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Fuxk me. Alex has posted about something other than rigging. No he hasn’t.
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Aye. Good day. Laid Northumbrian style. i.e. Didn’t waste any of the bloke’s stakes and binders. Would have done a cow style had anyone said the field was for cows but whatever. Snapped a pleach I really needed to not but made a reasonable fix. Got all my brash back in and a bit of some other bloke’s. Came second in class. Decent craic. People helpful. Pleasant spot. Good weather. Nice little late lunch at the prizegiving.
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Big J has remarked on birch quality in the UK compared to Scandinavia (but he would wouldn’t he).
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That's a good goal but there's a mistake you can make, trying to be too clever. I made it, trying to be too clever. Mistake is this: You tension the rigging rope and hold it fairly firmly, thinking you're preventing the spike of the intial loading by pulling it on yourself. If the hinge holds, you've made a massive lever that will put a massive load on the rope. And the shorter the rope (like if you're crotch rigging) the less rope there is to absorb that lever power in rope stretch. You can create monstrous forces in that little triangle. If the hinge breaks, the butt will try to hit you. So sometimes it's better to let it move and catch it later. And a related, general point since it's in the picture. Decisions to butt, belly, tip or inbetween tie should be made very consciously.
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Interesting stuff, cant quite visulise it but I like having the tops swinging into tension rather than dropping straight down. It's the peak force thing someone (probably Joe) was talking about a few pages ago. Simplified, you get the weight of the piece and multiply it by 1 for a perfectly static crane pick and 11 for a worst case scenario, dead stop negative rig with a drop. So a 50kg piece plucked beatifully from a high point (50x1=50) might be a lower peak force than a 10kg piece that drops and jolts (10x8=80). Quiet, peaceful, gentle rigging good. Droppy, smashy rigging bad.
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I’ve had a beer and am now too full of love (and hedgelaying enthusiasm) to argue. Namaste, brother Mick.
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Observed at Knitsley today. Cutting at Thropton tomorrow. Undecided on style. I think it’s sort of a leg two of today, mostly same people etc. Seemed to be either South of England, Midland or Lancs/Westmorland today.
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Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a billhook to sharpen. Having seen a hedge laid for the first time today, I’m entering a competition tomorrow.
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Just based on what I’ve seen. Less than you but still some. Plus I’ve never encountered anyone anywhere near as bullish about them as you are. You must have some golden touch.
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It’s OK Mick. Nearly home and dry. Unless… Avez-vous fait réduire un bouleau entre 1990 et 2027 ? Vous pourriez avoir droit à une compensation!
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Maybe so but on birches, what’s to know? You cut them, they rot.
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😄 Yes then. 🫡
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Have you mysteriously found yourself recommending more fells than prunes in the last couple of years?
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Getting paid twice when it’s rotting to bits and needs to come down in five years.
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Got up early to go to a hedgelaying competition. It’s my birthday. I’m thirty six and a half.
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Dempsey and Connor Kyle JonJoe New on facebook. Only Dempsey doesn't also sell horse tack.
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P.S. Would I cut and chuck everything below your orange line? Only if I wanted a lot of exercise, more risk of dropping something and the job to take longer.
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There’s my first thought. Pair of rings at the top, using both tops. Three strand through the crotch bottom right to keep the stem pulled a bit towards centre rather than just leverarming down and left. Could pull more right with a ring/tuckbehind at the red V. Groundsman operates tail at A. You operate tail at B. Obviously you’re constrained by your drop zone, groundsman etc but bigger pieces can be gentler rigs than smaller ones. A small piece butt tied and caught negatively might be jerkier than a large one tip/belly tied with butt weight keeping the butt down. Obviously this is a small tree and you could get away with doing it any old way but get your eye in building rope angles, strong shapes etc on small ones. Right. Someone else suggest a different way. Point out the downsides of mine. Let’s all get better at rigging.
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Good start I’d say. Groundsman or DIY rigging? Where’s the best drop zone?And estimate how many cuts to piece it out below the orange line. I’ll do a sketch in a bit.
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I meant sketch some rigging lines on it. Put it in your other thread if you want. I can see how I'd probably do it (from what I can see/guess from your photos).
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Nice tree. So you cut and chucked all of it besides that one rig you showed us?
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I'd have put money on Mick saying that. Robocop on hold btw. Finishing season seven of King of the Hill first, I tell you hwat.
