Poplar Takedown, First time rigging!

[Ollie Wall]

Few pics from yesterdays job. Pollarded about 25 years ago =, with about 30ft of re growth and a nice rotten trunk!

[Ollie Wall]

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[Ollie Wall]

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[Ollie Wall]

Cheers that was taken just as I was tying the block on, it did go round the stem luckily or it could of ended in disaster !!!!!

[born2trot]

Cheers that was taken just as I was tying the block on, it did go round the stem luckily or it could of ended in disaster !!!!!

 

Sorry mate , i noticed the cambium device straight after the post and deleted immediately, great work

[Ollie Wall]

haha, no worries mate

[testcricket01]

good job, couldnt have picked a worse tree to start rigging on poplars are horrible. good effort

[swinny]

Would have made a good speedline job to make life easier?

[VEG]

could you not get your lowering bollard any lower I find it easier the lower it is.

[Marc]

Nice one, and its good to see dead eye slings/topping strop being used for snatch block so much better than whoppie/loopies in the long run. Looks like your in good hands to.