Finally got the Monster Maple down to the trunk! What a week, wanted to use a crane, but crane guy dont like wires! Hardcore rigging all week, sucked. No more charity work! This one bit me in the buttox, HARD! Throwing CMI SS blocks around and running the big rope all over, my shoulders and elbows be a hurting for certain! Oh-well, crew learned a ton this week. Chris , my main groundie has never seen me do some of the stuff, so he was eatin it up. Swung the top upside down, swung it real close to the roof of the house, told him to look out as a the saw dust is coming of the roof, he looks at me like "WTF is he talking about" Let it rip and she swings about 1ft above the roof, blowing all the saw dust down on the and cleaning the roof at the same time. The crew was covered! Had to drift line a bunch, 3ftdia 10ft long chunks. This tree had major mass.Then had to battle the fact that I was in the way with the bucket most of the time, if only that garage wasn't there, or that deck!Or the houses or the lines or the new fences, etc! This was a slow op, had to reset gear after every few cuts. Had a 12x20 LZ. So when I hung a big one ( brush) I would have to come down and make it small enough for them to lower I am going to attempt to get a video on here so yall can see what I had to deal with for obstacles. I HAVE GOT TO GET SOME CRANE SKILL. Even tho it wasnt possible on this one, the whole time I was rigging, I was thinking how I would do it if I could have one, but since I dont know Jack about it, my thoughts were probably all wrong!
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