Well, I think it took around 3 hours. But ...
It was the first time the groundy used a lowering device.
It was the second groundy's 2nd day.
There was a lot of communication and learning going on ... like letting it run, DOWN NOW (and I near got clobbered seen in the video), the lowering rope got a knot in it that got stuck whilst the section was up in the air, flicking the rope back up ETC ETC ... in other words a lot of BS was going on.
Also what a climber misses out on is some feedback, clearances, slews, loads etc so you also are more mentally drained coz you are thinking for 3 with little guidance from the ground. Also set up is all up to you, from what slings, pulleys, ropes etc ... where as a pro groundy would look at the tree and know what gear to get out.
So, tree down 3 hours in my circumstances, normally I would have put 2 on it but not this crew. Good ground guys can make or break you mentally, besides the physical part of the job you have to think defensively for poor lowering and stuff ups, like your life line twisted into the lowering rope but no-one says anything and you cant see it coz it's round the other side of the trunk.
Your lifeline is tangled onto a fence and stuck, you cannot move!
Your ropes are in the log bombing zone but no-one cares!
Yes, these are all the things edited out.
