The Official Work Pictures Thread

[Treeaddict]

I was surprised when first researching rigging and bend radius of ropes that blocks didn’t accommodate manufacturers recommendations. 🤷‍♂️

 

[flushcut]

I’m in the block camp.

 

[Tree09]

I was surprised when first researching rigging and bend radius of ropes that blocks didn’t accommodate manufacturers recommendations. 🤷‍♂️

Did you mean rings?

 

[Marc-Antoine]

Blocks and pulleys for arborist work are very often way undersized, bend radius wise. Say, if the rope needs five time its diameter as a bend radius, all you can find is likely a three time. If one wants to do it right, he has to look on the logging blocks or the industrial rigging. But it's heavy, bulky, and sooo less shiny.

 

[Treeaddict]

Did you mean rings?

Definitely rings but most blocks don’t meet manufacturers requirements (if I’m remembering correctly), especially for larger ropes.

 

[Treeaddict]

You’d probably need a block for 3/4” rigging to get proper bend radius running 3/8”.

 

[Treeaddict]

I like a nice ring & ultra sling combos for light and medium/light applications for ease of use and portability. My rigging ropes will last 5 years with the amount of work they do being a part timer.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I have Never wrecked a rope on a block. Nor has the bend radius been an issue.
I have also rigged right through a crab and never ruined a rope. You rig weights accourdingly. Too much weight on too tight a bend will damage or break a rope.
Rings can easily glaze a rope if run fast with large weights.
Easier to preload the line with a block as well.
But Deva knows all this

 

[Burnham]

The block creates a tunnel for the line to run freely.

That is an ultra sling w pockets, not sure where I could add the steel rigging carabiner.

@Bodean, you'd actually put the biner in the ring itself, and run the rope in it. It would be a sort of odd way to take the whole "ring for the rope" idea out of the product...but you'd only do this for negative rigging on a standing stem when the pinch issue you described might be in play. The other uses of the rigging ring on it's ultra-sling would be available any other time.

This idea would also allow one to mount the rope mid-line if that need was pertinent in a particular setting.

Not something for every time you use the sling with ring product.

I like many others also much prefer a block, anyway.

 

[treebilly]

@Bodean Try offsetting the porty a little more to the side of the spar. I remember Reg saying something about making sure the devices are out of plumb from each other. Of course if the piece bounces around it’s bound to rotate the ring a bit.
What’s funny is I had this happen with the safeblock (TRT) a long time ago and both David Driver and Lawrence Shultz told me it was impossible.

 

[Burnham]

We tree folk traffic in the impossible with great regularity.

 

[Maximalist]

Today was a pretty busy day - in the morning I cut down an elm tree in the city center, and then drove 100 km outside the city and cut down a couple more birches -


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[lxskllr]

What was in the sky ~34 seconds into the first video? It looked like a pair of birds with contrails(!).

 

[Maximalist]

This is probably a feature of the video camera. It was just two seagulls flying by.

 

[Burnham]

Another one of those scary fences with the spears on top!

 

[Treeaddict]

Another one of those scary fences with the spears on top!

First thing I noticed 🤣

 

[Maximalist]

Another one of those scary fences with the spears on top!

Why is it scary? I find this fence beautiful. Simple but elegant. A real work of art.

 

[Burnham]

Oh yessir, it is all those things. The scary part comes from the unwanted mental picture of falling from my perch above onto such a structure.

It has happened before, at least once that I'm aware of.

 

[lxskllr]

There's always the hope you can take a significant fall and live to tell the tale. There's a few here that have. Spiky fences somewhat diminish that hope :^D

 

[Burnham]

Indeed. And even a fall from what might normally be a sub-fatal height, on to a fence like that could spell the be-all end.

It's a very low probability event...just something the self-preservation part of our brains might dwell on.

 

[Maximalist]

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It's a very low probability event...just something the self-preservation part of our brains might dwell on.

I've already adapted so much that I don't even think about it.

 

[Maximalist]

 

[Kaveman]

Is that Lightning mitigation or a flag pole there, @Maximalist?

 

[Burnham]

Next to last picture seems to be of a very worn-out flag.

 

[Maximalist]

That's right, it's a handmade flagpole) and all that's left of the flag. It was the flag of the Russian Airborne Troops -