SRT Split-tail?

[Garden Of Eden]

im a free lancer i guess i own my own tree service but its alone ive got a group of people who i will hire to work with that are experienced, and i have other big name services who hire me to climb form time to time im in the lansing area, holt to be exact

Sweet. I hope the big names over there are better than here. They slaughter trees here. There's a spar that's gotta be 15 feet tall, maybe 28-32 inches diameter, cut all the way through, just standing there. Been there for like a month. Big names did it.

I don't try and be the fastest, or cheapest, or biggest, just best honest quality, ya know?

 

[ECRUPPRECHT]

yeah around here im pretty much cheaper then anyone else, because i dont really have too many expences, the thing that really drives me nuts is all these firewood guys who think they can cut trees and shoot rediculous lowball bids. i dont know how many times ive bid a job for say $1000.00 and the homeowner says joe blow told me $300.00 it seems like ill drive back by a few weeks later and nothing will be done because the guy realizd he couldnt do the job. now the homeowners got it in his head hes gonna get this tree done for 300 bucks and no one could possibly even do it for that, either that or ill drive back by and see a limb on the house... these people are really makin it hard for the business

 

[Garden Of Eden]

yeah around here im pretty much cheaper then anyone else, because i dont really have too many expences, the thing that really drives me nuts is all these firewood guys who think they can cut trees and shoot rediculous lowball bids. i dont know how many times ive bid a job for say $1000.00 and the homeowner says joe blow told me $300.00 it seems like ill drive back by a few weeks later and nothing will be done because the guy realizd he couldnt do the job. now the homeowners got it in his head hes gonna get this tree done for 300 bucks and no one could possibly even do it for that, either that or ill drive back by and see a limb on the house... these people are really makin it hard for the business

I bid a job this summer, a choke-cherry, 2 HUGE leaders, drop, limb, and buck to firewood, had the guy locked in at 1200, and was giving him a great deal, cuz I wanted in the neighborhood.

Anyway, guy goes into hospital, and 2 weeks ago wants me to come do it. I get there and the retard tells me he had a guy come that morning and give him a 150 dollar bid. I told him to have that guy do it. Lol. The under-bidder, I know. He's a hack cowboy, who's been kicking my ass all summer. He told me once that he only needs to make $7/hr to keep working. No harness, ppe or anything...he's a joke, who keeps killing my big stuff for the last reason you mentioned

 

[ECRUPPRECHT]

about a year ago i had a foreign guy try to renig on the deal after the job was done. he gave me a down pament but that was all i got, it was a no haul job and he tried saying i was supposed to clean it all up and acting like he didnt understand and what not i got screwed out of 800 dollars on that job but i went back and dumped a load of chips right in his front lawn oh i dont understand i thougt you wanted these chips here haha thats the only time ive gotten screwed on a job ive done

 

[Garden Of Eden]

about a year ago i had a foreign guy try to renig on the deal after the job was done. he gave me a down pament but that was all i got, it was a no haul job and he tried saying i was supposed to clean it all up and acting like he didnt understand and what not i got screwed out of 800 dollars on that job but i went back and dumped a load of chips right in his front lawn oh i dont understand i thougt you wanted these chips here haha thats the only time ive gotten screwed on a job ive done

We should get together sometime, maybe do coffee or something? I have family in St. Johns, Elsie, Ovid, all over out there...

 

[ECRUPPRECHT]

thats cool flick me a pm sometime if your coming around

 

[ChipDoogle]

Just saw this last saturday, Hitch Climbing on SRT

I was at a rigging class last saturday, and after the class one of the guys brought the "Will there ever be Ascending/Descending hitch climbing for SRT.
Rich Hattier of Anchor Bridge Ropeworks showed us a method he picked up awhile back. There were several different ways he set it up, but the way that he seemed to like best I will try to explain. Starts out with whatever type closed hitch you want to use. but then he added a shorter eye and eye going from the closed hitch up to what you see in the picture. A carabiner going thru micro pulley that is holding a bite of rope thru a rated ring. From my understanding this allows your hitch to move more freely by taking some of the weight of it, in essence a midline Ddrt. This should allow you to only have to use one hitch, vs adding a splittail on top of your closed hitch. That is about all I can tell you. Here is Rich's email address if you wanna find out more about it. Hope this helps.

Rich Hattier [email protected].
here is there website http://abropeworks.com/a/bios.php

 

[Garden Of Eden]

I was at a rigging class last saturday, and after the class one of the guys brought the "Will there ever be Ascending/Descending hitch climbing for SRT.
Rich Hattier of Anchor Bridge Ropeworks showed us a method he picked up awhile back. There were several different ways he set it up, but the way that he seemed to like best I will try to explain. Starts out with whatever type closed hitch you want to use. but then he added a shorter eye and eye going from the closed hitch up to what you see in the picture. A carabiner going thru micro pulley that is holding a bite of rope thru a rated ring. From my understanding this allows your hitch to move more freely by taking some of the weight of it, in essence a midline Ddrt. This should allow you to only have to use one hitch, vs adding a splittail on top of your closed hitch. That is about all I can tell you. Here is Rich's email address if you wanna find out more about it. Hope this helps.

Rich Hattier [email protected].
here is there website http://abropeworks.com/a/bios.php

Thank you kindly chip. Rep coming to ya. I appreciate you digging this up. That sounds way smoother, maybe less damage to the rope? I'm gonna try this, thanks.

God bless