Better be a damned good excuse for something that ridiculous, what good is team development if one teammate is dead? Something that all of the standards and regs fail to address, some people are simply not cut out to work in dangerous trades. It does not mean they are less of a person by any...
Tree crews could be compared to sailing crews, you need trust for success and survival. If someone endangers the the crew they get tossed overboard. In the old world one might even be so embarrassed and ashamed they'd throw themselves over. When it's life and death there's no time for patty...
My guess is yes, a grcs could tension the rope with 500lbs on it in that config. Sorry though I don't know for sure. I only ever used that setup with brush and a chipper winch, it worked well enough. I learned it from a vid posted on this site some years ago, thought it was oldfart but can't...
It looks like one of the lower trees might be tall enough to make a slow line, meaning anchor a rope as high as possible in a downhill tree, attach load to rope with slings as you would a speed line, redirect rope uphill and tension rope with a skidsteer, truck, grcs, etc. load will float up to...
I'm not sure what you meant by this exactly, but for me it's the hype, too much hype... especially the akimbo seems like a few years now like people think it will give them wings lol that's red ballz...
A post in another thread made me curious about the timeline of srt coming into trees in particular about what different gear came around at what time.
This thread is talking unicender in 05, seems like it was around before this thread as well...