Thanks John, you know as I've said before I love working with cranes, especially when you get operators who are interested in your techniques and solutions to problems. We had so little room on the second pick of the Fig, I had to cut the base with no real escape route so securing the tree using the portawrap was the only solution, short of removing the tree piece by piece.
The dogman form All State Cranes Mike was perfectly happy once he saw the rigging line (7ton breaking strain) and the loopie for the porta wrap (12ton), Stephen Tim and myself always go out of our way to clearly define what we're going to do in a toolbox before anything happens, we document our risk assessments and always always get a majority agreement on the method we're going to use....doing this we have been able to do tricky jobs quicker, smarter and safer......now I just need to find a crane company that will let me rig myself off the ball........
