Tree felling vids

[gf beranek]

I have used srt for working, but truly felt more comfortable using the double. An update to the fundamentals would certainly include both systems. Advantages and disadvantages.

 

[Porkbrick]

my friend and co worker put this together. box elder in the back yard. first half we speedlined over the garage, second half we rigged onto the roof and threw into the driveway (tight access from driveway to yard). im working the tree in the second half of the vid. cheers. jaime
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[woodworkingboy]

Cool vid and nice work! Hadn't heard that Pantera cut before.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Knock it out!!!

 

[flushcut]

Nice work!

 

[pantheraba]

That was a lot of work...and an interesting set up to rig the latter half of the tree. I don't think I have seen blocks used like that before. I'm gonna study it some more to try to understand how you were doing that. It looks like you used a tag line (thru a block or a crotch?) where you were cutting to control the butt where you cut it...and having the piece drift over to the belay block which took it over the landing zone. Is that right?

Thanks for posting the video.

 

[sierratree]

if yu don't have youtube account, what's th best format and file size to post a video on the forum? thanks.......

 

[CurSedVoyce]

You can not up load a video to the forum last time I checked. You need a host like You Tube to link to or Embed from.

 

[Porkbrick]

That was a lot of work...and an interesting set up to rig the latter half of the tree. I don't think I have seen blocks used like that before. I'm gonna study it some more to try to understand how you were doing that. It looks like you used a tag line (thru a block or a crotch?) where you were cutting to control the butt where you cut it...and having the piece drift over to the belay block which took it over the landing zone. Is that right?

Thanks for posting the video.

i think we had 5 ropes in the tree at one point (including my climb line). starting from the far right in the vid we had the main rigging line thru a block over the landing zone, then there was a secondary rigging line natural crotched at the center of the crown, then i had a haul back/control line on the butt or directly on one of the rigging lines, and finally, at one point we briefly had another tagline on to pull a back leaning piece. both rigging lines and the tagline were tied on (knot-less rigging here, with so many ropes to tie on, a sling really streamlines the work), then the piece was cut. the centered rigging line would catch the piece while the slack was pulled out of the main rigging line, then the centered line was let out, putting the piece on the main line and swinging it over the lz. rinse and repeat. it sounds more complicated than it felt like at the time, and once we had it going it worked great. that was a job that we went into blind (the sales person had the paperwork as "remove cut to grade one hawthorn including stump"). i really like figuring out rigging scenarios to solve problems. oh yeah, there was a crowbar in the butt of the tree too. jaime

 

[pantheraba]

Wow...good explanation and thanks for describing how you did it. It looked like it accomplished what you needed to...necessity IS the mother of invention..and rigging!!

 

[gf beranek]

Good job there. And great vid.

 

[Burnham]

Agreed, on both counts.

 

[stig]

Most certainly!

 

[top_notch]

Nice work!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Well done. Funny how we usually try to keep stuff from landing on the roof and hear that was your LZ! Rigging solutions are always interesting. Love it!

 

[Porkbrick]

heres another one my friend made. its him in the tree, and me felling the sticks. my camera has an interval shoot function that i just figured out how to use. im going to try it more. jaime
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[woodworkingboy]

Another cool vid!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

That was cool.... good editing on that one.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Good work on a difficult job! Collect the check!!!

(@ Porkbrick)

 

[sierratree]

new short vid 50" er

well, here's a short vid from a recent haz tree removal.............


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyYAVTHfbmQ

 

[pantheraba]

looks very well done...good show. You are a very good runner!!

 

[Porkbrick]

nice!

 

[woodworkingboy]

We should have a contest to guess how big the tree is from the sound of it falling and hitting the ground.

 

[sierratree]

No sense in hangng around when it all flies..........That stuff from above can be human post hole pounders............although the climbing video before mine is quite impressive............

 

[Porkbrick]

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