Static Removable False Crotch

geofore · Sep 14, 2002

ropes

Okay, I said that because of the way you stated the problem and I spent the morning watching a crew chip up some brush on a 200 acre site that has about 3,000 trees damaged from a windstorm. They were not going to climb with just the two ropes they had on the truck, a 5/8 and a 1/2 about 120' each. I was out there to see how much of a challange it would be to climb some of the trees. A lot of them you can't get near with crane or bucket truck.
I buy my rope on the coil and have blocks set up for 35', 50', 100'.If you know about how much rope you use each year you learn to splice and buy it by the coil, that way you always have new rope if you lose one.
What threw me was you could get ten more feet out of a four line block set up by tying another rope to the end of the rope on the block and run it up to the knot but you didn't say that you had another rope to try that. It will work in a pinch to get that extra few feet you need. CMI blocks are big enough on the top to slip a knot threw and get more than ten feet.

FBerkel · Sep 14, 2002

Spider,

Looks like a good variation, with the steel ring, but probably for removals, only, as the ring wood bite into the wood of the limb. Where do you get the ring?

SRT-Tech · Dec 8, 2006

^ that ring looks like a 4" stretcher rigging ring.

like this:

http://www.gearshop.com/item_detail.aspx?ItemCode=HORCMC305011

OTG BOSTON · Dec 8, 2006

geofore said:
". Otherwise you are going to sound like the guys Mark Garvin, spokesman for the National Arborists' Association, was talking about in todays article in the Wall Street Juournal "The Trouble With Trees".

Couldn't find it :cry:

alanarbor · Dec 8, 2006

It's an older article.....

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Link

jmack · Dec 9, 2006

geofore said:
"Most guys have 150' of rope 200' at most" Did I hear you right? This means you limit yourself to bombing limbs out of the trees because you have no line to lower them cause the only line you have you use as a saftey line to tie yourself in with (saftey first). I would buy more rope rather than limit myself to bombing limbs out. Otherwise you are going to sound like the guys Mark Garvin, spokesman for the National Arborists' Association, was talking about in todays article in the Wall Street Juournal "The Trouble With Trees".
Show it to your boss when you ask for more rope for the job. Better yet buy your own rope so you don't have to share it, your rope,you will know it's history and trust it. Ask for a raise too, you can tell your boss you need the extra money to buy rope(extra equipment) to make him look good while you are out there working for him.

Work Safe and Live long
fiddus in silvis silenttbus

ya got a link to the trouble? on the tech nique awsome for speed you dont need to double the line just tie your block in and use your lowering line to retrieve it