heres a pic of a climbers rig for the crane. It sits a top of the ball around the becket. 17 ton screw pin shackle with a 24" friction saver with a steel kardon biener. This keeps your rope clear of the ball incase theres any burrs on it you wont damage your climbing line. Note do not exceed...
Im a firm believer in using either the proper amount of wraps or switching to a larger diameter rope for larger pieces. Larger diameter rope means more surface friction on the barrel. For instance one and a half wrap with a 5/8" rope might be the equivilant to lets say 2 or maybe 3 wraps with...
I didnt have much of an opportunity to take much action shots until the trunk pic. Since the stems were cracked and split I thought the safest course of action was to use a 3/8 grade 70 chain, 3" rattcheting strap, and a 9/16"x30' amsteel sling rated at 30,000 lbs with a 7/8" screw pin shackle...
I took us over an our to position and set up the sixty in the back yard. at some times there was only 3-4 inches between the crane and house and crane and garage. A relatively easy task when you posses 6 wheel steering with a fully independent hydraulic suspension. After the pic was taken the...
This is the ash that caused the S.D. It had a total of 5 leads that were all co-dominant. 3 fell the 2 left in the air were both cabled togeter bout 30 feet of the ground and the west lead was directly over a single phase primary
This was the original setup position, but after the operator arrived he deciced that the back yard was a better place. Might I ad it was a tight squeese for our bucket truck to navigate. But we did decide to setup here to clean up the logs from the storm damage after we put 11 g's of counter...
Brought a sixty ton into a pretty tight location on 7/9. We had been working at this residence for three alternate days. The original call was for two storm damaged leads that fell directly on the west face of his house. The client knew that the remainder of the tree still posed a elevated...
Nice job! how come on the last cut you made it so high? What would you do or the better question is how do yoo pic such a small flush cut. Wouldnt it worked better just to cut at grade so theres no small round to handle?
I always wanted to know the def of a contract climber? When I used to do side work and the resident would always insist on hleping me with any kind of lowering I would always politly decline their services for fer of them not letting the piece run and shocking the tree and gear or slapping me...
The whole idea of no raking was to keep me and my crew cranking out the work that they couldnt do. They have pleanty of cheaper labor to do the stuff that released to their level. I dont blame them, Its kinda the same thing we tell penny pinchers abut hauling their waste to the front for...