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XMan has a much larger KB, and Mike Poor as well. Though his is something like a 75 tonner with a massively long boom! He's on facebook, and both are on TreeBuzz. XMan makes the X Rigging rings. I agree with others about using a sling. No biner worries then, and you can have it pre-rigged...

nz guy, I don't think I'd like that for anything heavy, as dyneema has a low melt point, and there can be quite the force applied at the choke point.... AS I said above, I don't butt hitch med or heavy loads with a biner. Anything else,especially the way I terminate, there is no problem.

Was the job up your way? I don't work up past Marysville, but have never heard of anyplace paying as well as Fritch. I'm sure Trent's aware of that, as he lives so close..... By the way, would you ask everyone there and anyone else you know if they've ever heard of a short little fella named...

I've done it for years. Rarely for butt hitching wood, unless the loads are under 200-300 lb. To reduce sideloading on the biner, I go one step further and clip it around the standing part and back to itself, which also will further lessen the forces the biner is subjeted to. A good way to test...

Sweet work, Evan! Were you subbing for Trent? or the other way around? Lacking that sweet knuckleboom, I might have speed lined those limbs.... while still using a lowering line, of course.. Do you know if they sold the logs to Fritch? or some other place paying 200 or more mbf?