Need Rigging Pictures

Magnum783 · Feb 7, 2023

Friends, I haven't been on here in years but the things I have learned here are priceless. I am giving a presentation on tree rigging and where the forces go. I am need of some old school simple rigging pictures and examples. I am working to search the site but hoping maybe the creation of this thread will increase the amount of pictures I can find. Thanks again! J

Magnum783 · Feb 7, 2023

Also if someone has some quality line drawings those would be helpful too

ghostice · Feb 7, 2023

Always thought this was a neat job explaining some of basic tree rigging. You might try contacting Soren?

RogerM · Feb 7, 2023

"The art and science of practical rigging" and any Jeff Jepson stuff... will get ya started.
you might need some permissions?
"On Rope" has more forces than you will want to read...

TheTreeSpyder · Feb 8, 2023

Try Youtube/authors?
Wide subject, anything more specific?

evo · Feb 8, 2023

Large failed (cable broke) white oak, 2:1 on the GRCS to lift the weight off the building. Client was a little shaken and not rational. The building was a total loss, but she didn't let me break the window to get out the 10K in really nice bicycles. "But then there could be water damage in the building"
Doug Fir spar we uprooted on purpose. Did about a 6:1 using a Ersted Winch run by a 4 cyc datsun engine and 4 speed tranny.
English Reeve, to get debris off a bluff. Attached photo is the terracing the previous owner did, it was kinda a nightmare with ample voids and loose soils. (think the most epic game of pickup sticks)

RogerM · Feb 8, 2023

@evo did you uproot the fir just to see if you could? Seems like fun. Never had the opportunity (maybe the time) to do something as large as that.

Magnum783 · Feb 9, 2023

That fir is crazy so much went wrong

evo · Feb 9, 2023

RogerM said:
@evo did you uproot the fir just to see if you could? Seems like fun. Never had the opportunity (maybe the time) to do something as large as that.

I was a employee at the time. We did it to because the client insisted we remove the stump. We hand dug the major roots on the tension side, and if you look close you can see a heavy metal pipe. The goal of the pipe is to act as a fulcrum, to help 'pop' the stump. If I recall correctly we had about 4 different trees as anchor points and lots of wire rope in the air.
It was a fun experience, and took the two of us most of the day to just deal with the spar and stump. Lots of hard work.
We did accidentally uproot a couple of firs too, but mostly just Gin poles which we then guy'd and kept on going.
Crazy fun, but scary winch with every safety feature from its manufacturer date of pre 1920, which means it had a chain guard and that's it. Earsted changed their name to Hyster sometime in the 20's?
It isn't unlike the trailer mounted machine in the middle drawing. But it's mounted on a heavy steel frame with "ski's".. Designed to be plopped on the ground, and you run the cable out to pull the machine itself into position. We just had it chained down onto a heavy flatbed 1 ton truck, and pulled the truck accidentally a couple of times. Other times we just backed the truck butted upto a big stump, or chained the front end to a stump.

evo · Feb 9, 2023

Magnum783 said:
That fir is crazy so much went wrong

It went very right as planned

Serf Life · Feb 9, 2023

@chris_girard did a few for TCIA, recently on reeves etc

Serf Life · Feb 9, 2023

Whip tackle, speedline with a back stay. Need to take more photos, these are old.

TimBr · Feb 9, 2023

Magnum783 said:
Friends, I haven't been on here in years but the things I have learned here are priceless. I am giving a presentation on tree rigging and where the forces go. I am need of some old school simple rigging pictures and examples. I am working to search the site but hoping maybe the creation of this thread will increase the amount of pictures I can find. Thanks again! J

I hope this is ok. There is a guy on the other tree forum who I think is absolutely brilliant. He is a welder who geeks out on rigging stuff, and asked permission, I think, to start a big thread dealing with all of the old school techniques. It's been a long time, but I think I might have been the one that asked Butch to "sticky" the thread, as I felt it contained such priceless information.

Here is the link to the thread.

Derrick rigging and redneck cranes

I'm putting this in the rigging area because I think that's where I guessed it should go, if you want to, feel free to move it to the gear section or wherever you feel it should be (garbage can, etc lol). My day job is heavy pipe construction, and as part of our apprenticeship, they have over a...

www.masterblasterhome.com

Edit: It is good to read you here, @Magnum783. I hope you are well. Hopefully you can find the time to visit again soon.

TheTreeSpyder · Feb 10, 2023

Unfortunately i guess should always and all ways pitch one such as this:

cuz this game, ain't no game !

chris_girard · Apr 12, 2023

TimBr said:
I hope this is ok. There is a guy on the other tree forum who I think is absolutely brilliant. He is a welder who geeks out on rigging stuff, and asked permission, I think, to start a big thread dealing with all of the old school techniques. It's been a long time, but I think I might have been the one that asked Butch to "sticky" the thread, as I felt it contained such priceless information.

Here is the link to the thread.

Derrick rigging and redneck cranes

I'm putting this in the rigging area because I think that's where I guessed it should go, if you want to, feel free to move it to the gear section or wherever you feel it should be (garbage can, etc lol). My day job is heavy pipe construction, and as part of our apprenticeship, they have over a...

www.masterblasterhome.com

Edit: It is good to read you here, @Magnum783. I hope you are well. Hopefully you can find the time to visit again soon.

Yup it's one of the best threads on rigging out there.