Self releasing after lowering

[A J S arboriculture]

Yeh think your right to be fair

[A J S arboriculture]

48 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Working over a road without a groundie?

A very quiet one 

[A J S arboriculture]

1 hour ago, skyhuck said:

Neat idea, but there are no targets, so why are you lowering, just drop it ?

 

Also, why is it being felled?

It's dead, and leaning into the road 

[Cheesy pete]

lol get a groundie  

 

[A J S arboriculture]

Groundie it is then. 

[Mark Bolam]

AJS, agreeing with people and taking good advice on board is totally against the spirit of Arbtalk.

You should be ashamed of yourself!

 

Very worthwhile topic for discussion though.

I’m sure most of us have taken on pisspotical little Saturday morning jobs where it’s barely worth having 2 men but there are a couple of annoying bits that would benefit from rigging.

[Dan Maynard]

I think the other thing about rigging more than a couple of bits is it will end up in a right old tangle on the ground, if you're on your own then cut and chuck means you can cut smaller and put some semblance of order into how they land.

Other idea if you need to cut bigger bits is rig it off but let it hang near the stem and cut into smaller bits where you can reach it easy.

[A J S arboriculture]

Lots of good advice here cheers guys 

[Darrin Turnbull]

You could swing the branch back towards the stem and cut it from there.

be careful working on dead trees and rigging.

always use the safest method.

 

[benedmonds]

Seriously this should NOT be considered.. You are planning on climbing, using a chain saw in a tree and rigging over a road. 

 

You should not be working in a tree with a chainsaw on your own.  

 

There 'might" be a time when you want to lower something from the tree, possibly if your groundie is busy but not over a road..