Git your ditty on!... paper, that is

[Tobe]

Greetings all! I'm sitting at my work simulater (desk) pondering a few new "dittys" (southern for dreaming up new helpful catalog tips) for next years catalog. So far I've come up with about 8 (twice as many as any other brain storm... okay, drizzle), that makes this a good day. Without going into too much detail they include a point or two on SRT, saw chain mtc., friction saver fixer (learned from Martin Morales), notch and hinge function, Try-a-knot (don't just climb on it), overhead awarness, and 2 cabling tips. Of these 8 I'll be lucky to glean 4.

What i'd like to hear is, do any of you guys/gals have a tip that you'd like to see illustrated or spoken for the sake of your comrads (that sounds commie)... tree brethren's safety sake? I recollect a lot of great information having been passed around on this site but it's hard for me to nail down a list of issues that would be easily illustrated, or perhaps more importantly- informative to average readers. On occasion I feel I've strayed from "the useful path" and would like to slap a couple proverbial fly balls in oafive (get it? '05).

If anyone finds the time to log 'em, paste 'em or plop 'em in reply to this request I'll certainly read what's written and provide due credit for used ideas in the means of one's choice (be it name recognition with the ditty or a sweet sweat shirt... nutritional values not guaranteed). Heck, who knows this opportunity might even pop the top on something new and innovative!

Tobe Sherrill

 

[Stumper]

Tobe, I don't know that it is a ditty but I have a little 'mantra' that comes out whenever I'm making a face-cut prior to felling a tree. "perfect notches make perfect falls"

 

[MasterBlaster]

This may be the wrong angle, but maybe something can be gleaned from this...

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14578

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Do you mean Just fer'Jack Thread ? With: Big John Setup & Jim Roach Set-up



Climber lift 2/1 self; 1/1 other man lift's climber. And how that applies to pulling both legs of lanyard or lifeline as a transmission; to gather either speed or power as you move(?)

 

[MasterBlaster]

Another 'lil tip...

I dunno, Tobe. This may not be PC.

Eh?

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11401&highlight=how+to+pack+yur+smokes

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Ummmmmmmm because of the 2/1 in the DdRT as a climber pulls line and lifts/moves self along; it can slow you down at some points (like where you are trusting inertia of movment, or inertia of not moving to keep care of you for a half second) where speed can be critical to tightening up quick enough, to 'catch balance' for minimal effort, before having to fight to regain balance/position.

Pulling on both lines of lanyard or lifeline support at once, drops you down to a 1/1 for you are now pulling 2 lines, to give 2 lines of support; instead of pullying 1 line as usually to pull 2 legs of support to you (at belt and hand positions). That is faster (pulling both lines for 1/1)for those critical times of a snap speed needed to 'catch self' after throwing forward etc. Change in speed happens by your hand acts as the transmission of either more power or speed, by how many lines you grab, for you always will effect 2.

Kinda like 2 speeding a screw driver; by inputting spin at either shaft or handle, to choose either more speed or power from your effort.

Prolly not the best one anyway, so i suggest a Sanborn-iski dictionary!

DBY made by slip knot method; thanx fer askin'as all else sir.

edit: The 'firmer connection' of the longer eye spice to carabiner in Sherrill catalog, makes the carabiner less likely to sideload/sit in leveraged position on the carabiner to apply the line's tension in a way more likely to have problems.

Or something like that,
:alien:

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

How about showing a totally knotless rigging set up and discribing the advantages of it. It seems like the kind of little blurb your looking for.
Plus, there are lots of parts to it you can sell!

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Pretty good ideas guys...


Maybe the most info in the smallest place could be Addresses for AS & TB!

Of course a picture can be worht a 1000 words, and that can be pretty efficient too; coming home safely, never goes out of style! Not many words needed sometimes; like in this case of eletrical contact:

 

[Tobe]

Now that's just disgusting. Not that I'm opposed to the shock-factor of such imagry if it drives someone to safer practice but this is a bit much, for sure. Jeez! Do you think this would leave an impression?

By the way, thanks Spyder, you can pick you sweat shirt up at the Guilford county morgue next week (it needs to ripen a bit). Ugh. Gross. Man ole man. I think I'm gonna pu...

 

[Stumper]

KC, You spoiled my lunch!

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Is that the place that advertises "You Stab'Em; We Slab'Em" during Jerry Springer?

So, i guess we go with the cigarrte pack !! i knew it was a lil'strong; sorry; but still a good category/angle(?) Truth is my first re-action was as yours; and i must warn ya; picture might flash thru your mind when you look at something electrical...

It is kinda from the Electrical Power Thread ; that leads with another hard to forget picture, and some hints that might make interesting notes/awareness.

Or, something like that,
thanx,
:alien:

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Norm Hall at TCOT has a great way to use a clevis and FS secure the climber above the ball for crane assisted entry. I've been trying to get pictures for about two years now.

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Using a monkey fist on your rope end for a jam knot anchor to transfer to another crotch/tree. I cary an ascender on a daisy in all big jobs. Bryan should know this move.

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Using a GRCS on a DWT to pick up a large stem.

Using a gas drill on a GRCS whit a block several feet snake/forward brush up a hill.

Using 2 GRCS on storm damage to keep a big lead from falling on a car while getting parted down

Using a bigshot to set a high rigging line to peice a small tree out over a garden with the GRCS

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Brummel spliced multi leg balancers with single leg spiders attatched with a "klem" hitch ro make them adjustable.

 

[TreeJunkie]

JPS,

You're confusing me on the brummell spliced multi leg balancer...I'm familar w/ using balancer secured w/ the K-heist. Are you talkiing about another spin on this same theory? Any pics?

 

[TreeJunkie]

I'm totally w/ nominating Bigjohn/Roachy's set up. I switched over to this a month or two ago and love it; mine i slightly different though. I'll post a pic asap.

 

[TreeJunkie]

That's a piece of U.Tech running thru th eye. It's used as the bridge on my bF.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Originally posted by TreeJunkie
JPS,

You're confusing me on the brummell spliced multi leg balancer...I'm familar w/ using balancer secured w/ the K-heist. Are you talkiing about another spin on this same theory? Any pics?

Say youve spliced one line with brummels so that there are two legs coming down from one eye.

then you splice 2 more legs in just under the eye so you have 4 legs coming off the eye.

Using the KLEMhiest/krutzKLEM hithc on the 4 legs makes it an adjustable balance rig, or you can take multiple leads off with one rig.

Maybe even put a thimble in the eye if you do big stuff often

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

How about one of those slick diagrams; showing a double roundturn/ short frenchy, and how it goes with one alteration to a Blake's on 1 leg of attatchment; with 2 legs of attachmeant: add a reversed hitch to the bottom of Frenchy for shwab (like 4/1 cow), switch around the hitch the other way (half hitch same direction as Frenchy)- distel(4/1 clove), take leg without half hitch in distel and place down inside the distel bottom hitch to make knut; start over and add braids for VT.

The Blake's; is really kinda a double leg pull on the hitch simirarily; just not double in attachment/strength strategy i think. The 'free' leg of Blake's; is actually siezed down under the first loaded roundturn (positive anchor hitch style- see geeks at TB-; just even less pull at end of tail to fight being trapped under mainline pull); so that leg actually would pull on the French Prusik from both directions as the load leg was pulled on(?) simarily to the other French Prusik strategies i think.

Or,
something like that!
:alien: