This is rigging!

flushcut · Nov 24, 2023

You better or I’m going to come looking. Lol

chris_girard · Nov 24, 2023

OK, so here are my long-awaited photos of the H2 modification.

chris_girard · Nov 24, 2023

I own two H2's. The older one doesn't have the insert.

chris_girard · Nov 24, 2023

Here's some photos of this week's high-lead job out on an island here in NH.

chris_girard · Nov 24, 2023

Here's a few more.
We had to haul the Oak pieces from down the rocky slope, to up below the high-tension ROW powerlines.

chris_girard · Nov 24, 2023

Once again, I want to give thanks to my late friend and mentor, Norm Hall for showing me the ways to incorporate mountaineering and search and rescue techniques into my tree work arsenal.

flushcut · Nov 25, 2023

Very slick!

Bendroctanus · Apr 30, 2024

This thread got me thinking and I started tinkering. Tried it out there on the ground and seems very promising for actual rigging and such. I don’t have a welder and I didn’t necessarily want to weld a socket permanently to my Hobbs so I ground out two sides of a 2” socket and fit a 7/8” pin through the holes on the Hobbs capstan. Seems to work pretty great and its removable. Just another option. I’ll try to get some more media of it’s use.

chris_girard · May 25, 2024

I'll be curious to see how much weight you can lift with the torquing of the drill.

Keep us posted, thanks.

Bendroctanus · May 25, 2024

Well, after using the gas powered drill and a battery drill, it doesn’t work nearly as well as I’d hope. There’s not enough torque on the drill to generate any substantial lift. I only used it on the one job with a reeve and then a block in a false crotch so I need to experiment a bit more but I was a little disappointed. I think it would be more effective on a harken.

flushcut · May 25, 2024

Bendroctanus said:
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This thread got me thinking and I started tinkering. Tried it out there on the ground and seems very promising for actual rigging and such. I don’t have a welder and I didn’t necessarily want to weld a socket permanently to my Hobbs so I ground out two sides of a 2” socket and fit a 7/8” pin through the holes on the Hobbs capstan. Seems to work pretty great and its removable. Just another option. I’ll try to get some more media of it’s use.

Very nice!