TreeandLand
ArboristSite Member
This was a somewhat challenging take-down. We removed one trunk of a multi-trunk oak tree that was about twenty-four inches in diameter.
I learned a lesson during this one: think very carefully about where your rigging point is and where the line will or could end up after you cut. I cut one limb early on, and thank goodness it was light because it tipped in a direction that sent the rigging line dragging across the back of my neck.
It gave me a pretty bad rope burn that took about a week to heal.
So, the tradeoff of a rigging point ten or fifteen feet above the climber is that the rigged pieces don't fall as far toward a target you want to protect, and you can cut many limbs using the same point, but they can swing toward you and so can the rigging line.
After that no more major mistakes were made, and we finished the job without damaging anything.
here are a few pics of that day.
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I learned a lesson during this one: think very carefully about where your rigging point is and where the line will or could end up after you cut. I cut one limb early on, and thank goodness it was light because it tipped in a direction that sent the rigging line dragging across the back of my neck.
It gave me a pretty bad rope burn that took about a week to heal.
So, the tradeoff of a rigging point ten or fifteen feet above the climber is that the rigged pieces don't fall as far toward a target you want to protect, and you can cut many limbs using the same point, but they can swing toward you and so can the rigging line.
After that no more major mistakes were made, and we finished the job without damaging anything.
here are a few pics of that day.
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