SouthSoundTree-
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There will be an angle of shooting factor in with this type of calibration. If you always shoot the same angle, it will work, otherwise, adjust in your head.
Hold on there boss, you're not the only tower climber out there. Why, I climbed a tower once that was so tall that I had to wear magnetic boots to keep from floating off! How's that Chris?I have all ya'll beat at 420 and 350 feet.
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I hak a loogie out of the tree and count how many seconds it takes to hit the ground.No really a range finder works well.
For conifers... know the length of your lines to the inch.
I've got about four different lines I use when removing conifers. I'f I'm using Jerry Beranek's 18 percent rule, (The cutting of 18 percent of a stob to get the cut part to do a 270 degree flip--belly-flop--to the ground,) then it's imperative to know your height to the ground to within five feat or so. Climb lines don't lie although your ground guys might because they're too lazy to stretch your rope out 90 degrees from the tree to tell you how much is still on the ground.![]()
I have all ya'll beat at 420 and 350 feet.
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Nowadays nearly all towers have a piece of 5/16 or larger guy wire running top to bottom that you clip a steel cable grab onto. Slides freely going up but you must lean back for descent. A straight downward pull and it locks up. Some have a pipe with teeth on it that lays in front of the tower's ladder with a grab that encircles the pipe. It works on the same principle as the cable grab. Tower climbing is not bad unless it's also a buzzard roost. Buzzards not only poop, but anything they can't digest is thrown back up and it will be all over the tower and you before you get down and it's pretty foul, or is it fowl.How do you stay tied in when climbing? Two lanyards?
Count your paces (left, right) in 20' at a regular stride. 3.5 paces for me in 20', 7 in 40', etc. combining the stick trick or being able to eyeball 45* (from felling and checking your estimation, you calibrate your eye. )
150' throwline doubled over = 75'. if you have to add on 50' of throwline, you're at 100'.
When your at your high point, you have some rope left, stretch across your arm span a couple times and add it up. You're generally as tall as your arm span.
I bet a clinometer and a tape measure to be the most accurate, inexpensive tool, if you can get the appropriate distance away. possibly 66', one 'chain', IIRC. Someone help me out. The clino can compensate for looking uphill/ down hill or a combo of uphill and downhill to sight the top and base of the tree.
Crap, missed the "In the tree part".....I carry 80ft paracord, use it to haul up water, lunch, advance TIP. If I get a second waiting for groundies I might drop an end down, measure what's left, just rough arm's span (5ft about). To figure if what's left will fit for a drop I'll tie a knot at the ground on the retrieval side of the canopy SRT anchor, measure that by arm spans.
Oh Jed, you're too much buddy!