Running logs on a skyline

[Tim Stobart Tree Surgery]

Hi all,

 

I have a site I'm currently working where the distance from tree to road is about 30m but the fall in slope is about 15m. It's slippery as the proverbial and there's no way I'm shifting rings or cords of firewood out of the site. the road at the bottom is quite, but it's fairly blind from the slope, so the way I see it as best to extract the log wood from this site is to drop it on a skyline down to the roadside. This seems simple enough to me, but the problem i foresee is what to use to attach and run each piece down with, without having to recover the item for each log. it's either that or have twenty or so running strops.

 

Any advice anyone has would be appreciated!

 

Cheers.

[Daythe trees]

Why not attach a retrieval line to what ever you decide to use to run the logs on? Ensure it is free running, the end is attached with maybe a large tent peg or fastened to a sapling so the momentum doesn't whisk it away and obviously don't keep hold of it unless you intend to control decent with it from the start. Easiest thing to google for an idea is probably zip line safety rope.

 

Hope that helps,

Chris

[Stephen Blair]

A top line tensioned, use a short rope on a clogger attached to the top line with a pulley.

Attach retrieval line to the clogger or pulley, whatever configuration of gizmos you have to hand.

Have a small chord on the clogger to release it, there will be a way of attaching it somehow, again, gizmo dependent.

Attach timber with rope from clogger, lift it off the deck and take the slack through the clogger, send it down the hill, stop it at the bottom with something you have or slow it with retrieval line, pull the clogger to release and hey presto:thumbup1:.

Or you can do it my way, punt the ring down the hill like Fred Flintsone, I am known as Stevie Twinkle Toes :biggrin:shout at Groundie to catch it!!

Steer the timber with the power of your mind while shouting, sacrifice your body?

This is by far the quickest and most exciting way of doing it.

[Tim Stobart Tree Surgery]

A top line tensioned, use a short rope on a clogger attached to the top line with a pulley.

Attach retrieval line to the clogger or pulley, whatever configuration of gizmos you have to hand.

Have a small chord on the clogger to release it, there will be a way of attaching it somehow, again, gizmo dependent.

Attach timber with rope from clogger, lift it off the deck and take the slack through the clogger, send it down the hill, stop it at the bottom with something you have or slow it with retrieval line, pull the clogger to release and hey presto:thumbup1:.

Or you can do it my way, punt the ring down the hill like Fred Flintsone, I am known as Stevie Twinkle Toes :biggrin:shout at Groundie to catch it!!

Steer the timber with the power of your mind while shouting, sacrifice your body?

This is by far the quickest and most exciting way of doing it.

 

Hi Steve, aye, it's tempting, just aim at the groundie. The only fear is if one goes through him and over the road. I'll have to pop down and have a watch next time you're doing that, I'm only just up the water!

Tim

 

ps, I had a CS100 demo'd today, I'll be joining the wee chipper club as soon as I can find the money!

[Stephen Blair]

I never noticed your location!

I've done a fair bit of work on Bute over the years, some cracking big trees.

Next time your over look us up for a coffee:thumbup1:

[Tim Stobart Tree Surgery]

I will do, I'm pretty busy over here at the moment, but I'll drop by next time I'm down that way.

[Paul Smith]

English Reeve.

[Stephen Blair]

My coffee stop is in Inverkip, in the marina.

Cafe Riva if your over and needing good food.

 

 

 

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[Tim Stobart Tree Surgery]

PM me your number, I'll let you know if/when I'mover on t'big ferry!

[MattyF]

I've used a static rigging line with a rigging plate and pulley to run the timber with a rigging pulley set below it with a lowering device for the second rope to retrieve and control speed , works a treat!!

 

 

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