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[High Scale]

Smooth work, I wish I had that kind of climbers eye view, video to watch, when I started out.

 

Good rope man.

[jpbeaver]

great video, i wish i had your groundies yesterday instead of some mumpty who couldnt use a portawrap.

[vduben]

great video, i wish i had your groundies yesterday instead of some mumpty who couldnt use a portawrap.

 

happens all too much!!

[cerneARB]

love to watch you guys at work. Dont always understand it all at the moment, but learning. Whats a portowrap btw?

 

Love the videos..keep them coming.

[RC0]

love to watch you guys at work. Dont always understand it all at the moment, but learning. Whats a portowrap btw?

 

Love the videos..keep them coming.

 

Thanks cerneARB, although a pretty standard job for a lot of the folks on here.

 

A portawrap works like a belay/figure 8 does in rock-climbing, except it’s primarily used for lowering branches out of trees as opposed to people. It’s usually anchored/tied to the bottom of the tree or something else suited to take the weight of the branches to be lowered. The portawrap is just one design of such a device as there are many. Some are far more sophisticated which is reflected in both performance and cost. However, the portawrap, for what it does, represents good value for money IMO.

 

Some relevant information in this article:

http://www.treemettlenexus.com/article3.html Cheers:icon14:

[telhol]

Always good to see some tree work but reg did you need to lower everything looked like some good landing zone there but hey i was not there.

 

Instead of a timber hitch could you use a sling and a girth hitch to secure the lowering pulley today removed big arsehole magnacraappii and i used that method worked well.

 

But good vid nice job.

[RC0]

Always good to see some tree work but reg did you need to lower everything looked like some good landing zone there but hey i was not there.

 

Instead of a timber hitch could you use a sling and a girth hitch to secure the lowering pulley today removed big arsehole magnacraappii and i used that method worked well.

 

But good vid nice job.

 

There was room to drop very small pieces but that would have meant me working harder.

 

I was still getting over flu when I did that tree so was only about 60% fit. However, our chosen methodology enabled me to get through the job with very little effort.

 

Glad your big mac rigging went well, more than one way to peel an orange for sure:icon14:

[telhol]

I see what your saying makes sense i like doing that the bigger the chunk the less work in the tree. Im just trying out rigging down trunks normally just fell them onto the brash but this seems to be a better way.

 

Could you post a vid of you blocking down a trunk would be useful to all i think.

[RC0]

Could you post a vid of you blocking down a trunk would be useful to all i think

 

I block down stuff all the time

 

It would be quite a dull video though, but I'll have a look through the tapes later. I'm also pretty sure there is plenty of stuff like that on the web already.

[telhol]

Hey i like watching blocking down especially huge lumps.

 

Where did you get the camera from its well good