Guess the weight of the GRCS

[AHPP]

Matty. Say 500kg of tree needs plucking.
 

Manually is twenty rigs of 25kg. That’s the climber doing twenty tip ties, twenty cuts, twenty rope retrieves and something like forty moves. The groundsman does twenty grips and pulls, twenty unclips and twenty walks/flicks.

 

Geared lifting (GRCS etc) is one rig of 500kg. For the climber, one tip tie, one move, one cut. For the groundsman, three wraps, one short battery gun or thirty-second hand crank.

 

Haway. 

[MattyF]

4 hours ago, AHPP said:

Matty. Say 500kg of tree needs plucking.
 

Manually is twenty rigs of 25kg. That’s the climber doing twenty tip ties, twenty cuts, twenty rope retrieves and something like forty moves. The groundsman does twenty grips and pulls, twenty unclips and twenty walks/flicks.

 

Geared lifting (GRCS etc) is one rig of 500kg. For the climber, one tip tie, one move, one cut. For the groundsman, three wraps, one short battery gun or thirty-second hand crank.

 

Haway. 

Alex I get you ! I really do but … setting up a cradle and pulling it around with the Hobbs, it just won’t be as fluid plucks and take a lot longer..but it will do it.

For me usually the upper crown you can use weight and leverage to your advantage and rig out big bits up and over stuff with the Hobbs , you just have to watch the drum coils under wrapping… when pre tensioning for me comes in to its own for me is taking out as much slack as possible for negative stem rigging big chunks.. those last few that if you didn’t they would go through the patio through drop and stretch when you have rigged all day to save it… as said in the video there are plus and minus for both and I’ve been very close in the past to buying one on numerous occasions, but since putting a more reliable winch on the chipper it hasn’t really crossed my mind much for that occasional big pluck. 
 

[Mark Bolam]

It seems to be a bit of a moot point for newcomers anyway, because it looks like a Hobbs is pretty much impossible to source in the UK now.

[MattyF]

Maybe this is as close as  we can get in Europe … arb talk won’t let me post videos from YouTube for some reason but google this device. 

[Steve Bullman]

15 minutes ago, MattyF said:

Maybe this is as close as  we can get in Europe … arb talk won’t let me post videos from YouTube for some reason but google this device. 

Since when?

[Joe Newton]

1 hour ago, MattyF said:

Alex I get you ! I really do but … setting up a cradle and pulling it around with the Hobbs, it just won’t be as fluid plucks and take a lot longer..but it will do it.

For me usually the upper crown you can use weight and leverage to your advantage and rig out big bits up and over stuff with the Hobbs , you just have to watch the drum coils under wrapping… when pre tensioning for me comes in to its own for me is taking out as much slack as possible for negative stem rigging big chunks.. those last few that if you didn’t they would go through the patio through drop and stretch when you have rigged all day to save it… as said in the video there are plus and minus for both and I’ve been very close in the past to buying one on numerous occasions, but since putting a more reliable winch on the chipper it hasn’t really crossed my mind much for that occasional big pluck. 
 

Matty, do you even rig though, bro?

[MattyF]

14 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Since when?

 

it’s not let me insert any links for ages, maybe a year …

[Steve Bullman]

Have you tried since the weekends update?

[MattyF]

Tried it on that post and it would not let me paste the link 

[Mark Bolam]