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You're very welcome, BeaverMonkey. You won't need to drop the block after each limb removal on every job you take on. This is just a great trick to use when working at greater heights. Managing all of that rope on each tip tie quickly begins to become a PITA. I hate to even admit how old...

Woodslinger, I'm going to take your advice and give the SRT thing another shot. I wasn't happy with the chest ascender I had. There were other small things that bothered me, though I must admit that this was largely due to a lack of experience with the system. It's not something I'd...

HolmenTree, I've tried the SRT I use it once in a while, but most guys who climb SRT switch over to Ddrt once they are in the tree......or at least that's how I understand things. Ddrt provides for better position control once you're in and working the tree. Since the trees around here...

HolmenTree, Even at 750 miles from here, you might still be my closest neighbor as far as site members go. Yep. Underwor is a good friend of mine. We chat on the phone quite often. Though I have been doing tree work for some 30 years, on and off, he was the one who got me interested in the...

HolmenTree, I can't help but wonder how far apart we are. You're likely my nearest neighbor, as far as site members go. I'm looking at buying a piece of property right on the Canadian line, near Bottineau. We have a lot of requests for tree work in that area, near the International Peace...

I just received a call from a customer who will be putting in a new sidewalk in front of his house this summer. He'll need to remove a Green Ash for this project. When I get on that job I'll post a video. We're still waiting for Spring up here. More snow in the forecast for tonight, along...

Sean, I have no idea how to use the picture uploader. The best I'm able to do is post a link.......on a good day. You know......I've tried that removable false crotch, and it works great. I love it. But, it won't work on a Green Ash, due to the tight Y-shaped crotches. A block will not...

Sean, I didn't know how to go about it. I just quickly scribbled something in Paint, then saved it to my desktop. My son is fantastic with this stuff. He uses Google Sketchup. Sketchup is one of the neatest tools I've ever seen. I'm not good with it yet, but what a fantastic library of...

Grendel, You brought up a great point, and I'd like to address it a bit. When using natural crotch rigging, there isn't much rope in the system between the crotch and the block. There might only be about a foot of rope. This very small length of rope presents problems in itself, due to the...

Woodslinger, You're very welcome, Sir. The instructors at the professional rigging classes I've attended would simply cringe at this......but I've used it many times on small tip-tie situations with fantastic results. I can't remember the guy's name.....the inventor of the...

I just like the clean rigging that this system provides for. The active rigging rope is located entirely in the tree. The static rigging rope attached to the block can easily be piled into a trash can below the port-a-wrap as the block is raised with no effort at all. Standard length...

OK Tim, I'm assuming that you were able to understand what I was attempting to explain.......but honestly I don't know how you managed with that drawing I made. LOL Hope that helped somebody. Joel

My apologies for the crappy drawing. I can't even pretend to be an artist. Joel

I don't know if this will work. Joel

Folks, There are many warning signs that should be posted here. The forces in play at the top of a tree rigged in this manner are at a minimum 4 times greater than the weight of the limb being removed. Since we've suspended a block in a crotch of a limb that was deemed too weak to support a...

Masterblaster, The school of hard knocks is a quick teacher. I was rigging down a dead green ash using this method, when I suddenly realized that 200 feet of rope won't cut the mustard. There must be a way. Well, sure enough......there is! LOL It's been a long time. I think I...

Oh.....and I should mention this also......though it's a bit embarrassing to do so. The reason for the tag line on the block in the top of the tree is to account for human error. Don't ask me how I know this. Should the rigging rope somehow be pulled out from the top-mounted block, you'll...

BeaverMonkey, I'll try to explain, but it would be far easier to do with a single picture. A port-a-wrap is attached to the base of the tree to be removed. This port-a-wrap's only purpose is to secure a block high in the tree. It uses a dedicated length of rigging rope for this purpose...

My son and I talked about this situation for a bit over the weekend. He was quick to point out that pulling a heavy arborist block through a tight crotch is very difficult. He's right. The CMI 3/4" block is extremely difficult to pull into a tree. The added weight of the larger block...

Masterblaster, G.F. Beranek, Yep, that was one of the bigger tops we rigged down while taking down those 6 trees in that yard, but they were all rigged down in that fashion. The top we removed in that video was from a tree that was located less than one inch from the edge of the roof. (The...