Atlas Cedar - Rigging a broken branch

[Langur]

A short video of a job from last week.

Rigging a branch of an Atlas Cedar broken after the heavy snow we had at the beginning of the year.

 

Can't still figure out how to make the video appear here...

 

Here's the link

 

[scotspine1]

nice vid, good job, great trees to climb those cedars, cheers for posting

 

just a suggestion, you could've rigged the branch down from the adjacent stem to the right so the timber had a more controlled descent down through the crown (avoid damage to lower branches/bark etc).

 

Is this what you meant by making the video appear?

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPB8BAnbdQE]Cedrus Atlantica - rigging - YouTube[/ame]

[Langur]

Thanks!

 

And yes ...that is what I mean by making the video appear

How did you make it?

 

I just copy the link but the video is not showing

 

A better (but expensive) suggestion would be to buy a GRCS ...

I'm working on it...

 

Cheers

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Nice Vid. I would have just lowered the sections off with the pulley block positioned up above. No shockload on the gear, much safer.

[mistahbenn]

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Edited February 19, 2013 by Steve Bullman
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[Gray git]

Nice chilled out tune on a good little vid.

[swinny]

Nice Vid. I would have just lowered the sections off with the pulley block positioned up above. No shockload on the gear, much safer.

 

Yup same here. Also less chance to damage the bark/tree.

 

Good video though! And nice weather

[Langur]

Nice Vid. I would have just lowered the sections off with the pulley block positioned up above. No shockload on the gear, much safer.

 

 

yup same here. Also less chance to damage the bark/tree.

 

 

Thanks for your comments. Hope these pics makes it more clear .

 

I had no many options for positioning the pulley up above.

Positioning it on the main trunk ? the piece would have stuck in the lower branches. The direction of fall was the one you see in the video , between the two lowest branches. That's why I decided to put the pulley there. No many other options available.

 

There are always better and safer options, for sure.

It was only the two of us, with seven other cedars like this one to deadwood and thin.

And about shockloading, ...................just let'em run

 

Cheers