First of all I'll tell it to you the way it is.
Took near an hour to set the pull rope.
Shot the branch with big shot 18oz bag, wouldn't come down. Now luckily after many shots it didn't get stuck and came down. I gave the big shot heaps too, near pulled it to the ground so I could get a lot of line up and over the branch I shot.
(might need new rubber now)
To isolate branch in the end I had 4 bags on the line so it would run. I had ...
1x 20oz bag
1x 18oz bag
2x 16oz bags
Then I pulled up a light 12mm rope which is 50m long, and it just got it done. Then with that rope pulled up the 22mm double braid rope ... yada yada yada set the rope with shackle so no rope on rope friction, set the redirect pulley for the ute etc etc. Now almost 2 hours gone setting up.
Ironbark's bark is like plates of steel, if the line goes under a plate (which it did) you are pretty much stuffed.
Ute was downhill but on soft ground due to recent rain so not good.
Now the tree was ugly, the video doesn't do it justice ....
Combination of wide screen shot by customer and normal by me. I left a lot of the cutting footage in so people could see the crap that goes on, I chose that cutting position as the preferred place to fell it ... was between all the abominations!
I did have wedges inserted to back me up.
Around 6min and 28mb WMV
http://www.palmtreeservices.com.au/v...arkfelling.wmv