gwiley
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Re-posting from firewood to get some advice....
A friend asked me to take down 5 large white oaks and 2 pines near his rental house. Last weekend I went to take down the last 3 oaks and the pines - all within 20' of the house and all around 70' tall.
I rigged each one with a bull rope (200' black max 9/16") at about 40-50' up using a throw line, set a redirect and had one son in the skid steer to put tension on the line.
The fourth tree (pine) came down and tangled up the rope a bit - I was tired from having already felled and bucked the other trees so I figured I'd just be careful around the rope rather than take the time to remove it.
Did you know that IF you tangle an expensive rope you will damage at within 10' of its center. My 372 gobbled up about 2 feet of rope before it stalled.
I am kicking myself - $160 hank of rope which is now useless for tree pulling which is the only reason I own the dang stuff! All because I didn't want to take 10 minutes to clear it from the cutting area.
I was already doing him a favor - he would have had to pay a few grand to have these darn trees taken out and I am doing it for free (keeping the wood).
Protect your equipment - cutting corners is a good way to spend money.
Now the question...what is the best way to deal with this? The sheath is gone and part of the core is damaged. I am guessing that I need to just cut that damage out and knot it together - the trick will be that I can't use it with a pully as a redirect now
What about splicing? I don't know how - is that something a novice should try? I need this thing to bear the stress of pulling down large trees safely.
A friend asked me to take down 5 large white oaks and 2 pines near his rental house. Last weekend I went to take down the last 3 oaks and the pines - all within 20' of the house and all around 70' tall.
I rigged each one with a bull rope (200' black max 9/16") at about 40-50' up using a throw line, set a redirect and had one son in the skid steer to put tension on the line.
The fourth tree (pine) came down and tangled up the rope a bit - I was tired from having already felled and bucked the other trees so I figured I'd just be careful around the rope rather than take the time to remove it.
Did you know that IF you tangle an expensive rope you will damage at within 10' of its center. My 372 gobbled up about 2 feet of rope before it stalled.
I am kicking myself - $160 hank of rope which is now useless for tree pulling which is the only reason I own the dang stuff! All because I didn't want to take 10 minutes to clear it from the cutting area.
I was already doing him a favor - he would have had to pay a few grand to have these darn trees taken out and I am doing it for free (keeping the wood).
Protect your equipment - cutting corners is a good way to spend money.
Now the question...what is the best way to deal with this? The sheath is gone and part of the core is damaged. I am guessing that I need to just cut that damage out and knot it together - the trick will be that I can't use it with a pully as a redirect now
What about splicing? I don't know how - is that something a novice should try? I need this thing to bear the stress of pulling down large trees safely.
Im finally posting it only took 2 days to get on mmmmmmmwatch out:monkey:
