60 odd meters with a dead top

[Pete Mctree]

Nice job on some big nasty trees

[gibbon]

That looked like a tree to sort the men from the boys. Do you install a rescue line when your working on trees that size?

[johnnyboy158]

health an safety would have a fit hear good vid

[browncow]

That looked like a tree to sort the men from the boys. Do you install a rescue line when your working on trees that size?

 

Hi mate, yeah 90% percent of the time I leave my access line in the tree on a pulley slung to a branch so the groundies can haul gear up and down and also serves as a rescue line. I usually climb on a 40m rope if I can get away with it in big trees so definitely helps to have a rescue/bomb out of the tree line in place.

 

Of course sometimes its just not feasible to have a line hanging in the tree when bombing out really big wood and so on those occasions I will climb with a longer rope (60m) so as to be able to choke it and bomb out single line in an emergency. Not ideal I know - but whats the worst that could happen:001_tt2:

[butler]

Genuinely very impressed

[vduben]

love the vid but whats with the massive handel on the stihl?

[WorcsWuss]

Bloody hell that's a long way down, and that manky wood holding your up didn't inspire the greatest confidence. Fair play....

[silky fox]

Watching it you can almost taste the Adrenaline!!.....Very Brave:thumbup1:

[browncow]

love the vid but whats with the massive handel on the stihl?

 

Its a full wrap handle. Awesome for weird work positioning and the saw has a modded exhaust so it chews through big wood.

[Tom Richards]

Good vid mate:thumbup: