Beech-Rigging-Video

Awesome videos Reg! A real study in rigging with excellent control from all members of the crew.

When tip tying those large beech limbs, was it necessary to climb way out on the limbs to set the line, or were you able to throw the line over and tie a running bowline?

Thanks for sharing.
 
Chris I had to climb out to tie off the ropes but it was easy enough to get to.

Jesse, Steve jnr used the two spars to stop the momentum of the rotating log….had he let it run straight away it probably would have wrapped itself around the trunk and gotten us in a tangle. On camera it looks quite dangerous which is why I slowed it down for extra effect, but in reality it couldn’t get through to me….notice how I didn’t even flinch
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It is a 3120 towards the end of the film, at first with the 36in bar, later the 42in. Thanks
 
Reg, I want to thank you for posting your excellent beech tree takedown vids mate.

Watching the vids this morning something clicked in the back of my mind that I believe will solve the age old problem all takedown climbers eventually face of how to catch big fat rounds that are almost impossible to rope off safely due to their short length or unusual dimensions.

This will be my third invention in the last year I've come up with as a direct result of interactions with other veteran climbers posting online on the internet.

I should have this brand new invention of mine ready to post here on TB within a month or so.

Soon no trunk will be too fat and unwieldy to catch and lower safely to the ground with complete control.

This new system will be a very inexpensive add on to your current strategic rigging hardware.

You make some of the best rigging vids in this biz Reg.

Keep up the good work mate.

jomoco
 
Sure Jesse, my cabling alignment tubes were the first, invented online while discussing how hard it was to achieve alignment between eyebolt holes and cable lay with JPS at as.com in early december 08.

The second was a passive lowering line retrieval reel that clips onto your climbing saddle. It's essentially a 40 foot long retractable dog leash with a biner on the end that allows you to retrieve your lowering line yourself without having a groundie trying to fling your lowering line back to you when you're out on a limb far away from your lowering line's center of gravity. I first tried it very successfully in February 09 while speedlining a big euc removal. I found that a retractable reeled clothes line works even better with plastic zip ties between the line and biner as a failsafe in case things get tangled somehow.

You'll have to wait a few weeks for my latest invention I thought of watching Reg's beechwood vid this morning.

Work safe guys!

jomoco
 
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Watching the vids this morning something clicked in the back of my mind that I believe will solve the age old problem all takedown climbers eventually face of how to catch big fat rounds that are almost impossible to rope off safely due to their short length or unusual dimensions.


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Will be very interested to hear more as and when. Thanks again
 
Finally a kindred soul in Chris who also wants to see more CLIMBING footage, in addition to the cutting and ropework....

Fantastically smooth work as usual, Reg!

Reg,do you ever have a problem with your termination knot on the climbline interfering with your friction hitch, not allowing it to bite and grab properly?? Many climbers use splices to avoid that, just wondering what your experience is regarding that question.
 
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Watching the vids this morning something clicked in the back of my mind that I believe will solve the age old problem all takedown climbers eventually face of how to catch big fat rounds that are almost impossible to rope off safely due to their short length or unusual dimensions.


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A giant basketball net sewn at the bottom so the timber wont fall through the hole. The net will then be mounted on 4 jameson poles and each pole will be held by a groundie. When a climber...say Reg.... pushes the piece off the top the groundies catch it and walk it over to the timber truck and flop it into the truck?
 
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Reg,do you ever have a problem with your termination knot on the climbline interfering with your friction hitch, not allowing it to bite and grab properly?? Many climbers use splices to avoid that, just wondering what your experience is regarding that question.

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Never had an issue with it Cory, perhaps because I use a seperate karabiner to terminate the rope? who, knows.

Spliced eyes riding around on the Karabiner is something that I'm just not comfortable with so I dont bother with them at all.

I recieved a pm last evening from a concerned TB member in that he was worried about the potential risk of me getting hit by a moving log while double-rigging (see 6:45 on first vid). I'll repeat what I said to him just in case anyone else has the same concerns, or worse, attempts the technique without fully understanding it - the fact that I didn’t get wiped out wasn’t by chance i.e. consider the minimal distance between the lower rigging-block and log, its position, pre-tensioned line and close position of tie off, the outboard step-cuts', my work position etc were all pre-planned to favourably place and hold the log’s where I wanted them.
 
Real nice video Reg. A true labor of love. It gets expensive and time consuming putting something like that together. Might look easy to the lay observer.. But having been dabling with on the job videos a bit lately, I know the time and energy it takes. How many hours did it take to edit that piece? Longer than it took to put the tree on the ground?

Then try getting a big job done while paying consideration to cameras, light, angles, batteries etc, and the extra man power to run them, making sure that is all done safely and you have a lot of direct cost. And even more expensive is the indirect cost of the extra work you could be doing with the time you put into making the video. So thanks for that.

Are you getting good money for firewood?... cause cutting and loading a tree like that by hand seems like a lot of wear and tear on the body. Hardly anyone around here does that anymore. Everyone either uses a skid steer, or subs the log pick up to a trucker with a prentice loader.. Also looking at runnig a big tree through that little chipper makes me think you are saving the wood for firewood.. We'd use the winch on the Bandit 1590 to suck those big limbs you were taking out in one cut, right through the chipper and be done with them. Did you have to wait much for the ground crew to process the work before they were ready for your next cut?
 
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...We'd use the winch on the Bandit 1590 to suck those big limbs you were taking out in one cut, right through the chipper and be done with them...

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Amen to that. I pull large leaders to the chipper (or in the general direction of the chipper) with the boxer & BMG grapple combo. It's real nice. :smrik:
 
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Real nice video Reg. A true labor of love. It gets expensive and time consuming putting something like that together. Might look easy to the lay observer.. But having been dabling with on the job videos a bit lately, I know the time and energy it takes. How many hours did it take to edit that piece? Longer than it took to put the tree on the ground?

Then try getting a big job done while paying consideration to cameras, light, angles, batteries etc, and the extra man power to run them, making sure that is all done safely and you have a lot of direct cost. And even more expensive is the indirect cost of the extra work you could be doing with the time you put into making the video. So thanks for that.

Are you getting good money for firewood?... cause cutting and loading a tree like that by hand seems like a lot of wear and tear on the body. Hardly anyone around here does that anymore. Everyone either uses a skid steer, or subs the log pick up to a trucker with a prentice loader.. Also looking at runnig a big tree through that little chipper makes me think you are saving the wood for firewood.. We'd use the winch on the Bandit 1590 to suck those big limbs you were taking out in one cut, right through the chipper and be done with them. Did you have to wait much for the ground crew to process the work before they were ready for your next cut?

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Thanks Dan. I kept chipping away at the video over several evenings. I tend to watch it all a couple of times and make a mental note of which parts I should keep and which ones I can lose. Its quite tedious since one has already had to experience the actual job in reality....so to have to sit through it hour after hour thereafter takes about as much patience as I can muster. What's more, having made dozens of them now they all start to look the same
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The problem with that job was access, as is in most cases here in the UK, little roads, gates and driveways so Big trucks, chippers and log-grabs etc are often not practical.

I was just the hired climber on the job so I have no idea whether Steve made much on the firewood....my guess is not much but still better than dumping it as waste.

Finally, with no dragging involved the guys were able to clear the ground quite quickly so no I didn't have too long a wait.
 
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