August Hunicke Videos

[cory]

I had a stiff connection for my binir for a long time, using a hose clamp and small piece of garden hose. Also used a bunch of cord to anchor the binir instead of the hose clamp. They required a fair amount of monkeying to keep them operating well.

These days I use a binir girth hitched to the saw attachment point, and a partially open and modified binir on the saddle that is basically a homemade caritool. It works well but not as well as AH's setup.

Inspired to tinker more, now.

 

[August Hunicke]

https://youtu.be/S_l1jmlBwIA


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[pantheraba]

FUN to watch that. Fine edit with the music and scene timing. You definitely have a sense of the rhythm of timing action with the tempo of the music. Good choice of music. Shuriken!!! One of y'all had it or find it on the job?

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[August Hunicke]

Ya Gary found it on the job, complete with animal fur and blood on it.


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[pantheraba]

Now you gotta be raggin' me...most folks can't get one to stick in a piece of wood...let alone a varmint.

 

[August Hunicke]

Seriously, they lost it but they hit something living first.


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[pantheraba]

Ha! OK...too bad they apparently injured something and it got away.

 

[cory]

Crazy professional produced vid.

 

[sotc]

Good, fast paced stuff. When top roping those logs, why do you butt tie them? I used to top tie all that stuff but then came to the conclusion that I get less dynamic movement by gut wrapping that stuff, plus it is easier to land flat when gut wrapped.

 

[August Hunicke]

I gave Damien the option. He wanted them butt tied. He liked the English for getting into the spot he was looking for. Figured it would be less likely to batter the spar. As far as dynamics, spar strength and rigging lines/run plan, were pretty bomb.


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[gf beranek]

Definitive, August... whatever you do don't stop!

 

[ThB]

saw stow

Bit late but thats how I like to hang my 200t.
Best with the rock exotica Transporter. The Pins on both sides are for hanging without seeing the biner but I don't need them realy. I don't use a strap so the hole is big enough.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Can you lose the horns?

 

[ThB]

They are welded but with an angel grinder. If I build it again I wouldn't add them.

 

[August Hunicke]

Looks good. I think it would be better without horns and larger circle.


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[MasterBlaster]

What happened to the original hook?

 

[ThB]

The orginal hook was fixed with one screw and by the shape of the plate. So is the new one the same screw. It can be built back.
Its still the first prototype next one definitely without spikes.

 

[August Hunicke]

Attention Heath
https://youtu.be/icdulZVa-jQ


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[Evan Sussman]

Gnar on the bar at around 13:45. Sweet shot.

 

[Evan Sussman]

I just realized​it's probably water. With the slow motion it looked a little like sap at first

 

[CoreyYLTG]

From the crack and the flow rate I'm thinking water.

 

[August Hunicke]

Ya real watery. Tree was cracked lengthwise internally more than once in its life I think.


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[CoreyYLTG]

As far as gear goes, maybe nothing really matters? I will admit that I'm pretty easy to impress, and that I buy equipment as fast as money will allow, but the guys that have really impressed me have been the guys that can safely get a tree down with nothing but a Blake's hitch and know how. I get that some trees just aren't coming down without the proper tools but maybe the most important thing is to always continue to learn? When I moved from having a job to contract climbing the guy whose company I left told me if I wanted to be a good sub that I wouldn't be able to make big boy money unless I was willing and able to do big boy things, most importantly the knowing, and less so the having, insofar as gear goes.

 

[sotc]

Ya real watery. Tree was cracked lengthwise internally more than once in its life I think.


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Ring shake. Pretty cool to see that splash out of the crack as tensions in the stump released.

 

[gf beranek]

A long dead Douglas fir had ring shake and spewed gallons of pitch over my Duff-Norton. Gallons! It gurgled! What a mess...