A few things.
A bag of ice to ease the strain in your shoulder from patting yourself on your back.
As to you "coming up with the idea yourself' you got beat on that simple rigging phenom by a few hundred years.
Besides "your" ground breaking methods, give some crazy stuff a thought, a simple 3:1 with a progress capture, or a high tie with a good amount of scope. Maybe you already thought that stuff up as well. Lucky for the industry you decided to bless us.
Wiley,
That was a sincere question asking for feedback. Maybe there is something that I hadn't figured.
By "my" I didn't mean that I was the originator, simply the technique that I was using, which could have possibly prevented two broken hands and a drag, with whatever associated injuries. I've never seen or heard of anybody using it, so I came up with it myself, but not before others, surely many others. I've never heard it discussed. I had no other name to call it.
For upright fells, this is often all you need to get the tree to rock over. So many groundmen want to wrap the rope around their body parts or put in knots that they can hold. They will be ready to stand there while you face it up, wasting time, IMO. Once the rope is hung, if it is attached to something (simply a tree, a 3:1 with progress capture, a 1:1 with PC, whatever) it is off the ground in the work area, nobody will move it while the saw is near it. Seems simple and efficient.
I was just trying to ask if there is any reason that its not a good idea, and to offer it up as a trick that others may not have thought of, nor read about, nor had taught to them.
I've had to learn a lot by reading different forums. These little things, especially when such a simple thing can prevent an injury or death, are worth sharing with the other people. If they know it, no problem. If they don't know it, nor care to use it, no problem. If I can help someone else, as I have been helped, then I'm repaying a debt owed for the help that I've gotten.
What do you mean by a "high tie with a good amount of scope"? I don't get what you mean. Care to explain? The high tie--- a large moment arm/ lever arm? The "scope" part, I haven't heard before.
I'm always interested to learn new things and share what has been shared with me. Few things are my own ideas, but I have come up with a few select things, independent of others sharing them with me, that aren't half-bad. I'm sure you have, too, as well as a lot of other people. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, aren't we?
Truly, I could have said "the aforementioned technique". I'll try to phrase it better in the future.
I'm sure you'll keep calling them as you see them, which is fine.
.... We use a wheel loader
