Daniel
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Suburban Philadelphia (Wayne)
If he had held the but in place with the but line, the piece could not have helicoptered..... the cut would not have made a difference...
If you need to put a but line on a big piece, you might as well just take it in two cuts..
Here's a nifty little trick for taking the swing out of a piece which would have been a fast and efficient way to take this piece in two and probably would have saved him from having to brush it out... works well from the bucket as long as there is room to hang the piece... put a redirect just on the tree side of the cut ( I usually just use a 6-8' piece of half inch line tied to a $7 shackle)... then cut and hang the piece from the re-direct, (of course using the overhead rigging point).. then cut the remaining end of the limb with the redirect sling tied to it, and the piece will swing out under the overhead anchor point, tips down, with no chance of coming back at you, because it's below you by then, with most of the potential swing already gone....
If you need to put a but line on a big piece, you might as well just take it in two cuts..
Here's a nifty little trick for taking the swing out of a piece which would have been a fast and efficient way to take this piece in two and probably would have saved him from having to brush it out... works well from the bucket as long as there is room to hang the piece... put a redirect just on the tree side of the cut ( I usually just use a 6-8' piece of half inch line tied to a $7 shackle)... then cut and hang the piece from the re-direct, (of course using the overhead rigging point).. then cut the remaining end of the limb with the redirect sling tied to it, and the piece will swing out under the overhead anchor point, tips down, with no chance of coming back at you, because it's below you by then, with most of the potential swing already gone....
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