Pine Takedown

[Tom D]

Thanks.

Atree; the slings are just what i always use, they grip really well and on normal trees I carry four or five and send more than one branch down at a time, also you can be putting the next slings on while the groundies deal with the last lot. On this tree the branches were all locked together so i took them one at a time. Its also good if you have a tight drop zone as a large branch system can be broken up and lowered as one but it takes up less space on the ground.

Ficus, Yes the strap is choked, its a woopie sling actually, I use it on the smaller stuff or as a redirect for the lowering line.

Blaster, do you mean the lowering line or the pulling line? I call the pulling line the bull rope but I'm not sure if thats right.

[atree]

Atree; the slings are just what i always use, they grip really well and on normal trees I carry four or five and send more than one branch down at a time, also you can be putting the next slings on while the groundies deal with the last lot. On this tree the branches were all locked together so i took them one at a time. Its also good if you have a tight drop zone as a large branch system can be broken up and lowered as one but it takes up less space on the ground.

 

yeah, each to there own and situation i suppose, could you also use a short peice of lowering rope for attaching pulley for lowering point? or would that be to weak ie lowering wood of itself?(sorry for all the questions just starting doing doing larger removals/rigging

[Ben]

Tom, don't mean to pick fault but its not a good idea to choke directly on to your pulley, you should have a Karabinier inbetween (or Mallion Rapide). It's all to do with the karabiner having a radius edge and the pulley having sharp edges. In the end the pulley could cut through your whoopie sling.

[KGmyrek]

not to bed

nice vid man

[Tom D]

Tom, don't mean to pick fault but its not a good idea to choke directly on to your pulley, you should have a Karabinier inbetween (or Mallion Rapide). It's all to do with the karabiner having a radius edge and the pulley having sharp edges. In the end the pulley could cut through your whoopie sling.

 

I know what you mean but as you can see I only use that pulley for light stuff and the bigger blue one for heavier pieces. With that type of woopie there is no core in the rope so it tends to lay flatter than a rope would, this will reduce bend radius issues which even with a crab would still be 1:1.

 

Point taken though.

[andy goddard]

nice job mate ..

[RC0]

Good work and video Tom!