Big Snatch

[Ian Flatters]

How many of you Brits do any large trees these days? There aint any left are there?

 

None, we felled them all turned them into ship masts and sailed away from here

[Ian Flatters]

Next people will be referring to the GRCS Vs Hobbs video, why lower a car when its parked in a tree............... Personally i thoroughly enjoyed it nice to see what happens if it snaps and the effects on the root plate.

[Reddog]

We were mainly playing, and the video was pretty firmly tongue-in-cheek. I guess that kind of humour is easy to miss online.

 

Some times playing with something you know may fail is the most fun.

 

I thought that was pretty obvious from the start, really can't work out why people are getting their knickers in a twist about this!

 

No twisted knickers here.

 

Next people will be referring to the GRCS Vs Hobbs video, why lower a car when its parked in a tree............... Personally i thoroughly enjoyed it nice to see what happens if it snaps and the effects on the root plate.

 

That is a good comparison Ian. I really enjoyed the GRCS/HOBBS vid, helped me get a better understanding of possible failures.

[Steve Bullman]

 

 

 

No twisted knickers here.

 

 

 

Bloomers?

[Ian Flatters]

I thought this was going to be a follow on from the tv girls thread. Nice vid anyway

 

oh dear it only took me to now to realize the thread title :blushing:

[Reddog]

Bloomers?

 

Never tried those.

[RC0]

Next people will be referring to the GRCS Vs Hobbs video, why lower a car when its parked in a tree............... .

 

The GRCS/Hobbs drop test was kinda more significant I'd say, Ian. Although I do believe the volvo was for extra drama. You have arguably the two most popular Lowering devices on the market going head-to-head. Amazing how many people have seen and been swayed one way or the other by that video, the world over. Money and pride involved....and these are obviously day to day tools, relative....at least a little more so than a seeing a big snatch in the bush (no pun intended).

 

Sorry if I missed your humour also. Too much time in Victoria, clearly.

Edited February 15, 2013 by RC0

[codz]

I got a heads up from Joe about the banter on this site regarding the video of our snatch, I did not realise that there was such a thing as irresponsible rigging and that people may be offended because we did not use shiny pulleys and double braid rope.

I have enjoyed reading through peoples differernt takes on the set up and reasons for it, I have also had a good laugh at the pissing in the wind from the desktop experts who probably have spent most of thier career pollarding plane trees.

Big thanks to Mog and Ewan for coming to the rescue of our tattered credibilty. I think Joe has covered why we we did what we did in enough detail. The video does not really do the size of the piece justice so I will attach i pic of it with somthing for scale.

Here is another video to show that we dont always break our ropes.

Split Eucalypt removal on Vimeo

[RobArb]

Awesome avatar!

[slack ma girdle]

Split Eucalypt removal on Vimeo

 

Another good vid, got any more ?

P.S ignore the winging Poms