rbtree
Climbing Up
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Another rigging challenge taken on just yesterday. This one was a doozy! 22-24" cottonwood, with a lean starting at 10-15 degrees, and sweeping out to close to 80 degrees at the tip..... too large to lift or support the entire tree and cut it off at the base, even with the GRCS. So we tied it at about 60', ran the rigging into an only slightly leaning cottonwood at about 90 feet, one of several in the clump-- (a 30" lead had failed at the base some months ago) Tensioned it with the GRCS. Added a side pull line to help it to swing away from Patrick, when he made the rather ballsy cut. Added two trunk ties below and above the cut to prevent a possible barber chair. We definitely gave that risky cut considerable thought.. the consequences of it coming back at Pat would have been disastrous. We were both confident that it would go the way it did. The tensioned tag line was a big help, for sure.
Then Patrick got to have fun with a nice swing, as he had run his lifeline through a limb fork a good 25 feet out, while had allowed him to have better upward support while making the critical cut. Previously, he had worked out about 12 feet further to cut some limbs on the top that would be cut.
Of course, owning a Wraptor made accessing the canopy a breeze...as well as going back up to retrieve the rigging block.
https://youtu.be/uVujj7GSgP8
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Patrick Clemo , Great work!
Then Patrick got to have fun with a nice swing, as he had run his lifeline through a limb fork a good 25 feet out, while had allowed him to have better upward support while making the critical cut. Previously, he had worked out about 12 feet further to cut some limbs on the top that would be cut.
Of course, owning a Wraptor made accessing the canopy a breeze...as well as going back up to retrieve the rigging block.
https://youtu.be/uVujj7GSgP8
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Patrick Clemo , Great work!