helmet cams

[klimbinfool]

For a while now Jerry Beranek has been using a helmet cam for some of his work and other things. He sent me some footage of work he did in a row of Menterey Cypress. It was really neat to see the work being done from in the tree rather the someone trying to film from the ground. Youo know how footage turns out when someone else is running your video camera or 35mm. Never seems to turn out.

I find this to be very educational when narrated from in the tree and then maybe , sometimes not..lol.

HAs anyone else taken to doing this? I'm thinking about getting one for myself for PVT work and then use it as training for my crew at work.

 

[Kevin]

The only thing I don't like about that is it has a tendency to take your mind off of where it should be.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Jerry used the helmet cam when the Danish arbos were climbing with us this summer. In the final edit he included some "footage" [What is the digital equivelant? ] It's fun to here Jerry talking and breathing. The shots put the viewer right in the saddle.

My digi camera shoots video/audio. I'm doing some messing around with quality settings to see what would transfer to the TV. At low setting the pictyures are quite pixillated and jerky. I don't know if it would work for training. At the high setting I can only shoot about 90 seconds per picture.

Tom

 

[klimbinfool]

what mega pixle do you have on your Dig.camera, Tom ? 90.sec is quite a bit compared to mine. I get 15 sec. Although ,I have a 5.0 meg.

Greg

 

[klimbinfool]

check out the hopper I took a pic of with my dig. cam on micro.Upper reply .

 

[Squirrel]

Greg,

that climber is looking a little green around the gills ha ha ha ok so I 'm not a comedian but this thread makes me want a video cam even more now, looks like a great camera to me.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Greg,

I bought a Canon A70, 3.2. I don't have the manual close by to decipher the three settings. If its sunny tomorrow I'm going to shoot the same scene at the three settings and then view with my TV. Then I'll be able to decide the quality I need to shoot.

This afternoon I stopped at a shopping mall nearby. I grew up about three blocks away and have been around there for about 40 years, am I that old As I drove out, a ripped out branch cut grabbed my eye. A honeylocust with a six inch low limb. No undercut, just staright down and then chew off the tear out. I drove around 1/3 of the mall and shot some pics. In the thirty years of treework this is, by far, the worst work that I have ever seen. They were skinning up the bottoms of the evergreens for mower clearance. In one grouping they took off the lower limbs of a brown-dead pine. Like REM says, "It's the end of the world as we know it..."


Tom

 

[Gord]

at our jamboree this year a tv crew duct taped a cam to Dan Kraus' helmet for the work climb. i can't imagine that much if any of it was viewable tho, dan climbing as he does. on the program they showed all of a half second of footage from the climb.

 

[Babberney]

Re: helmet cams/worst pruning ever

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In the thirty years of treework this is, by far, the worst work that I have ever seen. They were skinning up the bottoms of the evergreens for mower clearance. In one grouping they took off the lower limbs of a brown-dead pine. Like REM says, "It's the end of the world as we know it..."

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I assume you mean excuding topped trees . . . .
I recently saw the worst I had run accross in my ten years. The local churchad the bst Shumard in the neighborhood. I had even considered volunteering to prune it so I could climb it. Then I came round the corner one day to find teh lower 2/3 had been removed, including an 18" branch and several 8+" limbs. Whover did it apparently never heard of sharpening a chain, so there are several gashes where the cut curved back into the trunk. Sorry to say I have no "before" pics (it was a perfectly shaped tree, excellent specimen), but I attached a couple of "Afters".

 

[Babberney]

buy a file, dudeRe: helmet cams/worst pruning ever

here's a close-up . . . oh, and dis I mention we're in oak wilt country, so these wounds should have been painted immediately?

 

[Nathan]

Re: buy a file, dudeRe: helmet cams/worst pruning ever

Going to be a lot more of that in Austin until things pick up. Seems to be a mass proliferation of bottom feeders as many of the midsized companies are going under.

Thank god for a steady client base and good rep huh??

Good time to get in the rental trailer biz....

I haven't even done a search on helmet cams. Anyone got a link??

Shot this pic yesterday while everyones sharing....