. Started stripping this 40" dbh Doug-fir Saturday afternoon, after the other small tree removals for the customers.
Did a couple batches of straight down lowering, multiple ropes yesterday.
My GF helped for an hour today, zipping enough down the hill for me to carry on with a lot of zipping on my own, with an improved zip line angle. Then two batches on two ropes straight down.
Today, I was nearing the point where the original leader broke off, and 35' of new leader, with normal branches has regrown. These low limbs are heavy.
Probably about 140' tall.
The trunk is 4' from the deck.
I heard August had some half-hitch lowering trick. Yesterday, I was clove-hitching... Today two spread-apart half-hitches!!
I underestimated this one.
They decided they want to fill/ terrance on the bottom of their slope, instead of having chips, so it's going to work out well. Zipline for the win!