Reg
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- Victoria, BC
Beech rigging
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southsoundtree
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Olympia, WA
Really nice work!
What is the lowering device that you've got there. Is that your own design? I thought I'd seen a thread on it. Is it a double bollard alone, or is there a winch action to it?
What about that block pushing device? I'd seen a thread about one before on TB. Is it one in the same?
Looking forward to the video.
What is the lowering device that you've got there. Is that your own design? I thought I'd seen a thread on it. Is it a double bollard alone, or is there a winch action to it?
What about that block pushing device? I'd seen a thread about one before on TB. Is it one in the same?
Looking forward to the video.
Reg
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- Victoria, BC
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Really nice work!
What is the lowering device that you've got there. Is that your own design? I thought I'd seen a thread on it. Is it a double bollard alone, or is there a winch action to it?
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yes it is, have a look in the video forum.
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What about that block pushing device? I'd seen a thread about one before on TB. Is it one in the same?
[/ QUOTE ] Same one, thanks again.
Really nice work!
What is the lowering device that you've got there. Is that your own design? I thought I'd seen a thread on it. Is it a double bollard alone, or is there a winch action to it?
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yes it is, have a look in the video forum.
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What about that block pushing device? I'd seen a thread about one before on TB. Is it one in the same?
[/ QUOTE ] Same one, thanks again.
Gerald_Beranek
New member
- Location
- Ft. Bragg, Ca.
Fine pics and work as usual, Reg, and it's good to see you putting both bollards to useful work. I'd like to have been there to see it all in action.
- Location
- Titirangi, Auckland, NZ
Reg, as always your removal techniques are as close to text book perfect as any I have seen in person or on the net.
Whoever was taking the pics did a great job too.
Whoever was taking the pics did a great job too.
chris_girard
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- Gilmanton, N.H.
Wow! Awesome job and pics Reg.
I see you have your helmet cam on, does that mean there's a video to follow?
Thanks for sharing a great rigging job with us.
I see you have your helmet cam on, does that mean there's a video to follow?
Thanks for sharing a great rigging job with us.
- Location
- North of Boston
some great work!
easyphloem
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- Location
- Louisville, KY
Great job Reg!
Whoever took the photos did a great job too.
Just curious, why did that tree come down? And for that manpower and time, I would be charging $7,500-$8,000. I hope you made out well on it!
SZ
Whoever took the photos did a great job too.
Just curious, why did that tree come down? And for that manpower and time, I would be charging $7,500-$8,000. I hope you made out well on it!
SZ
TreeCo
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Great work Reg.
Your taking the time to embed and number your photos makes your presentation extremely user friendly. A text book writer would be lucky indeed to have photos of the quality you've posted.
Your taking the time to embed and number your photos makes your presentation extremely user friendly. A text book writer would be lucky indeed to have photos of the quality you've posted.
Reg
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- Victoria, BC
Thanks again. We were quite lucky with the photo's as the weather was so changeble and all.
Chris, I will put the video together some time soon, I think it'll give a better sense of scale.
Easyphloem, it was an insurance requirement for the the new owner of the property, although I didn't notice anything wrong with the tree whatsoever. Also, the job was done pretty cheap from what I was told, and as a freelance climber I'm probably way too cheap as-well.
Chris, I will put the video together some time soon, I think it'll give a better sense of scale.
Easyphloem, it was an insurance requirement for the the new owner of the property, although I didn't notice anything wrong with the tree whatsoever. Also, the job was done pretty cheap from what I was told, and as a freelance climber I'm probably way too cheap as-well.
Another high quality Sir Reginald production, eh Reg?
It really is one of your best documented takedowns yet.
Congrats mate!
But lest you get too many admiring accolades in a single thread, I'll offer up that you were sumo wrestling that bigwood on the lower trunk section a tad too much.
Of course I'm probably alot older and orthopedically challenged than you are Reg, which is why I prefer using well placed strategic cuts to make those large chunks of bigwood go anywhere I want them to with a simple push with one hand. Why you can even leave a tiny holding strap of uncut wood, put your big saw away, and finish the strap with your handsaw and give the falling chunk a push to control how it lands on the ground.
Scooting those big squat logs around up there with a lever was a somewhat unnecessary expenditure of vital energy in my opinion Reg. But everything else up to that point was A1 prime stuff mate.
Your new double bollard lowering device is going to be a best seller!
jomoco
It really is one of your best documented takedowns yet.
Congrats mate!
But lest you get too many admiring accolades in a single thread, I'll offer up that you were sumo wrestling that bigwood on the lower trunk section a tad too much.
Of course I'm probably alot older and orthopedically challenged than you are Reg, which is why I prefer using well placed strategic cuts to make those large chunks of bigwood go anywhere I want them to with a simple push with one hand. Why you can even leave a tiny holding strap of uncut wood, put your big saw away, and finish the strap with your handsaw and give the falling chunk a push to control how it lands on the ground.
Scooting those big squat logs around up there with a lever was a somewhat unnecessary expenditure of vital energy in my opinion Reg. But everything else up to that point was A1 prime stuff mate.
Your new double bollard lowering device is going to be a best seller!
jomoco
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- Phoenix Arizona
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I prefer using well placed strategic cuts to make those large chunks of bigwood go anywhere I want them to with a simple push with one hand. Why you can even leave a tiny holding strap of uncut wood, put your big saw away, and finish the strap with your handsaw and give the falling chunk a push to control how it lands on the ground
wouldnt that mean plunge cutting a big saw while aloft.
I think the lever looks pretty enery efficient.
Im sure you guys have forgotten more jobs then I will ever do but I was just wondering what you meant Jomoco. Bigger peices with a hinge and a strap release cut? Mabey he was limmitted to how bog a piece he could drop? those biscuts looked pleanty heavy already.
I prefer using well placed strategic cuts to make those large chunks of bigwood go anywhere I want them to with a simple push with one hand. Why you can even leave a tiny holding strap of uncut wood, put your big saw away, and finish the strap with your handsaw and give the falling chunk a push to control how it lands on the ground
wouldnt that mean plunge cutting a big saw while aloft.
I think the lever looks pretty enery efficient.
Im sure you guys have forgotten more jobs then I will ever do but I was just wondering what you meant Jomoco. Bigger peices with a hinge and a strap release cut? Mabey he was limmitted to how bog a piece he could drop? those biscuts looked pleanty heavy already.
Big pie cuts close to half the wood's diameter, pointing towards the direction of fall you want the log to take, can be triggered on the finishing cut, or a tiny uncut strap of hingewood can be left on either side of the finishing cut, this allows you to put away your big saw, cut the strap with one hand, and push or retard the falling piece with the other hand.
All this can be done with strategically placed cuts and the force of gravity alone with no straining and wood wrestling whatsoever, even on a leaning fat trunk 4-5 feet in diameter.
It's almost impossible to catch wood that big anyway, but I have been giving it some serious thought.
Just give the word Reg, and I'll vamoose out of your cool thread here mate.
jomoco
All this can be done with strategically placed cuts and the force of gravity alone with no straining and wood wrestling whatsoever, even on a leaning fat trunk 4-5 feet in diameter.
It's almost impossible to catch wood that big anyway, but I have been giving it some serious thought.
Just give the word Reg, and I'll vamoose out of your cool thread here mate.
jomoco
- Location
- Phoenix Arizona
Im picking up what your laying down Jomoco, thanks
- Location
- AZ
Nice work Reg! Looking forward to the vid.
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the last 6 ft had a single strand of wire embeded all the way to ground level, so I had to re-sharpen after each cut
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That's a bummer. Been there.
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the last 6 ft had a single strand of wire embeded all the way to ground level, so I had to re-sharpen after each cut
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That's a bummer. Been there.
Reg
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- Victoria, BC
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Big pie cuts close to half the wood's diameter, pointing towards the direction of fall you want the log to take, can be triggered on the finishing cut, or a tiny uncut strap of hingewood can be left on either side of the finishing cut, this allows you to put away your big saw, cut the strap with one hand, and push or retard the falling piece with the other hand.
All this can be done with strategically placed cuts and the force of gravity alone with no straining and wood wrestling whatsoever, even on a leaning fat trunk 4-5 feet in diameter.
It's almost impossible to catch wood that big anyway, but I have been giving it some serious thought.
Just give the word Reg, and I'll vamoose out of your cool thread here mate.
jomoco
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You wont see me straining and wrestling Jon, ever. The video will show it better, I promise.
I know exactly what you mean but on short chunks like that a pie-cut of any kind would seem somewhat wasteful....not only in the fact that 3 cuts are needed with the 3120, but also just in that I'd have to change my work position.
My technique requires 1 cut + a nick on the other side from 1 work position only. Also, I really couldn't have risked sending any of those chunks into a tumble which a pie-cut might have initiated, due to the risk of them building up momentum on impact with the root plate. Whats more, that whole trunk had to be cut into disks (firewood) so my cutting technique was further favourable with a view to avoiding any sloping cuts. Thanks.
Big pie cuts close to half the wood's diameter, pointing towards the direction of fall you want the log to take, can be triggered on the finishing cut, or a tiny uncut strap of hingewood can be left on either side of the finishing cut, this allows you to put away your big saw, cut the strap with one hand, and push or retard the falling piece with the other hand.
All this can be done with strategically placed cuts and the force of gravity alone with no straining and wood wrestling whatsoever, even on a leaning fat trunk 4-5 feet in diameter.
It's almost impossible to catch wood that big anyway, but I have been giving it some serious thought.
Just give the word Reg, and I'll vamoose out of your cool thread here mate.
jomoco
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You wont see me straining and wrestling Jon, ever. The video will show it better, I promise.
I know exactly what you mean but on short chunks like that a pie-cut of any kind would seem somewhat wasteful....not only in the fact that 3 cuts are needed with the 3120, but also just in that I'd have to change my work position.
My technique requires 1 cut + a nick on the other side from 1 work position only. Also, I really couldn't have risked sending any of those chunks into a tumble which a pie-cut might have initiated, due to the risk of them building up momentum on impact with the root plate. Whats more, that whole trunk had to be cut into disks (firewood) so my cutting technique was further favourable with a view to avoiding any sloping cuts. Thanks.
Just yankin your chain Reg, to keep you from getting too big a head from all your fantastic well produced vids!
In truth I'm green with envy at your video expertise mate.
jomoco
In truth I'm green with envy at your video expertise mate.
jomoco
Reg
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- Victoria, BC
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Just yankin your chain Reg, to keep you from getting too big a head
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Thanks for that Jon
Oldoakman: You are right, there seemed little justification in removing the tree at this stage but perhaps the owner has future plans for further development of his site....usually there is some kind of ulterior motive.
Just yankin your chain Reg, to keep you from getting too big a head
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Thanks for that Jon
Oldoakman: You are right, there seemed little justification in removing the tree at this stage but perhaps the owner has future plans for further development of his site....usually there is some kind of ulterior motive.
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- Connecticut
Solid work as usual. What boots are you wearing in the pictures?
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