Last night we were setting up to come a fir. The rope was about 3' short for a base-tie.
I wiggled it up enough, without any stub, help, or thing to stand on. Ezpz. 7' high.
A pole tool (or if you have one around...a branch) can push a base-tie up, easily.
The tail can be redirected to...
Grapples pull apart a pig sty.
@Reg uses his his Honda capstan winch to unpigsty.
Neither cuts a base tie.
With a little finesse, you can base-tie high, with a long pull-down tail. That's little with a little 'l'.
Be safe, bro!
Pigsty makes a log pad.
So many tree incidents are avoidable. There are freak accidents.
Once, we hit a hard leaning madrone hard with another forest tree. 10 minutes later, while we were clearing the road some more, it fell.
Could have landed on the tractor operator, if he decided to wait...
Someone cutting the base-tie is an intentional action with an unintended outcome.
Deactivating the trigger lock and pulling the trigger is not an accident. Conscious effort to cut a base-tie. Not an accident.
100% avoidable.
I thought it was the company you are at that had a 100%...
What happened when someone decided to act in a way that could have killed a fellow workers?
Incidents and accidents are not the same...you are talking about someone willfully deactivating the throttle interlock and pulling the throttle while aiming the chainsaw, right?
Didn't you have a near...
As you have the hitch climber pulley, certainly take Kevin's advice.
There is a tending loop on the RW, too.
Bungee tethers are nice, too.
@kevin bingham what about the High stepper?
@lxskllr a rope walker is where it's at.
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