Marc

I'm pretty sure Q will call you a heathen for saying that, I used to think the same that soft strops were they way forward, Q is adamant that chains are best he manipulated those chains with such ease especially on the butt section, he didn't even break a sweat all day. I've only ever done one sizable crane job on an Oak using soft strops, my efforts were clumsy and difficult, now i've seen Q it gives me ideas on how i'd do it better. Another neat trick Q did among many was before craning off the butt sections he used his 200t to cut a slice into the trunk, that way when using the 88 he had a ledge to rest the bar in to begim his cut, it ll the little details that make a job go easy and smooth.

Not sure why Dave but yes the replacement was a Dawn Redwood. Planted in a much more suitable position away from the spider web of cable and not so close to the house.

roughly 100 years old, we had to round the base up after the 84 packed up on us during the last cut so we could use a smaller saw to finish it. Not sure if the last 20 years after its topping wether its growth slowed down?

The tree was pollarded back in 1988 probably we think a knee jerk reaction after the storms of 87. Anyway after some side branch failures and eventually one of the leader failing last year narrowely missing the house the owner sought help from a consultant, after months of carefull consideration and liasing with the council, it was decided that the tree should be removed and a new replacement planted.

I don't think he sleeps, he just sits up at night thinking of newer techniques and better ways of doing the job.

Actually Heritage is extremely competitive, it was 4 guys 2 days all the kit is heritages, only thing that isn't ours is the crane. Not sure why we brought the mewp along probably to blow the dust of it? Heritage is pure tree work porn!

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Climbing line, srt up the tree doing as much work as you can, then install the DdRT and throw the bag down.

Begining of the second day

The climber is Qtip.

A picture set of our most recent large take down, 2 days in all the shear number of power lines and phone lines running through and around the tree made it a little less straight forward. 1st day we partially removed the lower canopy to clear all the lines ready for the crane the following day.

What do you mean poor old Landy those things love it! So how did you get the lump on the trailer?

I think sometimes there can be variations in even the same rope, someone on here commented that there tachyon doesn't milk, mine milked about 50cm, i don't have a problem with that though. I find my 45m has almost no stretch it'll give a little then be solid. The poison Ivy is even more solid almost totally static with hardly any stretch, the poison ivy is very soft alomost flabby when new, where as the tachyon is firm in the hand yet still very flexible. Both very good 11.5m ropes just different. We also have a Velocity 11m as a footlocking line, and side by side with blaze is the one with the least stretch and is the better line imo. Blaze is just to thin for me, tachyon or poison ivy is a good compromise. Again though there can be inconsistency with the same rope, my Elderid 12mm is very hard and firm and a little to bouncy, yet the elderid 12mm i tried for a week was more flexible and had less stretch so i was a little dissapointed the one i bought was not the same.

Avant/mini loader to extract/move or load the timber where space is tight, where space is even tighter ring it up use a log trolley only lifting is with 1/2 guys to get the rings from trolley onto the truck or through chipper. Where space is good hiab and trailer. Other outfits i work for get the big timber removed but getting someone in with a tractor/hiab/trailer combo, usually for free or for a small cost. Or just ring and lift it out, i won't do that anymore unless they use/provide a log trolley i need my back to last.

Funny thread mesterh i really thought more people would of put themselves above average. The replies are intresting to read, i've worked with a few climbers who've been at the top of there game for over 10years and have got away without any real injury or major damage other than a broken roof tile or busted fence panel, these guys are an inspiration to me, hopefully one day i'll be able to match them. In my short time as an arborist i've easily worked with 20 plus climbers most were average work a day arborists, a few were down right dangerous, even fewer really gifted. I work with one climber who when faced with a Leylandii reduction he gets up there with a silky and secatuers patiently reducing back to sub branches then tipping the sub branches to give a really nice rounded shape, where as i'm up there wielding my 200t like its a machette sything pieces off. The most annoying thing is he still usually finishes before me:confused1:

Great photos, thanks for sharing.

Yeah we thought we'd take the plateform out for a drive its a good way of blowing the dust off it.

See the smiley face with the tongue sticking out? i'm just ribbing you, i got a lot of respect for you huck even if you are old school.

The scotties you mean? So would I everytime, maybe just roping down 1 or 2 limbs i think the point is/has been missed. In fact thats exxactly what i was doing today, with just a bit of light rigging for stufff going over neigbours property. I'm to tired, i don't comment on your work you know what your doing huckster you always look comfortable and in control and your techniques work for you, and our techniques work for us very well to, o.k

Man your slow if i'm cutting and chucking i need as many groundies as possible to keep up:001_tt2: 90% of the dismantles we do rigging is the only way, its often the smoothest and most effcient way to do the job we work most of the time in 3's or more. Like i've said before though huckster, it all depends on you your buisness and general work startergies, we are all different. heres a couple of pics of our most recent take down, Qtip is the climber, most of our work is pruning and general tree care.

Rigging with 2 groundsmen is ideal, simple rig'ing can be done with 1 groundsman, its all job dependent and down to the person doing it. I'm not saying rig everything just implement it more and you will reap the benefits.

Don't do leylandiis so wouldn't know, only the finest specimen trees for me. Seriously now mesterh your just being difficult, not all trees are equal, i'm not trying to be difficult just merely expressing an opinion, a rigging rope can be your friend, i've worked with many arborists who don't use one because they think its difficult and time consuming to set one up. The benefits though of getting familiar with rigging is being more productive, safer and generally making your life easier/less stress on your body. Now i know what highland was doing it looks like his work plan was the best one.

Confusion on my part, i thought you meant cut hold n chuck, freefalling is quicker than rigging. Lowering is quicker more effecient and safer than cutting holding and chucking. You can cut pieces much larger so fewer cuts etc I'd of partially lowered those trees from the looks of the pics, especially that bendy limb, the positioning looked awkard and maybe I could of lowerred it easily and quickly in 3 bits. Hard to tell from pics though.