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| Eric Frei Administrator - Brisbane L5 (Dip) Hort Cert III Arb + some Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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| Thought I had this one here but I must have missed it. I get a few inquiries on how you go about it, you know, the spikeless thing. Anyway, here's a start, I'm sure there's other ways, hitches etc and feel free to put up your ideas, pics and video. This video is MPG, so large file, and if you are downloading and it starts to hesitate or splutter, that's because it's playing faster than you are downloading ... solution is hit pause on the player and let it download the video. Once watched, best to save it if you want to rather than go thru it all again. 103mb MPG 10.19mins http://www.palmtreeservices.com.au/video/drtaccess.mpg And WMV 52mb version http://www.palmtreeservices.com.au/video/drtaccess.wmv
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| Astronaut Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia
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| Indeed it is a great video, golden oldy' . It helped me a great deal when I was still on my steep learning curve (not so steep now :P).
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| Tree World Icon Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Live Oak Florida home of the crapiest trees you will ever see.
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| Nice video Ekka a great source of learning for rookies and old guys wanting to learn a trick or two.
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| Afterburner is shakin' Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Canada
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| I just discovered this video, it is worth a watch for the members that are NEW to tree climbing.
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| Afterburner is shakin' Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Adelaide Australia
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| Nice work as usual Ekka ![]() I might have to practice that over this Easter weekend. In the first bit where you trunk walked, is the length of the bridge critical, or do you just use a length that is comfrotable for you? If i can master that, i might have to leave my ladders on the roofrack where they belong! ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| Astronaut Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia
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| Eek, ladder . The bridge length is indeed what you are comfortable with.How I measure (and was taught) the length of rope I need for my prussic(friction hitch) is; you grab the end of the rope and extend your arms as far as you can comfortably and cut it off to the length of what your arms can go. I guess for an open end hitch(blakes) you would extend them out as far as possible then take half of that(I used to guesstimate it when I used the blakes)?
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| Afterburner is shakin' Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Adelaide Australia
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Hey, whats wrong with ladders? ![]() After you've climbed up 8 metres without being tied in, swinging around in the tree seems much less scarey. ![]() ![]()
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| Astronaut Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Would much rather swing and launch off branch to branch or trunk to branch then climb up an unsecured ladder . It may be a bad thing, but I don't get "scared" just from swinging around in the tree... What's scary is going out too far on a limb(Going past the 45 degree angle from your t.i.p[The point where you foot hold starts bearing weight down onto the branch rather then being supported from above]) to the tip and it snapping beneath you, all while your screaming back in towards the trunk with the pretruding stub waving hello at you ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| Tree World Icon Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Live Oak Florida home of the crapiest trees you will ever see.
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| Afterburner is shakin' Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: belgium
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| we don't have any ladders and I'm not planning on buying one either... A ladder is too often used as a workspace and it is a dangerous tool to work on trees.A ladder is a means of access... and should be used only for that purpose. Ya'll couldn't imagine what insurance costs here to actually do work when standing on ladders. The trunk walk tech is used almost daily in my team... I've got a groundie/climber who even calls it the aussie trunk walk.... He uses it when he's tired of body-thrusting wich is actually quite a lot. I use it on demo's too... to show people that other ways exist to climb trees and that spiking is not always needed. |
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| Tree World Icon Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Live Oak Florida home of the crapiest trees you will ever see.
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| you rope climb palms?I spike them without exception.i'm not hanging my life on those fronds even with a false crotch setup.
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| Cruisin' Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Florida Keys
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| I will still spike a palm if the client wishes that price. But the spar on a royal is different. Normally I let them self prune, but this one was over an entrance with hanging fronds and pods just ready to kill someone. No bucket access, and too high and dangerous for ladders. The adjustable false croch is a very safe method; mixed with the Ddrt and the trunk walk, no problems. The bull rope goes over more than one frond. |
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