Gord

An anchor bend is an excellent termination knot what are you all on about.

Useful as the pope's balls.

Thanks for the comments. This is just northwest of Vancouver, BC near the town of Gibsons. The song is The Black Keys - Things Aint Like They Used To Be. These weren't overly tall as far as Douglas-firs in the area go, maybe 140-160'. It's a pain having to move around in a gnarly tree like this with a bigger saw and 220' of rope I'll say.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g08_vqBj38k]YouTube - Old Firs[/ame] We took down these five old firs today, unfortunately I don't have any pics that really show the whole trees. Really cool old trees, very gnarly, lots of stuff to snag a rope or anything, funny limbs that start in front of you and turn back over your head. The three that I did were all leaning heavily, which (along with the really fissured and crumbly bark) made some of the cuts pretty awkward. Dusty too. The trees were slated for removal on recommendation of a survey done for the safety of the powerlines which were just dowhill. This was on public forestry land. Really cool branching. I swung into this one from the previous tree so I didn't have to fight my way past the flat part of the union. Another climber knocking off a log. I had a bit of a rest with a view here. You get a bit of an idea of the lean here. The bark was so sloughy on the first 35' or so that I had to shave it off as I went up.

It never rains in Vancouver...you just get a little mist now and then, very pleasant.

All it takes is one hangup and that load is getting dropped on your head (or the heli goes down). No thanks.

Hey mark, you're right it's a 3" rescue pulley.

I haven't posted much here so consider this me introducing myself. I'm Gord, I work in British Columbia in the Pacific North-West. This is a twisty Red Alder I pieced apart the other day and filmed it because it was a good spot for it. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbapMUwiLk]YouTube - Alder Takedown[/ame]

What kind of firs are those Tom? I've pieced apart a few Grand Firs locally about 200' tall.

Buckingham pinnacle, middle dees cut off and sliding bridge tied on to inside tie-in points 70m of yale XTC (waiting for it to wear out before I buy something a bit lighter), several shorter lines. VT tied with sta-set Buckingham spikes with the cast aluminum/foam pads yale wire core flipline 12' with climbright ropegrab or 18' rope lanyard made of 13mm static rescue with a vt to adjust

The silvey tree jacks are 45 tons capacity for a single.