Taking out small tree tops

[huskycandoit]

Tree Machine that tapered hinge is not a bad idea but in my situation it would be a pain because your are lowering it on a fence and close to house as you can see in the pic. before.

 

[NeTree]

So tip-tie it and 70º cut the bottom.

 

[Tree Machine]

Cool, pictures are good

Yes, the picture helps. This is a different scenario. This is more along the lines of a normal takedown for me - lots of obstacles, almost always wires.

With wires below, if you choose to rig stuff down on a rope, it may be an advantage to lower the pieces down cut end first, upside down of the way we've been talking. Do you know what netree means? This is a real important technique for working in tight places, kind of reverse of normal intuition, but an advanced and easy to to employ method, gentle, and precise.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hey, I bet you had it easy on that one because you probably had nothing below. I had a fence and a house below me and next to me.

Meh, I had a fence, a swimming pool, and a house to avoid. I did have about a 15' by 15' LZ to aim for. That little tree you were in could easily be pieced out by hand.

 

[Eagle1]

You should top the leder, crane it from the other leder, lower it using a wrap .

 

[SteveBullman]

Meh, I had a fence, a swimming pool, and a house to avoid. I did have about a 15' by 15' LZ to aim for. That little tree you were in could easily be pieced out by hand.

was thinking the same thing myself

 

[Husky288XP]

The LZ for this tree was about an 8' gap between the fence and one of the house drops.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

The LZ for this tree was about an 8' gap between the fence and one of the house drops.

I probably would have used a ladder to drop the cable and tel. off the house before working, and kvetched at the boss for not calling for a power disconnect. The tree would have taken around 15 minuest then.

I use TM's method rather often, but I would have girthitched the rigging point under the crothc to take the two limbs out one after the other.

Well, given some experience knot tying shouldn't add anything signifigant, either...

I allso agree with him that slings make things go faster, in the tree and on the ground. If you shave off 30 seconds on every rigging event, and do 30 of them then you've saved 15 min.

 

[Tree Machine]

Thank you, John Paul. You're a big fan of slice cuts, aren't you ? Rigless directioning of a a limb, straight down as in a vertical spear.

As far as rigging, going back to the title of this thread, Taking out small tree tops, take this to mean no real rigging of heavy material. Small-to-medium-sized trees. I would always lower these myself from up in the tree. Are we aligned in this, or are you depending on someone, who is not you, diricting the swiftness of the progress. Remember, small to medium stuff.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I'm all for riggless removal wehn applicable, spear cuts have their place as do jumps, peals and hinging.

I will self rig in situations where it will speed things up too, all you have to do is call someone over to fee up the line.

Of course I never rig off the tail of my climbing line!

 

[Tree Machine]

So tip-tie it and 70º cut the bottom.

I like this method a lot and do it two different ways. Conventionally I use it for lowering limbs to the ground, cut end first. More often I use it, not with a rope, but with a sling, to get the limb vertical, then finish the cut, remove sling and toss. Lemme see if I can draw it properly.

 

[Tree Machine]

.....and....

 

[NeTree]

Not to state the obvious, but the more tricks up yer sleeve, the easier the job gets.

Not every climber will tear a tree apart in the same way.

This is the cool thing about working with other climbers; you get to see things done from different perspectives.