Leaning sycamore with great high anchor point!

[will.morris]

Top work, I really enjoyed reading that

[Rupe]

Cheers. Got some video but its not very good! Was a nice day for it though considering the recent weather. All finished in the day aswell.

[Rupe]

When I got to just the last 30ft of trunk to come down, I wanted to get my climbing line out of the Oak while I could still reach it (it wasnt long enough to retrieve from the ground). I still had the rigging line in place so I clipped the rigging line to the friction hitch side of my climbing system and my groundie pulled that back up into the tree.

 

This little video shows the retrieval of the climbing line and ropeguide and redirect sling which was then lowered straight back to me on the rigging line.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vc85sVVw_w]Rope retreive - YouTube[/ame]

[bobh]

For someone like myself who doesn't climb and doesn't always understand the techniques involved this has been an education. Thanks

[Ewan Murray]

What climbing line is that Rupe? and as always nice work mate really enjoy watching how you approach your work

[Rupe]

Thanks. Its called Yellow jacket, from Sherrils, but its actually just Samson arbormaster in Sherrils own colour.

[swinny]

The board someones lifting in the pic. did you put them on the shed roof for protection?

 

Cheers

[Rupe]

We were going to but then we felt they were better off leaning against the windows, so we left it at the place where the branches were being lowered, so if they swung towards the shed they would bounce of the boards.

 

The shed roof was knacked anyway, all the felt was ripped up. The boards were left in that area and in our way so we thought we might as well use them. Didnt drop anything on the roof anyway so no worries.

[swinny]

We were going to but then we felt they were better off leaning against the windows, so we left it at the place where the branches were being lowered, so if they swung towards the shed they would bounce of the boards.

 

The shed roof was knacked anyway, all the felt was ripped up. The boards were left in that area and in our way so we thought we might as well use them. Didnt drop anything on the roof anyway so no worries.

 

Sounds good

 

Some cracking pictures on your facebook link there pal great sort of time lapse theme on some

[Rupe]

Thanks. Yes a few years of pictures there, and most of them have threads relating to then here aswell.