vertical speed-lining when it counts

[Neil Frost]

If time was a factor then fair enough.

[dadio]

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

 

That was the virgin job for the headcam and somehow it got lost before it took its first shot. I thought I was wearing it and it just disappeared. The manual said tie a small lanyard to it in case it gets dislodged, but I didn't think it was necessary since this was going to be a straight up and down with little movement through bruch etc.. Hopefully it was found during clean up, and maybe its just not in the cards..

[gibbon]

If time was a factor then fair enough.

Time should be a factor but not the main priority. Getting it down safely is my main concern

[Neil Frost]

Time should be a factor but not the main priority. Getting it down safely is my main concern

 

Couldn't agree more.

[dadio]

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

 

Not exactly.. you weren't there so please just trust me.. there were only three cuts.. the reason the two big ones came off sooner is becasue of the width of the notches, not the weight.. the last one looks like a wide humboldt, but its not, its a narrow notch, with a partial snip creating a steep downward plane on the front of the face. See Gerry Beranek's "Fundamentals fo General Tree Work", pg 306-307..

 

the reason I left the notch wider on the smaller cut was becasue it had some side lean and I wanted to make sure it went to the lay. I was not worried about that one, as it was so much smaller than the other two and couldn't do much damage if it went wrong. If it had been speedlined, it would have stayed to the lay.. I probably should have cut a narrower notch on that one, but it worked out OK. I was prepared to have to kick it off, and was still hoping that the tips wouldn't catch enough to swing the butt so far forward..

 

It is possible that the two bigger ones would have still fallen to the lay,if they had not been attatched to the vertical speed line, BUT I was not going to take any chances, especially with the big one (first one)... the speedline guarenteed the desired results...

 

the whole operation was quick and easy. I don't understand how anyone thinks that it could have been faster or better to climb and rig smaller pieces. Much of that would have had to be lowered out, as there was a beautiful little dogwood in flower directly underneath the big lead.. I also do not like putting the ground crew in harms way, working on a hill in the woods, especially since this is tick season, and lyme disease is a constant threat here. The back lead was completely dead.. I certainly didn't want to climb that if I didn't have to..

[Neil Frost]

the whole operation was quick and easy. I don't understand how anyone thinks that it could have been faster or better to climb and rig smaller pieces. Much of that would have had to be lowered out, as there was a beautiful little dogwood in flower directly underneath the big lead.. I also do not like putting the ground crew in harms way, working on a hill in the woods, especially since this is tick season, and lyme disease is a constant threat here. The back lead was completely dead.. I certainly didn't want to climb that if I didn't have to..

 

Thank you for answering my question.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I stopped watching after 5 mins, at 4,45 I decided id seen enough.

 

sorry

[Adam Bourne]

I stopped watching after 5 mins, at 4,45 I decided id seen enough.

 

sorry

 

take it this was due to the fact of all the others trees being damaged hamma.

[dadio]

if you take a closer look.. you'll see that none of the adjacent trees were damaged.. sometimes its tough to tell on the small screen, BUT you can always hear the snap of breaking limbs.. In this case there were none..

[Climber85]

BOOM!! :confused1: