- Location
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Creative camera work removal vid
- Thread starter trevmcrev
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Tr33Climb3r
Participating member
- Location
- Wisconsin
It is a good one
goodaking
Participating member
Cool vid anyone know what camera they used?
- Location
- Longmont, CO
Nice. Looked like a fun location and a fun tree to bomb stuff.
Watch the big leader at 1:30-1:33. We've all seen this type of situation before... a branch broke from the tips and came back towards the groundies chipping. Besides being a nice video, I think there as a teachable moment here. Stay with me.
The guy in a blue jacket puts a limb in the chipper, turns around, adjusts his helmet?, and walks forward towards the flying limb. He stops in the nick of time. It sort of looks like his partner may have held him back.
The point I'd like to make is, with bombing limbs out of a tree all people must watch the limb falling. This means, the climber must gather the attention of all groundies; whistle, wave hands, flip the bird, what ever. If the chipper is running full RPM's and a verbal confirmation isn't going to work, eye contact is the next best thing.
Personally, I won't bomb anything (even if it holds up my production) until all people have said, "All clear" or I can see everyone stand where they are and see their eyes.
So, I don't want to rip on the nice video, but I thought I'd point this situation out.
Watch the big leader at 1:30-1:33. We've all seen this type of situation before... a branch broke from the tips and came back towards the groundies chipping. Besides being a nice video, I think there as a teachable moment here. Stay with me.
The guy in a blue jacket puts a limb in the chipper, turns around, adjusts his helmet?, and walks forward towards the flying limb. He stops in the nick of time. It sort of looks like his partner may have held him back.
The point I'd like to make is, with bombing limbs out of a tree all people must watch the limb falling. This means, the climber must gather the attention of all groundies; whistle, wave hands, flip the bird, what ever. If the chipper is running full RPM's and a verbal confirmation isn't going to work, eye contact is the next best thing.
Personally, I won't bomb anything (even if it holds up my production) until all people have said, "All clear" or I can see everyone stand where they are and see their eyes.
So, I don't want to rip on the nice video, but I thought I'd point this situation out.
bonner1040
Branched out member
- Location
- Boston
That looked like a pretty small branch man...
- Location
- Longmont, CO
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That looked like a pretty small branch man...
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You missed the point brother.
That looked like a pretty small branch man...
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You missed the point brother.
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I think there as a teachable moment here.
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A ton a teachable moments in the whole video.
They seem like guys that know what they are doing, but then again, also do not.
That limb Jamin talked about was way plenty big enough to cause damage to a person and like he said, could have been way bigger.
As soon as the climber was cutting that leader, I couldn't believe he did it without making the groundpeople stop, stand back and watch it.
Tons more small and poor work practices in that video, don't have time right now, or the interest to write about them.
Nice limb camera views.
I think there as a teachable moment here.
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A ton a teachable moments in the whole video.
They seem like guys that know what they are doing, but then again, also do not.
That limb Jamin talked about was way plenty big enough to cause damage to a person and like he said, could have been way bigger.
As soon as the climber was cutting that leader, I couldn't believe he did it without making the groundpeople stop, stand back and watch it.
Tons more small and poor work practices in that video, don't have time right now, or the interest to write about them.
Nice limb camera views.
- Location
- Bend, Oregon
4:03 was sketchyyyy!
Daniel
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Suburban Philadelphia (Wayne)
I agree with Jamin, though its tough to be clear how close things are from video, camera angle and lens etc..
Its one thing to bomb stuff, knowing with near certainly that it will clear a shrub, house or fence etc.. and not acceptable when human safety is at risk.
Groundies should be trained to stay far enough out of the DZ so that the climber does not have to even consider their positions. I recently worked with an experienced climber that loved to stand just outside the DZ.. far enough away to be safe, but not far enough to make me think about it every time I made a cut.. VERY ANNOYING!
Even with a well honed team, the behavior shown could go very badly in time..
Its one thing to bomb stuff, knowing with near certainly that it will clear a shrub, house or fence etc.. and not acceptable when human safety is at risk.
Groundies should be trained to stay far enough out of the DZ so that the climber does not have to even consider their positions. I recently worked with an experienced climber that loved to stand just outside the DZ.. far enough away to be safe, but not far enough to make me think about it every time I made a cut.. VERY ANNOYING!
Even with a well honed team, the behavior shown could go very badly in time..
