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Originally Posted by newguy18 that's a lot different from the way i usually send tops out of a tree it is defenitly easier to tie.thaks |
It all goes, depending on the size of the stuff being rigged, as much as the size of the tree.
I used to rig fairly big stuff, a long time ago. We'd use the square neck of the trailer. Position the pickup truck, remove coupling, wrap 4 times, reconnect trailer to the pickup. Po man's bollard. The time I lifted the the truck's asz off the ground.....praying the trailer would not spontaneously uncouple with the brief vision of a garage about to meet a limb and a trailer about to meet a garage.
I got off without incident on that one, but it made me rethink the logic of 'bigger is better.'
Even in the largest of trees an average, normal Arborist would do- Not the California Coastal redwood guy, or the giant Aussie Euc guys or the New Zealand Kauri men. I mean, NORMAL as in all trees less than monstrous. Our bread and butter normal-big tree takedowns.
Here's one we finished the beginning of this week, really big for me, and this one was over three properties, a pole at the base of the tree with power and service coming off it to three residences and a lamp pole, also underneath. There were two fences, each going different directions and a garage of the neighbor's, right below. The far side of the towering crown was over a dense stand of trees owned by the neighbors.
This is the first tree that I have ever chosen another tree company to help me with a job. Usually it's been the other way around.
But I needed this crown out, not in two days, but in 6 or 7 hours. I have never worked a tree with a bucket man, but this cat just got a new 75' bucket. It was too hard to resist, given the sheer number of obstacles below. Did I mention the dogwood tree 3 meters from the base planted as a gift by her Mom?
I must say, this job was a challenge, especially the third of the crown over top of other trees. You don't want to lower stuff into other trees, EVER and not on the neighbor's property if at all possible. The intent was to wood-walk out into the tiny sliver of yard we were calling a drop zone. Instead, I was seeing that was overly complicated rigging and would take too long, I blocked out and bombed the hunks from the middle stem, and we decided to just do some massive swings. In this pick, my mate is fully extended in his 75' reach. That's our rigging point he's workin. I'm in the crown, to the right. We were using natural crotch and 5/8" stable braid.
