browncow
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This is a biggish Eucalyptus maculata we did this week. Bit of a tightish spot with 33kv lines below/beside and service wires as well to the house. Good fun [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFTtbqy3AzA]nannup eucs - YouTube[/ame]
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I'm sure i read somewhere that Petzl said the top hole connection was engineered and built the same as the rig and grigri. I dont own a grigri but the attachment point on my rig certainly appears much more robust than on my zigzag? Anyway the zigzag makes a good paperweight on the office desk for now.
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My thoughts are with you and your family bro
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Yeah nice kit but fark operating that without any protection on the cab. Blow a hose or make a cock-up and you be wearing that tree.
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Have a good look at the tree before and as you climb. Its definitely a personal thing and depends on the tree. I am more concerned with the bits I can't see failing (root collar etc) when climbing dead trees than anything I can see. Here is some encouragement
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Had my first climb on a zigzag today. I was pretty impressed with the intuitive nature of it coming from a hitchclimber setup. All was going swimmingly till I got absolutely flogged by bees 30 odd metres up a large euc. I hauled ass out of there using my petzl rig on my access line and now the zigzag is sitting up the tree overnight in a swarm of pissed off bees.
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Both a locking brummel and a class 2 are ok for 8mm beeline but if you are making an eye to eye hitch cord you won't have the length to do a full 2 fid length bury as per the class 2 splice. Just do a locking brummel each end and bury a 6inch tail with a nice taper, pull the core back through the cover, whip and then dip the eyes in 'whip and dip' or similar.
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I reckon there are probably plenty of places for the bugs to live without coronet pruning but i really like the way the cuts blend in to the environment and make it hard to see that the tree has even been pruned by man.
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The force generated also depends on the amount of rope in the system, the dynamics of that rope and how much your groundy likes you.
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I've got 60m of arrow frog. Its ok, similar to blue tounge but with I think more nylon in the core so more stretch
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I clipped my lanyard into my caritool once as a kind of breakaway system when I didn't really trust the piece I was rigging off and tied to. I then forgot about how I was tied in and disconnected my rope whilst only tied in by the caritool. Stupid mistake and one I won't make again.
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Here is one i knocked up on the cheap. just throw a vt on it and ya good to go
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How to tie on to a straight vertical trunk when chogging down?
browncow replied to recycledsole's topic in Rigging and roping
On the treemotion you can use the lower d to attach a large biner and munter hitch it to the rope below your hitch. Easy bailout with no extra clutter like grigri. Mind you I wouldn't want to bail out on this for more than 20 or 30 metres. For tall trees i think a purpose built descender like grigri or rig is a more failsafe option -
How to tie on to a straight vertical trunk when chogging down?
browncow replied to recycledsole's topic in Rigging and roping
I choke my climbing line beneath my lanyard on smooth clean poles so I can bail out by quickly putting a munter hitch beneath my friction hitch. On poles with a stub or two on the back just leave rope set up double rope as per normal beneath lanyard. -
If it was mine I would take it to a laundromat, chuck some washing powder in and wash it. If its still oily wash it again. Good to go
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a couple more
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These were easy days, make a big mess and let an 18ton loader do the clean-up
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um.. where are the pics?
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nice one Ling, you did it bro
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Just a few shots from last week that I think show how ******* cool our job is!
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I live in Australia so I get, Them - 'so your a tree lopper then' Me - 'sort of, not really' Them - 'well what do you do' Me - 'prune trees, consult, remove difficult and dangerous trees, brace, write reports, transplant trees....' Them - 'oh yeah your a tree lopper'
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Funny all this 'knots are the only way', 'slings are the best', 'biners are black death' bollocks. Obviously they all have their place as long as you take into consideration the loads and configeration used. 90% of the time I use biners and a straight choke. Big stuff I go back to knots - works for me. I have busted loads of gear but never blown out a steel biner used in a choked configeration
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It looks cool, I would like to try it out first. Only potential downside is the 'shortness' of the device effectively hiding the 'prussik' behind the top biner.
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awesome vid and amazing tree
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I climbed on a bowline for years and years. Always used to do a half hitch with the tail on the loop of the bowline as a stopper. I like the fishermans these days but both work just fine.
