Backbone tree rigging

[Gray git]

Better make sure you don't hit yourself with it or drop it on a groundie!!!

 

Already got a chipped front tooth from a steel crab, this thingd just take em out!

[trooper harry]

Speed line..zip line same thing to me..ha. it will only be brash and small limbs that i will be sending down the speed (zip) line..all the bigger stuff will be done by topping strop. I will get some pics. Hopefully the weather stays good. Cheers.

[scotspine1]

nice vid, cheers for posting..... I'd only be using the backbone in this configuration, over both centre posts. It relies on always being under tension, if the branch got hung up on the way down and slack was created in the system the sling may undo itself off the single post which could spell trouble.

[Darrin Turnbull]

Nice video , why was it removed

[Fredward]

Cool vid. Interesting tool, but in the tree I prefer no hardware, just knots - I don't think it's really much slower, half hitch, running bowline.. But on the ground it can be a pain to undo.

 

It looks heavy and bulky to me, but you worked well with it. Nice work getting the hi-ab in for the heavy stuff. Must have been counting the expense in your head when the big saw went blunt though! I've found a stump can make or break a job at times! I'm always happy when I don't it something!

[Gray git]

Scotspine, this was it's 1st outing so really a bit of a experiment. Since then have used it lots and have tried to get the slings to come of the posts with things like you say (on safe trees of course) but never managed it yet. I think it's because of the bend around the eye causes anough friction and the slings are soft anough to flex along the length and not push slack up over the post. It's like any tool good in the right situation and you just have to learn when that is.

Darrin, roots causing foundation problems, dryads saddle forming in an old wound and strange fluting down the main stem which turned out to be internal fractures but not as bad as serspected from the outside.

Fredward, I always have spare chains for big saws to save sharpening them on site to save time then I can do them in a vice later.

The crane probably knocked over day off the job as rigging it would have been slow with everything under it and then cut up small as couldn't get valtra in close anough to reach anything. That waggon had the biggest boom for the smallest carrier I could find as a rigid would not get round the corner further up the lain and a proper crane didn't have any room for its legs, was pleases with how well it worked.

[Joe Newton]

Very impressive video. A day is very good going for that tree!

 

What was the first song? I liked that. The last song sounded like the Gaslight Anthem.

 

I still can't see the advantage of the backbone vs a steel biner and tape sling though. It seemed to work fine in any case.

[Gray git]

The pretty reckless, absolution from the going to hell album

Correct on the last G L A, keepsake from the handwritten album.

1 advantage is the bend radius on the splice eye as the backbone spreads it out over a large area of metal and as no moving parts to get stuck open or get cross loaded is a bit safer in that respect.

[mistahbenn]

What kind of camera you using?

[Rich Rule]

Good work mate and nice vid. Not sure myself on the backbone but thanks for taking the time to explain and show it to us in the work environment.

 

Where was the job mate? Looked familiar but then most North Yorkshire villages look the same to me