1 shot lift over wall

[TheTreeSpyder]

Pulling this back into the hinge (with such pressure, i beleive there is less other support needed) from behind; we provided the support necessary to drift this over the wall on the rear of this 2 story, from the front it looks like 4 houses instead of 2 like perhaps it does here.

The wood was too large to piece and lower over the patio and railing, as well as the positioning and support of tree weak. Crane seemed unrealistic against the lake or reaching from road.

So we pulled back on it by hand, till it drifted over the wall, at 39'x24" Hickory starting out parallel with the ground, sliding sideways near parallel with ground to clear zone.

 

[Reed]

I don't think a applied physics professor at MIT could've done it any better.

Good work, now go have a round of beer!

 

[Stumper]

 

[Tom Dunlap]

INCREDIBLE graphics!!! Nice job of illustrating a tricky job.

Tom

 

[Mattman]

That is one hell of a job. How long did it take to rig, if you don't mind my asking. I usually lay down sheets of plywood underneath with an A frame built out of heavy timbers that I keep around. What a stroke of luck having that other tall tree right where you needed it. Great job!
Matt

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Now put the 5:1 away and get yourself The Winch. it will ave you tons of time with fiddeling with blocks

It is cool though

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

You know you talk about your wench more than i do mine, so i'm startin' ta-wonder........

i have a 5x1 compression jig i put together a while back with stuff everyone has just laying around house.........

i ran the 3x1 with 3 legs to load also for less load per leg, less load on support tree (1 1/3 x Load x Angle#; rather than 2 x Load x Angle#).

Tree behind was a life saver! Setup time was fairly quick, laddered right up to support in other tree, i carry 3 blocks. Every once in a while make a 3x1 powered by a 1 ton truck, so lacing this was fairly familiar.

Important to keep C.o.B. outside of hitching to stump line. With the super tight line, if the C.o.B. was in between support and stump, it sould pull down on rip i feared! That was why after supporting i went with not cutting, so i didn't change the C.o.B. to the position that it would pull down, kept it outside that line so it fortified and pushed into place upwards against the stump.

The corner with the flower pot did get knocked over, laid back up pretty nicely. We got close while drawing it around and the owner of the company didn't want me to break the flower post out when i saw i couldn't make it over it. Then i had to refuse to let him use my sledge, cuz when it rested right on the pot and pressurized it he wanted to break it out then!!

i'd shimmy the prussik up the main line ffor the 5x1, set it and grab the pull line of the jig and would bounce all my weight on it. Along with this massive impaccting propulsion to the ground; i would be screaming at these 2 guys that spoke even less english than i. So i would be screaming "Pull the crazy white boy down, Pull the crazy white boy down"! Somehow with all the energy and everything, they where abale to understand that! Hence the 135 x 15 = ~1Ton of pulling force example...... Tell JP i finally found a 2 year olde with a waist smaller than my thighs, but she hits real hard!

This was not my first option, just the cleanest if i could 'pull' it off. i think if it all went wrong i woulda been the most ticked, the home owner and tree company i was helping had alread accepted some specific points of damage where this monster reached over railing etc.

Real men-tall challenge; of quick action and placement to 1 surgical move rather than many tries and chances of damage. Sometimes that is the way to go i think. i say that but still in state of humility; it is something i tell myself as i draw down on a puzzle like this.

If there was more time, i woulda borrowed stacks of pallets, especially if piecing out.

Thanks for the encourage-meant!



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