Beech Take down again.

Rupe

Rupe

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Hi guys! Long time no posting!

I've just got round to gettign me a head cam, and here is the first film I've made. Its the second half of this job, the rest is on you tube but is a bit slow.

I have a few pictures to go with it but thought I put the video up first.


Beech Rigging
 
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Dude, that avatar is disturbing.

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Ha ha

excellent vid Rupe, looked like fun, nice to see some proper rigging, got any pics of your throwline style? heard your using a grapple hook system (GHS) for setting lines?
 
Nice work Rupe! PS. Wipe the camera towards the end
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Slow and steady wins the race, nice work.
Your bar looks bent.

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Ha, yes. Thats how I like to work! I can't process the bits quickly enough to warrant cranes etc. so we nibble away and take away full loads each day and get their in the end.

The headcam I'm using is quite cheap and to get over the width of view problam, that most cheap cams have, it has a cheap fisheye type lens. This gives the required width of veiw but with much distortion, so everything looks bent.

Does the job though.
 
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at 47 and 50 seconds in i do not like the one hand cutting and the other pushing other than that well done sir

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I have a habit of doing this too.
On smaller peices that have a slight back lean, what do you suggest? A small pie cut and a wedge work well aloft but I still find myself with one hand on the saw and one prying with the wedge.
I geuss an additional tag line to pull them over?
 
I agree its not good practice. A step cut would be better I guess. I think I tend to make the cut and then only one hand the last part when it needs a bit of pushing.

My thinking is that the saw is burried deep enough in the cut to not come right out, and I'm only sawing gently too, not full throttle.

Anyway's I made this video as a test of the capabilies fo the camera. If I make another I might edtit out any bad bits, but for now I'm keeping it real!
 
No, I'm not being sensitive Mark. Its an honest video from an honest guy!

Its a shame these are coming down. This one (in the video) is if from the same row as my previous Beech take down thread from a couple of years back.

So now its gone there is just this one left at this end of the origianl row. Some are visible at the far end of the road but they are not over the road or houses so much.

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wow, is it my imagination or is the rope real thin looking at about 4:50 in the video...
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Thats sort of your imagination! Its a piece of throwline joining two ropes together, because I'm switching from 12mm to 16mm for the larger pieces.
 
Rupe I love the video. Don't edit anything out, keep it real, that's the way it should be.

How long did the whole job take? Was it just you and your one groundworker, or did the camera person on the ground do the job with you too?

With trees that size, do you have to get permission from a committee by law to remove them, or does the property owner have the right to take them down if they so choose to? Just wondering because I heard that the laws are different over in the UK and it can be more difficult to remove a tree there, than here in the States.

Thanks
Chris
 
Thanks, nice compliment! One branch cut was edited out as it was not pretty, it will go in a video of scew ups after a year or so I should have enough!! But the rest is real and that is how I wanted it to be.

Slow job that one, five days and another for the trunk but all done and moved by hand. 3 guys including me, although one had a day off on day two and we got more done without him!!

Yes we needed permision. You usually need it, some areas are exempt but even then individual specimens can be protected. The owner had a survey done and got permission to remove the tree so I just did the work. It was certainly not as bad as some we have done.
 
Not nice the way the block flipped up in the crotch at 1:12. Do you always rig your block on that long a tail? I try to choke my block up as snug as I can to the trunk so that other than the body of the block, the only play is in the rigging line itself.
 
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