just getting the hang of this...

Hey cool video (I wont go into one handing
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) Looks like a cool site to work at. What camera do you use?
 
Nice work, nice vid.
Do you allways work this fast or is the video playing in super speed ;-)

Looks like a nice place to think about using a speedline for branch lowering. The hight is good and in that way you won't have to bother managing the branches on their way down.

I'm doing a lot off speedline work and it works great every time. Like the grown in ironweel and cables !
Nice vid and job well done.

climb safe
wouter
 
I liked being able to see the small things. Like how you dealt with the extra tail or your friction saver or the way you use knot less rigging, just to name a couple things.

What did you do with the wood rigged it or tossed it down?
 
The camera is a Drift HD170, it's really good, best on the market in it's price range I think.

The wood got tossed down.

I don't think this tree was much over 100'.

I agree it's a little on the fast side, one thing about these helmet cams is it's easy to take a lot (hours!) of footage, but not so easy to edit it all down. The camera comes with a little wrist remote to start and stop recording which I'll have to start using.
 
"Kind of an experiment, a small fir removal"

kinda funny that your YT description is a small fir, followed up here with it being just over 100'. Frame of reference as compared to things like your avatar.
 
Fine work Gord. Liked the music.

What knot are you using for rigging down the limbs. Looked like something like a bowline. Seemed that you were taking two turns around the limb, then clipping back to the loop in the knot. Is this so? I usually terminate to a biner with a scaffold knot, but it would be in the way for the double-turn and clip method that looks so fast. No slings needed.


After you get out of your friction saver, are you just going on a DdRT for the rest of the climb, even though you don't have any crotches to use if with, effectively a second flipline? Do you use your adjustable friction saver to choke the spar? The reason that I ask is that I like having an emergency lowering-out system.
 
Sean the limbs are rigged down with just a steel biner clipped back onto the two sewn slings that are girth hitched to it. On smaller limbs I give it a round turn. The other end of the slings are tied onto the end of the rigging line. After I take the top out I choke my climbing line around the stem.

Speedline, multiple limbs...why? To speed it up or slow it down?
 
Splendid work as always Gord!

Looks like I'll be heading out your way sometime after the winter....so if you guys are looking for an apprentice, look no further. I'm a quick learner by-the-way.
 
Reg that's great you're headed this way, send me pm if you know the concrete details. An apprentice, that's rich ha! I'll put you through the CCC -the Conifer Cowboy Course!
 
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