Pics of pine dismantling

Therrin

Ok so here, finally, are the pics I put together of the pine dismantling job I'm working on.

I set a lifeline, and rigging line, up in a seperate tree (each on different leaders), and the pictures show the various things I mentioned before; garage, houses, hill, road, powerlines, the lean, etc.

Yes..I only had the wire-core flip while I was going up the one tree. Till I got up to where I had to start bypassing branches and cutting away the dead, then I looped in my other flipline.

There's some good shots of the rigging all set up, and in one you can see I not only have my two flips, but can see my lifeline angling up to the other tree as well. That line was run up through a Petzl pulley in that tree, and down through my rack descender and tied off; with enough free rope for my groundy to lower me down if necessary as just another backup to my saftey stuff.

I *REALLY* like the peltor muff/mesh visor system that I got that mounts onto my Petzl ecrin roc helmet. The visor doesnt stick up as bad as the Stihl combo helmet, it actually kinda spring-pivots up out of the way, but not sticking straight up.
Oh, and that yellow sack at my side I got with my Sherrill's order. That thing is very niffty. Great for holding all types of gear and easy to get at it, but stays outta the way. I think I'll get another one.

The guy in the one picture is my buddy Matts. Known him my whole life. He was awesome at helping me get all set up.

All in all it went well. I'll try to get more pics of the 3rd one that needs to come down (the biggest one).

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Therrin

Forgot to mention, the black straps over my orange shirt are a set of suspenders I made. Sewed them up using 2" webbing, single in back splits to one over each shoulder in the front. Quick release buckles on each strap in the front, and attatches in all 3 places to the main belt of the climbing harness (using sewn loops, not sewn to the harness)
I'm a "hipless" climber, and it did a great job of keeping my harness in place. I spent about an hour the night before designing and sewing it up. Worked very nicely.

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stirmantrees

nice pics and gear.
good job

phill ellison

good job and too

Therrin

ty! =)

Garry Brockley

Nice one Therrin good pics, looks like a gnarley tree

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Caleb

hmm great stuff nice pics!
I need to make some braces for my harness i have that problem to think i will give that a go, is annoying and needless to say dangerous wen u have to keep pulling your harness up with all that weight on, especially wen ure stropping down with out a main line. top stuff.

Therrin

I used 2" webbing. And bought 2 sliders and 2 QR buckles.

For the front I took 2 lengths, each about 1ft long, and sewed them so that on each I had a sewn loop, going through one end of the buckle. Then ran a strap through the top of one buckle, up over the shoulder, through a slider right between where my shoulder blades are, and down through another slider just above the back of my harness.
Down and completely around the harness, up from underneath, back through both sliders, and over the other shoulder, and through the other buckle.

That way it's completely around my harness in the back, but the slider at the bottom cinches it so it doesnt pull up on the back unevenly. The front of the harness belt (the part that buckles) slides through each of the two sewn loops, and then I just pull the ends of each shoulder strap to tighten it up.
If it snags or I need to get it off quickly for any reason, I can hit both QR buckles and it flips off my shoulders.

Its sooooo nice to have the weight of my harness mostly on my shoulders instead of always falling off my hips though, especially with the 200T or the 361 hanging on my belt.
I designed it so that I'm not physically altering or sewing my harness in any way, and can remove the whole thing in seconds if I dont want to use it.

There are harnesses out there for this reason, but none that are designed for my harness.

Cheers! Hope you figure something out! I'll take pics of it more close up if you'd like to see how I did it.

Caleb

well if you can be bothered that would be grand. I know alot of tree surgeons and none of them have this problem or have never mentioned it! maybe you should copy right the design just in case! many thanks.

vl2007

Eric Frei

Nice pics.

Good job, bit sticky was it?

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stirmantrees

man they get sticky blocking them down dont they

TrevMcRev

Good to see you back in some trees, putting your new gear to use, and making a plan come together

Treeson

Great work, nice shiny new gear and cool pics. Keep them coming!

bobdoesit

Hey great pics, see what you meant about the new gear. you must have had a good year in business last year?? Looks somewhat a little technical to good work.
And hey climb safe out there.

Rob.

Therrin

Eh, not so much that. I asked for a deposit on the job, and used that money to buy most of the gear. I've known the client for a long time.

Actually.... funny enough. The first tree I EVER climbed to cut was on his property. And several others for him throughout the years. He remarked that its been really cool to see my technique and skill and confidence build over the years.

Thanks for the positive responses.

Any critiques?? I figured flipping up the tree with the wire-core till I got to a point I could get the other lanyard around it was kinda a grey area... but you guys have been pretty gracious about it.
I've got a pic here of me one-handing the saw!!!!


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Psst! Caleb! Get your post count up to..what is it..5, or 10, so I can PM you!
I'll take pictures of the harness suspenders when I get it back.

I'm "loaning" my harness/spikes/200T to the guy who did most of my ground work (not the one pictured). And I know alot of you cringe at the thought of that, but he loaned me his spikes for 2 years before I ever had a set of my own, and I live at his house when I stay up there. He's gotten me out of several jams before, and he's working on a huge elm up at the facility where he used to be my boss; he was trying to climb it with his crummy harness, old spikes, and trying to use his 026 on it. ugh... I just couldnt let him do that without offering my gear.
He's the kinda guy that I can trust with my gear. I know that he checks it before and after working, and if he ruins anything, there'll be a new one waiting for me when I get there.
I'm sure at least some of you guys have friendships like that.

JohN Dee

Nice work Therrin. Great Pics!

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Therrin

Thanks JohnD.

I really thought I'd get a whole lotta criticism out of the TW blokes here, but they've been overly kind as all of it goes. ALsomst kinda scary, cuz I KNOW I couldnt done better, but working what I was able to get with what I now have has made a HUGE differernce in what you'd call my equipment stock pile.
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If you think i've done something wrong or screwed up .......... TELL ME!!!!! I'm not gonna learn otherwise. I realise there was only a few pics for the job, but gimme anything. If you can look and say "well hell, i'd have done it differently" TELLL ME ABOUT IT!!!!! I love being corrected. ok so shit, even if I dont love it, I still take to head what's been said to me and see how it'll factor into sucessive operations.

TrevMcRev

I looked again, really can't say much else than you could have accessed them SRT if you got the gear (which i think you do...) but otherwise, nothing too wrong with going up on spurs & flipline.

Good on you though for being open to learning from constructive critisism.

bobdoesit

Well i have felled those Pines i said i was going to do, but the weather here has been awfull. Here,s a couple of pic,s.

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bobdoesit

As you can see we had snow about 1 inch in 10 min,s. God it was cold and wet and windy to. Only took out the 2 leaning ones. Note how they had rubbed against the other Pines some bad damage on them.

Treeson

Cold down your way too then!
Good heavy frost up here today, managed to get landrover on to the
rugby pitch to pull rotten willow over without damaging grass.

Therrin

Nice pics Bob =)

bobdoesit

Cheers Therin only took them on my mobile phone. Will have to remember from now on to take more pics of job,s, befor and after shots.


And hey, Climb safe out there.


Rob.

spartek

I bet your flip line is TRASHED for sure with sap . I try to top as soon as I can up the tree. Pine trees suck. Fine job THerrin. Did you ever get a big saw yet?

newguy18

The only thing i'll criticize is you need to learn drt,espically when tying in to another tree to traverse and work in it,its real easy and there's a setup i know of that can be used so the ground dude can lower you in case of an emergency.Nothing wrong with spuring up a tree with just a flipline,its acceptable according to ansi standards.

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Therrin

Just a couple of small things, you might consider a soft link between the ropegrap and the steel core. If someone needs to get you out of the tree in an aerial rescue situation it can take time to release the grab I.E lift a dead weight off the line. so cutting a soft link is better.

Be careful you don t over load your capstan they are only rated to 1 ton. Peak forces can reach 10x mass so 100kg log can put you kit at the limit of its safe working load.

Other than that NICE JOB