In the movies

[Stumper]

Well not really. I worked for a mountaineering instructor for the 10th Mountain Division Special Forces Group today. I was removing a 70-75 ft spruce 22" dbh. Not a lot of room but enough. I looked it over and decided to fell it . I took off some lower limbs with a pole saw to get a smidge more clearance then used the throw bag to set a line. Ran a line between the bases of 2 street trees an prussiked a pulley in place in line with my desired line of fall. Formed up a Z rig from there and dropped the tree-perfect. The customer got out his video camera while I was setting the line and documented the whole thing-He said "never pass up an opportunity for a training video." It wasn't fancy but he was impressed. Kinda cool since he is a pro in his own right.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Watch out, Justin!

Yur gonna be more famous than Daniel!

 

[SilverBlue]

Well let's see it!:blob4:

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by SilverBlue
Well let's see it!:blob4:

Well said!

 

[Newfie]

sounds cool.

Probably 10th special forces group out of Fort Carson as opposed to 10th mountain division out of Fort Drum (watertown NY). 10th group used to be stationed about 20 miles from me until they closed the post and moved them to Fort Carson where there are real mountains, at least compared to around here. Used to be fun watching the newbies in the unit getting there skis wet on the bunny slope. Hard to put the image of the hard charging green beret together with a snowplowing beginner wobbling down the slopes.

 

[Dadatwins]

With all the stars showing up on this site I wonder how long it will be before the regular folks need permission to post.

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

i once starred in a movie a home made one.. with tons of action

 

[blue]

ah so you were the dwarf behind the cow

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

no my video was titled ''a day trip to wales'

 

[Stumper]

You are correct Newfie-10th special forces group ( I looked at his card again). I haven't seen it either. It really wasn't anything special rigging wise. I think that what impressed him was placeing the tree.- Of course the footage when I had my foot tangled in the rope probably was the best part of the training aspect-"Don't do that guys-see he looks like a real goober."

 

[OutOnaLimb]

Actully, the 10th Mountain Div was started back during WWII at Camp Hale Colorado, its up there by Vail and Leadville. My Grand Dad was one of the first ski toopers with the 10th. If you know anything about military history, he was one of the guys that went up Riva Ridge in Italy. 10th SF Group is here in Carson. I have a few buddies that I still talk to that moved on to go the SF route and are stationed here in Carson. Ya should have called me in to do the removal Justin, I could have talked him up on the price and climbed it. and we could have split the dough. Oh by the way I have a truck, but am still interested in renting out your chipper on a weekly basis.

Kenn:Monkey:

 

[Stumper]

Actually I wanted to cut him a break on price since he is active duty military. (He didn't even hint at wanting a break-- that was my own wish.) Glad you found a truck. I'm willing to rent you the chipper if it will serve your needs for a while. How available are you for climbing duty? I need to talk with you about your capabilities and $$ needs. I might come up with an occassional job for you over here.

 

[OutOnaLimb]

Bring it on Justin. My going rate is 20% of the job price. I have climbed for some of the big dogs here in springs. Honestly, if I cant do it , It cant be done. What did you have in mind?

Oh by the way Im gonna hit the south Platte this weekend up by 11mile canyon. Ya wanna come and get some flies wet?

Kenn.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Cool. I go for 20%, myself.

 

[Stumper]

I like percentage based pay. Do you have a base/minimum? I like to know so that A. I won't screw up the bid too badly. B. when I screw up the bid I still make sure that the help doesn't get completely skinned.

 

[OutOnaLimb]

If I make at least $150.oo, Im pretty stoked. Oh and guess what your never gonna believe this. Guess who I cut a little dead aspen out of the front yard of the customer I was working at today? I will give you one guess.

It was a guy from 10th SFG. LOL Kinda ironic huh? He came over and asked if we could cut out this little 10 ft aspen, We only charged him 7bucks. LOL Then we started BSing about SF and Rangers and climbing and what not, We would have gotten a lot more done if we wernt BSing.

Kenn

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I've allways wanted to talk to some of those guys about using throwlines for caching, and OP's.

Probably little use in Real World Senarios these days, given the places we are sending our kids to get shot at right now. But I think it would be usefull for CONUS training.

 

[OutOnaLimb]

A throw line would be great for hoisting up a field expedient 292 antena in the jungle. I used to used a fly fishing reel loaded up with copper braided wire to launch over a limb to use as a directional antena though. Actually now that I think about it they taught us to use a rock and 550 cord to hoist up that antena when I went to jungle warfare school in Pannama. Thats kinda like a dumb grunts throw ball LOOL

Kenn:Monkey:

 

[Stumper]

My customer commented when I used my throwbag that they use a canteen that way for setting up antenaes.(He also said they get a few canteens stuck.)

Kenn . I'll come up with some work for you at some point. -And I don't think that I'll be able to go to Elevenmile canyon this week.

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Ummmmm, we've taken the bag off the line and tied a stick on to throw. It works well cuz of the target, not so much aerodynamics.

Different things in tree work differently in different locations; we have all that heat and no winter kill etc. Sometimes when working right over or near water; it is a little more comforting for some reason to have a floating gator (at least Gar stay submerged wating for spyder snack) teased away with this 'fishing' setup and the stick instead of the ball seems to make more sense. Ain't never lost a stick, but a $10 throw bag would prolly git bit, cuz they tend to snap at the stick and follow it with that smile....

i wonder if that trick would go for a Sherrill tip, or army manual? Drawing of a hungry gator, skeered lil woodtick clinging upside down...