mechanical advantage climbing chapter 2

[treemandan]

While waiting for Napa to deliver the Permatex to seal this up I set up this system. Dam motor blew the head gaskets now and a few seal were leaking a little back there.

Nothing out of the ordinary, take a look. I have to say it worked pretty good. This set-up pictured is for demstration purposes only.


I used both ends of my line but you get the idea.

Then you have to tie off the top pulley rope

Harness conection

 

[treemandan]

More pics

This is a real good book

tons of pages like this, good.

Then I stuck the motor back in my outback and took my kid to the park.

 

[treemandan]

You need a good amount of gear and some time, actually not much more time than srt set up.
I went up on just one top pulley before and a climbing hitch and thought it was slow. That each pull didn't get me far. With this I just grabbed the rope and started yanking. Up, up up I went, faster than a speeding treeman, very little resistance. I seemed to gain altitude pretty fast although the TIP was only 15 feet high.
I might give this a whirl in the right situation. One could tend the slack while the groundies pull and there ya go. Good thinking Stihl-O-Matic. I wonder why I never tried this before. Its how you lift branches off a house btw.

 

[treemandan]

And, I might add, I just gave away one of the best secrets out there if you want to know the ropes. F anyuse got half a brain yud run out RIGHT NOW and git that Pretzel book. I said NOW! It's da boom!

 

[newsawtooth]

Self Tending

Attach your hitch to the working end (left side of the pulley pictured on harness) and it will self tend every time you pull. Run the standing end through a redirect at the base of the tree, attach to Dingo, resume fiddling with ipod, wait for work station as groundie drives across the yard.

 

[treemandan]

Attach your hitch to the working end (left side of the pulley pictured on harness) and it will self tend every time you pull. Run the standing end through a redirect at the base of the tree, attach to Dingo, resume fiddling with ipod, wait for work station as groundie drives across the yard.

You have one too? Yeah, didn't add a self tending pulley, just a quick demo.

 

[Tree Pig]

Nice job man. Looks like it would be easy to install from the ground too. Thanks.

 

[treemandan]

Nice job man. Looks like it would be easy to install from the ground too. Thanks.

as long as that gat dammed throw ball line don't get all screwd up and stuck.

 

[newsawtooth]

You have one too? Yeah, didn't add a self tending pulley, just a quick demo.

Subaru? No, no Subaru, too big for the gates around here. Threatened to pull a Golf Course Supe/Arborist up a tree by his britches with the Dingo as you demonstrated above. I asked what the rub was, what's the angle man, what do you need? He said he didn't have time to answer my questions. The only question I was allowed to ask him in regards to trees was "Is this a leafy or pokey tree?" Mother&$^&4! I will leafy and pokey your eyes out!

 

[treemandan]

Subaru? No, no Subaru, too big for the gates around here. Threatened to pull a Golf Course Supe/Arborist up a tree by his britches with the Dingo as you demonstrated above. I asked what the rub was, what's the angle man, what do you need? He said he didn't have time to answer my questions. The only question I was allowed to ask him in regards to trees was "Is this a leafy or pokey tree?" Mother&$^&4! I will leafy and pokey your eyes out!

I was talking about a Dingo but if anybody needs the heads redone on thier outback let me know.