Black & Blue Oaks Get A Bruising!

[Bixler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1nbtP7In8Q

 

[ginkobalboa]

Bixler, Do you always use a bore cut in the tree, or is this something you have started doing lately?

 

[JeffL]

Is it a species prone to barber chairing or splitting?

 

[Bixler]

ginkobalboa (love that name), I've always used it, seems like a lot more recently though.

Jeff, yes, it seems like the Black and Blue Oak are more prone to barber charing than a lot of other species. I should have strapped the sides on some of those too, just to make sure.

thanks for watching guys, I know it's a long one.

 

[boreality]

Unless I've been in a time warp it seems like your work has improved alot in a short time. I even got complacent when everythings gonna be alright started and took my stare off the computer.

 

[islandarb]

Must say Sir Bix, I liked that vid...must be nice to be able to bore cut and dump big pieces like that without rigging...your skills have really improved that's for sure....not saying they were bad at all, but you have cleaned up all the small things that make your work look so much smoother....in the last two years I have been doing the same, just refining my skills ( especially work positioning ) and making the execution of my rigging much smoother it really does make a difference.....

 

[Bixler]

Thanks guys, I've been lucky enough to always be able to work at my own pace. Swing, it sure is nice to bore and bomb big brother, that first tree was down in less than an hour, it's the cleanup that took forever. Cutting 10"-12" rounds, and pulling brush through the 36" gate, feeding small chipper...

Glad you liked the vid, thanks for watching, it was a long one. Camera died when I got out to that far lead, but we zipped some down, then chunked one footers down as the sun was setting.

The clients wife was watching out the window - after we were done, she admitted she cried when she saw them go down. Hopefully they like the vid, I'm will send it to them now.

 

[islandarb]

I get ya on the working at your own pace Bix, that can make a hell of a difference...again good job bud....

 

[jomoco]

Your bore cut while attached to that same leader is an idiotic move that's going to get you seriously hurt if you keep it up rookie.

Attached to a barber's chair? Brilliant Bixler....

jomoco

 

[simplyarbor]

bore cut prevents the barber chair. Nice Job Bix.

 

[jomoco]

Where you gonna go when it fails?

Didn't you see it fail in the vid and create a mini barber chair?

Keep it up and you'll find out what happens being strapped to pieces moving in opposite directions.

A feller can run away, a smart climber can swing away. Only a dummy lanyards into a potential barberchair where if something goes wrong you die.

Good luck ever developing old climber's disease with that work practice!

jomoco

 

[BOTS]

Good job BiX and happy B-day!

 

[Bixler]

Thanks simplyarbor, it's nice to take the tension out.

Jomoco... I'm not sure I know what cut you are talking about, when was my flipline around a leader I bore cut? What I do know is that there are bold climbers, and there are old climbers, there are NO old bold climbers. Glad you watched it.

Thanks BOTS, hope things are well for you down the hill.

 

[jomoco]

The cut at 1:45 Bixler. You lopped the backrest off at 1:50. That kind of induced barber chairing can run either up or down depending on wood grain.

jomoco

 

[Bixler]

So my flip line was in the wrong spot? Did I cut it wrong?

 

[MattyD]

I can't see his lanyard near that cut, only on the leader behind it?

 

[jomoco]

You're being lazy like Murphy wanting to do all your work with fancy cuts rather than getting out there and relieving that weight gradually rather than all at once.

You're going to fancy yourself into an emergency room with that kinda lazy expedience in the tree mate.

jomoco

 

[Bixler]

Really?

I was tied into the same stem, but not the same leader... right?

 

[jomoco]

I'm sayin bore cuts like that from the ground when felling are one thing, and bore cuts like that while tied in twice to the tree are another, far more deadly than the first when things don't go as planned.

Did you expect that mini barber chair when your fancy cut lost its integrity so fast with a snap?

jomoco

 

[Bixler]

Okay that makes sense.

Is that what you would call that? A mini barber chair?

No, I didn't expect it, but I knew it could have happened.

All of the deadly tension wood had been cut. If the bark wants to pop the piece loose, I don't see an issue. Maybe there is. Either way, my flipline wasn't around it.

I guess I could have done it your way, go out to the tips, make a bunch of cuts, relieve a bunch of weight, all the way down the tree... but I saw 5 cuts and the tree can be felled, one of which needed a lowering rope.

Is one way more safe than the other? That's a good question I guess.