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    Today....

    That's downright scary how thin the supporting wood is. How far up did the hollow go?
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    Work Photos

    I've been managing to stay pretty busy in this nice weather.
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    Another climb... another haul. Fortunately, the HO had a nice two-wheel cart that carried everything to the street in one trip.
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    Throw bag hitting shingle roof...How bad?

    That's the redirect I used while cutting the limb just below and to the right of the pulley. The limb went down a speed line away from me. Before climbing on the redirect, I had put the arrangement up, bounced hard on the vertical lines several times, then took it down to check the knots. All...
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    Throw bag hitting shingle roof...How bad?

    HO wants the whole limb gone or as much gone as I can remove safely. I'm trying to decide if there's more I can do without undue risk.
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    Throw bag hitting shingle roof...How bad?

    Not gonna be on the roof, just close to it. I built two two-story houses by myself when I was much younger, and I shudder to think about nailing the drip edge flashing and first courses of shingles in place with no PPE. I'm thinking about a redirect at the red dot so I can remove more branches...
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    I forgot to mention that I tried out my new helmet and visor yesterday. It's definitely light and comfy. About halfway through the climb I thought I should bring the visor down only to find it was ALREADY down. Good protection without a bit of obstruction...gotta like that kind of PPE. Hats...
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    Work Photos

    I couldn't believe all this stuff... was hiding in this tree. The higher I climbed the more I found.
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    Throw bag hitting shingle roof...How bad?

    Asphalt shingles. I'll use the range finder and lay out enough line for the bag to come down halfway before trailing it with my gloved hand. That should make for a soft landing. I'll let the HO know what I'm doing. They're pretty agreeable. Thanks for the help.
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    Throw bag hitting shingle roof...How bad?

    I need to get a line over a limb close to a house, and the 12-ounce bag will fall on the shingle roof from about thirty feet up. It's also possible the bag will bounce off the bottom of the limb and then hit the roof even harder. How much damage to the shingles (currently in good condition) is...
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    Work Photos

    I rigged, cut, and lowered this largish broken limb. It landed clear of the plantings and cutting it up was easy. The pile in the foreground is stuff that fell in the neighboring yard on the way down.
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    Lots of dead wood in this longleaf pine... and I got all of it.
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    We've got quite a variety with longleaf, loblolly, short leaf, and I'm sure some others. Lots are more than 100 feet tall, but my highest climbs have been around ninety feet. Some of the tallest trees are over three feet at the base while a few are less than a foot. We've got lots of oak...
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    Work Photos

    Got a pine here leaning over a tangle of small oak branches I had to climb through... to cut all this dead stuff. (That pic above was taken after the climb.) I decided to reward myself with a new helmet and visor at a nice discount.
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    Work Photos

    This started out as the removal of an unwanted low limb from an oak but then I spotted a dead limb on the pine.
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    Two trees side-by-side with two dead limbs in each. Two nice climbs and an addition to the yard debris pile
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    Work Photos

    What is this?
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    Here's my setup for getting rid of the last large branch today. Another successful speed line op, this one controlled by the top dragging on the ground. Note to self: Don't leave bookmark cord on ground under speed line.
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    Any way to redirect this redirect?

    It took more fiddling than I expected to get the MRS pulley where I wanted it for the straight up climb, but otherwise my plan worked pretty well. Didn't have any problem getting rid of the branch with a controlled speed line.
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    Any way to redirect this redirect?

    I checked the alignment this afternoon. Using the pink circle up high on the right and the blue circle on the left will put me within easy reach of the limb at the yellow line. I can connect ropes from those points to a 3/8" delta screw link holding the pulley for my climbing rig, pull it up...

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