Rigging by yourself?

[boreality]

Cause we don't want to wreck our phones a solution could be; any cell, even not hooked up, I'm told, can contact 911. So you could take any old cell up there, if the 911 info is correct.

 

[treehumper]

I started carrying my cell in the thigh pocket of my pfanners. It's out of harms way and accessible. Besides there's times when I can call the groundsmen when it's too hard to be heard over the ambient noise or just to put in a lunch order.

 

[surfarmer1]

I carry my cell with me for emergency reasons and I leave the address of the job for everyone to see and make sure the guys have a cell..My carrying a cell could help if the groundie gets hurt and Im up in the tree then I can call.. my chainsaw pants have a cell pocket

 

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I started carrying my cell in the thigh pocket of my pfanners. It's out of harms way and accessible. Besides there's times when I can call the groundsmen when it's too hard to be heard over the ambient noise or just to put in a lunch order.

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Same on my SIPS and you just don't know who might call you,
I seem to always be on the phone when the camera goes click

Scotty

 

[JesseHuffman]

Andy Young, could and would do it, but does not have too

 

[whiz]

I almost habitually make piles of brush with the butt-ends facing my drag path and separate it all from the wood so if I HAD to pull a s0lo it would at least be somewhat organized. I won't do them now though. A couple a beers and dinner is too good to pass up for most of my collegues anyway.

 

[whiz]

...so I just whip out my cellphone and text Scotty "ths rmvl sux so dz my clmng so plz git chr as ovr hr to hlp me bra"

 

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...so I just whip out my cellphone and text Scotty "ths rmvl sux so dz my clmng so plz git chr as ovr hr to hlp me bra"

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Love ya Bro. Scotty

 

[benj]

id say lazy allright... 20's that a heat wave...since you are from ohio you remember 2 months ago when it was 0 to -5
for about 2weeks then got up to 15or 20 then went back down to zero again im from southeastern ohio... know that wasn't fun i was in it.....

 

[Slvrmple72]

Used to do that, but not anymore, unless it is a quickie one little limb jobber.

 

[treevet]

A large part of my success operating a two man crew for almost all of the 41 years I have been at it is "hanging" branches and even leaders with a 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch double braid lanyard about 7 feet long and spliced on one end.

It works best out of a bucket and before you call "bucket baby" I never stepped foot into a bucket for the first 22 years. I now own 2 of them and if you want to dumb down jobs your whole life....don't ever buy one.

You girth hitch on the tree side and set the lanyard on top of the limb to be "hung" then put a r bolen on the side towards the canopy. Then you make a back cut or notch, then move the lanyard to the bottom of the piece so you can make a finishing cut without hitting the lanyard.

You then cut off the limb and it swings below you. After it settles you slice and dice and it is all in dragable size and no time consuming lowering is done and your only gm is free to proceed with other work while you are doing this. You let him clean this up while you are cutting on the other side of the tree if the tree is large enough.

Yesterday, a typical day, I set my 75 foot Teco at the end of the drive and my truck and chipper up the drive. I then proceeded to remove this huge elm spread way over 2 buildings with a combination of hanging limbs, cutting and tossing and my fat chunk slide technique that I won't describe because it requires cutting with one hand (not advocating anything here, just "rigging by myself"). Not one limb lowered.

This tree without "hanging" would have taken about 30 rigged cuts without this technique.

 

[chewbacca]

yup, use this a lot for stuff you can't reach from the bucket. I usually use a cable choker with a bell and thimble on both ends.