Spiking on a lean

[Deni]

We were doing a big job a while back on a big river banking, most of the trees had a bit of a lean towards the river, this has been a major problem of mine for a while now. Basically when a tree starts to get fairly thin and theres a bit of a lean i find it really hard to stay round one side of the tree and terribly difficult to make cuts etc, use guys any advice on this.

 

Cheers

[testcricket01]

i no you can do the usual with your climb line running bowline choked off in such a way to stop you swinging around, but ill be keeping a eye on this thread im also very stuck when it comes to this.

[WorcsWuss]

Shorten your line and crouch a bit more, I find this a pain in the ar&e as well, I'm forever getting taken by gravity, it's bloody irritating!

You can choke your lanyard round the stem and clip it to a side D which will hold a bit but it's not most comfy....'down-hill' side is most effective on thin stems....

[skyhuck]

You need to stand up straight and lean back a little, which means you let your flip line out a fair bit, this takes a bit of getting used to, but if you don't and try and lean towards the stem you will really struggle.

[Jamie]

I find i just, stand up, lean back onto a pole strop and spike away, no special technique, no choked wraps, jst a bit more balancey

 

Jamie

[testcricket01]

trouble i find with just leaning back is its fine for slight leans. but when you get a decent lean, you have to go out so far that you cant reach the work properly.

[skyhuck]

Shorten your line and crouch a bit more, I find this a pain in the ar&e as well, I'm forever getting taken by gravity, it's bloody irritating!

You can choke your lanyard round the stem and clip it to a side D which will hold a bit but it's not most comfy....'down-hill' side is most effective on thin stems....

 

I disagree, far better to be on top, imo.

[slimjimvw]

I've done some horrid leaners and found (where possible) a line in another tree somewhere on the backside of the lean will keep you nice and stable. It also allows you to lean right round to do your cuts.

[WorcsWuss]

You need to stand up straight and lean back a little, which means you let your flip line out a fair bit, this takes a bit of getting used to, but if you don't and try and lean towards the stem you will really struggle.

 

I find this puts even more leverage on the line and makes it even harder to stop myself swinging round.... I have to get as close in to the tree as I can without gaffing out, [bow-legging helps me a bit] and lean right into the harness....

I was on some thin ash stems along a roadside the other week and they were all leaning out over the road away from the bank hunting for light, I needed to cut across the lean so that they'd fall parallel with the road & power lines [ish! they were rigged down], I really struggled to stay in the right place, I could only get comfortortably [relatively!] positioned by pulling in a lanyard from the up hill side and pulling against that as well on my down hill D ring. Was a bit cluttered but did work... You can clip both ends of the flip onto the ventral rather than D's in this configuration as well, avoids the 'circle of death'

[WorcsWuss]

I disagree, far better to be on top, imo.

 

I tried that but the stem was so thin it was difficult to get away from the stem, it was pulling that hip into the stem and letting the lower hip swing out....