Cool, I have one as well, they are the cats meow, puzzled about why everyone had to get out of the way with over 100' of rope/cable?Fireaxman said:We pulled a big pine back about 10 degrees from vertical yesterday with the Griphoist (Tirfor). It was leaning over house. Cut a wide notch in front, then pulled a little, cut a little until we had COG away from the house. It broke over while we still had about 3 inches of hinge, fell nice and slow, gave everybody plenty of time to get out of the way.
We had the tie in point about 30 feet up, 75 feet of 5/8 stable braid and then the 100 feet of 7/16 cable for the Griphoist. Advantage of the Griphoist is that it pulls through as long a cable as you want to buy, as opposed to the 12 feet or so with the chain fall. Pulls 4000 lbs working load limit.
It aint cheap though. I've had mine for about 6 years now, and I think I paid about $750 for it.
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