Just a tad of speedlining...

[rbtree]

This double trunked 105 footer was over a native Indian retreat house in Medina, Wa., just a mile or so from that retiree Billy Gates' "modest" (see footnote) spread.....Zero drop zone. A fence and a row of cypress under as well. Then a driveway area leading to two more good customer's homes, lined with some nice trees. That drop zone was 20-25 feet wide. Meant everything but a few twigs had to be speedlined. Lower limbs had to be swung and lifted, utilizing a high speedline tie off, the limbs tied out a ways, and a bight in the line, which allows the load to be lifted and/or swung around. GRCS was used on a few limbs to assist, if I recall. Mostly the portawrap was all that was needed for the control/lowering line. We tensioned the zipline with the chipper winch, after the upper limbs were cut, and during for those that needing swinging/lifting. We had our old PW 1 as the interface. On some zips, you can see that the PW was too far away from the chipper, which meant the slung limbs came up against it, which threw a minor monkey wrench in our fluidity.

(Our 9/16th double braid full static no stretch line is the cat's meow for these applications)

I got no photos the second day, when we finished brushing the trees and craned the logs.

 

 

 

 

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*Actually, Billy's spread was prolly approaching a value of a cool $200 million, before the RE shakeout.....

[atree]

thats the cat's meow!

[David Humphries]

Just like the man said "Very Nice"

 

Really enjoy the seeing dual aspect of the of the job, during videos.

 

 

 

 

 

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