Lowering Device Project

[Jamin_Mayer]

Reg Coats = Mr. R&D! Sounds like a very reasonable price too. They will sell no problem.

 

[Norm_Hall]

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Re: the conference – let me get this week out of the way and we’ll see what can be arranged. If it’s doable Norm you shall have one.

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Thank you Reg. I am very curious to see it.

 

[treevet]

Hi Reg.......it seems like there are 3 units? The big gold one as opposed to the portable one and the one early in the vid?

Is this/these meant to just tension or do they have lift capabilities? Is camming device hard on ropes with that kind of torque? If they lift do you have any lifts on new Beech removal vid when it comes out?

Price 500 lbs....just a guess but is that about $1500. US? I assume that is the largest one? Sorry for multiple questions but, hey I am interested and the block pusher I bought a while back is doing just fine.

(P.S. We gotta work on that R Coates business sign lol)

 

[Reg]

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Hi Reg.......it seems like there are 3 units? The big gold one as opposed to the portable one and the one early in the vid?

Is this/these meant to just tension or do they have lift capabilities? Is camming device hard on ropes with that kind of torque? If they lift do you have any lifts on new Beech removal vid when it comes out?

Price 500 lbs....just a guess but is that about $1500. US? I assume that is the largest one? Sorry for multiple questions but, hey I am interested and the block pusher I bought a while back is doing just fine.

(P.S. We gotta work on that R Coates business sign lol)

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Dave, there was some other discussion which might further satisfy your curiosity if you have the time to read through it all: http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=161156&an=0&page=0#161156

£500 usually works out under $850.

In the most recent beech removal we only had to lift one limb which got hung up after I cut it off. Other than that we didn't need to lift anything.....as is the case with 99% of the jobs I personally get involved with. I will, however, put some kind of lifting demonstration together sooner or later though.

Where some folks might have attempted to raise a couple of the larger limbs in the Beech-job, you will see in the vid whereby double-rigging the limbs in there entirety was by far the fastest and safest technique for that particular job/scenario.....a couple would've weighed in at around and about the 2000lb mark.

Here are a couple of pictures of the production models, one is what someone took from our trade-exhibition just recently. The one in the beech pictures was just an older, slightly smaller prototype.

Now I feel bad for having so many threads running at once, as soon I'll be starting another in the video forum!

 

[Reg]

Second one was actually taken at home. Thanks again