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[rubberducky]

Dont fall!

 

[Thor's Hammer]

Dont fall!

Fall?

 

[Gumneck]

Feel free to critique, make fun, harass, the stump evidence. This is from the pine I didn't feel comfy dropping the top.

 

[Gumneck]

Another

 

[Gumneck]

I spiked the side laying on the stump maybe 30' up and took the other side off first. I had been noticeing this tree was separating over the last year or so more and more.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hey man, nice shot.

 

[Lumberjack]

I did a dead pine Friday. Deadest tree i have done to date.

The tree was around 75' tall, I had to take the top out at around 35-40'.

As I approached the point to cut it off I noticed my spikes were spreading the cracks in the tree, makes ya feel good

 

[Old Monkey]

Nice picts. What would you say the pucker factor was on that one(1-10)? You look tense. I notice when guys are nervous in a tree they hug the tree to tight, making their spurring angle too steep. If you lean back more your spurs will stay better and you'll have less chance of spurring out. Good job on that one. Dead trees are no fun! Deader trees are even more no funner!! Deadest trees are...



Edit: Looks like a potential high tie on tree in the background. The picture may just be distorting things, but high ties on green trees makes even the most deadest of all trees a bit safer.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Only gurls take a lanyard wrap!

 

[Old Monkey]

Only gurls take a lanyard wrap!

Well grow my hair out and call me Nancy 'cause I do it on slick poles like eucalyptus.

 

[Lumberjack]

Nice picts. What would you say the pucker factor was on that one(1-10)? You look tense. I notice when guys are nervous in a tree they hug the tree to tight, making their spurring angle too steep. If you lean back more your spurs will stay better and you'll have less chance of spurring out. Good job on that one. Dead trees are no fun! Deader trees are even more no funner!! Deadest trees are...



Edit: Looks like a potential high tie on tree in the background. The picture may just be distorting things, but high ties on green trees makes even the most deadest of all trees a bit safer.

I was around a mid to high 6 after I got off the ground, the night before I was around an 8, if 10 is the high side.

Going up I was having a hard time getting the spikes to stick (I had shappened them prior to heading up), I had no slips on the way up, couldnt really afford any. I wasnt hugging the tree I was pushing away. Look at the pic of me at the top, I got the lean back down pat, not nervous. ALso look at the angle my right leg is making. Thanks for the constructive critisim.

The pic does do that, that tree behind the pic of me going up is about 50' or better away, in another yard to boot.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Never a double wrap!

 

[Lumberjack]

Very nice (cept the roots) sycamore I trashed after the pine.

The tree got off a cheap shot and smashed my thumb when I was blocking down the trunk. I thought about when it happened to RJS right before I did it to me.

 

[Lumberjack]

Before I headed up the pine I hid my 8 (on the scale from 1-10) well.

 

[Gumneck]

You guys are brave animals. I'd a been too cheeckin to climb that one.

 

[tinman44]

yours are bigger than mine i'll tell ya. i turned down a job just like that earlier this year. i'm wondering, was it likely for that tree to fail? was it possible to tie into that other tree you were talking about. i know this may not make much sense but i'm still new to this.

 

[Lumberjack]

Questions are good

There were no trees to tie into for a TIP. I coulda made an elaborate high line to work off of (like a horizonal speedline) with trees not pictured in those pics, but it would have taken several hours to rig it up, and it would use many many feet of rope. Basically it would have been impractical.

As to the tree failing: The pole was very very hard and brittle. What we couldnt tell before the climb was how well the roots were supporting the tree. When the top hit the ground the top 15-20 feet exploded and the rest was broken into several pieces. The spar was flopped and broke into 3 peices. After I was heading up the tree I felt resonably safe, but when I got near where I took out the top I noticed the cracks spreading (vertical cracks). My spikes entering the wood was making the trunk spread at the cracks and I want crazy about that due to one, the tree failing (unlikely) or a barber chair (also unlikely). I made my notch (humbolt) and the backcut then gave the que to pull the top over, after it was commited to the direction I cut the hinge nearly through to minimize the movement of the spar. It worked well, the spar didnt move as the top came off. Then I hear a group of onlookers across the street in a front yard applaud and cheer, I hadnt notived them before.

We limbed the tree using my spider wire (throwline) and very light pressure to break off all the limbs, no more than 15 lbs.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Carl, you outta reverse the direction you have your spur pad straps going. You might like that better.

 

[Lumberjack]

Butch, I have tried that before, but I didnt give it much a chance. What advantage is there to it?

Right now the spikes buckle is on the outside of my leg, tightening as I pull forward. Your saying make it so i pull back to tighten them? I will give it a shot.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yea, just thread them through the other way. It will streamline you a 'lil more, IMO.