As I just made it home, i was relaxing and decided to pick up the fundamentals again. I noticed a section on ground lead rigging, where you put a block at the base of the tree and run it over to another tree or vehicle or something. While i have done that to pick stuff before, and use my truck for pulling all the time, I've always rigged with either my homemade portawrap or homemade grcs thing but i could see the advantage of having that removed from the base of the tree.
So just out of curiosity because I'm obviously not doing anything soon, but how many guys here prefer rigging off a ground lead? Do you guys have special bumpers welded up, or use a mini with a bollard? A rigging device on a hitch? I'm finally to the point climbing where i can see the production advantages of using complex or large rigging to speed up a job, and moving forward i need to be moving in that direction. There will always be a need for my base of the tree rigging devices because of accessibility, but I'm curious if there's a better way to approach rigging on accessible jobs.
So just out of curiosity because I'm obviously not doing anything soon, but how many guys here prefer rigging off a ground lead? Do you guys have special bumpers welded up, or use a mini with a bollard? A rigging device on a hitch? I'm finally to the point climbing where i can see the production advantages of using complex or large rigging to speed up a job, and moving forward i need to be moving in that direction. There will always be a need for my base of the tree rigging devices because of accessibility, but I'm curious if there's a better way to approach rigging on accessible jobs.