Tip for Rope guys OMG!!! watch this
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squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
I burnt my hand a bit the other day running ropes. It's easy to get overconfident.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Wear gloves!
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
I was, not the right ones though.
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TreeHouser
Pig skin is the best IMO
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Ugly gloves!
Stihlmadd
TreeHouser
wow just when you think you have seen everything along comes another prize winner.
I cut my lowering rope two years ago to free a groundperson from the portawrap when he decided to wrap the rope around his hand.
He managed to roll the rope off so it half hitched against it's self onto his thumb and had pinched him tight at the infeed point of the portawrap,
unable to lift the piece back up the only option I could see left to me at that point was hit my new rigging rope with the saw and be dammed with the fence etc underneath.
no lasting damage to his hand and the wood missed the fence with no damage so a win/win.
we now regularly remind him to keep his hand out of the rope.
I cut my lowering rope two years ago to free a groundperson from the portawrap when he decided to wrap the rope around his hand.
He managed to roll the rope off so it half hitched against it's self onto his thumb and had pinched him tight at the infeed point of the portawrap,
unable to lift the piece back up the only option I could see left to me at that point was hit my new rigging rope with the saw and be dammed with the fence etc underneath.
no lasting damage to his hand and the wood missed the fence with no damage so a win/win.
we now regularly remind him to keep his hand out of the rope.
SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
Do you need to remind?
I have kinco insulated leather gloves for roping. An Atlas gripper glove/ kinco is sometimes used. I only really run ropes with gripper gloves, 'cause I'm self lowering while climbing, so I can't vouch for the combo system personally. I don't know if anybody has been burned through regular leather gloves. Probably/ possibly the insulated are unneeded, but we have them for really cold days, anyways, the whole week of it.
I have kinco insulated leather gloves for roping. An Atlas gripper glove/ kinco is sometimes used. I only really run ropes with gripper gloves, 'cause I'm self lowering while climbing, so I can't vouch for the combo system personally. I don't know if anybody has been burned through regular leather gloves. Probably/ possibly the insulated are unneeded, but we have them for really cold days, anyways, the whole week of it.
Marc-Antoine
TreeHouser
The climber was holding himself on the big stub. It seems that the stub's end (behind the climber) catch the pull line and acted as a pulley, until the log and the groundy almost met together at the vertical of this point. That was the max load and the stub broke, sending the climber up side down.
I can't understand how the groundy went through this mess with only a broken arm. Lucky lucky.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Quite an amazing video!
Burnham
Woods walker
Wow...just, wow.
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TreeHouser
For climbing absolutely but roping they don't last past one take down and the rubber gets hot when running big wood.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Yea, makes sense!
Tucker943
Bamboo Plantation Owner
I just watched the video. That has happened to me twice when I was younger and works as a groundie. I don't believe it was as severe in my case, but not by a whole lot. One I recall was lowering the top over on a lightning struck tulip poplar. Climber was scared as heck and told me don't take too many wraps and shock the tree. I didn't take enough wrap and soared like an eagle across the yard into the base of the tree. Banged me up and left my arms and shoulders sore for a few days.
