Plasmech
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I have a huge beech tree that I need to remove some limbs from at my parent's house. One of the limbs is enormous. It basically sticks out of the trunk at a 90 degree angle ans goes out maybe 45 feet. I cannot simply bomb the entire limb in this case for various reasons, but I can dismantle it and bomb small pieces of it. This will be the first time that I will be walking a limb that big, that far away from the tree and I need to plan in my mind ahead-of-time how I'm going to go about it. I'll be roped-in from high above obviously, but my big concern (no surprise here) is that if I simply start walking out on the limb and fall off, I will pendulum into the trunk with tremendous force....ouch time. I know this is probably the world's most basic limb walking question, but what is the general jist of fall protection while limb walking? I have done plenty of smaller walks closer to the trunk where I simple use my lanyard to protect against coming off the limb and smashing into the tree. Is that exactly what I need to do here just on a larger scale? Should I bring my relatively long lanyard and walk upright on the limb, with my top-rope tight and my lanyard (that will be pulling me mostly down into the limb) the whole way? I guess there really is no there way to do it and I'm not missing anything? Thanks guys!