Line installation device

Bart_ said:
Pruner is about $100. You can set the head past 90 degrees and hang it in the tree. I never use the saw blade it comes with. You can also set regular lines with it restricted to about 1 rope fold and maybe need a throw bag weighting it in place over the branch.
edit - Kevin, maybe graft a Fiskars head adapter to the pogo so you can do the reach, rotate, release routine. 90 degrees also gives you perfect grab for pull back down
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I've been looking for something like this for a trunk cinch, not on branches:
https:// www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/uk-two-ropes-at-all-times-usa-next.41331/page-13#post-632975
 
Merle Nelson said:
. . . Tell us if you want to cast multiples Burrapeg, otherwise it's plastic for me.
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Might be an interesting project while isolating, to cast up a batch of them. The machine work to finish the casting is not too bad. They certainly would not cost anywhere near what the Hooker costs! I would guess somewhere around a hundred bucks, maybe slightly more, and you guys supply your own poles.
 
jmcscrap said:
Pictures or it didn't happen ;) Video would be better!!
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Just shot some photos, but video will have to wait.
The device head fits into a blue 5 ft pole and I have three 3 ft aluminium extensions as well. I can reach about 8 feet up with my hand so that gives me about 13 ft reach with the device on the blue pole or about 22 ft with all three extensions. I put a little hook on the side of the thing so I can hang it on a nearby limb when I am not using it in the canopy. I made it for climbing conifers where there are suitable limbs at intervals out of reach but lots of clutter and smaller limbs in the way of easily moving the TIP up and most of it too small to use free climbing with a lanyard. I can quickly reach right through the clutter to accurately target a given limb big enough for a TIP and with one jab it puts the climbing rope around the limb and I pull it back to me for either DdRT or to make up a butterfly with a quick link for an SRT TIP. The whole reach up and pull motion just takes a few seconds. Aluminium is fairly easy to cast and I poured the thing the same afternoon that I made the wooden pattern. I poured it around a short chunk of schedule-40 aluminium pipe which slides smoothly into most pole saw poles. The whole lot fits into a bag that had a beach umbrella in it.
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Nice, that looks pro. Just say the word if you have an interest in casting any. (I can do clean up easily.)

I live on the coast and do a lot of work in trees that grow so matted and dense from the wind that I often find golf balls hung up in the trees near the golf course. Makes it more time consuming to set lines by throw or big shot. This and that 40 foot extendable pole would be very slick.
 
Burrapeg said:
Just shot some photos, but video will have to wait.
The device head fits into a blue 5 ft pole and I have three 3 ft aluminium extensions as well. I can reach about 8 feet up with my hand so that gives me about 13 ft reach with the device on the blue pole or about 22 ft with all three extensions. I put a little hook on the side of the thing so I can hang it on a nearby limb when I am not using it in the canopy. I made it for climbing conifers where there are suitable limbs at intervals out of reach but lots of clutter and smaller limbs in the way of easily moving the TIP up and most of it too small to use free climbing with a lanyard. I can quickly reach right through the clutter to accurately target a given limb big enough for a TIP and with one jab it puts the climbing rope around the limb and I pull it back to me for either DdRT or to make up a butterfly with a quick link for an SRT TIP. The whole reach up and pull motion just takes a few seconds. Aluminium is fairly easy to cast and I poured the thing the same afternoon that I made the wooden pattern. I poured it around a short chunk of schedule-40 aluminium pipe which slides smoothly into most pole saw poles. The whole lot fits into a bag that had a beach umbrella in it.
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Awesome - definitely interested!
 
CanadianStan said:
hahahahaha that would be bad ass

install a pinto above their hitch for a controlled release ...
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Off the top of my head, I was thinking redirect the stock rope just above the casualty and set a new line for them as the same time so that I only have the one quick hop up to the rescue.
They seem to like using the dummy's lanyard at most of them.
 
Burrapeg, did you shy away from welding up a stainless one for any particular reason? I made some stuff from some high pressure stainless tubing before and it was light and tough as nails. Like 1500 psi or something pipe, 3/8 or 1/2" have to check. The tubing bent ok too.

Kudos on the fine craftsmanship. Could you anodise your cast stuff or is there porosity issues? Battery acid and cloth dye my friend...

ps digging the truck
 
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