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tramp bushler
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I see your skinny alder, and raise you a skinny-ER poplar...
What's an ER?
In the 1 st pic. I klum and Limbed the hangin tree then put my life line in it. Went down a ways and swung over into the littler one. Went up it and topped it then over to the 3 rd one and topped it. Blocked them down then swung back to the hangin tree and went back up it and topped it and blocked it down. All cottonwoods .
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Gotta try that again
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Once again I klum the hangin tree and started transferring into other trees to get them topped and blocked down. I really need a grapple so I can transfer faster and easier. Only two hundred and thirty five bucks.
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I think I'm gonna get a shark hook and try it. It oughta work. Hundred percent fer sure, maybe, perhaps.
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Coming along with the climbing, picked up an 019 and went for a climb today and peeled off some branches
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I'm getting a little confused. I always climb on spikes with a monkey line on my belt. But on conifers i limb up the tree working off my lanyard. I learned the 3 point system and a lanyard is good for two points. Now when blocking out a tree I always use a second tie in below my lanyard, started doing that about 10 years ago. I learned early on not to cut across my lanyard and to switch sides behind my back with the saw. I remember they told us there is only one thing you have to remember, don't cut your rope.
On leaners and on skinny trees it helps to keep one foot higher then the other. That'll keep you balanced and stabilized. On bigger trees with a lot of lean you can sometimes throw your climbing line up over a branch on the high side a few feet above your head, and then climb to the low side to work. The climbing line at a right angle will keep you stabilized and make it easier to get back to the high side.
On a skinny tree or a leaner keeping you feet at the same height next to each other will cause you to pivot. By keeping the foot on the low side down more, it'll hold you in place. You'll get a feel for it and know how much to stagger them.
On leaners and on skinny trees it helps to keep one foot higher then the other. That'll keep you balanced and stabilized. On bigger trees with a lot of lean you can sometimes throw your climbing line up over a branch on the high side a few feet above your head, and then climb to the low side to work. The climbing line at a right angle will keep you stabilized and make it easier to get back to the high side.
On a skinny tree or a leaner keeping you feet at the same height next to each other will cause you to pivot. By keeping the foot on the low side down more, it'll hold you in place. You'll get a feel for it and know how much to stagger them.
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Slowly getting the hang of this, spurred up this 4-5" spar and set my climb line, now I'm just working stuff down. I've got a small rigging pulley on the way I'm gonna use for the other spars and will definatly need it for the other 2 trees behind this one. I've heard of people rigging and using wraps on a trunk of spar to control the decent from the tree top not in the ground. How is that accomplished? Can i just run it through a figure 8 choked to the tree?
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CanopyGorilla
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Nice dwerden!!! Looks like a good tree to be learning in. Def not the easiest, nor the hardest. Solid work!
Lookin good, D. There are several ways to lower from the tree, an eight being one, or a wrap around a stub. These first few, though, you've got enough on your plate. Let someone on the ground handle the load. Jeff
Slowly getting the hang of this, spurred up this 4-5" spar and set my climb line, now I'm just working stuff down. I've got a small rigging pulley on the way I'm gonna use for the other spars and will definatly need it for the other 2 trees behind this one. I've heard of people rigging and using wraps on a trunk of spar to control the decent from the tree top not in the ground. How is that accomplished? Can i just run it through a figure 8 choked to the tree?
The company I used to work at was too cheap to buy a porta wrap. The groundies would just take the rope and wrap around another tree enough to give us the required friction. Small piece, it would only go around the tree a quarter turn. Some pieces we would weave among a couple of trees to give sufficient friction but not bind the rope.
Unless you are gong to tie off the rigging line for each cut and let the piece hang, let your groundies control the rope.
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Well i finally got my cousin over to play groundie for me, rigged some stuff down with an omni then the rest I snap cut and chucked onto the driveway (gravel)
Here's my 1 ton dump truck and 12" chipper
Here's my 1 ton dump truck and 12" chipper
