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  1. Mitch Hoy

    Tail tricks

    I just tried a transfer like that for the first time the other day, man it is a slick trick! Usually I would use a hook, or boomerang the throwball/line I keep in my tool pouch, but when descending on another tree, zipping down the tail is the way to go! Quick, easy, and fun.
  2. Mitch Hoy

    Tail tricks

    What are your favorite ways to utilize the tail of your rope? Tricks for tail management? Lately, I have been tying a monkeys fist, and sending my tail over a crotch well overhead, and base anchoring it in the tree. I then switch my system to it, hit my objectives, and come back to the base...
  3. Mitch Hoy

    What obstacles have homeowners left out to make your job more interesting.

    I wondered, since he was climbing/falling them.
  4. Mitch Hoy

    Comment on my plan

    I would be anchoring on to the trees that my PSP is through, but I can see the compression you are trying to create and it’s great that you are thinking about it. This looks solid to me, although I haven’t seen the trees. Pre-planning like this is a great exercise and makes these situations...
  5. Mitch Hoy

    What obstacles have homeowners left out to make your job more interesting.

    I forgot to mention that it was single digits on that Ash job, big gloves and hand ascender cold. It would make me sad to take out that many hornbeams! We seem to have less and less of a species that was already precious few. That means Blue Beech/ironwood in our territory, Same tree?
  6. Mitch Hoy

    Roll off truck?

    This deserves a thread. Who did the fab for your russian doll cans?
  7. Mitch Hoy

    Roll off truck?

    @climbhightree, how much does that rig weigh? Do you find yourself ever dumping the roll off within extension before you pad out to a tree? What is your extension? If you have a thread on your build, I would like to see it.
  8. Mitch Hoy

    Roll off truck?

    @colb , can you give me a link to this trailer? Curious since you mentioned it in that other thread.
  9. Mitch Hoy

    Hiring

    I cleaned house this winter and fired all of my employees. Opioids. It’s like a plague around here. In the mean time, I have been doing well by networking with other small businesses in my area that are in the tree and green industry and hiring them as subcontractors. I’ve taken to Craigslist...
  10. Mitch Hoy

    What obstacles have homeowners left out to make your job more interesting.

    I once spent the morning rigging down two big Ash with a large buckthorn between them. The homeowner was aware it was buckthorn, but wanted something left for privacy, so we worked around it adding some good time to the job between the two large trees. When both trees were down, the homeowner...
  11. Mitch Hoy

    Roll off truck?

    I know two companies that run them as their main material haulers. They are a great way to put away tree, especially for companies that run a full sized skidder with a grapple bucket. I know both companies have multiple containers and will drop off a few on big jobs. One company hauls a mini...
  12. Mitch Hoy

    Saw technique???

    Exactly! I wanted the hinge to break after the stem had committed more than 45d to the fall. I'm sure you've seen a peg like this go a little to one side because the hinge ripped from one side to another. The blockout or an open face limits the degree the stem can side travel if this occurs...
  13. Mitch Hoy

    Saw technique???

    Just to show, the top of that stem was not cut and shifted, I had to fit that elbow in the fall. That's why I had the face gunned slightly left, and the snipe slightly right. I needed space to fit the morphology away from the shed, but I needed the stem to come off the stump in the middle of...
  14. Mitch Hoy

    Saw technique???

    Wish I had taken a profile of this stump, but next to the gas you can see the pie and block. As you can see, the stump is also sniped.
  15. Mitch Hoy

    Saw technique???

    To add a blockout to a conventional notch, you make a plunge cut parallel with the hinge and directly below where the angle and level cut intersect, so that the top of the plunge intersects with the other two cuts at the back of the face cut. You then make another level cut to intersect the...
  16. Mitch Hoy

    Saw technique???

    Angle first does great for big trees. I have taught many how to fall with success following these guidelines: 1. Choose lay 2. Mark lay 3. Square saw to grain 4. Point falling sight at target 5. Angle saw 6. Cut to desired depth 7. Square saw perpendicular to grain 8. Cut from corner to...
  17. Mitch Hoy

    Saw technique???

    Evidently this is controversial, but I always angle cut first. It’s much easier to gun the angle and then cut perpendicular to the grain from corner to corner, humbolt or conventional. I’m all about simplicity and consistency. This is also why I usually add a blockout to a conventional notch...
  18. Mitch Hoy

    Retired hitch cord use

    I still trust them for most chores you would use a tubular webbing sling, in rigging. It would be interesting to pull test some worn chord with some memory to it. I’m not very tolerant of chord that is starting to lose function. I’m sure I retire eye to eyes that are still acceptable for life...
  19. Mitch Hoy

    What kind of spurs do you guys use?

    Just a PSA, if you sharpen your gaffs on a belt sander or belt grinder (I do), make sure to take small, quick passes and cool in water between each. That point is so small, you can overheat it super quickly (especially on a dull belt) and lose the temper. All it takes is heating it over...
  20. Mitch Hoy

    Sideways Barberchair

    The only time I have had a barberchaired tree was from an old boss who was cranking on a big dead scotch pine with a mini. I got partway through the back-cut and the ground opened up below my left foot, it split all the way into the stump. I know another contract climber that got circle of...
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