Beginners guide to rigging.......

[dadio]

 

Here's a video I made some years back about "near balance point" rigging.. This is a technique used to get slow and steady movemnt of a lowered bit, while making sure it is a bit tip heavy so that it travels down and away from the climber. I decided to "pull" the video becasue it got a lot of feedback that the danger of not allowing the piece to run was not well enough emphasized.. Its presently unlisted on youtube, but can be viewed with a link

 

Understanding "how to" do it and "when and why" to do it are two different things. There is a lot more to it than put in the video and if you don't have a firm grasp of the basics, trying to do this can put the climber at considerable risk... I put this together on a very limited budget. Hope to be able to cover the technique completely at some point.

 

Hope you can appreciate it for what it is, without being too hard on the incompletes.

[DrewB]

Oh god, here we go.....

[RobArb]

Any more posts Adam, quick....

 

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[Le Sanglier]

 

Here's a video I made some years back about "near balance point" rigging.. This is a technique used to get slow and steady movemnt of a lowered bit, while making sure it is a bit tip heavy so that it travels down and away from the climber. I decided to "pull" the video becasue it got a lot of feedback that the danger of not allowing the piece to run was not well enough emphasized.. Its presently unlisted on youtube, but can be viewed with a link

 

Understanding "how to" do it and "when and why" to do it are two different things. There is a lot more to it than put in the video and if you don't have a firm grasp of the basics, trying to do this can put the climber at considerable risk... I put this together on a very limited budget. Hope to be able to cover the technique completely at some point.

 

Hope you can appreciate it for what it is, without being too hard on the incompletes.

I saw it, and found it useful, even though most of the things I knew or did not know I knew! couple of good pointers there.

[Adam Bourne]

Hi guys sorry i've not been doing anything with the thread really missed doing it, i'm currently off line at the minute and just using the inlaws computer to write this......i have loads of stuff to cover and been really busy at night working on it, sorry i never got a chance to re-correct what rupe had ponted out in our last post's.......all will come good:biggrin:

 

 

dadio.....i really did enjoy that video i see it when it was posted and i can understand why it had also taken alot of flak...but lets all agree to disagree on that one hey....

 

miss you all....

 

see you soon...sorry i also missed the show.....(complicated)

 

Adam

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Adam, I dont think tip tieing should be done by actually tieing onto the tips of a branch.

 

Your tieing on to a potentially heavy branch at its weakest point. Half hitches at the end are ok to keep it aligned, but the rope (or slings) should continue along the branch until you get to a strong enough point. Much easier to achieve with slings than rope.

 

I agree with this and I'd like to add to it.

 

If you tip tie and cut at the butt, the butt will drop away causing the tip to come straight in and hit the climber.

Tip tieing in this manner only works if using a Stein Dual bollard or GRCS so that the groundie can winch the tip up while the climber performs a gob cut facing the sky and a slow back cut.

The only other senario when tip tieing can work is if using a craning fork so that the branch moves immediately away from the climber.

[mistahbenn]

Not necessarily Old Mill, if the rigging point is at an angle away from the climber then tip tying is ok. With a notch in the direction of the angle of the rigging line, it will work. All about the angle of the dangle!

[Stephen Blair]

Angle of the dangle! I love that term, nice it's world wide.

I agree, felling straight limbs towards the lowering point or pretty much anything given the tension is right and the chewiness of the wood allows.

I enjoy the rip tear hinge for this method:laugh1:

[bobh]

Just read this thread from page 1

Excellent thread

Learnt loads

[MWArb]

Awesome thread Adam, I learned alot at college but it was more "do it like that" and little explanation on why (mostly I think staffing levels affected this)

Hope you don't mind but I'm documenting this for quick groundy education (obviously followed by real training) wonderful stuff...

can't wait till your up and running again...

 

Thx again buddy:thumbup: