pitkas
ArboristSite Member
I was on my other favorite website when I noticed this http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/treehugger.html . You can hear in the background somebody saying "sorry".
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Eagle1
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Nice ride. Too much friction?
bottlefed89
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????, I defenitely would have shart myself.
RedlineIt
ArboristSite Guru
It looked to me that our climber was always going to go for a ride on that spar. When the big top started to go, it was already pulling the spar over and the snap back ride was on the books when he made the face cut. But it should have been a manageable series of oscillations.
The too rapid stop of the dropping top that slammed back into the spar upset the frequency of oscillation twice, once on the sudden stop and again on the slam into the spar. Thus we hear "Sorry!" from the ground even before our climber loses his highly protective cotton headgear. The groundie clearly knew what was needed, a long run and slow brake, but for whatever reason didn't achieve it.
I had a topped spar slam a climber when I was grounding, the run was going smoothly through the Port-a-wrap and I was all set to brake the run when a twig got caught in a coil of the rope, it went past my gloved hands but jammed the Port-a-wrap tight. BAM the top stopped, but lower than in the video. Still, ???? can happen on the ground, and as climbers, we can never assume the ground work below us is going to be perfect.
In the video, the climber left himself a foot-long stub at chest height, we see his left hand on it as he "stabilizes himself" to one-hand the back-cut. What I don't see is a climbing rope over that stub. Maybe he thought he would use it after the top was dumped, otherwise why leave it at all?
I'd have used it to tie in a climb line, then doubled my lanyard wrap around the spar. Then dumped the top.
Shame about his hat, though. It looked very stylish.
RedlineIt
The too rapid stop of the dropping top that slammed back into the spar upset the frequency of oscillation twice, once on the sudden stop and again on the slam into the spar. Thus we hear "Sorry!" from the ground even before our climber loses his highly protective cotton headgear. The groundie clearly knew what was needed, a long run and slow brake, but for whatever reason didn't achieve it.
I had a topped spar slam a climber when I was grounding, the run was going smoothly through the Port-a-wrap and I was all set to brake the run when a twig got caught in a coil of the rope, it went past my gloved hands but jammed the Port-a-wrap tight. BAM the top stopped, but lower than in the video. Still, ???? can happen on the ground, and as climbers, we can never assume the ground work below us is going to be perfect.
In the video, the climber left himself a foot-long stub at chest height, we see his left hand on it as he "stabilizes himself" to one-hand the back-cut. What I don't see is a climbing rope over that stub. Maybe he thought he would use it after the top was dumped, otherwise why leave it at all?
I'd have used it to tie in a climb line, then doubled my lanyard wrap around the spar. Then dumped the top.
Shame about his hat, though. It looked very stylish.
RedlineIt
Eagle1
ArboristSite Operative
Well La Di Da...
bottlefed89
ArboristSite Operative
Were you hurt??
John Paul Sanborn
Above average climber
I was working with Dave R. and Sean G. running ropes on a big pine job on Green Lake.
The fellah who was clearing the brush has been doing bucket work for 30 + years and thought I needed a hand on the rope just as Sean was pusing a big top out.
I had 2 wraps on the GRCS so it should have run perfect, put Sean ended up getting the top of the spar in his sternum.
My fault for not explaining what we were doing to the "oldtimer".
(he's 60 and moves brush faster than most crews Sean or I have worked with)
The fellah who was clearing the brush has been doing bucket work for 30 + years and thought I needed a hand on the rope just as Sean was pusing a big top out.
I had 2 wraps on the GRCS so it should have run perfect, put Sean ended up getting the top of the spar in his sternum.
My fault for not explaining what we were doing to the "oldtimer".
(he's 60 and moves brush faster than most crews Sean or I have worked with)
Jim1NZ
ArboristSite Guru
Wow, thats a bit rough :umpkin:
Bottlefed, fortunately I didn't get hurt cept my pride. Glad my saw was off and my lanyard was secure or it coulda hurt lots. Later that day I was spiking a hard maple to take down and my spikes slipped out and I did another tree hugging job with the inside of my forearms and got pretty scrapped up.
