Beginners guide to rigging.......

[MattyF]

Been using a rigging plate with 6 meters of double braid instead of slings for balance point rigging , found it a lot easier to set up than slings as you have more length in the rope to play with and find the balance.

[MattyF]

Does anybody know a good video explaining chogging down using rigging techniques...?

 

 

This is a good vid ,shows what most would use.

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[SPC Trees]

Matty, Joe, thanks

[mikeh]

as pointed to above - Climbingarborist.com is also another very good Arboriculture website.

[Joe Newton]

This is a good vid ,shows what most would use.

 

 

For a moment there I thought you might be linking Bolams "Cedar Snatch Fail" for him!

[Joe Newton]

Matty, Joe, thanks

 

 

No worries.

 

FWIW I find that I'm quicker just chogging down thicker timber than negative rigging, with the time it takes to reset the pulley.

 

I'm sure there are plenty who are far quicker than me though.

[MattyF]

If you set the pulley with a timber hitch you can slacken it and slide it down.

It does not take long at all this way and you might only have to reset the whole rig a few times.

[Adam Bourne]

If you set the pulley with a timber hitch you can slacken it and slide it down.

It does not take long at all this way and you might only have to reset the whole rig a few times.

 

 

 

No worries.

 

FWIW I find that I'm quicker just chogging down thicker timber than negative rigging, with the time it takes to reset the pulley.

 

I'm sure there are plenty who are far quicker than me though.

 

 

And not to mention that negative rigging the spar is done for a reason for what ever it may be! You wouldn't do it when it's not necessary.

[Joe Newton]

And not to mention that negative rigging the spar is done for a reason for what ever it may be! You wouldn't do it when it's not necessary.

 

 

Sometimes if it's just to save damage to a lawn, or avoid crashing big lumps onto a border, I prefer to leave a brash cushion or push smaller chogs a greater distance to avoid borders.

[Adam Bourne]

Sometimes if it's just to save damage to a lawn, or avoid crashing big lumps onto a border, I prefer to leave a brash cushion or push smaller chogs a greater distance to avoid borders.

 

 

That's what I'm saying joe, you wouldn't rig down a spar unless you totally needed to! It's not about saving time.