browncow
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We have some funny signals the boys on the ground send to the climbers. Forearm raised vertically and other hand 'chopping' in halfway on the forearm means 'stop fluffing about and send the whole top, you have heaps of room ya nancy'. - used when doing removals. Same signal but with hand 'chopping' in at the base of the forearm/elbow means 'room to fell it whole now, stop chogging the stem its taking too long'.
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Its a full wrap handle. Awesome for weird work positioning and the saw has a modded exhaust so it chews through big wood.
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Hi mate, yeah 90% percent of the time I leave my access line in the tree on a pulley slung to a branch so the groundies can haul gear up and down and also serves as a rescue line. I usually climb on a 40m rope if I can get away with it in big trees so definitely helps to have a rescue/bomb out of the tree line in place. Of course sometimes its just not feasible to have a line hanging in the tree when bombing out really big wood and so on those occasions I will climb with a longer rope (60m) so as to be able to choke it and bomb out single line in an emergency. Not ideal I know - but whats the worst that could happen:001_tt2:
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Nice week brother, congrats on the engagement
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This is a rather hastily edited vid of removing the dead top of a Tingle tree over an access rd to a popular tourist destination in southwest Australia. We pruned about 15 of these trees on the last trip ranging from 50 to about 65m tall. The top 1/2 to a 1/3 of the trees are dead owing to a massive bushfire 50 years ago. Makes for a bit of puckering at times when your spikes punch through into nothing The only hazards below are the road and the other vegetation - mostly the lower branches of the tree being worked on are to be preserved. Sorry no tunes, just grunting and groaning.
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Cheers brother
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Splicing is a funny one hey bro. I am happy to splice ropes for people having break tested my splices and being confident that the splices I do are done according to the rope manufactures recomendations. However - I wont splice eye to eye friction cords for peeps as I am always worried that they will hang on the the friction hitch way past its use by date simply because they can't splice a new one themselves and may like the neatness of the splice over a knot. I use knots on mine anyway as I don't like the stiffness of the hitch when spliced and i am sure I have no liability for this anyway but it still worries me enough not to do it.
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Sweet. They got some nice toys to play with hey.
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Hi Tom, Yeah tune is the Black Keys and the tree is in south-western Australia. It is a Marri/Red-gum (Corymbia calophylla). Not particularly large for this species and a pretty open drop-zone. I just like the camera angle. What I hate about this type of angle is how it shows how often I cut with one hand. Its hard to change 16 years of bad habits:blushing:
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Yep yale blue tongue and a homemade pulleysaver
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cheers guys
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Red-gum dismantle
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Ha ha, I have no comment on the rope wrench but that Sam Cooper vid is totally awesome quality. Was that a tree?
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I have finally gone to the dark side and ordered one of the new wrench's and a stiff tether. Have been tempted by this style of climbing for quite while. Now to see how I get on with it :-)
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go pro and contour are both good bits of kit
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Thanks for the replies guys
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I am looking into getting a low stretch (and not too bloody expensive) access line. What are your recommendations for 10mm lines. In an ideal world I would go with 10mmAP but the price is rather prohibitive.
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Cheers bro. I know what ya mean with giving the arms a workout. I tried the rope rocket system for a while but went back to the frog walker. I try and vary the pain between pulling with my arms more for a bit then going back to mostly legs if that makes sense. Of you are ever in wa drop me a line and we can go climb some big karri and tingle.
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Heres an Australian Geographic piece on some tree measuring and data collection we have been doing over the last year. Beautiful trees these Karri:001_smile: VIDEO: The giant Karri trees of Western Australia - Australian Geographic
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Toowoomba for a month? You poor bugger, I lived there for a few months back in the day. Loads of big camphor laurels though - fun to climb:001_smile:
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Ha ha, got the best if both worlds, if it doesn't have a ladder in it already then out with the crossbow. I will post up a vid sometime of some of the fire lookout trees we have pruned, big ladder trees
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Yeah we use exactly that setup here in Aus for our big tree stuff. 200 pound crossbow and fishing braid. Can set lines up around 70m.
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Yeah nice guess:biggrin:
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Hi, any climbers or groundies looking for work in Southwest australia (Busselton) give me a yell, [email protected] or reply on here or call on +61488119051. Long or short-term no worries - we are BUSY:001_smile:
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streamlined?
