Today TMD and I finished the take-downs and bucked everything up. I climbed tree #3 and did the entire think myself with Dan as ground support and instruction. It was an awesome feeling doing this tree, definitely a heck of a milestone for me. It was like everything I learned from here and books and DVD's and previous instruction all came together at once and it just all made sense and felt good.
TMD giving some instruction:
Looking down:
For the first time, I felt good in the spurs and they did not hurt like crazy!
Dropped this top out on rigging. In fact we pretty much rigged the entire tree except the spar.
Setting the block:
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Tree #3 is brushed-out:
BIG wood, and lots of it. Three of us ran saws constantly for several hours to buck the job up.
Here's The Man (TM) himself after a hard day's work:
I was so pumped after taking that tree down. Thank you all on this forum with helping get me started. It may have been an easy tree but I honestly didn't think I had it in me. Dan is a great teacher. Now all I have to do is learn the other 18,000 things I don't know yet!
Well I also took the time to read this marathon thread.
Was kind of like a good book ,you just can't put down Lol.
Plasmech, i remember reading one of your first post .Something
about standing on a ladder with a clothesline tied thru your belt loop,or something to that affect.
Glad you took the critisism,and advice constructively,and have dedicated yourself to learning the proper way to do tree work.This stuff ain't no joke.
People can,and do get hurt and killed everyday cutting trees.
Hats off to you for your commitment to learning.
Treemandan,very good of you to take the time to help somebody
learn to do something the right way ,instead of just telling him to piss off.
I wish I had somebody teach me when I was young like that.
My uncle taught me to tie a bowline to a limb and let it down from the bucket,and one of his climbers showed me how to tie a taughtline hitch on a climb line one day,and that was pretty much it for my training back in the day.Learned the rest of it the hard way,on my own thru the years.
I'm still here to talk about it,and safety is of the upmost importance to me now,but I made a lot of mistakes along the way that could have turned out really bad to say the least.
Kudos to you for taking some of the pain out of the learning curve for someone else.
Well deserved rep coming to both of you
