Today....

The, hardly ever uses a rope guy, used a rope today to pull over a tree, and did it with a winch, which is also rare for me.
Had a large aspen tree at the bottom of a bluff that was leaning hard out over a boat dock and boat. Only place to put the tree was straight up the bluff. Top of the bluff was about 90 feet up. No way for me to get anything to the tree, so I shot a line near the top and pulled up a 5/8" rope, 600' long. Threaded the rope up the bluff, through the trees, adding two snatch blocks enroute and out to a driveway where I had my truck parked. Then back down the bluff to the tree. I have a home-built accessory on my winch that operates from a remote that allows me to wind in about 6" with each press of the button. Once I had command of the tree I made my cuts and began, six inches at a time, watching as the tree came upright. Once straight up I stopped and made some new cuts to allow more hinge wood to flex, then began the six inch at a time thing again until it toppled where I wanted t to go. Fortunately I don't do cleanup work on dropped trees unless they are in a road or right-of-way. It will stay where it fell, as it fell. All in all an easy job, just a pain in the ass hauling that much rope up a bluff by myself. Spent way more time moving that damn rope uphill and through the woods than the entire rest of the job combined. It was an expensive tree to the boat owner, but he was happy with the results.
 
Shadowscape said:
The, hardly ever uses a rope guy, used a rope today to pull over a tree, and did it with a winch, which is also rare for me.
Had a large aspen tree at the bottom of a bluff that was leaning hard out over a boat dock and boat. Only place to put the tree was straight up the bluff. Top of the bluff was about 90 feet up. No way for me to get anything to the tree, so I shot a line near the top and pulled up a 5/8" rope, 600' long. Threaded the rope up the bluff, through the trees, adding two snatch blocks enroute and out to a driveway where I had my truck parked. Then back down the bluff to the tree. I have a home-built accessory on my winch that operates from a remote that allows me to wind in about 6" with each press of the button. Once I had command of the tree I made my cuts and began, six inches at a time, watching as the tree came upright. Once straight up I stopped and made some new cuts to allow more hinge wood to flex, then began the six inch at a time thing again until it toppled where I wanted t to go. Fortunately I don't do cleanup work on dropped trees unless they are in a road or right-of-way. It will stay where it fell, as it fell. All in all an easy job, just a pain in the ass hauling that much rope up a bluff by myself. Spent way more time moving that damn rope uphill and through the woods than the entire rest of the job combined. It was an expensive tree to the boat owner, but he was happy with the results.
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Man, I have only gotten to use the double hinge trick once, but that shit is glorious.
 
AdkEric said:
My buddy on the ground only got one pic of today's work, but spent a humid morning removing this bushy white pine
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The old camelback trick, I see. I tried that in the lift for one day. I basically couldn’t ration my intake and drank the whole thing too quickly. Couldn’t wait to get it off my back. I bet I could do better now! It’s really important to hydrate properly in our trade.
 
oceans said:
The old camelback trick, I see. I tried that in the lift for one day. I basically couldn’t ration my intake and drank the whole thing too quickly. Couldn’t wait to get it off my back. I bet I could do better now! It’s really important to hydrate properly in our trade.
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Actually they're just suspenders, but I believe they make a detachable hydration pack for them. Haven't tried a camelbak climbing yet, I think I would have trouble rationing my intake as well.
 
Storm damaged Norway coming out today. Went through a 40” gate into the back yard. The utilities running along the backyard property lines is uncommon around here for the most part.

What had previously failed and filled up the yard had already been removed by a landscape company several months ago. Now she wanted the rest taken out down to the fence height. We forwarded all the trunk material to the trailer and rolled to the yard to pick it off when the log truck then went back to the site for the crane.

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