Low vibration technique for dead spar

[sac-climber]

Client rescheduled for this coming Friday.

Uhg..another week to stew over it.

 

[TheJollyLogger]

One of the very useful tricks I have learned from this forum is to use solid fiberglass rods a little smaller in diameter than the saw kerf and about two feet long. I stick them into the kerf as I cut thru the stem all the way from one side. I use up to three of them in a cut. After the cut is finished the block rolls on the rods to slide off. The rods are tied to my belt with about three feet of small string with swivels on the ends.
Some times I stick a wedge in behind the saw as soon as possible, stop cutting just before coming out the other side, pound the wedge in a ways, slip the rods in then finish the cut. Wiggle the wedge out then push the block off.
With really heavy blocks making the cut angled down to the way you want it to go makes the push easier.

Maybe I'm missing some thing. Blocking down to me is small pieces. 1 1/2 to 2 times the diameter. Cut a piece, chuck it off, march down, cut another, chuck it down, build a bird's nest if the lawn is an issue, make sure you flat drop them. 60' Pecan spar is a half hour job. Am I missing something?

 

[treesmith]

Google "Tahune day 3" on YouTube by Sherbrooke trees

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

Wait! I always thought 'blocking' down wood meant you were using an actual block/pulley to dump trunk sections onto.

 

[scrubbytreeTEX]

Google "Tahune day 3" on YouTube by Sherbrooke trees

Now that's punky!

 

[jefflovstrom]

Maybe I'm missing some thing. Blocking down to me is small pieces. 1 1/2 to 2 times the diameter. Cut a piece, chuck it off, march down, cut another, chuck it down, build a bird's nest if the lawn is an issue, make sure you flat drop them. 60' Pecan spar is a half hour job. Am I missing something?

No, that is chunking it out, blocking it down is using rigging.,,in my professional opinion.
Jeff

 

[BC WetCoast]

In our terminology, blocking it down means cutting firewood sized blocks and throwing them off the stem. If you are using a rope, you are rigging it down (using a butt hitch).

 

[TheJollyLogger]

In our terminology, blocking it down means cutting firewood sized blocks and throwing them off the stem. If you are using a rope, you are rigging it down (using a butt hitch).

Same way in Texas. "chunking it down" is when your aiming at the groundies

 

[ozzy42]

Same way in Texas. "chunking it down" is when your aiming at the groundies

Same way in Texas. "chunking it down" is when your aiming at the groundies

Only if they lost a hitch pin.

 

[treecutterjr]

Rigging is "roping" around my way. You may use a block when roping, but the block is the"pulley". And "blocking" is cutting and throwing.

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[treesmith]

Chogging, blocking,logging, I've always used/heard being used for cut n chuck, no rigging.

Rigging was always called roping or lowering, sometimes swinging

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

Bombing.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Rigging is "roping" around my way. You may use a block when roping, but the block is the"pulley". And "blocking" is cutting and throwing.

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http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/a-biggie-bites-the-dust.257800/
Jeff

 

[DR. P. Proteus]

This sure clears up a lot of miscommunication from over the years. Well, maybe it doesn't clear it up but shows where it came from.

 

[sgreanbeans]

There is a terminology deficiency for sure. Much confusion I have when reading some post. Must we create our own dictionary?