Would you climb?

[Gareth jones]

I'd climb it if it was fairly stable on its current location.

 

I would remove all the lower branches and then nibble away at the top, its surprising how often they will start to stand back up when you get some weight off.

 

Fair play mate haha, I would be a bit dubious doin one of them! Suppose experience is key to jobs like this.

[Albedo]

If there is a right answer Skyhuck has the technique and Gareth makes a very important point about experience and comfort zone.

 

I hadn’t been so stuck as to what to do for some time if ever. My groundie ain’t a climber and I wanted a second opinion. At least I wanted a second climber to back me up rather than me being the only tree surgeon on site.

 

Worst case is that you take a swing into the tree on the left, the only place to tie into or a bigger swing into the oak behind. Even for this you would have to do the top without your secondary strop tied on or you’ll get pulled with it, assuming the back up line doesn’t hold it, or it goes sideways on the back up line.

 

It’s only a small tree and you ain’t gonna die but it could hurt quite a lot.

 

I called a guy I used to subby for and asked him to come have a look. The tree belonged to my dad by the way. I keep friendly with my competition and work with them rather than against them.

 

He turned up with his own crew took one look and did this, no charge, as he owed me one for past favours.

 

The rope you can see is tied into the oak behind which can be seen in the 4th of the first set of pics, to hold it if it goes. He is tied into the tree on the left and did the scary bit whilst a bit above and about 15/20 feet to the right of his anchor. With the weight reduced in little bits on the way up and from higher up it did sit back so just simple chogging down from there.

[Albedo]

Like a squirrel on crack....

 

Mr Butler gets first prize though:001_smile:

[avatar tree climber]

climb it done worse 80kg not gonna make much difference