Pekin, IL crane job

That was the quietest tree operation I've ever seen!
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Na. I enjoyed the forethought with the cribbing and placement of the slings. Awesome work.
 
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Very nice work Norm. Who spliced the HM slings?

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I did.

Brian wanted em for his company and the occasional crane job they do.
I've been using Dyneema SK60 slings for years and recently Dyneema SK75 slings. They wear like iron and I like the non-conductivity factor they provide, since I work around energized lines on occasion. Brian wanted his slings long enough to keep the ball 10' plus away from the energized lines. Even though the primary had a 'disconnect', we treated it as if it were 'hot'.
 
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That was the quietest tree operation I've ever seen!
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Na. I enjoyed the forethought with the cribbing and placement of the slings. Awesome work.

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Yeah, I need help tryin to figure out 'Roxio Home Creator 2010'. I couldn't figure out how to get the native sound in the 2 vids.
I forgot to mention that tree #3 was a 55" diameter hackberry. After topping it below the CATV and fone lines, we notched and dropped it into the clients yard. Since it was only about 12' high, we had to set up a pull line that was redirected to the front yard to pull it over with an ASV. I cut the notch & backcut with my 28" Stihl 044, left about a 2" hinge, started to lift it with a 12" plastic wedge and the ASV did the rest. One of the extremely rare situations when I've used a motorized vehicle to pull over a spar. Used a 3/4" DB for the pull line and two 3/4" blocks (1 CMI and 1 Hobbs) for the re-d's. Even the crane operator came into the back yard to watch the spar go over.
This pic shows Brian making the last cut before the notch & drop. You can see the 3/4" DB (green) on the ground.
 

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This pic shows the 3/4" DB running out to the street.
You can see the primary 'cut out' to the left of the pole. The ladder leaning on the roof was for a signal person to get to the roof to signal the crane operator. There were a couple of blind lifts.
The cribbing is 3/4" plywood and 6"X6"X4' wood blocks.
 

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This was the most time consuming limb. It was on the back side of the primary. We tied 2 slings (tip, butt) and 2 tag lines (tip, butt) to help prevent it from swinging in to the primary once cut.
 

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After it was rigged, I communicated to the crane operator, exactly what the plan was:
2 hoist slings and 2 tag lines, once the limb is cut, hoist slow until the butt end is above the primary, then we are going to tie the tag lines (which were in their own rope bags) off to the rope bags, so we can hoist the entire rig above the primary to prevent any lines from getting caught in the primary.
 

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Norm- TCOT called and they want their vest back.

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Nice PR for them.
It'll soon be worth some money, after the Davey logo gets stamped on everything. I may not wear it anymore. We'll see.
 
Norm, Did you guys place the eels ( line hose) on the primaries or power co take care of that? That was good to hear you used caution on your working clearances. Just cuz it's open don't mean it's dead. Golden rule I was taught was it ain't dead till it's grounded on BOTH ends!!!
 
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Norm, Did you guys place the eels ( line hose) on the primaries or power co take care of that? That was good to hear you used caution on your working clearances. Just cuz it's open don't mean it's dead. Golden rule I was taught was it ain't dead till it's grounded on BOTH ends!!!

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The local power company did it 2 days prior to the scheduled work day. We met the crew on site to go over their plan. They told us (Brian and me) about the cut out and the 2 "hot" secondaries.
The primary ended 1 pole down (to the right in the pic). The transformer was way the the left, about 3 poles down.
 
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