Falling pics 11/25/09

[1270d]

I've heard they're great as long as there is good hard ground

 

[Skeans]

Yeah I'm not sure how well the cab and boom turning would work in the thinning, be nicer having a clam bunk for something like that. And to answer why a lot of us have issues out here with the back halves is 16' min. and a lot of us will push them and do 28' a few guys have built them up to do 32' and 36' not exactly easy on them.


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[1270d]

Oh yeah I can see that would be a lot of weight out the back

 

[BeatCJ]

Aren't the gaffs shorter for poles vs timber gaffs?


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Yes, quite a bit shorter. Makes sense, you don't have to drive through bark on a pole.

 

[northmanlogging]

Was watching a pole climber awhile back... dude was nuts, unhooking his strap thing and climbing free hand around the cross tie things, damn monkey with wrenches, sometimes unhooking and hanging on by one hand while wrenching with the other.

 

[Skeans]

That's nuts, I've got an old set of pole gear from the 40's I should dig out one night and get a few pictures of.


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[BeatCJ]

Was watching a pole climber awhile back... dude was nuts, unhooking his strap thing and climbing free hand around the cross tie things, damn monkey with wrenches, sometimes unhooking and hanging on by one hand while wrenching with the other.

I used to climb up to the telephone wires before I belted in. We had to be above them. I needed to be high enough on the pole to drill it for our 5/8" bolts. Great big heavy Skil 1/2" drill, and about a 14" drill bit. I needed to lean into it to get it started straight.

And two points of attachment? What, one on either hip?

 

[northmanlogging]

I hear they are coming down on the arborists for not using 2 points of attachment, at least while running a saw...

 

[Skeans]

One thing I'll give an arborist though they are in a harness not a leather belt around your waist.


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[northmanlogging]

The belts suck! The new harnesses are really quite comfortable, I started climbing with an old all leather belt, with the sisal/hemp flip line, today's modern gear is so much nicer. Though I still like the hemp flip line, feels like it grips better and I can hang on to it a little easier, they're just really expensive.

 

[BeatCJ]

If I were to do it now, I would use a harness. I had a nice padded belt, had a good strap with a steel "core", nice set of spurs. None of the other stuff was available (that we knew of) 30+ years ago.

Dang, that makes me feel older than having kids my girls babysat babysit my granddaughter. Or having kids of their own...

 

[coltont]

The old girl don't pull to bad.

 

[treeslayer2003]

your vid is private Colton

 

[coltont]

Hmm have to see if I can figure it out. Got another phone. It might be smarter than me.

 

[137cc]

I've always followed this thread but never really contributed. I finally figured out how to get video off of one of my old smartphones. This is a two part video of me taking down a snag on a wildfire outside of Sisters, Oregon. I cut the video into two portions because my felling partner flipped the camera 2/3 of the way through the video.

Part 1:


Part 2:

 

[treeslayer2003]

nice vid, thanks! had that been burned before? its a shame them nice sticks are dead......no chance of salvage i guess, to far gone? sure seemed hard as a rock. nice 064, one of my favorites. or was it a very early 066?

 

[Metals406]

Very nice 137cc!

You an agency guy or contractor?

 

[Trx250r180]

nice vid, thanks! had that been burned before? its a shame them nice sticks are dead......no chance of salvage i guess, to far gone? sure seemed hard as a rock. nice 064, one of my favorites. or was it a very early 066?

Look at the recoil cover ,the 066 is wider than an 064

 

[treeslayer2003]

yup, looks narrow to me. and has the old filter cover. i liked the old models better than and still do.

 

[137cc]

nice vid, thanks! had that been burned before? its a shame them nice sticks are dead......no chance of salvage i guess, to far gone? sure seemed hard as a rock. nice 064, one of my favorites. or was it a very early 066?

No more salvage on federal lands here anymore thanks to the bunny huggers. I'm sanitizing a proposed line ahead of the main fire, were very close to a road in the vid. But all those snags in the video are from a previous fire (4-5 years?)

Very nice 137cc!

You an agency guy or contractor?

I work as contract faller on wildfires during the summer as one of my jobs. If the video was 20+ min long then you could accuse me of being agency.