Big pine on speedline

[billpierce]

It depends; I prefer a lighter saw over power when climbing. As long as 14" is enough, I use the 201 or 241.
For the last three chunks of this pine (not in video) I used my 362 [emoji3]

Yep was just interested as why you choose the back handle 201 over the 201t.....been a bit chat about kickback etc lately and wondered if it was a safety thing or comfort or what.

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3 hours ago, billpierce said:

Yep was just interested as why you choose the back handle 201 over the 201t.....been a bit chat about kickback etc lately and wondered if it was a safety thing or comfort or what.

When limbing I always use my tophandle T536. Need and comfort before safety 

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Nice video.  Just curious as to why you left the larger lower branches til last and did not cut them off on your way up?

 

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On 11/30/2017 at 14:07, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi said:

Nice video.  Just curious as to why you left the larger lower branches til last and did not cut them off on your way up?

 

Thanks!

I had telephonelines  and unisolated powerlines close to the tree. The two lower branches were stretching over these and would get stuck in them if I just rigged them down. (And they where to low to use the speedline.) Also, branches from another large pine close by made it difficult to lower branches stright down.
I found the easiest way was to walk out on these limbs so that I could throw pieces down by hand. And to do this, I had to have my anchor point high up in the nearby pine. Therefore, I took these on my way down, when I was done using the speedline and still having the anchor point in place.

(Sorry for my English, it is much easier to explain this in Norwegian )

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Your English is far superior to my Norwegian! I new there had to be some method in the madness.  Thanks for taking the time to explain.

 

[tony_t3d]

Nevermind your English being better than my Norwegian it's probably better than my English [emoji23]

 

 

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10 hours ago, tony_t3d said:

Nevermind your English being better than my Norwegian it's probably better than my English

 

 

Hah hah

[sime42]

 

Nice work. Enjoyable video to watch as well. Thanks.
Just one question occurred to me. Do you carry a large number of krabs and tape slings on you for attaching the stuff to the speedline? Or was that some cheeky video editing with the ground crew sending attachments back up to you in between times?
Simon

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20 minutes ago, sime42 said:

Nice work. Enjoyable video to watch as well. Thanks.
Just one question occurred to me. Do you carry a large number of krabs and tape slings on you for attaching the stuff to the speedline? Or was that some cheeky video editing with the ground crew sending attachments back up to you in between times?
Simon

Thanks!

I think I brought about 15 pairs of slings/biners in the tree that day, and had 2 left when I was done with the speedline

Here's a picture from another speedline job taken after a couple of branches.