vertical speed-lining when it counts

[dadio]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWRoASX9Q4c]YouTube - floating holly vertical speedline oak tops.mov[/ame]

 

had fun with this oak removal yesterday...

[testcricket01]

am i missing something what exactly was the point in rigging anything in that video

[dadio]

Yes...

because the tips were going to catch on the adjacent trees, twhich was going to cause the buts to swing out under or even past the tips, leaving the piece to then drop in any direction for a full 360º, and possibly falling straight back at the climber. that first top was somewhere around 15 meters.. so using a vertical speed line on the buts, prevented them from swinging out away from the tree, and thus kept the tips oriented towards the desired lay. On the second cut, which was much smaller, I decided to not bother with the speedline beacause the piece was not tall enough to hurt much of anything, should it have gone off the lay.. and you can see what happened.. the butt swung out and the top ended up going off 180ºto the lay, right back at the tree.. That would have been a problem if we didn;t have a skid steer loader on site to fish out the butt of that cut..

[screwie]

at least its not another step cut fell, video

[Sully]

Nice one dadio. I know how dangerous it is topping trees in close proximity to other trees. with possible hang ups and awkward limbs falling to the floor, I don't blame you for making it safer and easier.

[gibbon]

I'm not a knit picker and have been impressed with a couple of your videos, but I'm not sold on your.explanation here. I can't see how that speeding.would.stop the brash coming back onto you there. Ok the butt isn't going to move that much but the brash could.give you a wack. Those small ones you kicked off nearly came back on you because they weren't completely severed, the only reason the big ones didn't is.because they weighed more so broke the hinge sooner. Tying off the butts did.not prevent that. It also looked like one of the.final big ones very nearly kicked back on you. At that piont there.was slack in the system from the stop line which is why it came back proving that at that moment your speedline wasn't doing a great deal at that critical moment

[Mesterh]

Loved the floating holly.

 

You have too much time on your hands fella.

[Ewan Murray]

Always enjoy your videos Dadio, are you going to post the headcam footage?

[Neil Frost]

Forgive what maybe an stupid question, but couldn't you have climbed higher and dismantled it in smaller bits?

[gibbon]

In the same time or less?

 

Forgive what maybe an stupid question, but couldn't you have climbed higher and dismantled it in smaller bits?