My Third Removal

[Haironyourchest]

Maybe I wasn't clear, I left the stand on the way up for ease of access, but cut them flush on the way down, before chogging each four foot section - which is to say cut them off the section to be dropped and also as far down as my feet - so even had I gaffed out there was nothing to hurt me. Also was on my own the first day and didn't want to run the saw without backup, so I used my silky - quite a different in diameter eight inches out from the stem just made it easier.

[josharb87]

Well done for completing the job!

 

I remember when i first started, the lead climber went mental at me for cutting 30cm out then cutting the pegs off - all those little pegs need fxxxing picking up!!

 

Pegs are unnessary and give a false sense of security, they're only good for your rope half hitching them and getting stuck, branches hanging up on them and getting stuck, stabbing your guts, face, balls when you gaff out. Ripping clothing and generally being annoying little wxxkers! 

 

[Khriss]

Or - if you feel needin a bit more security , cross-wrap yr cable strop so it grabs more - tho' advancing it up a trunk is more effort, but good on wet n slimy ash n sycamore K

[Mark Bolam]

Good tip that Khriss.

I also do it when the diameter slims down at the top if necessary.

Truth be told I leave little pegs if the top gets really skinny. Not a nice feeling spiking 4" diameter pecker poles.

[Khriss]

It is a bit of an arse to do Mark, but often helps newer climbers and the older one who wish he had bothered as they gaff out n rag their nipples K

[stihlmadasever]

Im  surprised by the amount of climbers who dont like spiking stems.

When i did my rigging course one of the guys refused to wear spikes and dismantled part of a massive beech stem with out spikes,just girth hitched 2 taped slings together wrapped around the stem as footholds...took him ages of faffing about too take down each section.

On skinny stems (i hate skinny leaners) i double lanyard 1 wrapped around couple of times and onto the rings on my bridge and a wire core flipline on my D's.

[Khriss]

Becos spikes are uncomfortable ! K

[Shaunpaul]

On 06/02/2018 at 20:56, Joe Newton said:

So how is it not a bad thing?

Because he only broke 1 

[Shaunpaul]

On 06/02/2018 at 09:35, Vespasian said:

I nearly did the same a couple of years back, after going to the trouble of buying all the new kit and learning how to use it, a friend asked me to chop one of those tree's down..    not been at it five minutes and started to get covered in sticky gunk...

 

My solution was to go back to old school..   ladder to get into the tree, then some crappy rope to tie in if needed..   free climbed it for the most part..

 

My feeling were I wasn't spending hundreds to get it all full of shit for an old tree like that..   its not as though those kinds of tree's are hard to get down, straight up, chopping as you go, then work down chopping the stem..   

 

 

Crappy rope if needed & free climbing  you'll be saying no need for training & tickets next 

[Vespasian]

1 hour ago, Shaunpaul said:

Crappy rope if needed & free climbing  you'll be saying no need for training & tickets next 

I dread to think how they went on fifty years back, what without tickets an all..  training and tickets, who needs em