Chogging down

[Billy]

When you have a large stem to bring down that cannot be felled with a small ish drop zone (expendable bed in a driveway) how do you guys do it? We always chog it down in pieces as large as we can handle which on big stuff is never more than a foot even when sliding them off. I can't help but thinking it would be far easier and more efficient to stick the block on the stem and use the kapstan and knock off 3ft or so at a time and ring it up on the ground. So, hows everyone do it, and why?

[Dean Lofthouse]

I use a block as a last resort, IMO it's far too slow.

 

Chog onto flower bed, matress, tyres, brash matt anything I can.

 

Chogged down onto a pristine bowling green lawn with a huge brash mat, after we tidied up there wasn't even a slight mark

[Mozza]

Watch Regs (RCO) latest video mate, it will give you some good insight into rigging down stems, I think its called rigging a spar

[Dean Lofthouse]

Watch Regs (RCO) latest video mate, it will give you some good insight into rigging down stems, I think its called rigging a spar

 

Who's that aimed at me :laugh1:

[Mozza]

Who's that aimed at me

 

EVERYONE haha

[Mesterh]

Rig down what we can then when it gets too low have plenty of tyres/logs to cushion the fall. Sometimes cut across the grain to section pieces into smaller manageable/throwable bits.

[Rich Rule]

today i used the approx 1/5 method. 30 deg gob cut and about a 5th of the height of the stem. a described in The fundamentals of General Tree work - Jerry Beranek.

 

piece rotates over 180 deg and lands flat on the deck and no bounce or minimal onto garden. obviously could only be done if you have no impact mark worries. if so do it onto a brash mat.

[Mark Bolam]

I always think that you get to a point where you simply can't rig down any more, so have to chog lumps or fell onto a mat anyway, so I normally favour bombing everything onto a mat, but every job is different.

 

Love rigging pieces of a spar, but if I'm honest, knocking smaller chunks off is quicker.

 

Mind you, I'm not the fastest rigger in world. Has anyone else ever had a book sent up a tree?...

[plippy]

I always think that you get to a point where you simply can't rig down any more, so have to chog lumps or fell onto a mat anyway, so I normally favour bombing everything onto a mat, but every job is different.

 

Love rigging pieces of a spar, but if I'm honest, knocking smaller chunks off is quicker.

 

Mind you, I'm not the fastest rigger in world. Has anyone else ever had a book sent up a tree?...

 

ive never had a book sent up, i often have my flask sent up though:thumbup:

[Mark Bolam]

ive never had a book sent up, i often have my flask sent up though:thumbup:

 

Know that one!

 

Bell you tomorrow Phil.