Load Transfer Line In Action

[Tony]

Here is a removal we did last week.

 

[Tony]

It lost a large limb early one morning on a calm day

 

[Tony]

It went about 12 feet over the building.

 

[Tony]

The tree was full of scars identical to the one that failed on the fallen limb

 

[Tony]

I decided to snake one lowering line up the strongest lead and then employ another line in an nearby tree to help lesson the load and float the debris to a central location.

 

[Tony]

Here is a shot of the line in the second tree.

 

[Tony]

This is the set up on the ground. The far tree is the one being removed. When one GRCS is not Good enough!! Sorry couldn't resist the pun.

 

[Tony]

Here are the lines on a piece ready to go.

 

[Tony]

This was the single heaviest piece of the day. We kept them smaller to lesson loads. I estimated it to weight 250 to 300 lbs.

 

[Tony]

The brush came out the same way.

 

[Tony]

All in all not a super complex job, but unique in some respects. Here is a final shot of the internals of one of the cracks on the main stem.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Tony,

Thanks for taking the time to put up the pics. Also, it was nice to see them in less than 900x900 size. I'm on dialup too and they came through just fine.

 

[Tony]

Tom,

No problem about the Pix or the size. Actually, I have a blazing DSL connection running through my mac. (I'm suprised your screen doesn't bulge when my posts hit /forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif ) However, I appreciate the downsized pictures others send along with their posts so I did the same.

Tony