Leaning sycamore with great high anchor point!

[Rupe]

Tuesdays job this week, on the only dry day of the week so far!

 

A twin stemmed sycamore over a spa/cinema building in a posh hotel. When I first looked at it, I planned to use the adjacent oak as an anchor point for rigging, but you never really know if these things will work until you try!

 

The oak (turkey) is about 30m, and only about 8m away from the base of the sycamore, between the two of them is a large shed, which is not in the best of condition but we didnt want to break it. The the Syc leans away and over the buliding.

 

Its not that easy to see, except its the most in leaf with bright green leaves!

[Rupe]

We also had to remove major deadwood from the oak, so we had to climb it anyway. I nipped up the oak and knocked the deadwood out and set up the rigging for the Syc.

 

Then went further out from my final rig point and put a redirect in and then dropped down into the sycamore.

 

In this picture, I have highlighted the tree for those who couldnt find it!

 

Then the yellow line is my climb line, redirected out on the left of the oak and down into the sycamore. And the pink line is the rigging line. Its final rig point is below my climbing line on the same limb, but the top rigging point is on a different up right stem.

 

So, both the climb line and rig line are just re directed on the outer limb.

[RobArb]

looked a fun one to do:thumbup:

[Rupe]

So the GRCS is on the oak which is a bit behind the shed, and the final line of the rigging rope is just to one side of the shed (which has plastic windows!)

[Rupe]

Here you can just see the oak above the Syc, as we get started taking the smaller stem off, as its right in the way of the large stem.

 

And down for lunch. Had to come down on a seperate rope, with some strange prussik thing on it, because the main line wasnt long enough to come right down.

 

In the last picture you can see the main climb line (yellow) clipped to the final descent line half way up the tree. Thats the first time I have run out of rope with that one which is a 60m rope.

[RobArb]

Here you can just see the oak above the Syc, as we get started taking the smaller stem off, as its right in the way of the large stem.

 

And down for lunch. Had to come down on a seperate rope, with some strange prussik thing on it, because the main line wasnt long enough to come right down.

 

In the last picture you can see the main climb line (yellow) clipped to the final descent line half way up the tree. Thats the first time I have run out of rope with that one which is a 60m rope.

 

:lol:

[Adam Bourne]

looking very good mate, love these types of jobs,

 

 

hurry up with the next pictures then.....................

[treewizard]

do you use all those slings on the rigging plate? looks like a fun job.

[Rupe]

Yes, I use slings on the rigging plate. I like that method for small stuff, then use rope only if it gets any bigger.

 

We usually keep one sling on the ground, i,e, the one being untied stays there and come back up the next time, it saves about 5-10 seconds on each lower.

[treewizard]

nifty idea there i like it