James Returns

[Vicente]

That picture always amazes me, not only the stupidity of how they're doing that tree but right next to power lines as well, also the amount of money they have in equipment (just not the right kind) is way higher than my value in tree gear.

I thought I grabbed a picture of it but can't find it, we were doing tree work at a friend of mines and his neighbor, "does his own work" he was or tried to do about an 80 ft not terribly tough pine near his house pool and fence, made it probably close to 3/4 of the way up 2 ft stubs sticking out all over and gave up, his climbing rope left in the tree was one of those 8$ for 100 paper core ropes from home depot.

 

[flushcut]

The rest of the loader is under that brush pile. Lol

 

[moss]

Amusing and scary but overall, I pretty much refuse to watch stuff like this. These are not tree workers, these are essentially proud assholes who think "I can do this!".

I can't stand watching violence on screen, I'm pretty much fine with it in real life, I've been an accidental first responder in serious real situations throughout my life and stay cool and do the right things to help victims. But weirdly can't stand to be involved with "recreational screen violence"!

My two-cents, carry on!
-AJ

 

[Njdelaney]

Amusing and scary but overall, I pretty much refuse to watch stuff like this. These are not tree workers, these are essentially proud assholes who think "I can do this!".

I can't stand watching violence on screen, I'm pretty much fine with it in real life, I've been an accidental first responder in serious real situations throughout my life and stay cool and do the right things to help victims. But weirdly can't stand to be involved with "recreational screen violence"!

My two-cents, carry on!
-AJ

It makes sense that you can help when something violent happens in reality, but don't choose it as entertainment. That seems pretty healthy to me.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Sometimes I watch arb fails and I think ‘that guy probably died there’

I don’t like that very much.

I got a few minutes in, the old guy getting thrown into the air at maybe 20ft was enough for me. Turned it off.

 

[Basswood]

This Dawn Redwood was left coat racked and ugly for over a week down the road from me. I really had no idea if that was the final goal, something happened or they’d return. I happened to see the guy in the tree working on it today, 20 min to make a bunch of 5” cuts on branches that were all rigged together. It gets caught on the coat racks and one comes off. I can’t wrap my head around this one, other than it’s a homeowner chipping away at a removal. The tree was perfectly healthy, but other than being large would have been a fairly straight forward removal for most competent climbers. No PPE, no gaffs. So bad.

 

[Vicente]

Not really much to learn from most of those, I don't use a ladder in a tree we all know it's a bad idea, I don't mind watching videos like this too learn but the ones he chose have almost nothing to teach anyone who does tree work.

 

[Chris Schultz]

@Vicente i agree with you 100%. I’d like to think that the audience here didn’t glean much (anything) from this video either.

 

[Basswood]

This one is pretty famous video .
Its definitely desrves " James " award.

Plz click its says "watch on YouTube" under line part and its gonna takes you to be able to see it.

Such a crazy one to think about.

I mean what do you do in that situation say if: no bucket/spider lift access and too many targets below to drop it.

How do you avoid that situation?

 

[Vicente]

Such a crazy one to think about.

I mean what do you do in that situation say if: no bucket/spider lift access and too many targets below to drop it.

How do you avoid that situation?

Bring a pole saw with you and remove weight slowly, put a rope and porta wrap on it to raise it more slowly.

 

[Njdelaney]

Such a crazy one to think about.

I mean what do you do in that situation say if: no bucket/spider lift access and too many targets below to drop it.

How do you avoid that situation?

I can think of 2 things you could do. First, you could remove small pieces of that top so all the weight doesn't shift at once. Second, you could tie that palm off at the top just so it can't swing wildly, and then release it slowly after the top comes off.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

I got the impression the guy knew what would happen and was happy enough to take the ride.
if you’re in tight, and are confident it wouldn’t snap (I know next to nothing about palms) buckle up!

 

[Vicente]

I got the impression the guy knew what would happen and was happy enough to take the ride.
if you’re in tight, and are confident it wouldn’t snap (I know next to nothing about palms) buckle up!

Not really prone to snapping, it's like a bunch of separate fibers bunched together.

 

[Basswood]

Bring a pole saw with you and remove weight slowly, put a rope and porta wrap on it to raise it more slowly.

I can think of 2 things you could do. First, you could remove small pieces of that top so all the weight doesn't shift at once. Second, you could tie that palm off at the top just so it can't swing wildly, and then release it slowly after the top comes off.

Not sure how you use a pole saw in that situation. Even from below on gaffed into the stem, that’s ALOT of poles to reach to make small enough cuts.

And getting out to that top to take small enough pieces seems to be a feat, with its inherent dangers, in itself.

@Njdelaney your second option seems to be the best choice to me. But that’s such a dynamic and unique situation. So much can go wrong and if that rigging failed I think that would be a much more violent ride.

 

[Njdelaney]

You could become a human satellite

 

[Njdelaney]

I think @Mick Dempsey is correct in that he knew what he was in for. I'm sure he had at least a full wrap or cinch on that stem or else he would have launched into the stratosphere when it recoiled to almost sideways. He would have slid right up off the top if he wasn't really ready for that ride.

 

[Dan Cobb]

New ride at Six Flags for 2023: The Catapalmt.

People will pay good money for a ride like that.

 

[Barc Buster]

I think @Mick Dempsey is correct in that he knew what he was in for. I'm sure he had at least a full wrap or cinch on that stem or else he would have launched into the stratosphere when it recoiled to almost sideways. He would have slid right up off the top if he wasn't really ready for that ride.

It sure didn’t seem like his first rodeo!

 

[Njdelaney]

Shod-en-froy-de

 

[Vicente]

Found a nice new set of gaffs for James.
https://m.vevor.com/tree-climbing-s...ttp1MHoECUu65bNMTlXXGGyZhv0CBI436RjuusvadPq9o