Beech Highline

[Adam Bourne]

Partly inspired by Tims thread, we found ourselves with an opportunity to reduce a smallish but significantly decayed old beech pollard using a similar high line set up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ta Mr Pine

 

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Very nice David.

[Darrin Turnbull]

Maybe two ropes would be better.

 

 

[David Humphries]

This video contains content from WMG, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

 

Sorry Ben, not sure how to get around that.

 

If I get a chance, I'll try and re-edit so it plays in the US.

 

 

 

 

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[mistahbenn]

Ill use a VPN to view David

[mistahbenn]

Tune!

[Nick B]

That was a great video David with a cool tune love the editing must have took you some time to do.

[David Humphries]

Cheers fellas,

 

Combo of ground still shots and a guy up the static end of the highline with a camera phone and the main climber (Michal) with the helmet drift cam. There was about an hour of cutting footage, but I decided to limit that as it was very repetitious. So about an hour in total of editing it all together, and about half an hour to save it and upload to YouTube. That's an evening I won't get back

 

We've been waiting ages for the right situation to present itself to employ a high line.

Knew we had enough rope and kit to put it all together but I think we'll tweak it if and when the situation arises again.

 

These 'veteran' pollards are by definition compromised by one or more decay fungi and there's been a few that our climbers have come down because of the trees not 'feeling' quite right.

 

Mewp has its place for these types of trees, but we've found, (especially if there's an obliging maiden or two in close proximity) rope access does also.

 

 

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[tree-fancier123]

Lovely song and ropework looked good fun - someone who couldn't afford a mewp could also learn scaffolding - l bet a skilled person could get some rig up 60ft in a couple hours

[David Humphries]

We had the opportunity to set another highline, this time above a cappadocium maple that has significant white rot (from Polyporus squamosus) in the bolling of where it had been pollarded in the past.

[David Humphries]

We had the opportunity to set another highline, this time above a cappadocium maple..........

 

we set 90m of patron above the maple anchored into an adjacent poplar and robinia.

The line was tensioned off on the pop using a Hobbs at the base and an impact block in the canopy.

 

Alasdair climbed SRT set on a free running pulley, which equalised itself whilst moving across and within the maple.

 

The tree has been left heavily reduced above the footpath with a lighter touch on the sections away from the target.

 

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