Working in the upper most crown.

[Will Hinchliffe]

all the questions with been really light but can some one of a 11 stone throw a 660 round all afternoon and handle the timber of a large fell? im 15 stone and i've never had any worries getting out on limbs for a 20% reduction! think most people can out there long as they have the confidence in them selfs and there gear

 

I agree that getting right out there is a confidence thing, but im just under 11 stone and can throw a 395 around all day and have been known to use the 3120 in the tree.

[Stephen Blair]

when you are skinny and wiry, you learn how to move heavy things, why lift when you can roll, i have knocked lumps off a tree a that jcb struggles to shift, i am 12 stone and really feel the difference for when i was 11 stone, you learn to keep everything close in, elbows tucked in and use your legs and thighs to manouver things, you dont need an 088 above your head, pic it up and lump it in bit of revs and she is away. the best tree cutter i know and have ever seen on the ground or up a tree is about 5 foot and will weigh about 9 stone, he taught me almost everything i know about tree cutting, keep it simple and you need plenty of bottle, he could put a felling cut in a tree with an 088 above his head, handy when felling roadside trees full of nails and wire, i thought i was strong till i met him,

pull ups and dips, best thing a climber can do imo to keep strong.

[Marc]

What about changing your t.i.p? for the first year i climbed i'd find one place to make my high anchor and stick to it. Now i'll constantly move my t.i.p to find the best rope angles generally i always like a clear line of site between me and my anchor no going at funny angles round branches etc, i've found this helps a lot.

[Stephen Blair]

What about changing your t.i.p? for the first year i climbed i'd find one place to make my high anchor and stick to it. Now i'll constantly move my t.i.p to find the best rope angles generally i always like a clear line of site between me and my anchor no going at funny angles round branches etc, i've found this helps a lot.

 

another point to make, the more branches your line touches the more the weight is being spread, so if you do have to go well out, bounce it off a few other limbs, takes the weight off what you are on and what you are tied onto:001_smile:

[Jason James Gairn]

A subtle technique, assuming your Anchor is above you is to put an inwards facing force (towards the trunk) onto the skinny branch rather than down towards the ground. This assumes that there is something to get afoot hold with.

Think this might be the first pic of me ever actually in a tree to appear on here. from about 6 years ago. It's not super skinny but shows what i mean. i think.

[Stephen Blair]

A subtle technique, assuming your Anchor is above you is to put an inwards facing force (towards the trunk) onto the skinny branch rather than down towards the ground. This assumes that there is something to get afoot hold with.

Think this might be the first pic of me ever actually in a tree to appear on here. from about 6 years ago. It's not super skinny but shows what i mean. i think.

 

what about when some numpty has taken the head out a beech, then bottled it and you have to finish the job 20 years late with monster side limbs about 50 feet long, no top line, shuffle shuffle:scared1:

[Pete Mctree]

A subtle technique, assuming your Anchor is above you is to put an inwards facing force (towards the trunk) onto the skinny branch rather than down towards the ground. This assumes that there is something to get afoot hold with.

Think this might be the first pic of me ever actually in a tree to appear on here. from about 6 years ago. It's not super skinny but shows what i mean. i think.

 

I agreee with you logic, but in the pic your rope angles is shallow, hence the force placed on the downward facing lateral would be relativley large? (specificaly horizontally) as oposed to with a higher TIP?

 

p.s. I know pics can be decieving

[Stephen Blair]

I agreee with you logic, but in the pic your rope angles is shallow, hence the force placed on the downward facing lateral would be relativley large? (specificaly horizontally) as oposed to with a higher TIP?

 

p.s. I know pics can be decieving

 

it looks about 45degrees to me, maybe he is 40 foot out on a monster tree, or he has made the pic with his fancy computer gizmos:001_smile:

[Jason James Gairn]

I post me in atree for the first time just to show, hey once I did this shyte, and you rip my innards out with planting trowels. I couldn't find abetter pic to illustrate the point with, so i posted that one. That branch was strong enough to not require that technique.

Yes and it was a 300ft limbwalk, a km above shark infested sulphuric acid, i was off my face on premium grade owsley acid.

[Mr Ed]

I have this radical technique for accesing the outer crown. Its called climbing. Outlandish, I know, but hey, I'm a bit mental me.