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Some storm damage... a large shore pine that was topped a long time ago.

The two of us brushed and chipped 95% in a handful of hours.

I'll chunk down short logs for firewood to be cut by the homeowner. The butt log might become table slabs for nostalgic reasons. Chips for garden paths at this small farm.



I came down once to help chip in the middle.
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NC-roped the brush from near the road to a DZ closer to the chipper.
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Since removal likely isn't an option, probably have to go triangular, possibly lower than usual given the damaged area
 
It’s not a very big tree each stem is about 14” and the top is busted out of one of the leads. It could use a thinning and has a clear shot from the far right to the far left but the two in the middle are basically in line with the far right side. I’m thinking one cable right to left. It’s exposed as the lake is about 100’ away then nothing for five miles of water.
 
Center lead, spider it so the out ward leaning equal out pull (sort of)from center. Kind of like a bridge or yarder rigging. I see several places need for the bracing (all thread) as the stems braced together may not be all that.
 
Center lead, spider it so the out ward leaning equal out pull (sort of)from center. Kind of like a bridge or yarder rigging. I see several places need for the bracing (all thread) as the stems braced together may not be all that.
I’ll see what he wants to pay for.
 
Multiple cables at different elevations maybe? In the first pic the center looks kinda thin compared to the left side. Is it getting choked out from the opposing stems?
 
Thin on the front side fat on the backside. Multiple cables was my first thought, but they will probably be low as the one side has a good sized crack down the trunk from where the top broke out.
 
2 white pines. 10 hours. Crew of 3 (John and a young man from my workplace). 3 dump runs at 45 minutes per. Limbs chipped in Johns 6” Bandit.
Climbed the larger one and hand tossed the smaller limbs on the way up as well as some natural crotch rigging. Set a rigging line through an ultra and choked the spar to run a SRS system. Dropped back down and rigged the larger limbs. Got into the smaller tree with my SRS and rigging in the large tree. Took it down in sizable chunks rigged to the large tree. Climbed the larger tree and firewooded it down. All debris was drug or pulled on a sled to the road maybe 80-100’ away.

New things we tried: plywood to protect the fence (worked great!!), tying on 2 limbs at once to speed up the rigging (loved it!), and crisscrossing the flipline clips for stability on side leaning situations (kept me in place securely!). We also used the 80cc backpack blower to unload the chips. It did not reduce time but eliminated 80% of pitchfork and shovel work thus conserving energy.

Need a bigger trailer with dump feature but there’s a not small number of situations that the 5x10 was the maximum size I could fit on site. I’d need a larger trailer and would need to keep the smaller one but home storage would be an issue.

Whoop band said I burned 5700 calories and took 42K steps. It indicated more “strain” than ever in 40ish days of wearing it.
 

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Speed line.
I thought of that but ruled it out believing had to get the first tree out before that could happen effectively and I couldn’t have done big chunks of trunk on the smaller tree. That was my thought process but you know a helluva lot more than I. How would you have set up the speed line in this situation? Speed line anchor in the tall tree as well as a rigging anchor point?

I definitely plan on the speed line on the next set of 2 pines behind them.
 
Hard to say not seeing it in person. But speedline are pretty straight forward to set up and worth trying to implement when you can. They move material quickly and efficiently closer to the chipper with minimal effort, gravity is your friend. As far as anchors are concerned if there isn’t one in a convenient spot make one. Some times a floating anchor is needed. I had a white pine that was perfect for a speed line but no anchor for the end of the line and ended up using two trucks and a rigging line. Tied off to the trucks about thirty feet apart and hung a porty midline.
 
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