Scots Pine Dismantle

[Mesterh]

Confusion on my part, i thought you meant cut hold n chuck, freefalling is quicker than rigging.

Lowering is quicker more effecient and safer than cutting holding and chucking. You can cut pieces much larger so fewer cuts etc.

 

Think I have to disagree there, ever tried completly rigging down a well dense nasty leylandii?

[Highland Forestry]

Confusion on my part, i thought you meant cut hold n chuck, freefalling is quicker than rigging.

Lowering is quicker more effecient and safer than cutting holding and chucking. You can cut pieces much larger so fewer cuts etc

 

I'd of partially lowered those trees from the looks of the pics, especially that bendy limb, the positioning looked awkard and maybe I could of lowerred it easily and quickly in 3 bits.

Hard to tell from pics though.

 

I'll give you that one.... two o the trees were 'bendy' like that, and right over an old stone dyke to boot but we did not lower anything from them

Thelarger tree had limbs over a house, and we lowered a total of three limbs on that side just incase we hit the guys tv aerial, but the rest was freefall.

[Mark Bolam]

Good pics.

 

Looked like a nice job. Apart from that acrobatic looking stuff. I got quite tired looking at that.

[SJH]

Nice pics mate.

[skyhuck]

Confusion on my part, i thought you meant cut hold n chuck, freefalling is quicker than rigging.

Lowering is quicker more effecient and safer than cutting holding and chucking. You can cut pieces much larger so fewer cuts etc

 

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:confused1:Er.............for starters it takes at least 2 men to lower, so thats doubled the time for starters.

 

I think the time taken for both methods is VERY MUCH down to the person doing the job, IMO.

[Marc]

Think I have to disagree there, ever tried completly rigging down a well dense nasty leylandii?

 

Don't do leylandiis so wouldn't know, only the finest specimen trees for me.

 

Seriously now mesterh your just being difficult, not all trees are equal, i'm not trying to be difficult just merely expressing an opinion, a rigging rope can be your friend, i've worked with many arborists who don't use one because they think its difficult and time consuming to set one up. The benefits though of getting familiar with rigging is being more productive, safer and generally making your life easier/less stress on your body.

 

Now i know what highland was doing it looks like his work plan was the best one.

[Marc]

Confusion on my part, i thought you meant cut hold n chuck, freefalling is quicker than rigging.

Lowering is quicker more effecient and safer than cutting holding and chucking. You can cut pieces much larger so fewer cuts etc

 

QUOTE]

 

:confused1:Er.............for starters it takes at least 2 men to lower, so thats doubled the time for starters.

 

I think the time taken for both methods is VERY MUCH down to the person doing the job, IMO.

 

Rigging with 2 groundsmen is ideal, simple rig'ing can be done with 1 groundsman, its all job dependent and down to the person doing it. I'm not saying rig everything just implement it more and you will reap the benefits.

[skyhuck]

 

Rigging with 2 groundsmen is ideal, simple rig'ing can be done with 1 groundsman, its all job dependent and down to the person doing it. I'm not saying rig everything just implement it more and you will reap the benefits.

 

When I say 2 men, I mean 1 climber, 1 groundie.

 

I cut and chuck 99.9% of the trees I do, my groundie is busy chipping not lowering.

 

Normally the chipping is finished when I get down.

[Mesterh]

Seriously now mesterh your just being difficult,

 

Me being difficult never

 

Rigging deffo has its bit to play but most of the stuff we do requires speed so we cut and chuck

 

Noticed how long it takes the ground staff to clean up a limb youve just lowered off compared to cut and chuckin the brash the right way so they can get in and move it out.

[Marc]

 

When I say 2 men, I mean 1 climber, 1 groundie.

 

I cut and chuck 99.9% of the trees I do, my groundie is busy chipping not lowering.

 

Normally the chipping is finished when I get down.

 

Man your slow if i'm cutting and chucking i need as many groundies as possible to keep up:001_tt2:

 

90% of the dismantles we do rigging is the only way, its often the smoothest and most effcient way to do the job we work most of the time in 3's or more.

Like i've said before though huckster, it all depends on you your buisness and general work startergies, we are all different.

 

heres a couple of pics of our most recent take down, Qtip is the climber, most of our work is pruning and general tree care.