southsoundtree
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Olympia, WA
Re: Experimenting with resizing
Had we not used the cable, we would have not been able to land them in the bed as we did, due to the tight set-up spaces. We had to prune trees on both sides, as it was. We didn't want to scalp one side of either tree. We could keep the boom up and wiggle it in between branches, and guide the load down into the bed.
We could have picked some right directly on the hook (pulled off the block and cable, hung hook, then switched back), but it would have been next to impossible to load close to the middle and front of the bed with some of that, as the two last sections are manual, not hydraulic. The front of the bed is the hard place to load, whether grappling brush from the ground, using chokers for loads of brush off the ground (wouldn't have been able to reach with boom alone), or picking long pieces.
It would have been different if we had room to set the pick down in the road/ lawn and had we been chipping instead.
Had we not used the cable, we would have not been able to land them in the bed as we did, due to the tight set-up spaces. We had to prune trees on both sides, as it was. We didn't want to scalp one side of either tree. We could keep the boom up and wiggle it in between branches, and guide the load down into the bed.
We could have picked some right directly on the hook (pulled off the block and cable, hung hook, then switched back), but it would have been next to impossible to load close to the middle and front of the bed with some of that, as the two last sections are manual, not hydraulic. The front of the bed is the hard place to load, whether grappling brush from the ground, using chokers for loads of brush off the ground (wouldn't have been able to reach with boom alone), or picking long pieces.
It would have been different if we had room to set the pick down in the road/ lawn and had we been chipping instead.
