Lets get this party started...

[MasterBlaster]

Chisholm? Wasn't that a John Wayne movie? I like The Duke!

The most important thing I could do towards being a progressive climber would be to quit smoking!

 

[jkrueger]

Originally posted by murphy4trees
[deletion]...... If you were using a split tail... you could choke off the climbing line to the tree and run the friction hitch on the single SECURE line.... Saw Chisholm demonstrate that years ago.... no need to untie and retie the friction hitch. And if you added a rope guide, friction saver, you could come down to your next cut on the climbing line, then lanyard in and reset your new tie-in in a matter of seconds...

I guarentee if you'd see it done once like that you'd never go back.

Food for thought!

Not clear Dan on "choke off". Can you edify me.

Jack

 

[murphy4trees]

Jack,
The old school tautline has nothing but rough bark on that pine to grab if loaded..... Its saving grace as a second tie in point is the unlilelihood that a climber like Butch will cut his lanyard.... I wouldn't want to ride it to the ground. It really functions as a second lanyard as seen there. It wouldn't do you much good if you had to get out of that tree in a hurry.

Instead why knot use a running bowline to choke off the life line, then tie your friction hitch to that single line. Only problem is the added friction from working single line, so you might consider using a munter hitch or an 8 to descend.... So that system has its limitations too.

Are you using a rope guide yet? Tha's the cat's meow for working down a spar.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by Mike Maas
Didn't you look at the picture? He is using a split tail.

Uhhhh...

 

[Ryan Willock]

Butch, why are you cutting 18's? what are they going to do with pine in that length?

 

[MasterBlaster]

It's really 17'6", but we just cut em in eighteens. That's the way the mill takes em here. They were taking nines, but they stopped.


edit; Brian may be right on the 9 part. It's been years...

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yesterday, I was shown this tree and asked how I wanted to do it. With big pines, I like to strip em out and leave the snag for the crane.
But this guy was getting a deal on a 40 ton, and wanted to use it. He wanted to take the top all at once. So I did.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I do believe this was the biggest pine top I've ever done.

 

[MasterBlaster]

An instant headache for the groundies!

 

[MasterBlaster]

I went home for two hours while they cleaned it up. There were 3 other trees to go. If he woulda just let me rope it out, I do believe it woulda gone a lot smoother. But, WTF!:alien:

 

[SilverBlue]

Man you got to get a video camera

 

[luke montelius]

big tops kick azz.

 

[MasterBlaster]

What sucks about these dudes is they've been with this guy for over ten years, and he bends over backwards for them. Every one of them ties a different knot every time, and they are retards. Thats why I go home. They disgust me.

Oh, and there were four of em!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by luke montelius
big tops kick azz.

Not for the groundies!

 

[John Stewart]

Originally posted by MasterBlaster
I do believe this was the biggest pine top I've ever done.

???? Butch!!!!
You got big ones
Later
John

 

[MasterBlaster]

I used four slings so it would balance as best as possible. The cool thing is tomorrow we're using a 90 ton to finish the other two trees. A lotta reach and strength is needed. The 90 is pretty awesome!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Uhhhh, OK. :alien:

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by RockyJSquirrel
Butch- I'm disappointed in you.

Sorry I've failed ya.

So, what's yur new camera been doing lately?

 

[matthias]

Originally posted by RockyJSquirrel
Butch- I'm disappointed in you. Why must you continually doctor pictures of yourself and then post them here? This is not the first time you have cropped off your 'handles' and then tried to pass off the picture as legit. I enlarged and cropped your picture using only MSPaint and it's quite obvious where you touched up this picture. We are all self-conscious to a point, but this is a little overboard.

I don't even have to go to the joke thread, I get some pretty good laughs here.

At least we know that Butch isn't one of these lazy a$$ smokers who like to use cigarettes as an excuse to stand around and talk for five minutes in the middle of a job. I would like to view the original picture to see just how much he shaved off his sides. Although maybe that V - taper is real.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by matthias
Although maybe that V - taper is real.

I have seen better days!