Lets get this party started...

[MasterBlaster]

I've never pruned an apple tree.

Cool.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Butt...

 

[a_lopa]

stringy bark

 

[Mike Cantolina]

I'll give the lanyard placement some more thought. I like them below the rigging so there is practically no chance of cutting them. But I don't like the thought of the block pinching them either. Maybe I'll try one above and one below for a while.

Mike

 

[a_lopa]

must be a good camera there mike,nice pic a few $$$ on that one i bet

 

[Mike Cantolina]

Thanks, the camera is a Kodak DX6490 10x optical zoom. The camera plus 128 meg card was around $400. Credit to the groundies for the pics. They got a small video with the same camera but it's an 11 meg file and I don't know how to reduce the size of it to post. My brother was on the portawrap and did a great job letting them run.

Mike

 

[Mike Cantolina]

Some nice pics also Aussie. The scenery shot from the plane is really cool.

 

[glens]

My brother was on the portawrap and did a great job letting them run.

Good brothers are hard to find.

: )

 

[matthias]

This was my first time I ever rigged a piece of this size while climbing. It was a big step for me and I was proud as heck...and I've been in the bucket ever since.

 

[Mike Cantolina]

Looks like a tough one to tell how solid the wood was. Cool vid.

Mike

 

[matthias]

The tree had probably been dead for a year by this time. You can see the bark fly off in this clip.

 

[a_lopa]

this shot is for al smith

 

[a_lopa]

heres another scenery shot,alot of people lost there lives in this spot,a ship hit rocks and this is where the people ended up

 

[Dadatwins]

Beautiful shots Aussie, I miss the ocean, used to live a block away in NY but now over 2 hour drive.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That IS some awesome scenery there, Jason! I wish I coulda been riding with ya!

 

[a_lopa]

That IS some awesome scenery there, Jason! I wish I coulda been riding with ya!

youve been pretty close to this spot before butch,north of tasmania,hes schooling me to fly.its awesome doing the turns

 

[Stumper]

Some more apple pics. Please note that these do not depict the epitome of apple pruning. This is salvage pruning-trying to get a few more harvests from damaged trees.

 

[Stumper]

Another.

 

[Stumper]

Yet another.

 

[Stumper]

Considering that it had been topped to just scaffold branches in the past, this one was more of a "Normal' production pruning.