How bout that fishing pole tech...anyone?

I have never needed it personally.

Keep in mind that I just do regular treework though, not like some of the elite teams of tree riggers we have here. But hey we bill $80-$100/man hour most every day without it so we are doing alright.
 
Specialty technique. I'm sure its useful, though have not needed to use it myself. The only big spreading trees I've had to rig were with small pieces and decent vector forces and reliable wood.
 
Down here we have reliable wood, trees are strong and hardly compromised even when dead, also they are generally not very big/tall to be honest. I have never used it, but am interested in seeing folks views on it that are more experienced and have used it....
 
For all the times I have used it it is usually storm split trees or sever decay/decline. Most times it was just more convenient to keep the rigging line out of the way of the operation.

One of the cool things about the x rings is that it will open this type of rigging, rigging a tree in compression, to more tree workers. This is something I was taught to do early in my career and go out of my to even if it is not strictly necessary.

(See how I cleverly turned the fishing pole discussion back to x rings, just as I turned the x ring discussion to fishing pole). I love symmetry
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Tony
 
I’ll look forward to learning more about this from people who have used it. I don’t use a bucket truck at all, work with light to modest weight, and still have frequently felt like I would have liked to have more safety margin in getting a job done.

I went and looked at the “Best Practices of Rigging” book again last night. Sure enough there is a beautiful picture of the “Fishing Pole” technique right in there. But my mind blew right past it when I first read that book. Yeah like I’m going to drag 5 or 6 blocks up in a tree to to accomplish this job, (the way I work). Usually I can increase my safety margins by going smaller and working myself faster and harder.

Now it’s like a light bulb has gone on. I look back over the years and there are so many trees that have that one limb reaching so far out over the house or over this or that. Or the dead trees ignored for too long by the home owner and I’m wondering , “Just how strong is that wood.”

Now with the availability of a light, strong, fully funcional alternative to arb blocks it feels like, hey why not throw a few extra points in here and make this thing sing.

So Tony, thanks for the pictures and the excellent example of how I could employ this technique to my advantage and everyone else and the examples to come, thanks for this thread and great info..
 
I own two CMI 5/8" blocks, a porty, a pinto rig, and a GRCS.

I'm way to basic for fishing pole technique.
 
You know how I feel about it, all for the fishing pole technique when necessary.

Here's Tony's thread and pics on it for you new guys who may have missed this discussion before from a few years ago.

Nothing new with this techniques, been around for decades for riggers willing to use the physics of the tree and wood. Only now, with the XRR slings makes it that much more efficient.

http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=293888&an=0&page=11#293888
 
Here's a video of a similar set up... starts at 4:00..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j36V8dchcqE

not nearly as pretty as Tony, but got the job done...
Just a shackle tied off down the limb a ways and natural crotch from there.. with true blue and those light pieces, a block is not needed. Shackles work fine. That's the low cost alternative to the x rings.. so cheap and light its worth keeping a few around. bend ratios can be minimized by using redirects.. any old piece of 1/2" works for the sling in light rigging.
 
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