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Hey thanks for the kind words.
Ive been kind of irritated in the past by ignorant comments often made by people who either dont partake, or who just never got very good at it....that crane work is an easy, under-skilled and over-rated aspect of treework....when actually that couldn't be any further from the truth.
Sure, physically it can be easier than conventional rigging, but mentally the stakes and consequences of failure are on a whole different planet. So for the cynics out there, please dont be so quick to judge....these things dont just fall into place by chance. Thanks again
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Come on Buddy, we all know you are a master of the craners and we loves us some of your vids even tho they are enhanced in smoooothness a little by some skilled editing (esp with that gas powered pencil sharpener/brush chipper standing by to gobble up those big picks) but.....
no comparison imho in the work involved and skill level with a huge manual td over multiple targets or even moreso a huge manual pruning (no spikes ofcourse) with large deadwood compared to a huge crane job over targets. Not totally unlike a big td with a big bucket involved...lots and lots of skills still involved but ..............come on?
cheers Reg, welcome to this side of the pond
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Thanks Dave. There’s no editing through the cutting, only perhaps I might skip the first half of the cut so not to waste too much time on the video....but they’re straight-through cuts most of them so I couldn’t disguise anything even if wanted to. I obviously condense all the pics together so it doesn’t get too boring....and except for a couple of short logs, one sling throughout, no tricks. I seem to recall us having this conversation before.
I’m not saying either is better or more challenging than the other, just that the expertise and aptitude some people have for doing this work well should not be taken for granted....myself excluded of course.
One of the toughest jobs I did was with a crane just a year ago believe it or not. Way short on boom height compared to the tree even with him sat just 15ft away from the butt. So he’s piercing up through the crown of the tree at near vertical throughout , 15ft short of the top, weaving in and out of substantial deadwood....in high winds just to cap it off. Just picture that dude directly underneath your work position Dave, looking up at you through his glass roof as near every pic from that poplar rubs and rolls around his boom, often snagging the boom-extension-wire by up to a meter as he tries to manoeuvre them into the open. Couldn’t afford even the slightest twig or piece of deadwood to break-out for obvious reasons or it’s my fault.
Of course they not all like that, certainly not the ones in that video either....but I’m just trying to distinguish the difference between doing something well or just muddling through. You know what I mean Dave?
FWIW, today we were out in the bush taking out some tall flaky firs, throwing the flipline for 90ft before the first branch....no targets to speak of like residential stuff, but still plenty to keep the mind and body well occupied as you can imagine. Nothing is easy aye!
