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We did a fun rig less dead sugar maple removal early this week.
After I got the job I was driving home thinking, now how the hell am I going to get that dead tree down with no good central tie in point down safely? There was no bucket access so that was out of the question.
The tree was located in the middle of an old horse paddock, With a nice new white fence about 20ft around the whole tree. Not many trees close enough to rig off of. But a nice pine to set up the wrope wrench for positioning. So warning the customer over the past few years that we should plan ahead to take this tree down before it gets too dangerous to climb , she waits till it is bridle as all hell!.
So the plan of action was Bring all my plywood from the yard and build triangular bridges over lapping each other to cover the fence then climb out around 15 20ft. and cut large limbs and let them fly. I was pretty confident that when I cut the limbs they would shatter on impact and brake over the plywood. We started small and worked our way up to some of the bigger and larger limbs. And everything work out smoothly. Half of the limbs shattered over the fence while the wood deflected of the plywood and laid on the ground nicely. We left the customer a 25ft stalk so she could grow ivy on it. I suggested green beans wood be cool.
It was definitely a fun and different type of job without a bucket and Where we had to think outside of the usually rigging and climb plan. Srt has allowed me to do so many more jobs now that I’m able to climb off of trees that you would have never thought of before!
I wish I brought my camera that day.
I'll see if i can snap some shots next week and post what is left of the tree
After I got the job I was driving home thinking, now how the hell am I going to get that dead tree down with no good central tie in point down safely? There was no bucket access so that was out of the question.
The tree was located in the middle of an old horse paddock, With a nice new white fence about 20ft around the whole tree. Not many trees close enough to rig off of. But a nice pine to set up the wrope wrench for positioning. So warning the customer over the past few years that we should plan ahead to take this tree down before it gets too dangerous to climb , she waits till it is bridle as all hell!.
So the plan of action was Bring all my plywood from the yard and build triangular bridges over lapping each other to cover the fence then climb out around 15 20ft. and cut large limbs and let them fly. I was pretty confident that when I cut the limbs they would shatter on impact and brake over the plywood. We started small and worked our way up to some of the bigger and larger limbs. And everything work out smoothly. Half of the limbs shattered over the fence while the wood deflected of the plywood and laid on the ground nicely. We left the customer a 25ft stalk so she could grow ivy on it. I suggested green beans wood be cool.
It was definitely a fun and different type of job without a bucket and Where we had to think outside of the usually rigging and climb plan. Srt has allowed me to do so many more jobs now that I’m able to climb off of trees that you would have never thought of before!
I wish I brought my camera that day.
I'll see if i can snap some shots next week and post what is left of the tree
