My new Hobbs H2

[Rupe]

So what rope were you using to lift the chipper? And how easy is it to lock it off on the Hobbs?

 

[Reg]

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The conifer was actually a deodar cedar and I was tied in elsewhere.

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Cedar? So even heavier than if it were pine or conifer. Good work, and no wonder your tied in elsewhere, I wouldn't lower pieces like that off my anchor point/stem.

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Yeah that rigging point was beat-up by the end of the day. (see attachment)

There was a lot in that tree, multi-stemmed etc. We did it over a day and a half, five of us plus the timber-truck guy on the second day. The canopy-tops were straight forward enough, they just folded over and had plenty of clearance to do so. However, some of the horizontals were long and sprawling, 35ft, with the building and fencing right underneath. If I’d only been equipped with the portorwap, I’d have had to climb out to the ends and mess about out there……and even there after, I’d have probably had to just drop the rest of it as they were so close to the ground, and what with the Rigging point was so far away in relation. In other words they couldn’t have swung round without first hitting the ground. However, with the Hobbs I was able to tie them off to balance, pre-tension and then cut them right back at the union. They swung just short of 180 degrees (some of them), without ever touching down, all the way past the rigging point to where the guys were chipping!

We couldn’t have done it without the pre-tension…..and boy did it save some time and effort.

Also, because there were so many of us, and the timber was just being left in lengths on the first day, the guys were able to process the limbs just about as fast as I could bring them down, easy tree to get around also. So I was constantly busy up there i.e. position, tie-up, cut……as big as I thought safe for the rigging-point.

Now at that work rate, my old portowrap would have been scorching hot……I’d have had to change tactics for sure. Also, where finer judgment and timing was needed on the more critical loads, I didn’t have to worry so much as to whether the ropesman would mess it up, as both the Hobbs and GRCS designs’ clearly make allowances for misjudged operations, so such mistakes are easily recovered in most cases i.e. if your grounds-person over-wrap’s a porty and it locks, then you’d better be out of the way as it comes swinging back at you because at that stage it is out of control. For such reasons a climber has to assess the risks a little differently when deciding on what his grounds person can realistically deal with (see MBs earlier post) but, the level of control that his respective lowering device affords him is a significant factor in this IMO. Like I'm quite the lowering-device expert all of a sudden

What can I say? I should have bought one years ago....listened to the people who knew better! Still, no matter, I’ll appreciate it even more now.

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So what rope were you using to lift the chipper? And how easy is it to lock it off on the Hobbs?

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We had the big blue one again, 4 wraps for the lift and 3 for the decent. We just should have set the rigging point higher as the chipper was a little too tight on the tree and wall on the way down. It was easy enough, the trench we were working in had filled up with water over the time we were there. It wasn’t planned and we couldn’t have got it out any other way.

 

[cory]

The shots of the pieces going over or being pushed over with no chainsaw used or heard in the clip were very cool and interesting.

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It would be great if this thread could run quietly without transpiring into yet another Hobbs v the equally superb GRCS debate…..

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Great idea. Just wondering, why did you choose it over the grcs, in a nutshell.

 

[Mahk_Adams]

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The shots of the pieces going over or being pushed over with no chainsaw used ...

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Sign of a good climber. Cut it just enough that you can hang up the saw and push the piece by hand.

Well done.

 

[Colin]

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Great idea. Just wondering, why did you choose it over the grcs, in a nutshell.

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[Reg]

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Great idea. Just wondering, why did you choose it over the grcs, in a nutshell.

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An initial consideration, yes....but when the time came, all things considered, no bearing what-so-ever!

Nothing worse than going cheap only to regret it later.

If they'd been equally priced, I'd have still made the same choice.

But in a nutshell Cory, they're both great, hows that!

 

[Waratah]

very Professional i use mine all the time, i can get trees down where most will use a cranes.
Good to see real tree work no just pick with machines.

 

[Norm_Hall]

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The shots of the pieces going over or being pushed over with no chainsaw used ...

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Sign of a good climber. Cut it just enough that you can hang up the saw and push the piece by hand.

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Agreed. You really don't see that very often. A true "Arteest". (artist)

 

[Gord]

Great video, very nice work. Good to see this device in action.

Here's a better quality youtube link Reg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq1p4xc1GtM&amp;fmt=18

(it's like magic...)

 

[Reg]

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Great video, very nice work. Good to see this device in action.

Here's a better quality youtube link Reg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq1p4xc1GtM&amp;fmt=18

(it's like magic...)

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How'd you do that Gord

 

[Gord]

If you add on &amp;fmt=18 to the regular address it displays a higher quality video.

It works for most youtube video addresses although some older clips don't seem to improve when you add this.

cheap and easy