Today we are mini skylining

[Dean Lofthouse]

Turned a hard marathon interesting a jog round the block. Use a progress capture device to pre tension and haul the branch up then simply pull along to the chipper.

[10 Bears]

I like that a lot. Definitely a case of "work smarter not harder!". Good effort...

[Stephen Blair]

what you tied too dean? Chipper spout?

[carlos]

truck by the looks of it, just dont hop in a hurry to dump off!

[Dean Lofthouse]

It's tied over the truck roof and onto chassis Stevie. I was thinking that too Carlos. If anyone tried nicking the landrover they not get very far or have a large section of sycamore following them down the road..

What I was going to do was put the truck facing the tree, put the line over the box and tie off down the tail board area. Then tip the back up to tension and get some decent height.

Didn't even sweat today

[MaxwellArb]

Nice one Dean. Wish my boss would let us be that creative!

[Ian Clarke]

brilliaint bit of thinking what did you use for the progress capture and how did the line react to the weight of the log being tensioned up?

[Dean Lofthouse]

I used the Petal traxion for progress capture, the only problem we had was the line we used was a 100m dynamic, so it was like a bungee rope and had to be really tensioned. If we had a long enough static line it would have been spot on.