Tree felling vids

[CurSedVoyce]

Seriously!

 

[MasterBlaster]

You should be able to trust your rigging.

 

[sotc]

Cody had a block upside down today Think its time to invest in one of those fancy new high impact ones!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I suspect you had a chat with the lad?

 

[flushcut]

It's a new technique.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Cutting edge eh?

 

[flushcut]

Absolutely!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Next thing you know there will be a string of videos about it on YouTube and tree forums on the web

 

[flushcut]

See it is spreading already.

 

[Bodean]

Are you serious Deva?

Serious as I can be.

 

[canadiantreeman]

Nice work, Gord. Hell of a view. Its so frikken green out there, the interior is such a dry place in comparison. You run your own biz?

 

[Gord]

I'm also surprised that square rigging wood is your favorite part of the job Deva. I don't mind it on smaller wood but knotty fir is pain.

 

[Bodean]

I'm just saying, that I enjoy it. Favorite part, I guess is getting paid or deadwooding coast live oaks.

False crotching wood is fun, I like the teamwork. I have an awesome ropero that I work with on big stuff.
What are other people's favorites? Some people like false crotching tops, I love it too,
in fact false crotching wood is like doing ten tops one after another after another,
and they get bigger and bigger as you go.

Just my little 2 centavos.

Gord, I love working Douglas fir, it's the only sps of Fir I've worked on.
We have many many Monterey Pines, Super fat gross, knotty, snotty, messes. Those suck.
There is a point where you can't catch the wood, I mean like anything over 40" starts getting really pretty heavy.
4 and 5 wraps really don't run very well, that's when ropes start breaking.

I've never heard the term square rigging before this thread.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I like floating limbs across the void....

 

[sotc]

Gord, I love working Douglas fir, it's the only sps of Fir I've worked on.
.

And since it is not a true fir, your fir less!

 

[MasterBlaster]

4 and 5 wraps really don't run very well, that's when ropes start breaking.

Jew talking at me, mang? I'm talking about the timber hitch for the pulley, not da porty.

 

[Bodean]

No, Manganese.
Basically I was saying a climber is limited to about 3 wraps for running.
It's hard to get 4-5 wraps to run smoothly when false crotching.
Things seem to seize up with that many wraps.

 

[TREECYCLE]

Hello Treehousers! Speaking of tree falling vids here is one of a recent project where we were asked to get a first timer tv host up in a tree we were removing.

P.s should have left more hinge for full effect! http://www.travelchannel.com/Video/don-attempts-deadly-logging-15153/

 

[sotc]

Neat

 

[FJR]

That is a really cool opportunity.

 

[Bodean]

That was cool, what a thrill for the tv guy.

Is that you, TreeCycle?

 

[TREECYCLE]

Yeah thats me in the tree. In another Fir, one of my crew helped the camera man up to our working height and on the ground the crew was helping set-up the " mainline"

 

[pantheraba]

And THAT was excellent!! Obviously a BIG rush for the TV guy...well done. Cool that they had a camera on the top as it fell.

 

[flushcut]

It looked fun. Nice work.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Great opportunity for that guy. Some one should offer that for a vacation package.
Sorta like a dude ranch.. Only a lumber jack ranch.