favorite rigging video/book?

I found another book that you my like Kathy. It is called HANDBOOK OF RIGGING by W.E. Rossnagel.

It is mainly a book about industrial operations but anyone who likes rigging work will like this book.

Look on Amazon.com for it.
 
i can't find mine right now; but it is such a standard engineer's mainstay (especially in the past); i'd think a Rossnagel's would be easy to review at a library etc. And then perhaps compare that to some of the free sources etc.
 
i'm a bit thick about understanding spatial relationships in the abstract. my brain doesn't seem to work that way, though i "get it" fast when it's hands on. brion toss, rigger dude, is a friend of mine from another context (aikido), and after bugging him repeatedly to help me wrap my brain around mechanical advantage (he tried but like i said my brain doesn't work that way) he recommended this book (to get me to quit bugging him most likely
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Moving Heavy Things, by Jan Adkins

anyone read it? i haven't looked for it yet.
k.
 
Well, i guess i'll have to try Dr. Brion's suggestion myself. Be interesting to see if it also talks of frictions to stop something from moving(as a target value, and not just beating friction to allow movemeant). i'd think at the basics pictured on cover; that beyond the 'flexible levers' of rope and pulleys; the key to moving stuff forcewise is to set as many multiplying arcs on as many of the 3 dimensional axises as possible(so you can roll on 1 axis as you levergae another axis to multiply their effects). Thus, using the stiffness/ nonflexabilty/ resistance to bend of something on target item; even if against it's own self; and even induce impacting.

i'm also curious to see if it contains this concept of using your bodyweight as ballast against load; and then adding muscle effort + the equal and opposite of that muscle effort on the other side of a 1st class pivot; as in 2Handing that i show with pulleys, but also works with levers and wagonwheels/ round things etc. As long as you can capture the direction of the equal and opposite force and reverse it thru 1st class lever(the only lever that offers opposite directions of movement; and focusing them) like in the Mayhem Puzzle/ Model.


edit: i have an out of print goldie you might look for; that has been a constant friend to me for decades now. A Popular Science book from the 60's "The How and Why of Mechanical Movements" by Harry Walton. It shows how to use angle and distance modifiers through pulleys, levers, Archimedian screws/auger, hydraulics, cams gears, frictions, steam etc. to your benefit. Pounding in from all examples the concepts of length and angle X input force(s) to get output forces to perform work.
 
Thanks Tom; i got that lil'book off of ebay and it is great!

It is very basic; but shows the many forms of how these lessons are around us everyday. So, still; you have to make the connections to tree work yourself; but it is all "making Heavy Things Move". In this thing that wee do like no other; we are the ants to the mighty matchstix we try to take command of.

i quote from this manual:

"Moving heavy things is more a way of thinking than a job. Freshen your eyes, slow down, preen your patience and get lazy; creatively. It is always surprising how quickly small steps come together cover a distance....It is mostly a business of putting together plain tools and methods, with a clever trick here or there, to your benefit, and of playing to strengths. Be careful, worry over it a bit.."

i did find a new term for an olde friend; even to re-search the powerful secrets of that friend by: The Swiggin' thread.
 
I may be a bit bias but the "Rigging for Removal" video is not mostly about speed-line work. Several portions of the video cover topics such as knot tieing, load transfer,
log lowering, equipment selection etc,etc.
Gerald Beranek's book the "Fundementals of General Tree Work" is exceptional for individuals looking to get ahead in this profession.
I like the work that Peter Donzelli did before his untimely death. I believe his work ended up on the Art and Science video seris?
 
Yeah i agree Sohner, I'm bias too. I helped assist with that series. They filmed it a few blocks from my house. I have the highest respect for Ken & Rip and gained instant respect for Pete and his knowledge after meeting him. That series turned out to be informitive and at the same time cautious IMO!
 
Don Blair, Robert Phillips and Ken Johnson did a great job in the NAA Videos "Rigging for Removal". It was really nice to meet these guys last month at the Expo.

Pete Donzelli and the ArborMaster gang did a great job too in the "Art and Science" videos. One can only imagine the wonderful work he would have continued to have done if he hadn't been KIA.

And Gerry's book is one of a kind. As are all of his books and videos.

Rigging work to me is so much more interesting than just climbing and cutting work. You can never learn all there is to know.
 
The ASPR'N video series is an ISA production. Pete Donzelli wrote the script for the videos and the lion's share of the book.

When the videos were shot in Atlanta I had the good fortune to have the time to spend the week working with Sharon Lilly as what could be described in movie parlance as 'Best Boy' or in arbo parlance as go'fer. Along the way I got to film Sean Gere doing the fishing pole removal of the lateral limb. About 15 seconds of what I filmed ended up in the videos.
 
Tom, I remember watching that part of the video and thinking, man that is a cool technique to know and use. As mentioned in the book and series, it is a more time consuming way to rig, but sometimes it may be the best (or only) way to rig a piece down.

I wonder if ISA or TCIA will come out with anymore rigging dvd's or books in the near future?

I think a Gerry Beranek production dvd on a technical tree removal would be awesome. Something that utilizes the GRCS and Hobbs lowering devices and all the many uses of both.
 
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<u>Moving Heavy Things</u>, by Jan Adkins
anyone read it? i haven't looked for it yet.
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Thanks Tom; i got that lil'book off of ebay and it is great!

It is very basic; but shows the many forms of how these lessons are around us everyday. So, still; you have to make the connections to tree work yourself; but it is all "making Heavy Things Move". In this thing that wee do like no other; we are the ants to the mighty matchstix we try to take command of.


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Hmmm, funny this.
Before me, now, is the Nov'2003 issue of Chesapeake Bay mag.,
in which there is an article entitled "Hitches &amp; Bends (and other uses of
Twisted Fiber)", by . . . none other than Jan Adkins.

Judging just by his writing on knots, I'd stay well clear of him!
E.g., after gratuitous fluff supposed to entertain, about nothing much
in particular, he says re sailors' marriages going on the rocks because
their mates haven't "learned to cleat a line after three years. I insist
that this is indeed grounds for divorce ... . Hell, it should be grounds for
flogging."
And, in large images of the cover page for the article, he shows his lack
of exactly such skill, botching step one of tying a cleat hitch--which should
be taking the line to the far ear first! It gets worse, but no more basic.
Re the nipping loop of the Bowline: "(A loop like this is called a timber hitch,
but that won't be on the test.)" --good thing for him if it's not.

And apparently the editors of this bay-related mag. don't know a cleat hitch
(or rubbish) when they see it (or not), either.

.:. appalling

(But on one brief stroll out some dock by a restaurant recently, I didn't see
a single cleat hitch properly done. Those guys need Velcro!)


*kN*
 
yeah, so no one is perfect eh? moving heavy things is an excellent little book, its authors foibles notwithstanding. i especially liked the bits of history he works in - did you know, for example, that headstones used to be (still are some places?) fine tuned on their pedestals by being placed on ice cubes that allow for nearly frictionless adjustment of way heavy objects? cool beans.
k.
 
Hey Kathy one of my interests is stone work and I remember reading in one of my stone masonry books about how they used ice cubes for the fine tuning of heavy stones and I found that so cool too.

I'll keep my eyes and ears open for any other books on rigging that I come across and pass the info on.
 
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