Therrin's Pics

Therrin

Some of these are from the good ol' Rock & Water Rescue days...
Some are from years past, and some are recent. I'm purchasing a new camera this week, so I should be able to update with some new pictures soon.


Tyrolean traverse at Fossil Falls in California.


Aid climbing (I'm really not fat...it was winter and I was bundled up)


First TD




The limb I'm in wasn't as strong as I'd have liked, so I used a 4" tow strap and a come along to secure it to the main trunk.

Drouin Tree Service

Cool!

California has many of the same trees i work with also,thanks for posting the pics.

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Eric Frei

Nice pics, on the traverse why didn't the guy on the other side just pull ya over?

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Therrin

The traverse was set up with a 3/4" rope, then to back me up, I was being belayed from each side with 7/16" ropes. We were camped out there at the Falls for a week as part of our Rescue Instructor training course.
They aren't overly savvy about the idea of hauling eachother anywhere if you can get yourself there by some means =)
During the days that we did high angle rescue techniques, we'd take turns being the "patient", and people hauled us around....
The tyrolean was actually pretty fun.
Since I'm young, and a real go-getter, I decided not to insist on being first, so I said "I'll go second"... and the whole thing came to a bit of a stand still. Two of the guys mentioned that they had kids and it got quiet. Then I said, "okay, well I could go first if you want". They all said Okay! and sprung into action. LOL. It was perfectly safe, but it was still pretty funny how it all worked out. The tyro line takes significant tension on both ends, and can be dangerous if not rigged just propperly.
The fall would have been about 80 to 90 foot, but the backups would catch at about 15 foot.

Ace Master

Therrin
Tree climbing and rock climbing your the man, well done love the pics, how big does those pines get in California.

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Therrin

Hello Ace,

Strangely, my first is still the largest. Roughly 145' and maybe 4' at the base.
In the last 4 months I've "done" (in one form or another) 95 some odd pines.

Not too big, compared to those beautiful Euc's you've got out there! I was lookin at some of your pictures earlier tonight, those things are MASSIVE! I'd go pick up the 880 for those monsters.

Eric Frei

Same with speed lines. Force on ends of rope are 5x load.

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Steve Tipton

I sometimes use the winch cable on the 4x4 for speedilining. A double sheave pulley is the way to go.

wit

Nice pics, that kind of trees in denmark is half the size, but it,s too cold for them up here.
regads
Wit

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shaggs

Hey Quintrex, we sometimes use the 4x4 12000lb winch as speedline too. Nice n strong. But I didn't get the use of the double sheave pulley??? Can you elaborate. Cheers

Eric Frei

Send the load down the speedline on a pulley ....

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Therrin

<nods> much less friction on the skin of something that's already bein stretched taut.

Sean Freeman

Careful now nobody move....................there's some very delicate double-entendre there somewhere.....

Therrin

I think you "know you're an arborist when...." You can make anything sound just wrong

Sean Freeman

Yep lol

Therrin

Wit,

Trees like which? I showed a few different ones.

Steve Tipton

Shaggs,
I have a stainless steel pulley from THS with normal sheave for lowering etc and a smaller sheave at the other end (anchor point), that allows it to roll down the speed line with no friction. I'll post a pic when I can.
For speed lining smaller branches, I have 1/2" treeline bull rope in 2 metre lengths with an eye spliced in 1 end, clip to SL with steel carabiner and tie off to victim branch with clove hitch, timber hitch, running bowline or what ever you favourite flavour is.

shaggs

Ta Quintrex, pic would be great. I was thinking double sheave pulley as in two sheaves side by side, like for a twin rope system. Cheers

wit

Hi Therrin

I think is a pine, it look like that, it is big !!!

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Therrin

Oh its not as big as your guy's Euc's. But it's still a fair drop to hit the ground. I always love when I'm workin up in the "Lakes" areas... up in the mountains, in the forest, with the lakes around, there are some spectacular views from the tops of those pines. I try to take a camera up with me whenever I'm wearing cargo pants.

mdvaden

Where you were crossing that chasm, would that happen to be one of the places that Bear Grylls went to when he was in Australia...

Crikey.......... !!

I hadn't seen him in days, and the instant I'm typing this, a commercial for his show comes on the television

Anyhow, saw him down in some recessed area between rock walls a week or two ago.

Therrin

Can't say it is... I've never been to Australia. I'm too afraid of being attacked by kangaroos and wombats.

It's a spot called "Fossil Falls" off highway 395 in California (USA), and not far from Mt. Whitney.

bigshea13

youve got a good photographer

newguy18

So how different is rock climbing from tree climbing?i nkow there is alot of specalized gear for it but I'm not familar with the general tricks of the trade.

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Therrin

It's significantly different. There are different grades of climbs, ranging on a difficulty scale. There are different types of rock. But there are also different types of rock climbing; from top-roping to aid climbing.

Different gear like cams, hex's, nuts, some still use pitons but they damage the rock, fifi hooks, tri-cams, equalizing anchors, non-equalizing anchors, tyroleans. Bolting for fixed routes, lead climbing, multi pitch routes, big wall, crag climbs, chimneys, etc etc.

It really is a different world. Being rope-savvy would be a bonus, but there are entire new skill sets and equipment differences to get used to. You couldn't really say "if you're an arborist who's damn good at using ropes and rigging, then you won't have any trouble rock climbing". Because its really so different. In general top-roping and such, you're kept safe by the rope, but you don't rely on it. There's slack, so if you fall, you actually fall just a lil bit. Aid climbing actually uses your pieces and your ropes dynamically as constant positive pressure pieces of the system.

It all depends on what kind of climbing you're shooting for, and what you hope to accomplish from it.

newguy18

i was just looking at doing it as a hobby.When my dad's uncle butch moved to kentucky last winter we helped him move up there and i had to find part of his property line which was on top of a mountain.the first 30' up was a skid road made by a dozer and the rest was an almost vertical ascent up rock and the occasional small tree for hand holds.It was only 350' up.Since then I've always looked into making a hobby out of it but there isn't any rock around here.

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G'day Therrin, don't worry about the wombats trucks & 4x4's have nearly got em fixed and if you punch out the leader those stalking greys will run, BUT if you see a big red looking at you get going. If we were all allowed to carry guns we could get them as well as croc's, tiger snakes,taipans, brown snakes and death adders and some introduced species. Funnel webs are a different story they sneak into your bed or your boots. Come over it's really safe here, don't believe what you read on other tree forums, unless you go in the water.

Therrin

Spurless climbing.

JohN Dee

Spurless and hardhatless .

Were you going around the trunk on those or trusting those branches ?

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Therrin

I'd have to say that there was a girl involved...

and that I was going around the trunk, as I saw no better way to safely proceed

Some of those branches my not have been completely safe, but the trunk, damn, going around it really made the difference.