speed line

[Removalwizzard]

you gotta check out this video.... this was a very cool job!

http://www.morfilms.com/movies/TreeCuttin.wmv

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Cool video, but don't try this on dial up! That thing is 80 meg!

 

[stihlatit]

Excellent video Thanks for posting it.

 

[reachtreeservi]

Thank you!

Great video !
I'd hire those guys any day.
Note to homeowners: These guys are real pro tree-men.
And they still dropped a couple of blocks of wood in the water .
Needless to say, don't try this at your home!

 

[Tree Frog]

Great piece of work. Thanks.

 

[okietreedude1]

Dang!!! That was definetly AWESOME!



Ive always wanted to get into a job like that but as you could tell, circumstances have to be perfect. And all that gear????? WOW!

 

[userdude]

Arborguard is definetly a top notch tree co. I went to a jamboree (comp.) a couple years ago and their guys pretty much dominated. Their guy, who won it all, had only been with them about 5 yrs. and had been a welder up until then. I also have a good friend that went to work with these guys and was blown away at their speed and efficiency...big piece of humble pie for him. Good vid. Removalwizzard, Thanks. BTW, are you workin' for AG?

 

[doggonetrees]

Totally awesome video!!!

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

Dan, my thoughts exactly.
We had a nice thread some time ago where we talked a bit about forces on a speed line, and the importance of guying the tree.
There was one log they showed, looked like about 16' long being speed lined, if they knew how much force a log like that put on their rigging, I can guarantee they wouldn't have taken it.

 

[hobby climber]

Cool video but beyond my current ability with all the equipment. I realize its difficult to tell true dimensions and lay of the land but could it not been done with less equipment? I would probably just take the tree down to the ground with a port-a-wrap. Then just pull/drag it across the water with a winch or something and haul it away. Not as fancy but much safer and less equipment. If a rope does break, there would be less chance of damage and/or injury. Only thing is that the bank you are pulling wood to would be messed up a bit...but could be repaired easy enough. Your thoughts? HC

 

[Removalwizzard]

Dan and Mike,

Of course i thought about the forces on the SL.... That is why i used 5/8" static line (15000), also no pieces were droped into the SL, any thing that was droped was slowed by the control line and then the SL was tentioned.... That is why we had a hobbs on the Pine.... There was a lot more comentary that did not make it onto the video (at least the web version), and i went into more detail on some of the forces involved

 

[Husky288XP]

You should of just got a boat??

 

[Tree Planter]

thats very intersting!!

 

[NcTree25]

good job

 

[treeslayer]

Helicopter the trees whole, 140 man hours might of paid for the whirlybird.
Would of been 1 day.:jawdrop:

No need to nitpick, those guys rocked em out.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Looks like it went perfect, but like Dan and Mike, I fear that not all concideration to forces applied were done.

With the tensioning loads alone, I do not think that the fishpoling of the speed line alone was sufficient. There should have been at least 2 backup lines behind the anchor point.

You really cannot finness a power winch....

 

[Removalwizzard]

our chipper winch will only pull about 5000#, this was far less than we could put on the system, now the bobcat..... that is a different story... i personally tentioned it the first time, and then marked the "Perfect point" and threatened my guys with their lives if they went past it. There was a lot more thought than i had time for on the video (the web version anyway), i spent three weeks brainstorming with some of my co-workers.... paper, pencel, calculator, green log chart, slide rule, college professor, NASA, G.W. Bush, CDC, OSHA, ANSI...... We let everybody give their opinion!

No really, we did take all of the precaution needed, and my team pulled this off very well...

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

Anyone care to do the math on the drawing?
What are the forces on the trees?

 

[hobby climber]

Hey TreeSpyder...ya wana give this one a shot???

 

[SkiTown]

Nice work! I was just thinking about some mechanical advantage for an upcoming job...your system gave me some good ideas, thanks.