Benn's a hired gun now, outlaw in the east. I don't think the companies he's subbing in for are hiring him in to frig around with pullines. They are hiring him in to slam that sucka out because no amount of handholding is going to get their regular crew to do it.
I stand by my original advice...
For real man, I think you need to watch those vids again. Like the first one. Pause it around six seconds. They are chain link fences it looks like to me. Tight as f-ck looking. You are gonna pull the tops down and what? Cross your fingers? Your guesstimate is 45' on that tree? I'll be...
This seems first off like it doesn't apply to this tree and secondly if you're going to have to climb into the tree anyways, you're now going to climb into a dead tree that's been busted apart from pulling on it with a truck? Not for me.
Somewhere in here there's a thread that gives some really good info about how high lines load up and the forces they apply. Maybe someone recalls it and can post a link?
One thing about dead trees is it kinda sucks not climbing the tree itself on the way up to look for/get a feel for defects...
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