Safebloc boys

[the.schultz.effect]

 

[Steve Connally]

Man you're on a roll. Cool stuff. I don't exactly get the initial rigging in the video. I thought I saw 3 lines. Is it just a standard speed line set up? Also wondering, you showed a nasty rotten spot with your spurs. I suppose the tree was sturdy enough to side load with the chipper winch but how did you feel about that at first?

 

[96coal449]

Fitting song to a great vid. Kinda chilling.
I second Steve's question on the winch loading. How bad was the tree in decay?

 

[rope-a-dope]

Tip-o-the-hat!
Double safebloc rigging wood down must feel pretty awesome for the rope guy. Any ground crew perspectives to share?
Love the murderous glare from xman at the end!

 

[Bucknut]

I saw the crane at the end.

Most expensive GoPro mount in North America.

 

[deevo]

Nice rigging and use of the safebloc, I was impressed with the weight it was taking on those spar pieces.

 

[the.schultz.effect]

Man you're on a roll. Cool stuff. I don't exactly get the initial rigging in the video. I thought I saw 3 lines. Is it just a standard speed line set up? Also wondering, you showed a nasty rotten spot with your spurs. I suppose the tree was sturdy enough to side load with the chipper winch but how did you feel about that at first?

the rigging set up was a design of @theXman basically a controlled speedline set up. catch limbs with the rigging line, stop them, then tension the speedline with the winch (not to tight) & use the rig line to control the descent. as for the tree, it was a double lead white oak. the lead closest to the chipper was pretty punky but the other lead was very solid. every thing was either anchored or redirected from that lead. there was no worry of failure but we did have to be very cautious/ aware of those punky tips shattering all over the place when pieces came off

 

[the.schultz.effect]

Tip-o-the-hat!
Double safebloc rigging wood down must feel pretty awesome for the rope guy. Any ground crew perspectives to share?
Love the murderous glare from xman at the end!

because the rope is doubled up like that when it goes over there are 3 legs moving so the groundie has to let it run 3x's as fast to achieve a normal run. so they basically have to let it fly thru their hands and try to stop it. it seems intimidating but they gotta remember because the rope is doubled over the rigging point is only seeing half the load so i guess they gotta convince themselves to treat it like it's half the weight. plus u gotta factor in the friction from the Safeblocs. also they should make sure the rope is laid out nice w/ no hackles. sooooooo it takes a bit of practice....

 

[the.schultz.effect]

I saw the crane at the end.

Most expensive GoPro mount in North America.

hahaha, yeah I wasn't there for the last day so it was just X and his super groundie Adam. we had gotten the stick down to where he could just crane it out but after we had double Safebloced those chunks out of the top he was amped to experiment with it more in the name of rigging science. crane was there to set up quicker, safer and haul the wood away...oh & most importantly, hold the GoPro

 

[rope-a-dope]

Right on. Those budunka-chunks want to fall hard, but the friction & rope length relieves the force in the rope @ the hands of the groundguy. So he deccelarates the piece nice and gentlelike.
Easy peasy, I just need two safeblocs and a camera crane!