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  1. huggybear

    Standard Face Cut For Lifting Picks?

    For the most part for horizontal limbs we use a 8 foot choker and a 15 foot choker. The short strap gets set towards the tip and the longer one set more towards the butt. This helps keep the limb balanced without the uncertainty of a single strap. Usually do an overcut then undercut while...
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    Crane falling due to soft ground. Video.

    That looked like a bigger crane at least 50 ton, most likely a whole lot more. Our crane guy wouldn't set up close to that bank with his 37 ton. And to the video with the crane tipping on the log. WTF, I never cut anything, even though I know its good, without checking with the operator on...
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    Saddles: Bare Naked or Mr. Bo-Jangles

    Lean and mean. Handsaw, looprunner and biner is standard, plus bloodstopper kit with styptic powder for small handsaw bites. Footlock prussic and figure eight if i'm footlocking, but the prussic gets sent down after i reach tie in. And if i think i need it a second set of tie in. Everything...
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    Cool Video

    [ QUOTE ] To arrest the bark tear, we place the cuts a full diameter or so below the falling cuts. A tree with a side lean will need the cuts put much lower, or the wood will pull out from the wing cuts. You need to be prepared to spur down below your safety cuts to get below the action if...
  5. huggybear

    selling lumber

    Try woodworking websites and forums. Usually those guys are pretty helpful and may offer some good ideas and may buy some of your lumber. I would love to mill some of the stuff we remove but lack of equipment (and time) to process it breaks my heart sometimes to see it go somewhere else. Good...
  6. huggybear

    Best Rope Ever!

    200' blaze for tall trees. I tried velocity and it felt too hard for me on my hand. And fly was too bouncy. 120' poison ivy for intermediate stuff, i like the fatter diameter for day to day climbing. And about 60' of xtc for really small stuff, but honestly at that length i could use any...
  7. huggybear

    getting your crane legs

    I guess you got me beat. This one was 18k, tulip poplar. I was a groundie for this job, as i don't do climb too much with the crane. The crane was a 120 ton, and to reach the top we had to swing the jib halfway through. Edit: Two tulip trees were growing right next to each other. We took...
  8. huggybear

    Grillion and Blaze

    It is so much better than the rope that comes with it. I use a aluminum snap instead of a biner and its real nice. Never noticed the rope running backwards, but it the rope does twist out of the device sometimes by the handle. It is not a big deal to pop it back in. I don't think you'll ever...
  9. huggybear

    Always learning

    [ QUOTE ] Tom, I am gonna take a shot in the dark here and say that your girdling root theory would most likely be cause by planting too deep. It looks like a younger tree and I don't see much if any root flair to it. It has that telephone pole look to it. [/ QUOTE ] Being buried too...
  10. huggybear

    tenex eye and eye

    Tenex is, I feel, a good product to make the switch from blakes to an eye and eye. But there are other cords that are hold up better than tenex. HRC, Beeline, technora are better options. The binding can be an issue with these other cords and other hitches, but not as bad as the blakes...
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    air spade experts

    I agree with guy, T and M the first day or the whole job if you can, then make a firm bid. That sounds like a major project, especially in hardpan. If you are not hitting too many roots you might want to use/invest in a larger gun and then you can use a larger compressor like a 365cfm instead...
  12. huggybear

    throwbag repair

    A wad of electrical tape. It actually holds up pretty well until it gets really cold out then it sometimes busts open hitting cold hard ground. That's what I use on the vinyl type throwbags. I can't imagine stitching them with much luck. If its the canvas type i can see sewing it back...
  13. huggybear

    Help with diagnosis

    Guy, Please correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the borers related to BBD only cause tiny pinhole type instrusions, more like a sapsucker than an actual borer and you won't see any borer activity. Then the nectria gets in there causing a perenial wound, just kind of festering. Mark, I believe...
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    Help with diagnosis

    I think it looks like a couple things going on there. The white spots are probably scale. The holes could be from a bark beetle. The oozing is most likely caused by nectria canker also called beech bark disease. It is quite difficult to control. The beetles come in causing wounds then the...
  15. huggybear

    Splicing

    [ QUOTE ] Do you double the coat hanger all the way back or just put a loop in the end? How do you attach the core to the hanger, is it tight or loose through the loop? [/ QUOTE ] Doubled back and then i open up the loop end and stick the rope in there then i pinch it real tight with pliers...
  16. huggybear

    Splicing

    Being fairly new myself to splicing I use the coat hanger method, a couple things I found,attaching the hanger to a steel biner makes a nice handle. Also I use a 3/4" steel pipe into the side of a workbench it makes a nice spot to hook the biner onto to massage the bury/crossovers through...
  17. huggybear

    endless rope?

    I guess you are trying to do this alone? If you have another person as belay you can try out what we have done at our shop, with ceilings of only 10-12 feet. We anchored a double pulley to the ceiling and ran a 200 foot line through the pulley or i guess you could do two separate ropes...
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    Recall Notice - Petzl William and Am’D Ball–Lock

    Re: Recall Notice - Petzl William and Am’D Ball–Lo [ QUOTE ] I have 2 Am’D Ball–Locks with plastic sleeves and the sleeves of both consistantly fail to close when released. I have to bump them or turn them manually every time. My metal sleeved William however closes like a champ and shuts with...
  19. huggybear

    Bee line prussik cord

    I thought i did something wrong on the first one. so i tried it again and had pretty much the same results with the pulling of the fibers causing that distortion in the eye. I may be wrong, but being used rope probably had something to do with it as well. Any hints to try and avoid that...
  20. huggybear

    Working SRT sysytem

    The set-up I've used occasionally is a small prussic loop, about a foot to a foot and half with two friction saver rings in the loop, in place of the pulley. I tie a four wrap kleimheist with an ascender beneath so as to not load the knot while ascending. I use a lagre CMI, but i'd like to...

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