Speedline Basics Video
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
I consider zip line more a run on the line...
Speed line more controlled with a line to control the speed... Or like a yarder pulling the load. I could have my head up my ass on this.... but....
Zip line.... (sorry about the quality) just runs the line....
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Speed line is more controlled....
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Wish I had better videos of examples... We did a pine this year that was beautiful and the neighbor caught it on vid. It shows us landing the pieces via speed line in a 20X20 area.... was awesome.
Speed line more controlled with a line to control the speed... Or like a yarder pulling the load. I could have my head up my ass on this.... but....
Zip line.... (sorry about the quality) just runs the line....
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Kehme6fB7yw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Speed line is more controlled....
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-mgC4LxBswE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Wish I had better videos of examples... We did a pine this year that was beautiful and the neighbor caught it on vid. It shows us landing the pieces via speed line in a 20X20 area.... was awesome.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Benn beat me to it
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It is great for clearing obstacles.
This is part of my apprentices final school project, he hasn't finished editing it, so bear over.
Repollarding a linden, with all the cut off material having to clear a thatched roof.
Could have been done without a speedline, but you'd have had to cut everything into bite size chunks.
It is great for clearing obstacles.
This is part of my apprentices final school project, he hasn't finished editing it, so bear over.
Repollarding a linden, with all the cut off material having to clear a thatched roof.
Could have been done without a speedline, but you'd have had to cut everything into bite size chunks.
SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
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Straight to the chipper. They did remove some fence sections here, as it was possible, but in the end it was unnecessary. Zero dragging. Concentrated mess (no drag path to rake), and this is one of those PITA Country Clubs where people would complain about a couple of wood chips in the road. Sometimes, drag path is too narrow, meaning cutting down brush to fit a path, whereas, with a SL, using gravity to one's advantage, it floats over the obstacles below the tree, and along the path. All brush landed on pavement, which is easy to clean. Used Reg's 'Simply 3:1' technique (video on TB) with a porty and a tensioning pulley hitched on. Able to hold MA-created tension with the porty with easy, and slack it as needed.
We knocked down three trees, chipped a full load of brush, loaded firewood, dropped into a tiny mulch bed, all in a long day. Lowering and dragging would have be slower and more work for the ground crew, and I would have sat up top watching them work for a good part of the day while I waited.
P.S. limbs at the bottom were very close to the cedar shake roof. The MA allowed me to pop/ lift them up, and have them land in the driveway (not the street at the chipper). Conventional straight down rigging would have been more work to lift each limb individually to clear the roof, instead, each was individually cut and slid, up and away from the roof, easily.
This up and away works great for long conifer (and 0thers) limbs over delicate trunk-side vegetation. Not all the travel horizontally of a normal speedline, but enough to clear the vegetation.
So useful for some low-impact work.
I need a helmet cam.
Paint job looks really good (from a hundred+ feet away). Chipper has been hand painted with a brush many times in white (over 30+ years of yellow, red, and green).
Straight to the chipper. They did remove some fence sections here, as it was possible, but in the end it was unnecessary. Zero dragging. Concentrated mess (no drag path to rake), and this is one of those PITA Country Clubs where people would complain about a couple of wood chips in the road. Sometimes, drag path is too narrow, meaning cutting down brush to fit a path, whereas, with a SL, using gravity to one's advantage, it floats over the obstacles below the tree, and along the path. All brush landed on pavement, which is easy to clean. Used Reg's 'Simply 3:1' technique (video on TB) with a porty and a tensioning pulley hitched on. Able to hold MA-created tension with the porty with easy, and slack it as needed.
We knocked down three trees, chipped a full load of brush, loaded firewood, dropped into a tiny mulch bed, all in a long day. Lowering and dragging would have be slower and more work for the ground crew, and I would have sat up top watching them work for a good part of the day while I waited.
P.S. limbs at the bottom were very close to the cedar shake roof. The MA allowed me to pop/ lift them up, and have them land in the driveway (not the street at the chipper). Conventional straight down rigging would have been more work to lift each limb individually to clear the roof, instead, each was individually cut and slid, up and away from the roof, easily.
This up and away works great for long conifer (and 0thers) limbs over delicate trunk-side vegetation. Not all the travel horizontally of a normal speedline, but enough to clear the vegetation.
So useful for some low-impact work.
I need a helmet cam.
Paint job looks really good (from a hundred+ feet away
). Chipper has been hand painted with a brush many times in white (over 30+ years of yellow, red, and green).murphy4trees
TreeHouser
Jumping those tops into the street would have been faster..
That's a lot of work... good job
VERY occasionally I will need to lift a large limb over an understory tree/plantings..
Use a speedline,, two slings on the limb, front and back... pretension line tied to skid steer, then top notch it, make the back cut (undercut) and use the skid steer to lift it up before seperation... lotta force involved so you gotta watch keeping your nose out a the way as you finish the cut.. when the piece separates.. IT FLIES FAST
Its another example of the skid steer saving time and energy as a portable, fast and easy ground anchor/lifting device..
Tucker943
Bamboo Plantation Owner
Stig, that might be the first time Ive seen a youtube video with a sharp saw in awhile.
