Yea its my rope guide, was so much faster and safer than spiking down! All retrievable no worries, the dogman was impressed anyway.
That job was a bit of a bugger actually, didn't go the way we wanted. The dogman had the radio and sole unconditional contact with the crane driver which was good but he would not listen to anything we said! His chain rigging system was a joke, there is NO WAY it was going to stop the palms inverting. By adding the half hitch, it slowed my set up time in the tree down and had it inverted, the half hitch would have done nothing but slip all the way down the palm as it was set the wrong way around!
If it haven't been for our butt rope system and it did invert, whos fault is it then? We were just doing the cutting...
My cuts were a bit buggered up by the way the crane was putting tension on the palms, due to one attachment point, so after the first one i had to instantly change the way i finished the cut. I think Ekkas step cut on the last one worked best as it was easier to over lap the cuts by a lot. The bloke wouldn't put any more than 100 or 200 kgs over the weight of the palm on the crane so there was NO way they could break any sort of hinge wither in be 5mm thick.
Anyway all went really well in the end, safe, smooth and controlled (by our butt rope) and another job is done.
