whadja do today?

[Pelorus]

"I didn't see anything in the pics big enough to use as an anchor...or how you rigged it."

There were lotsa decent pull / anchor trees around. No pics.
Set the pull ropes in the leaner from the ground with throwbag. Applied tension, climbed the tree supporting the leaner, and got rid of the top. Finished winching upright, then felled.
Most rigging intensive and exhausting job we have done in a long time, just because of island location.

 

[tree MDS]

Nice work guys!!

 

[formationrx]

treating myself to some prime rib tonight. Feeling lucky life is good!

... at first glance i was like "WTF why would he put a picture of dog #### on there?"... then i realized what it was....

 

[treeclimber101]

... at first glance i was like "WTF why would he put a picture of dog #### on there?"... then i realized what it was....

I would hate to think he worked on that for some time and at first glance you thought it was dog **** !

 

[tree MDS]

... at first glance i was like "WTF why would he put a picture of dog #### on there?"... then i realized what it was....

Wouldn't have been a very healthy dog.. at least judging by that pic. Lol

 

[rtsims]

Gotta love it when your TIP is darn near parallel to you when your out on a little flimsy sucker like that.

 

[treeclimber101]

Gotta love it when your TIP is darn near parallel to you when your out on a little flimsy sucker like that.

At that point I feel its more awkward then helpful

 

[sgreanbeans]

It was supposed to rain all day, even looked like it was going to bust loose at any moment on the radar, so I stayed in and worked on gear. But, of course, it didnt rain.................

Cleaned the velcro on my leg straps on my cougar, wow what a diff when they are clean, they actually stick! Tried out all the DDM gear I bought my niece for her saddle on mine, bought one of those little skinny Grizzly prusik i2i's, nice action, I am taking it. Pulley and beaners are all new, nice and shiny, so they look cooler than my old stuff. She can use the old stuff, after all, she is only 7, why she thinks she gets the new **** I dunno...... brat Then cleaned all my saws up nice and purty, but is was pitch black out at 5pm, so I felt like I was breaking the law by firing them up so late. Almost busted out the new 200t, but still dont want to break its cherry yet.

 

[pdqdl]

I pulled the piece broke the snap and on my push forward I slipped piece nailed me because it kicked out at the bottom , I feel that I did all I could do letting it go straight down it woulda hit the turret full shot I almost cleared the truck that's that

You might consider speed lines in that situation. They don't take long to put on, and if you are smart about it, they can speed you up a lot.

Tie your rope at the base of a long branch to be removed. Attach a loopie & carabiner to each log piece that you would snap cut and toss, working your way to the far end of the branch. Start cutting like a madman, the whole branch is rigged and controlled. Cut below each loopie, the next one down the line is holding the rope as a gin-point. Since each branch/log is being held, you only need to make a back cut on the side the rope is on, then rip through the back cut until it falls or can be pushed off.

The groundies just need to hold on to the far end of the rope, perhaps anchoring it to the truck bed where the logs will be delivered. If you are running a long ways horizontally, they will need to have a friction control device to hold the end of the rope.

But then, I have never been very fond of snap cuts, either.

 

[SecondGenMonkey]

So far? Landscraping.... I hate the slow time. Digging in a bunch of stupid coral rock to plant stupid calusia and stupid arborcola and Stupid bromiliads and stupid loriopy... oh, and a beautiful desert cassia.

But it's better than the silk floss I had to climb yesterday, THAT was fun. I heard that in the virgin islands they call it the "monkey no climb".

Did I mention that I hate landsraping?

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[treeclimber101]

Thank you that's a good idea

 

[SecondGenMonkey]

@pdqdl can you put a diagram or link to a video of what you described?

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[pdqdl]

I used to have a great little gif that was posted years ago here at AS. I'll look again for it.

 

[treeman75]

I have wondered where the word gin or gin point comes from

 

[Groundman One]

Small day today. A few medium balsams, down, cut up, and dragged into the woods.

But what a lovely day to work. A light snow falling, not cold at all, and the guy's backyard was really nice.

It was actually a pleasure.

 

[Zale]

Took down a stone dead 36" white pine next to primaries. An old Asian couple watched me the whole time. They had planted jap. maples underneath the tree. Got everything down nice and neat. They gave us leftover Halloween candy as a tip. Life goes on.

 

[tree MDS]

My right ankle has been screwed the last few days (old drunken injury), so pretty "lame" around here lately. That's alright, its still Friday, and I have a decent evening planned. Damn ankle will be my last concern a little later. Lol.

 

[Tree Pig]

My right ankle has been screwed the last few days (old drunken injury), so pretty "lame" around here lately. That's alright, its still Friday, and I have a decent evening planned. Damn ankle will be my last concern a little later. Lol.

Some Wild Turkey and bingo down at the church?

 

[tree MDS]

Some Wild Turkey and bingo down at the church?

Damn.. it's like you're a mind reader..

 

[Tree Pig]

Damn.. it's like you're a mind reader..

I have a few great plans myself... fighting a PITA head cold so I have the standard issue tree man (or tree man wannabe) cold cure.

Homemade chicken soup and Blackberry Brandy