Hazardous Tree Removal TIP

[treeslayer]

LOL you could trim that 35' cherry with an HT 101. :jawdrop:

 

[pdqdl]

I have always liked the old ANSI lime...

Would that be a Key-lime?

Just funning you, I thought it was an entertaining typo. Or perhaps you were poking fun at the grocers down at ANTSY?

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Would that be a Key-lime?

Just funning you, I thought it was an entertaining typo. Or perhaps you were poking fun at the grocers down at ANTSY?

I'm smart, but not clever. Im the type who has to think about zingers first. Ya'no the snappy comeback that hits you as your driving away

 

[Rftreeman]

I have tied into a good tree and swung into a dead one, made the undercut, then unclliped my lanyard and held it with one hand while I made the backcut with my other hand on my 020. Its wrong, I know.

better to be wrong and alive then right and dead, sometimes ya gotta bend em a little bit....

 

[Adkpk]

Being a gardener my instinctual reaction is reach for my felco (hand snips). My draw is unbeatable:sword:. It's a must have in a tree. I've used it to cut the three strand I use for lanyards. That's my cut away choice.

If your on spikes tied into another tree how are you going to stay in the tree without a lanyard?

 

[tree md]

Being a gardener my instinctual reaction is reach for my felco (hand snips). My draw is unbeatable:sword:. It's a must have in a tree. I've used it to cut the three strand I use for lanyards. That's my cut away choice.

If your on spikes tied into another tree how are you going to stay in the tree without a lanyard?

If you can get the perfect TIP you can drop down like spiderman and do what you need to do. Not easy to cut without a solid platform tho, not to mention it breaks safety standards and is dangerous. That's why I like to use a breakaway for positioning. Theoretically it would break away if the tree fails and you would be high and dry, secured by your primary TIP.

 

[pdqdl]

Yes, but a very sturdy breakaway would send you shooting across the forest like you were attached to a slingshot when it finally breaks.

I would rather escape before it got that tight.

 

[tree md]

Yes, but a very sturdy breakaway would send you shooting across the forest like you were attached to a slingshot when it finally breaks.

I would rather escape before it got that tight.

I hear ya there. I've got an old bungee break away that has been nicked by a saw that I have used on those rare occasions that it's called for. Believe me, if I have something give way underneath me I am going to be cutting anything that is holding me to said tree like a mad man.

 

[markct]

dont forget that a breakaway attachment on your lanyard is only half your weight on each side its supporting, i mean if ya pull 200lbs force on your lanyard, each side D ring only gets 100lbs force. so a 200lb breakaway lanyard actualy will take 400lbs to break when used as a lanyard in a U, just like how lifting straps have a higher rating in a U or basket, than in a straight pull

 

[zopi]

better to be wrong and alive then right and dead, sometimes ya gotta bend em a little bit....

yeah...the guy who writes alot of those hard and fast rules isn't hanging there with you...gotta use the noodle...makw the call when you have to...:yoyo:

 

[Oregon_Grown]

When the tree I'm on is of questionable stability I won't hesitate to hang only from my TIP in a good tree and not use a lanyard in the bad one. I'll use the lanyard to get set but when I go to cut, I take it off. We all know how blasting a top out of the tree can load it up. Use your head, if you think it's safer to cut with one TIP, do it.

Better to use your head than bang your head. They are dang tough to replace! :bang: