pantheraba
More biners!!!
Alex and I landed a job with 3 aspects to it:
1. an oak with a heavy head lean over a driveway..owner was afraid he would be trapped when it eventually falls.
2. a broken maple limb hanging over the same driveway.
3. a broken oak limb that landed in the top of his prize 20 foot beech tree.
Here is some video of #1. We bound the spar, pulled the head of the leaner out of a nearby pine and made the Coos Bay cut. I learned I need to stay in the "pocket" a little longer and chase the cut more. I thought once it started moving (and I saw the trunk start opening as it tried to split) it was time to skeedaddle.
Or is bailing out like I did best (and then go back and nip the back cut to finish the fell)?
I'll work up some video of #3 next week...#2 was pretty straightforward..climb up through the mess, whittle away at it until I could bomb it.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/fSLTIBod_bw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
1. an oak with a heavy head lean over a driveway..owner was afraid he would be trapped when it eventually falls.
2. a broken maple limb hanging over the same driveway.
3. a broken oak limb that landed in the top of his prize 20 foot beech tree.
Here is some video of #1. We bound the spar, pulled the head of the leaner out of a nearby pine and made the Coos Bay cut. I learned I need to stay in the "pocket" a little longer and chase the cut more. I thought once it started moving (and I saw the trunk start opening as it tried to split) it was time to skeedaddle.
Or is bailing out like I did best (and then go back and nip the back cut to finish the fell)?
I'll work up some video of #3 next week...#2 was pretty straightforward..climb up through the mess, whittle away at it until I could bomb it.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/fSLTIBod_bw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>