Daniel
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Suburban Philadelphia (Wayne)
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havens crimped ehs way too much; Chicago much smoother. tom shop used; you might get very lucky.
extra weight with that and comealong but essential with wirestops or wedgegrips. yup have done rope and leaning tricks to tauten (not tighten) when possible, which is not all that often on big jobs.
what do nuts and lags have to do with cabling in 2011?
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C'mon Guy...
J lags work just fine if they are intalled properly (read that "high") as do thru bolts.. The VAST majority of cables are installed too low.. its that simple.. J's still acceptable on anything 10" dia. and smaller.. You have to be in monster tree to get 2/3 the height and be over 10" in diameter.. I think a better rule would be.. climb until you get to 6-10" wood and install your cables there... My cables often end up well over 2/3 the height..
AND there is an optical illusion at play here too.. Looking from the ground, it is very eay to underestimate the 2/3 height.. try this.. next time you are dropping a tree with a high cable in it.. eyeball it and guesstimate the height of the cable.. then measure it when its on the ground.. Even a well trained eye can be fooled..
AS far as cable pullers go.. I gave mine away a long time ago.. I get them plenty tight by hand 98%+ of the time.. The rare times that the tree needs to be pulled together and rodded, I'll set up a quick 3:1 rope come along.. Kind of a hassle, but better than dragging around a piece of hardware that hardly ever gets used.
havens crimped ehs way too much; Chicago much smoother. tom shop used; you might get very lucky.
extra weight with that and comealong but essential with wirestops or wedgegrips. yup have done rope and leaning tricks to tauten (not tighten) when possible, which is not all that often on big jobs.
what do nuts and lags have to do with cabling in 2011?
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C'mon Guy...
J lags work just fine if they are intalled properly (read that "high") as do thru bolts.. The VAST majority of cables are installed too low.. its that simple.. J's still acceptable on anything 10" dia. and smaller.. You have to be in monster tree to get 2/3 the height and be over 10" in diameter.. I think a better rule would be.. climb until you get to 6-10" wood and install your cables there... My cables often end up well over 2/3 the height..
AND there is an optical illusion at play here too.. Looking from the ground, it is very eay to underestimate the 2/3 height.. try this.. next time you are dropping a tree with a high cable in it.. eyeball it and guesstimate the height of the cable.. then measure it when its on the ground.. Even a well trained eye can be fooled..
AS far as cable pullers go.. I gave mine away a long time ago.. I get them plenty tight by hand 98%+ of the time.. The rare times that the tree needs to be pulled together and rodded, I'll set up a quick 3:1 rope come along.. Kind of a hassle, but better than dragging around a piece of hardware that hardly ever gets used.
