Hi-Line for Tie IN on a dead oak.

theXman

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zEOlH6d5lM&feature=youtu.be

A dead oak tree removal, using High-Line as the tie in. As you can see, tree had been dead a very long time. Too risky to allow a climber to rely on this tree for support. Tree could not be felled in one piece due to shed, house, driveway, etc. High-Line technique used for the safety of the climber (me). No rope rigging, just piecing and chunking it out. It was just a very fun, FUN tree. Gotta be in the top 5 most fun tree removals I've done in my career, what a great day. Very top of the tree was soft as a sponge and it's just a great feeling having a secure tie in location that you can trust. We put guide ropes on the main trunk of the tree first, in case it partially failed while working in it, they might keep it from falling all the way over. Video is a little long, I hate 13 minute videos, but I kind of did this one to save as a memory for myself. Climb safe and smart, theXman.

I wanted to put out many video's before the expo. Not possible, due to this Sandy storm eating up all my time. This one video was already edited and completed before the storm.....
 
You could smell the rot from here!
How you like the bounce.
You experience most of the rot onthe exterior sapwood?
Where did you find heart rot or more advanced decay?

Did most of the tree on the North side fail.
Always seems to be the case here with our Oaks.
13min went by fairly quickly, nice action
Thanks
 
You are damn good at that video editing with multiple cameras X. Like the Bix said safe and smooth. Very interesting.
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david, you've seen enough of my vids that you finally figured out how to cut a decent notch, but you have some work to do on those back cuts

:) JUST KIDDING... (everybody take a breath and let it go)

Nice job... controlling the fall of those bits was more important than it looked... you have it dialed in.. Seriously!

You obviously cut your back cuts low intentionally, which makes it a little harder to push the piece. Perhaps you think that offers more control.... what is your reasoning on that?
(just trying to learn something here) Thanks...

Dead oaks are often a lot more trustworthy than they look.. not that one!
 
Big shot in the tree was killer!! Where was your kboom, could you have tied into it instead of setting up the high-line? Its crazy to take on all the camera setup, execution and planning on top of running a biz and making sure the job goes smooth. Awesome job!
 
After I read your post, I just wanted to see what the technique was that you would used to take out a big rotty. As soon as I saw the trees all around it, I knew what you were going to climb out of them. I saw lots of actions going on to set up something, but I couldn't figure out what in the world it all was going to amount to. Then I saw you roll in on the trolley line. WOW! I knew how the rest would go down. Amazing work.

You have quick hands like me. haha
 
hmmm, glad some like it. Don't have time to respond to all right now. Storm work and Expo at the same time. My booth is not going to be as nice as I wanted it, oh well. I had some text notes on my draft version of this video, explaining things, then decided it was cleaner not to include them. We had two guide ropes on it, so you have to be careful not to bomb on them. Never hit them, but did hit that lower limb by mistake...... wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. Lower 2/3 of tree did have ok heartwood. Probably not much root holding though. Funny how customers don't like to admit how long dead. I have worked next door for years, saw this tree dead and nasty looking 4 yrs ago, said, wow, they better take that down. When I did the estimate he said, "that tree went fast, it's only been dead for two years".
 
Did you say this clip was edited?

Got bored at 1 minute and is probly about 10 minutes too long.

Looking forward to the shortened version!!
 
I like it dude. Looks like a blast. One more in the bag... I always thought that you might generate too much side loading on your two tie in points. Recently though as I read through the TCIA best practices for rigging, it looks like it would be 100% weight on each of both tie in points. Does that sound right? I lent it to my ground guy, so I can't go and confirm at the moment.
 
Very nice work! I had as much fun watching it as you said you had doing it. How long did it take to set up your tie-in and once it was set up how long did it take to do the tree?
 
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Very nice work! I had as much fun watching it as you said you had doing it. How long did it take to set up your tie-in and once it was set up how long did it take to do the tree?

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maybe 1.5 hours setting up, but a lot of that was camera work, slows things down.

I think 40 minutes to take it down and cleanup.

I had two more dead rotten trees after that, but the go-pro only got a little bit of it before card was full, so I didn't show those trees.

Thanks guys,
 
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