Spot the mistakes

[Gary Prentice]

14 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

Simply putting the pull line higher would have mitigated the risk 

I think he probably run out of confidence in both the tree and climbing higher, so ‘this’ll work!’

 

Acknowledging chancing your luck is insightful, calling it unlucky or anything else isn’t.

[Mark Bolam]

7 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

A simple monkey fist would have easily got it to the required height 

I’d heard you were a fan of the monkey fist.

[billpierce]

Hard to tell, but why was it even being rigged?

[Steve Bullman]

25 minutes ago, billpierce said:

Hard to tell, but why was it even being rigged?

Which video 

[Darrin Turnbull]

I spotted three bad mistakes in the first video.

the top he was taking out was caught behind some branches 

the pull rope was too low down 

And the worst one , cutting through the hinge.

this time he was lucky 

[Mark Bolam]

His worst mistake was being filmed.

[Steve Bullman]

You can’t get away with anything these days!

[Jonny69]

22 hours ago, Haironyourchest said:

That's dead tree, hinges are not going to function like normal, it would have been ok with live wood. Should have taken some of the hight out of it in small bites with a pole saw before going for the pull.

That is a terrible idea. Have you ever used a pole chainsaw off a set of spikes? More likely to end up getting knocked on the head when you can't get out the way. Or worse, get hit on the head and drop the pole saw, they are really expensive. Even if that tree was live, i'd call 50/50 chance with the rope height of the same thing happening. 

 

The tree was rock hard and could have been spiked up so it could be cut and chucked. Or the easier option, put the pull line in higher and go steady with the back cut. For reference below, this was like spiking up concrete. 

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBvYTEex2_l/?hl=nl&taken-by=treeworx1

 

r.e the second video, I'm guessing that's an experienced climber who has made an error in judgement. To be fair he was trying to rig off a good size bit of wood. Hopefully no one got hurt. 

[westphalian]

On ‎27‎/‎08‎/‎2018 at 07:34, Steve Bullman said:

Plenty going wrong here, and one lucky guy.  Good that people share things like this to remind you not to take short cuts.

 

 

I think you all have it wrong. he knew what he was doing. had his head protected by the crotch and he figured the branches would travel either side of his nonce. good call

[nath]

That second video is ludicrous.  Surely you don't even need to be an experienced climber to look at that situation and see all the dynamics involved.  The weight of the lump being rigged, the size of the anchor point and the angle its at.  Some idiots even suggested it was the groundies fault for not letting it run!