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Nailsbeats said:
The VT has quite the learning curve. I tried it 3 or 4 times before I finally went back and settled on it as my hitch. I use the beeline 8mm (after trying most others) like you have pictured and find it to be a lot more resilient than I thought it would be. I tie double fisherman's to terminate the ends of the beeline, keeps it cheeper, though JPS will tell you he had one come undone.
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I think that is the same thing as a "scaffold knot"? I am getting very attached to that termination.
 
treevet said:
I think that is the same thing as a "scaffold knot"? I am getting very attached to that termination.
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You got it TV. This also alows you to buy bulk cord, customize the hitch length easily, and not have to deal with the splice bury. Downside is bulk/clutter on the krab and of course the chance of it loosening up. A word of advice, make sure both ends of the hitch stay on the krab at all times, one can slip off easily when operating the krab. I've had it happen and caught it before weighting it.
 
cut 2 dead poplars, 2 dead cherry trees, 1 dead elm, cut 100 vines going into trees, pruned 2 dead limbs from big poplar and various other pruning

then slammed 2 silver maples after lunch

then sold 2 jobs for later this week
 
Nailsbeats said:
You got it TV. This also alows you to buy bulk cord, customize the hitch length easily, and not have to deal with the splice bury. Downside is bulk/clutter on the krab and of course the chance of it loosening up. A word of advice, make sure both ends of the hitch stay on the krab at all times, one can slip off easily when operating the krab. I've had it happen and caught it before weighting it.
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thanks for advice nails
 
hey tv its good seeing you make the move. you too rope.

if you don't like the vt at first give the distal a run, solid hitch. or the martin which is the same as a blakes but under 2 wraps. i ended up liking the distal a tad more. i don't bother with the vt yet because it really has no place or need in the crane game.
 
I got down to Springfield around 10. I tell you its tough getting a 4 year old girl dressed, fed , brushed and to school. Truth of it is I would rather stay home and watch The Wackey Races with her just as well.
The job was a TD on a 120 foot poplar over house and deck. Down there its so tight you can barely get a truck in.
So Homey puts me up there with the bucket, he says " don't you know how to work a bucket?" I say" buddy, I can't even play Pac Man"
So it just gets brutal. I keep telling everybody that it sounds worse than it is. This was a big stick and I just wanted to see progress. With just two guys on the ground I was getting cold, windy today to.
I don't think those guys ever saw anything like it and they surely underestimated how much weight I was will willing to chance. I'd send one down , it would take 15 minutes to get the rope back. I tied one on, the guy was pulled into the trunk. I was looking at it fall towards the roof and was wondering why it wasn't stopping. I looked down to see the one guy running away while the other rode the SOB right to the trunk. Boy, did he have some balls. I looked down to see him under this thing, I understand though. If he let it loose it would have destroyed a whole lot.
I don't usually natural crotch but since I didn't get there til ten and the stick was so big I got brutal. NC, if you think I glazed up that rope back then, wait til you see it now.
I did set a pulley when doing the tops. It was so windy and the wind was changing and unpredictable so I put a pull rope in the tops. Well, that just confused those guys but I hollered a little and told them to keep the stuff off off me.
The last bit of top I sent out didn't go so well. They were still having trouble figuring out what the pull rope was for. I wanted to notch it off- lean so it would'nt get stuck on the V crotch below but they couldn't figure it out and I was tired of hollering so I sent out this 4 pronged whale that beached itself pretty good on the crook in the trunk so I had to go down there and lower a few pieces off on my saddle until it came free and they were able to lower it.
It was all good though. I got to bomb the trunk on the driveway which made craters the size of Texas but the driveway was to be redone anyway. I was setting the block for the wood and they told me to bomb it. I said I wasn't responsible for rebounds and that was fine with them.
The one guy was telling me how he felt about those whales I was sending him. I just said that I wasn't about to go nancing around and that it was par for the course. I used a about a half a tank in the 20 and filled the truck up twice. Hey! I was just trying to be expediant.
 
oldirty said:
hey tv its good seeing you make the move. you too rope.

if you don't like the vt at first give the distal a run, solid hitch. or the martin which is the same as a blakes but under 2 wraps. i ended up liking the distal a tad more. i don't bother with the vt yet because it really has no place or need in the crane game.
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Yeah, I had some problem with the scaffold pushing the knot down but its no worse than dealing with any other of the idiosyncrosis of any other hitch. I do fing that with minute descents the hitch don't pay out as quick cause the pulley gets in the way.
I am using HRC and while I haven't really burned down the rope it seems to last more than a morning.
What are you using with the crane?
 
treemandan said:
I got down to Springfield around 10. I tell you its tough getting a 4 year old girl dressed, fed , brushed and to school. Truth of it is I would rather stay home and watch The Wackey Races with her just as well.
The job was a TD on a 120 foot poplar over house and deck. Down there its so tight you can barely get a truck in.
So Homey puts me up there with the bucket, he says " don't you know how to work a bucket?" I say" buddy, I can't even play Pac Man"
So it just gets brutal. I keep telling everybody that it sounds worse than it is. This was a big stick and I just wanted to see progress. With just two guys on the ground I was getting cold, windy today to.
I don't think those guys ever saw anything like it and they surely underestimated how much weight I was will willing to chance. I'd send one down , it would take 15 minutes to get the rope back. I tied one on, the guy was pulled into the trunk. I was looking at it fall towards the roof and was wondering why it wasn't stopping. I looked down to see the one guy running away while the other rode the SOB right to the trunk. Boy, did he have some balls. I looked down to see him under this thing, I understand though. If he let it loose it would have destroyed a whole lot.
I don't usually natural crotch but since I didn't get there til ten and the stick was so big I got brutal. NC, if you think I glazed up that rope back then, wait til you see it now.
I did set a pulley when doing the tops. It was so windy and the wind was changing and unpredictable so I put a pull rope in the tops. Well, that just confused those guys but I hollered a little and told them to keep the stuff off off me.
The last bit of top I sent out didn't go so well. They were still having trouble figuring out what the pull rope was for. I wanted to notch it off- lean so it would'nt get stuck on the V crotch below but they couldn't figure it out and I was tired of hollering so I sent out this 4 pronged whale that beached itself pretty good on the crook in the trunk so I had to go down there and lower a few pieces off on my saddle until it came free and they were able to lower it.
It was all good though. I got to bomb the trunk on the driveway which made craters the size of Texas but the driveway was to be redone anyway. I was setting the block for the wood and they told me to bomb it. I said I wasn't responsible for rebounds and that was fine with them.
The one guy was telling me how he felt about those whales I was sending him. I just said that I wasn't about to go nancing around and that it was par for the course. I used a about a half a tank in the 20 and filled the truck up twice. Hey! I was just trying to be expediant.
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Man, you could make a little made for tv movie on that one. You got danger, drama, conflict, comedy, special effects (slamming the driveway), local dialect (quit "nancing" around there lol), suspense (will he get the pos down by the end of day) and a happy ending.....

I lived (and died....maybe just a little) through that whole job vicariously :cheers::computer:
 
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treevet said:
Man, you could make a little made for tv movie on that one. You got danger, drama, conflict, comedy, special effects (slamming the driveway), local dialect (quit "nancing" around there lol), suspense (will he get the pos down by the end of day) and a happy ending.....

I lived that whole job vicariously :cheers::computer:
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Lol I was lost I think the dialect got too me. Dan put a lil red neck in on the tricky short hand parts next time will ya? I missed another Kodiak moment yesterday; I bid cleanup on two large pines 750 including stump, guy said he found someone to clean it up for 4 hundy. I was slamming out logs and he kept trying to get me to talk to him about stumps and I ignored him, as he already did it once while I was up a large pine it was like he was asking me to come down and go look at his stumps and I told him then that stumps were not considered until all ten trees in the three customers yards are down and cleaned up. Anyway; after all my experience with this cat, the guys he found to cut my throat on clean-up were about done loading and they had the best part of two trees wood on a trailer. The part I wished to get on camera was they were pulling this trailer now at probably 3 tons with a 77 trans Am:monkey:
 
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I hauled 7 ton and got 9 ton loaded and another 7 ton moved into convenient loading areas!
I will take the cam in hopes that the trans am crew is still there:cheers: The mill was busy, I was behind at least 26 trucks when I arrived yesterday hopefully they won't be so backed up today!
 
ropensaddle said:
Lol I was lost I think the dialect got too me. Dan put a lil red neck in on the tricky short hand parts next time will ya? I missed another Kodiak moment yesterday; I bid cleanup on two large pines 750 including stump, guy said he found someone to clean it up for 4 hundy. I was slamming out logs and he kept trying to get me to talk to him about stumps and I ignored him, as he already did it once while I was up a large pine it was like he was asking me to come down and go look at his stumps and I told him then that stumps were not considered until all ten trees in the three customers yards are down and cleaned up. Anyway; after all my experience with this cat, the guys he found to cut my throat on clean-up were about done loading and they had the best part of two trees wood on a trailer. The part I wished to get on camera was they were pulling this trailer now at probably 3 tons with a 77 trans Am:monkey:
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Trans Am? Was it The Bandit?
 
Vermeer is great to deal with.

put a long plywood road into a yard today and when we chipped the first limb....blew a hose. GM noticed it immediately (no stoner here) so not much grass damage.

Took the rig back to the lot and within 2 hours of calling them, Vermeer had my BC 2000 back on the road with a complete repair. :yourock:
 

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