Old Growth Fir climb

Bloody heck that was funny... rec rant :risas:

I'll have a beer with you, or I'll have to pimp you to climb with me, haha.

(hope my language is ok, it's accepted round here now)
 
@Reg, Great video, Reg, thanks for going to the trouble of shooting it and posting it up.

I'll echo Steve's questions, plus ask a couple of my own, if that's ok. Were you pruning the deadwood out of this tree because it represents a threat to the possible traffic going by on what looks to be an access road right near the base of the tree? Or was it for some other reason?

Also, it seemed like when you came down you were using DdRT technique. Did you have to set and retrieve a friction saver, assuming I'm correct in my guess about DdRT? Thanks in advance for any answers you choose to give.

That was an amazing tree to have the honor of climbing.

Thanks again for sharing your experiences.

Tim
 
Im sure Darrell will retrieve his own climbline . But in the meantime the least you could do is charge up the batteries in the drone, hit up Starbucks and the local pub for a beer and a latte so you can send him up some refreshments when he gets there. Ok you might have time for a quick game of pool..
 
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I thought I was watching a Beckett play for a few minute there, "Waiting for Darrell". Thx for making your existential despair our entertainment ;-) Cool tree though especially when you were in that craggy middle crown, I would be pretty happy if I was up there, until the rain came in.
 
Thanks. I had shit load of brush still to winch and chip from the day before at another site. It playing on my mind throughout the morning. That and trying to get a line in the tree first thing didn't put me in the most positive place.

There was a previous acess line already set at 150 ft, much to my delight. But when I tried to use it to pull my climb line up and over, it snapped....but was hanging tantalizingly close at about 25 ft off the ground. I went to great lengths to get a hold of it, only for it to snap again, but this time high up so my whole climb line came down with it. Wasted more time trying to Bigshot the first limb at about 90ft. Getting the line over a 2ft limb is one thing....getting it to come down again is another. Anyway, it did eventually. But, probably an hour wasted already

The scope of the work was an aerial inspection and to get out a few big hangers up there. The tree is on a zipline course, and the partakers are taxid up by quads throughout the day. So, the owners are just being concientious in regard to the tree.

So, SRT with base tie to 90. Then switch to DdRT and alternate lanyard up to 200.

I DdRT back down. No friction saver.....high chance of it getting stuck somewhere on that form of tree.

Darrell got up to where his line was choked off, then DdRT back to where I made last descent at 90ft. He switched over to my line at that point to make it back down to earth. He was really pleased about the whole experience at least.
 
moss said:
I thought I was watching a Beckett play for a few minute there, "Waiting for Darrell". Thx for making your existential despair our entertainment ;-) Cool tree though especially when you were in that craggy middle crown, I would be pretty happy if I was up there, until the rain came in.
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Believe or not, I did think of you at one point way up there and feeling dispondant. I thought 'I bet Andrew would be in his element up here'....haha
 
Ugh, pull line snapping multiple times would piss me off. Also, advancing alt lanyard up from 90 to 200, ton of work, you were entitled to say what you said for sure. It feels like going backwards when something supposed to be simple goes on and on.
 
Reg said:
Thanks. I had shit load of brush still to winch and chip from the day before at another site. It playing on my mind throughout the morning. That and trying to get a line in the tree first thing didn't put me in the most positive place.

There was a previous acess line already set at 150 ft, much to my delight. But when I tried to use it to pull my climb line up and over, it snapped....but was hanging tantalizingly close at about 25 ft off the ground. I went to great lengths to get a hold of it, only for it to snap again, but this time high up so my whole climb line came down with it. Wasted more time trying to Bigshot the first limb at about 90ft. Getting the line over a 2ft limb is one thing....getting it to come down again is another. Anyway, it did eventually. But, probably an hour wasted already

The scope of the work was an aerial inspection and to get out a few big hangers up there. The tree is on a zipline course, and the partakers are taxid up by quads throughout the day. So, the owners are just being concientious in regard to the tree.

So, SRT with base tie to 90. Then switch to DdRT and alternate lanyard up to 200.

I DdRT back down. No friction saver.....high chance of it getting stuck somewhere on that form of tree.

Darrell got up to where his line was choked off, then DdRT back to where I made last descent at 90ft. He switched over to my line at that point to make it back down to earth. He was really pleased about the whole experience at least.
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Reg, thanks for this great explanation of your process during this work climb. (What other kind of climb could it possibly be? A person would have to be nuts to do this stuff for no other reason than to see the nice view at the top of the canopy, am I right?)

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only guy that has issues with throw lines and throw bags.

Thanks for the comment on the scope of the work. When you say that the customers are "taxid up by quads" for the zipline course, it makes me wonder whether or not there was any part of that zipline system that you could have used to more easily gain access to the top of that tree? I'd suppose not, or you probably would have, I'm guessing.

Thanks again for going to all of the effort of shooting and posting your videos, and for the answers to our questions. It is much appreciated.

Tim
 
TimBr said:
Reg, thanks for this great explanation of your process during this work climb. (What other kind of climb could it possibly be? A person would have to be nuts to do this stuff for no other reason than to see the nice view at the top of the canopy, am I right?)

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only guy that has issues with throw lines and throw bags.

Thanks for the comment on the scope of the work. When you say that the customers are "taxid up by quads" for the zipline course, it makes me wonder whether or not there was any part of that zipline system that you could have used to more easily gain access to the top of that tree? I'd suppose not, or you probably would have, I'm guessing.

Thanks again for going to all of the effort of shooting and posting your videos, and for the answers to our questions. It is much appreciated.

Tim
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Everyone hates throwlines and throwbags. They're a necessary evil
 
CanadianStan said:
Everyone hates throwlines and throwbags. They're a necessary evil
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That's why we need drones... ;) (another necessary evil) :) Then we'd hate them too... :whistle:

Reg seems to be made of different stuff - practice makes perfect I suppose. I get cramp sometimes towards the end of a difficult, long day in the saddle; by difficult - I mean difficult for me - probably piss easy for Reg...
 
I really didn't think Darrell existed, I thought Reg was pulling my leg. It's wasn't until Darrell appeared was I convinced. This is a great vid with awesome humour value, least for me. Nice insights too of climbing big one.
 
Cool big tree reg, a long progress climb. A coworker revels in those types of situations, calls them adventure climbs.
I climbed one like that with yoyoman a couple years ago and the top thirty feet or so was totally dead, top had blown out at like 24" diameter. The tree must have been huge.
Nobody has paid me to climb one though!
 
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