down and clean up, then back up and so on.
Anyway, to the main point. Most of the work was free-falling/cutting but we still needed to rig some limbs....where it was too much work for cut-and-hold, but with no ground help to set up a conventional system. So I set fixed line at a high point to swing limbs away from targets....but they just hang as opposed to being lowered. Once the limb has been severed and hangs under the rigging-point you just cut it free and let fall.
Of course you can hang any limb off itself with just a sling, but its often still hanging over the target....as opposed to setting a line to a high-point which swings it away.
On this occasion I just used a short piece of rope, a prussic loop to set at a given point on the rope, with an loop sling to choke the limb.
One thing to keep in mind is to favour a Butt-tie, as opposed to a mid-tie....as with the latter as you cut the brush away while its hanging the log side of the tie might eventually rotate and whack you. Hope that makes sense.
Ive added some other pics too from the timelapse thing, not really relevant to the rigging but just how the job finished up. Mid way through day 2 an adjacent tree got added to the job, which was alot smaller and easy enough to get down through. Thanks.
. I was never looking for a medal or anything but just some acknowledgement so I know whether or not to continue. You start to think that either it just piszes people off or they are just not interested in that sort of work....maybe a little of both. Same with the videos. Theres some good people post on TB but I'm not gonna waste any more of theirs or my own time.
