Experiment Rigging PDF?

[AxeKnot]

Who has a PDF of the Rigging experiments recently carried out in Germany/Switzerland that was in Arborist News? They fixed digital pointers to the climber and timber etc and digitised it all, what happened with that anyway, anymore news?

Would like to see the PDF if possible.



Thanks

 

[Mahk_Adams]

I have the PDF, and you can download it from this link:

http://www.tree-consult.org/html/eng/articles/rigging.htm

But, please don't post the PDF by itself. Andreas (the author) has requested that we access the article through his website (and hopefully browse some of the other cool material).

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

That's a sweet article.

 

[AxeKnot]

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I have the PDF, and you can download it from this link:

http://www.tree-consult.org/html/eng/articles/rigging.htm

But, please don't post the PDF by itself. Andreas (the author) has requested that we access the article through his website (and hopefully browse some of the other cool material).

[/ QUOTE ]

Thank you and will do Re-access.

 

[Reg]

Mahk

Were you in on this?

What was actually achieved?

Have we learnt anything new?

Is there a conclusion?

Recommendations/solution?

Thanks

 

[Gerald_Beranek]

Interesting article to say the least, and I'm not surprised at all by the findings. Most especially the differences between the conventional and humboldt notches affecting how the work leaves the cut.

But other than splitting hairs to understand what's going on I think it's already well understood by most experienced arborists anyway.

I can see the math and figures in the findings becoming more complex fodder for future debates.

 

[Mahk_Adams]

Reg

Sorry so late replying to this.

My only involvement was reviewing the article prior to publication, which resulted in some very minor changes.

As Jerry said, I think it confirms some of the things that many experienced arborists understand through their field work. Its good to have that confirmation. But, it also changed some of the understanding of forces that we had gathered from the work that Peter D. had performed. Its good to have all of this published so that it can be referenced by a large audience.

I wish they had some metrics for the forces generated in relation to the weight of the piece, but that may be in the forthcoming articles.

 

[Gerald_Beranek]

What's to be gained by it I'm not sure. But the guys really went all out to find or prove something there. I'm not dismissing it. In fact I find research like this interesting. The ways the testing can be carried out though are infinite. I wonder how far they will break it down, analyze it, measure it, quantify it, and so on before drawing a conclusion. Kind of reminds me of the endless quest for knowledge going on at the Cern super collider. "yes, what I have in my hand is a particle of matter. But where did it come from?"