Little speedline and floating anchor job in the sun

[Mr P]

Just out of curiosity would you ever speed line the timber out or do you think it would be too hard on the gear?

[Peter]

Do you mean the stem?

 

He shows how to do that with the top at 1.55.

 

Nice vid, love a bit of rigging.

[Ian Flatters]

I took my gopro to work yesterday as it was such a nice day.

 

We speed lined the brash out over the summer house and lowered the timber. 2 and a half hours from setting up to tree chipped into truck and all timber rung up and stacked onsite.

 

Set to HD

 

 

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2:07 i love the pre brace of the hands. Looked nice and sunny Mat. What was the speedline terminated too?

 

Also you havent lost any climbing skill with all those surveys your doing now.

[Mr P]

Yea the stem, just wondering if you could have done it with nearly the whole stem right down to nearly the height of the shed or if you would need to much of a pull on the speed line to lift each section up...am I making sense??

[Peter]

As the sections get bigger and heavier you need to tension the line more, but as you get further down the stem there is less leverage so it shouldnt be a problem. You are always going to reach a point where you run out of headroom though.

 

Actually since he had the speedline in another tree, it would be possible to block the section down onto a untensioned speed line, then hold it on the lowering device while the speedline was tensioned and the cut section lifted, and then release it. Seems like a bit of a faff though, probably easier to dump the logs and move them on the ground.

[Mr P]

Yea fair point, I've done a small bit of speed lining and my favourite bit was the trunk as it just takes off!!...like you say tho it's prob more hassle than its worth on this occasion..i take it its easier on your equipment than snatch lowering??

[gibbon]

Mr P. you can speed line the timber, I can think of several different ways to do it. With a high speed line set in different trees you can pick the logs off if you can tension the line enough without breaking anything. No need on this job as logs were being stacked behind the summer house.

 

Ian, the speed line was tied off to a birch in the garden. I'm climbing about 1 or 2 days a week at the moment. Got some interesting jobs coming up. Next ones a veteran lime to reduce with a crane on Monday if it stays dry

[Jack Price]

as always mat, really nice video, tunes and smooth work ! nice job on the editing !

[GardenKit]

I enjoyed watching that, Matt.

[Lukey-Loki]

Don't know how to imbed the video to this page so mobiles can see. Anyone know how's that's done?

 

I believe there's an option you can tick in the YouTube video settings.