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  1. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    Mirror mirror on the wall... whose the most handsome tree guy of all??? LOL.. now that's funny!
  2. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    when you're up there that far no one to talk to except yourself
  3. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    That's what Im talkin bout
  4. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    good one squish.. I need to learn this!!!!
  5. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    personally I;ve never done it... how do you do it?
  6. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    from the commnet section: Tim Gannon ihave known lance for 20 yrs worked with him alot avery good friend what he did was pushing the tree with bucket it separated from boom seen him doit alot I will miss him dearly RIP MY FRIEND. Alos seems to be some comment about him not being tied in with a...
  7. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    done it both ways, but rarely use the boom... generally cut til its ready to go and then push by hand... usd the boom a lot to push the rope into a better DZ and pulled from time to time with a sling and biner to help the groundies out..
  8. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    one good trchnique in the bucket is to notch and back cut a piece or snap cut etc till its ready to go then move the bucket out towards to top/tips and push to trip the cut... pretty sure most bucket ops use that one..
  9. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    My hydraulics are slow and never seem to work on short notice, so I don't even try that...
  10. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    rigged a bunch of sizable limbs from the bucket truck yesterday. Best TIP for a good drop zone had most of them wanting to swing right back at the bucket. With the horizontal limbs you can but tie them, get above them and reach down for the cut so the rope swings down past the bucket, sometimes...
  11. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    That's the old mentality.... I've seen climbers do some impressive evasive moves ... but is it needed??? could the piece shown have been rigged to not swing back????
  12. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s8NjfFsFD-A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> This is the video scene that inspired this thread. Its from one of AUgust's new videos featuring Lawrence Shultz. I hope neither of them mind me posting this. Obvious that...
  13. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    So to clarify.. the question is not about letting a piece run that is negative rigging. It's about the cuts of Limb and wood can swing back and hit the climber..
  14. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    Glad to hear it Reg... ANd what's the answer to the question... how often do YOU rely on the ground guy letting a piece run to keep you safe.. I would actually like to specify "to keep you from getting hit by the piece"..
  15. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    Setting multiple rigging blocks rings shackles etc to use redirects to keep pieces moving away from us, goes a long way to keeping climbers safer... good point Kenny
  16. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    That's the way we ALL used to think ... I don't think like that anymore.. I think "how" can we change that"
  17. M

    how often do you need to have the groundy let a piece run for your safety?

    I never liked depending on a groundy to let a piece run to assure my safety. I think with all the advances in rigging equipment and skills we should aim to eliminate that need. Your thoughts???
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