grcs

Hey Familytree, go to lowes and buy two 1/2 inch x 4 inch lag bolts and a 3/8 drill. Drill 2 holes in tree in circular hole in mounting plate below winch and screw in bolts to hold grcs in place (after tightening down strap). Now grcs cannt move without shearing 2 lags , probaly 20,000 lbs force.

Cheap and effective, I love cheap
 
I'm in Ridgefield, Bergen County. My wife has a house there. As for a job, I'm meeting up with some local guys and Sav-a-tree. Don't want to spend a whole lot of time on the road to and from the shop but I have to look at the overall package. Benefits are most important. I'm use to getting medical for free up in Canada. (almost free, we pay an Employee Health premium after a certain gross yrly income).

My first boss would make us buy lost gear. That I didn't mind too much as it usually was a matter of stupidity on our parts. Broken gear is another issue though. Unless it was blatant then I wouldn't pay.
 
did the notch yesterday on some large white oak rigs yesterday and the grcs didnt move a bit, you could actually see where the grcs started to get caught by the notch, i went just as big as i had previously and had no issues, thanks for refreshing my memory guys, looks like thats the trick
 
for the big stuff we usually used the Hobbs - especially if it wasn't going to run very far -

maybe a smaller piece if it needs to be snubbed off?

peace,

mk
 
I have seen volenters in the climbing comps use a drill with a bit in the goods to bring up the first aid dummy. Could this work for draging logs out of areas if I had pullies hooked up for leverage?
 
yes but the drill usually only loads about 200 pounds. The drill is nice but who wants to try to drag brush around an extension cord running from the house or drag a generator to every job.
 
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How bout log ox/ rope to the goods to help move the heavy logs?

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That sounds like it would work but honestly I rarely am able to go so big that I couldn't just log cart the pieces out, nor am I that tired. But when doing a larger tree and dealing with larger pieces I have thought about using a few pulleys to set redirects and use my log cart and grcs to "roller coaster" the pieces out of the yard. We have a tractor so there isn't much need for this system and we have more than capable bodies to haul the wood. We have to cut everything into firewood sizes anyway so rarely do we run into a piece that has been cut and is still to heavy for us to haul manually
 
That's ugly and twice as big as any I ever deal with. What do you do with the big wood? Does it get used for fuel or does it go to a landfill?
Phil
 
I hear you! This is a difrent situation though for me. Im a climbing arborist from the urban area that is starting to do pine beetle removal in the mountains. Its bad out here in Colorado. Cant get a skidsteer in do to home owner concerns. Some guys in the past were a bit hard on the land. I wanted to try and keep the wood kinda long so it can get milled instead of fill up the land fill. I was thinking climb a tree near the loading area. (no spikes of course) set a pully hook up thr GRS and run my bull rope to the heavy stuff. I was thinking cranking manualy might take a long time so the battery powerd drill could speed it up. But like you said it probably dosent have the power? :
 
I've heard these have plenty of power. http://www.powertoolservices.com/Tools/1680-20.htm

I plan on getting one (used from craiglist or ebay), a chuck...and a visor plate. The drill should be good for tensioning a speedline.....for lifting people into a tree, and for moving brush/wood up a hill (high lead logging style, using a tensioned high line, haul back line, and GRCS powered pull line.

good thread...I'd missed it, just read through.

Here's pics of our very first GRCS use back in 2004....Big cedar failed onto two houses. For a spar, we used a living cedar. To combat the taper, we used a rope tied below the GRCS strap, and attached to it and the GRCS in three places around the tree. Still damaged the bark a tad...now I add chunks of carpet on preservation jobs.
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lmao, nice rook mistake. I' never seen a grcs at the top like that and been using one just about since they came out. Never even seen a Hobbs do that, tell your big guys to eat more stake or try 3 guys. Now I've had the guys I'm working with now tell me they had one blow apart but the fact is the strap and plate still stayed in place. Another is why on earth use the grcs to block out wood? a port awrap is cheap and works better (jmo) as you can use a ice pack to help cut down on groving and rope melt. I really don't like to have $3000.00 of hardwear in the line of fire to be hit should someone not take enough wraps to slow it.

All in All good thing that didn't happen while doing a limb, would of been the talk of the town at the local coffe shop.
 
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