Oak dismantled in Minnesota.

[Taylor L. Hamel]

Dismantling a dead Red oak on White Bear Lake, MN.

 

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My friend Tyler's first time on the GRCS. He did well, I reckon. A low limb was lifted with the GRCS, but I forgot to film it. Pretty straight forward dismantle; the tree had an excurrent growth form, so not much climbing on my part... and plenty of room to drop the stem.

 

Thanks for watching!

[scotspine1]

very good, nice slipknot @the block at 2.10, only one way to tie it right when used like that.

[scotspine1]

Surely it was a running bowline.

 

not at the block it wasn't, look again. What I'd call a marlinspike slipknot is tied to stop the working end of his rigging rope running through the block accidently or while he was making his notch/moving the block sling etc.

 

It can only be tied in one direction otherwise it can slip out and down goes your rigging line.

[born2trot]

Pity you couldnt get some views of the lake there would have been awesome for us ' on the other side of the pond ' to see . Still a good vid though and a place i would love to visit

[mistahbenn]

Good work as always Taylor.

[David Humphries]

Hello Taylor.

 

Enjoyed the vid.

 

The trunk appears to show a fair amount of what looks like brown heart wood decay when it smashes on the ground.

 

Any idea which fungi was colonising the tree?

 

thanks

 

David

 

 

 

 

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[Adam Bourne]

tidy work as usual mate......

 

 

my shout on the beers at the show taylor......speak soon mate...

[Ian Flatters]

Nice work Taylor, just one question did you decide to rig it so you could get it down quicker, training for your friend or other reasons? Just curious as i may have been tempted to drop out most of it but i couldn't see if there were many objects below.

 

Ian

[Taylor L. Hamel]

Hello Taylor.

 

Enjoyed the vid.

 

The trunk appears to show a fair amount of what looks like brown heart wood decay when it smashes on the ground.

 

Any idea which fungi was colonising the tree?

 

thanks

 

David

 

 

 

 

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Thanks. The canopy branches showed what I believe is white rot. Not sure about the stem and I don't know which fungi. Would be interesting to know!

[Taylor L. Hamel]

Nice work Taylor, just one question did you decide to rig it so you could get it down quicker, training for your friend or other reasons? Just curious as i may have been tempted to drop out most of it but i couldn't see if there were many objects below.

 

Ian

 

Hi Ian,

 

The stone walls were a bit fragile and the asphalt drive is fairly new, so I didn't

want to risk spearing anything in. Also a water valve and sprinkler system in the landscaping.

 

Cheers