negative rigging

Reg ,Figured you may get a little kick if nothing else cause your brainchildren are always on my crew. Love the rc3001 and of course the a.t. I know I should edit this.. I just ain't got the time(skillz) haha. The action at the 4 and some odd minute mark.
 
Awesome vid, per usual! Always love seeing your stuff, man.

Learning moment question for me: curious as to why your ground guy chose to not let things run? Or if the DZ was such that you couldn't reorient the stein out of the way to take some of the rodeo out of the day? Still learning and always love finding out why folks are doing what they do so I can add it into the repertoire!
 
ladybird said:
Awesome vid, per usual! Always love seeing your stuff, man.

Learning moment question for me: curious as to why your ground guy chose to not let things run? Or if the DZ was such that you couldn't reorient the stein out of the way to take some of the rodeo out of the day? Still learning and always love finding out why folks are doing what they do so I can add it into the repertoire!
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I'll answer for Reg, who replied elsewhere that his groundie was being overly cautious at first and had too many wraps on those first couple pieces. Notice the lower, heavier ones were lowered far more smoothly....
 
Roger_Barnett said:
Since the center of mass will fall the same amount regardless of where the load is tied, there's no need to tie the section close to the end being cut.
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Point well taken sir. you can see in that little crap shoot I put up how I set marl close to cut and when rigging line was pretensioned by ground. I had to reset so as it wouldn't chance slip off.
 
Roger_Barnett said:
Since the center of mass will fall the same amount regardless of where the load is tied, there's no need to tie the section close to the end being cut.
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I've never thought about that. It really doesn't matter where it's tied, in terms of falling into the block, as long as it falls the same way, as much as it does having the block as close to the cut as possible.


I always put the half hitch as low as possible. Guess that really isn't necessary.
 
ladybird said:
Awesome vid, per usual! Always love seeing your stuff, man.

Learning moment question for me: curious as to why your ground guy chose to not let things run? Or if the DZ was such that you couldn't reorient the stein out of the way to take some of the rodeo out of the day? Still learning and always love finding out why folks are doing what they do so I can add it into the repertoire!
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Sorry for not answering sooner. I've been away for a week. He definitely could've let some of them run a little further.....but they still travelled enough. If you watch the rope run through the bollard, rather than the falling log, you can see they mostly run quite a ways. It's just having the camera right underneath, and the fact that it's a conifer pole makes it look like something different.
 
Thanks for posting the video. I have an RC-3001 that I have used on a few large removals. Today we were taking down a large ash tree and twice the rigging line got caught on the hook from the ratchet strap that secures the lowering device to the tree. Has this happened to anyone else and can someone tell me what I am doing wrong. I realize when negative rigging there is a moment of slack in the line before the cut piece runs through the block and I assume this is when the rigging line gets behind the hook.
 
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