Frankie
I Build and Run Ported Saws !
I have K and H and STIHL wedges ... I like both !
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SeanKroll
Treehouser
Training. Stripped the low limbs so he could fit it between orchard trees. Pull rope for his confidence to be able to beat it over next to the service drop, in front of the primaries. Redirected back to the base, so I could be an extra set of eyes at the stump...how many new fellers get over excited and cut right through part of the hinge!! Nice level cuts, and straight, even hinge.
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View from a dying fir in a root-disease pocket.
He said to fell it across the orchard, as he doesn't mind losing some trees that will probably be going over time for a driveway. I wanted to piece it down for less shatter and less wood moving, but got to the old break-out (one regrown leader broken off already), and decided I wasn't gaining much compared to the risk. Having cut off the below the old-breakout, big limbs will hopefully let me slot it through the orchard, only smashing one little tree.
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View from a dying fir in a root-disease pocket.
He said to fell it across the orchard, as he doesn't mind losing some trees that will probably be going over time for a driveway. I wanted to piece it down for less shatter and less wood moving, but got to the old break-out (one regrown leader broken off already), and decided I wasn't gaining much compared to the risk. Having cut off the below the old-breakout, big limbs will hopefully let me slot it through the orchard, only smashing one little tree.
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Burnham
Woods walker
Stick with them, leave the steel splitting wedges for splitting. As to the soft metal wedges you mention...they are not (or were not when I was a working faller) aluminum...that would be too soft to drive more than once. Instead, they are a magnesium alloy, by slang term mags. Their profile is no different than hardheads or plastics; not wider, not steeper. Don't mess with success
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Some before and afters of an insurance compliance crown raise for roof and chimney..... Blue oaks.
Afters were before the blower touched it up to fini...Apologies.
HO originally wanted the large offending limbs removed. I talked her into smaller cuts....... Now she is happy I made smaller cuts.
Afters were before the blower touched it up to fini...Apologies.
HO originally wanted the large offending limbs removed. I talked her into smaller cuts....... Now she is happy I made smaller cuts.
Frankie
I Build and Run Ported Saws !
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MasterBlaster
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Smaller cuts FTW!!!
SeanKroll
Treehouser
So, there was a reason I didn't feel like climbing up higher in this snag.
MasterBlaster
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First pic - saw pinch...
What I was on about. earlier.
What I was on about. earlier.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Not pinched. I just snapped a pic when I walked around to check the kerfs. My first shot at the sloping cut was coming up a bit deep.
I was shooting between orchard trees and couldn't go farther to the side, so I re-cut. The homeowner said I could just fell it whole across the orchard. I was trying to reduce impact and resulting work, and concentrate the clean-up in one spot near the stump, until I got up that high up near the old break-out, then decided to pull it over. Only hit one tree out of a dozen or more. More will go in time, when he wants to put in a driveway.
I was shooting between orchard trees and couldn't go farther to the side, so I re-cut. The homeowner said I could just fell it whole across the orchard. I was trying to reduce impact and resulting work, and concentrate the clean-up in one spot near the stump, until I got up that high up near the old break-out, then decided to pull it over. Only hit one tree out of a dozen or more. More will go in time, when he wants to put in a driveway.
MasterBlaster
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No, I mean doing it like that opens it up to be pinched. Reversing it - the piecut just slides out! 
@SeanKroll , how are you liking the Akimbo?
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Good Stuff!! Not a lot of time flying it. Easier to adjust to a different rope as it gets broken in. My drenaLine is pretty new and slick, and is my main long-line with it. I have an old piece of Poison Hyvee that is my short tree line/ very long lanyard for spreading trees.
At first the opening/ closing was stiff, but now its worn in smoothly.
Performance seems to be increasing as it wears in a bit. I'll adjust it one setting tighter, today, as it was getting hard to release. As mentioned, it might have a factor of the rope skinnying up a bit as it gets used.
If I had a new one, I'd try to do some longer descents on it to get it worn in before using with production pressure.
It's so small for spar work!
I always am vigilant about not cross-loading it along a branch. A thing that I love about the HH is that I can't really imagine being able to damage it, as its so skookum/ tough as nails.
I'd like to see some side-loading tests. Sometimes, seeing how a super-overloaded piece of gear breaks is reassuring to me. Seeing a wire-gate biner, sooo many years ago, maybe from Black Diamond, that was pulled to failure, and seeing that the failure was the nose-notch on the biner, which was the same in most other biners at the time, anc not the new-fangled wire was reassuring. I 'called' the ZigZag failure the first time I saw the design (could have easily been wrong). The Akimbo seems more stout that a ZZ picture (never seen a ZZ).
Been meaning to order a Rock-O wire-eye oval biner, to keep it from moving around. A rubber grommet/ bushing thingy that is replaceable for the Akimbo clip-in point would be sweet, so it's more compatible with other oval biners
I drive past the tree I flew the prototype in, many years ago. Awesome to see it come to fruition. I regret having missed @Porkbrick Jaime's GTG many years back. I bet he's a wild-brained guy, thinking of how he developed and built the Akimbo either literally or figuratively in his garage, and making his own saddles, dirtbag cabin, rocket stoves, and whatnot.
At first the opening/ closing was stiff, but now its worn in smoothly.
Performance seems to be increasing as it wears in a bit. I'll adjust it one setting tighter, today, as it was getting hard to release. As mentioned, it might have a factor of the rope skinnying up a bit as it gets used.
If I had a new one, I'd try to do some longer descents on it to get it worn in before using with production pressure.
It's so small for spar work!
I always am vigilant about not cross-loading it along a branch. A thing that I love about the HH is that I can't really imagine being able to damage it, as its so skookum/ tough as nails.
I'd like to see some side-loading tests. Sometimes, seeing how a super-overloaded piece of gear breaks is reassuring to me. Seeing a wire-gate biner, sooo many years ago, maybe from Black Diamond, that was pulled to failure, and seeing that the failure was the nose-notch on the biner, which was the same in most other biners at the time, anc not the new-fangled wire was reassuring. I 'called' the ZigZag failure the first time I saw the design (could have easily been wrong). The Akimbo seems more stout that a ZZ picture (never seen a ZZ).
Been meaning to order a Rock-O wire-eye oval biner, to keep it from moving around. A rubber grommet/ bushing thingy that is replaceable for the Akimbo clip-in point would be sweet, so it's more compatible with other oval biners
I drive past the tree I flew the prototype in, many years ago. Awesome to see it come to fruition. I regret having missed @Porkbrick Jaime's GTG many years back. I bet he's a wild-brained guy, thinking of how he developed and built the Akimbo either literally or figuratively in his garage, and making his own saddles, dirtbag cabin, rocket stoves, and whatnot.
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Actually, he is pretty chill. Probably a lot goes on in his head he keeps to himself though. Intelligent.
Thanks, Sean. The Akimbo is no HH but it is tough enough to not baby it. I've had mine jammed up against trunks and limbs and it doesn't seem to faze it. I find, also, it responds better to big or strong inputs rather than tentative ones.
Burnham
Woods walker
All true. It's only the bitchin' pitch that gives my Akimbo second tier status over the HH.
@SeanKroll that carabiner tie off at the top would get your hand smacked in other forums...
I use a revolver on an Alpine bfly, and I could hear people tut-tutting clear across half the planet.
I don't think I am going to be able to put anywhere near enough force on a biner in that configuration to cause it to fail...anybody care to comment?
I use a revolver on an Alpine bfly, and I could hear people tut-tutting clear across half the planet.
I don't think I am going to be able to put anywhere near enough force on a biner in that configuration to cause it to fail...anybody care to comment?
flushcut
TreeHouser
The steel biner (dual action auto-lock) I use for rigging is in that configuration all the time with no signs of bending. I would imagine the forces generated in rigging far exceed the forces generated in climbing. Plus it has been in service for five years.
Marc-Antoine
TreeHouser
The biner acts essentially as a redirect where the rope crosses it, so it sees even less load. On the medium and big diameters, the biner lays mostly flat on the bark and the side loading is very limited. The rope has to be choked on a small diameter to put some unneeded strain on the biner. In this case, I use to make a round turn before clipping my biner. No big deal.
Just put the opening away from the bark. I don't fear a breakage with my load, but at least that avoids stuffing the gate with bark's bits and shit.
Just put the opening away from the bark. I don't fear a breakage with my load, but at least that avoids stuffing the gate with bark's bits and shit.
Bodean
Cali dreamer
I was clucked at many times... So I got a quickie from Singing tree and the clucking diminished.
pantheraba
More biners!!!
"the tree was moving"!!! 
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Yes, Fi some people would.
Some people would think I need a full kevlar suit, a metal cut protector on my two ropes, would never climb dead trees, and would never bang over big trees, and would never...
People do sooo many dangerous things on tree sites in the course of a day without realizing it, IME.
This is a calculated risk, like all the above.
Two eyes, two ears, ten fingers and toes, all original equipment.
When I get into small wood, smaller than some would ever climb into, I tend to switch to a Running Bowline. The spine on a steel biner won't break, but the gate action might get affected.
Some people would think I need a full kevlar suit, a metal cut protector on my two ropes, would never climb dead trees, and would never bang over big trees, and would never...
People do sooo many dangerous things on tree sites in the course of a day without realizing it, IME.
This is a calculated risk, like all the above.
Two eyes, two ears, ten fingers and toes, all original equipment.
When I get into small wood, smaller than some would ever climb into, I tend to switch to a Running Bowline. The spine on a steel biner won't break, but the gate action might get affected.
Patrick A
Treehouser
It was an interesting one. Cut, avoid the shed ,drop and no clean up. Wind picked up so we did only one stem.
