Crampons

[jojam]

Looked at a big elm job today on a steep banking.Ground very hard so really slippy when wet.Trees are big,did a job like this last summer an it was tricky tryin to keep the feet whilst felling.There was a post on here a while ago about crampons or spikes for this kind of thing.Has anyone used them?are they any good?and where can you get them.

[Stephen Blair]

any climbing shop jamie, they arent to expensive, i have thought about them but i think they will be a pest tbh, and i worry you would get too much grip and twist a knee or ankle, i sometimes rope onto the tree for putting the gub in

[jojam]

Did think of that too,plenty trees above.But kinda like to get away quick when she goes to aviod all the usual falling stuff seeing as it's a thining.Not good trying to leggit on a bank with big saw(without landing on ones backside)

[Stephen Blair]

run a line along the banking and clip onto that, giving you an esape route, use as big a bar as possible so to try and just work from the one side

[jojam]

Good tip about the rope stevie,cheers.Got the bar thing sussed a while ago.You'll no yourself there's no way on earth you can reach an hold that saw up there to lay it in when the back cut is flush with the ground on the top side.

[WeeDee]

any climbing shop jamie, they arent to expensive, i have thought about them but i think they will be a pest tbh, and i worry you would get too much grip and twist a knee or ankle, i sometimes rope onto the tree for putting the gub in

 

I agree about the excess grip. I regularly use crampons ( rigid and flexible models) for mountaineering purposes. They rarely allow the small degree of 'slip' that we all unknowingly account for when walking normally.

I'll also add that when walking on wet soil, they can form a clod between the points and reduce each sole to a 2kg banana skin!

I think the positioning line is a more useful, and familiar, way of working.

Good luck.

[Stephen Blair]

nice one mate, good advice from someone that knows, i was just guessing:001_smile:

[Buzz]

I agree about the excess grip. I regularly use crampons ( rigid and flexible models) for mountaineering purposes. They rarely allow the small degree of 'slip' that we all unknowingly account for when walking normally.

I'll also add that when walking on wet soil, they can form a clod between the points and reduce each sole to a 2kg banana skin!

I think the positioning line is a more useful, and familiar, way of working.

Good luck.

 

What he said, no way would i want to be moving around in soil on crampons with saws, i to have mountaineering experience. There's a technique to walking in crampons so you don't trip yourself up and learning that technique with a chainsaw is a bad plan lol

 

You can get studded loggers boots as well which help. Have a search online.