Deadwooding Wellingtonias using 30m MEWP

[jojam]

Cheers for the tips guys i'll try them out next time.It'll save a fair bit of headscratchin

[Marc]

Two climbers, one each side of the stem, with strops between then moving up together

 

thats a really cool idea never thought of that, i've tried spiking a wellie and just found my flip line gets stuck on the plates of bark, its almost impossible to flip in one go over 5m of line, you kinda got to whip with the right then the left using a kind of sawing motion to advance it hard hard work.

 

I remember reading about Gerry Beranek rec climbing big Seqoias in California, some of those trees it would be almost 100ft to the first branch, it would take him a day just to get there by spiking, then set a line and come back tomorrow to climb the rest.

[Marc]

Cheers for the tips guys i'll try them out next time.It'll save a fair bit of headscratchin

 

The quickest way is srt, with srt you don't have to isolate a single branch you can have it going over a couple. If you don't have an srt system then just a thought with the throwline if you can set it over a couple of branches and its secure, use spare climbing line pull it up and over then using an alpine butterfly clip in a pulley put your climbing system on that using the spare climbing line pull it up into the tree and tie the spare line off at the base of the tree.

Just and idea hope it makes sense.