Solo rigging videos

monkeylove said:
This one is from Reg

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Similar technique to Reg, but to tie off a bit longer/heavier limbs, I would pull it up while on the ground to my rigging point and leave a tail hanging beyond the limb that I want to rig and take wraps on the bollard. Ascend and attach a sling and carabiner to the limb to be rigged, using that carabiner and this http://www.treestuff.com/store/catalog.asp?item=6887 I create a 3:1 to pretension the rigging rope. Finish it off with an alpine on the tail of the 3:1 clipped into the same carabiner.

This allows one ascent per cut, without any shock loading. Normally I'd lower from up in the tree for the same reasons I just listed, but on this particular job it was a fairly tight drop zone so I wanted to be on the ground to turn the pieces as I lowered.
 
Everytime I think about this stuff, i cant imagine putting in the effort, when I know whatever magic solo system I can come up with wont ever match a bro on a porta wrap! I'm sure one day I will have my reckoning with a full solo rig down, but now it's just hand lowering 1 or 2 easy ones while the ground team deal with the big limbs.
This thread has good stuff tho, I salute you guys that do it without help.
 
rope-a-dope said:
Everytime I think about this stuff, i cant imagine putting in the effort, when I know whatever magic solo system I can come up with wont ever match a bro on a porta wrap! I'm sure one day I will have my reckoning with a full solo rig down, but now it's just hand lowering 1 or 2 easy ones while the ground team deal with the big limbs.
This thread has good stuff tho, I salute you guys that do it without help.
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It may be a little more work, but I find it more relaxing than working with a ground person. For me, I’m a terrible climber (I’m slow to move around). Lol. So if someone is on the ground I feel like their constantly waiting waiting on me, and makes me frustrated at myself. Solo work listening to music all day makes for a relaxing day.
 
Friction, gravity, ropes, and the ground show up everyday, early to work. Sometimes, I have to pick up gas and diesel on the way to the job. They get dropped off, at the gas station, as they don't have driver's licenses.


My customer yesterday told me how much they enjoyed watching me work and described it at zen-like. So chill. Then the mini and chipper get involved for an hour at the end. Pick up the piles, and off to the chipper.
 
southsoundtree said:
I did 5 firs, solo, this week. 3 canopy raises over landscaping, small drop zone at one job. Other was a removal and canopy raise.



Be sure that if you tie off the POW, before ascending into the tree, with everything, and tie off 6 large limbs in a row, on a Ring-and-Rig, for retrieval from the ground, one trip up, one trip down...
that you bring the correct end of the rope up!


I dropped (100#??) limbs onto the rigging from closest to farthest to the POW. This meant one limb shocking the rigging at a time (80-100' of 1/2" stablebraid rope in the system). I peel limbs onto the rigging when I can, rather than cleanly cut them, dropping them full force, onto the rigging.

When I descended to the POW, I had tied everything to the cleat (standing end). Too much weight to un-cleat the rope and lower backwards.




I ended up just going back up and chunking the hanging branches into the small spot where I was able to build piles for the mini to move up the hill to the chipper. By the time I had to drop big limb-butts, I had lots of brush down as a crash pad.



Speedlines, Controlled speedlines, natural crotched speedlines are useful.
Natural crotch zipping may not be good for Stable-braid. IDK.
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You needed help imho..for what you probably pay a ground tech , wouldve been worth it vs. Cost you charged for the work.. you had me at going back up.. maybe you wraptor.. idk..either way... waste of time If you could've done it without going back up and having ground support..
 
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Treetopflyer said:
You needed help imho..for what you probably pay a ground tech , wouldve been worth it vs. Cost you charged for the work.. you had me at going back up.. maybe you wraptor.. idk..either way... waste of time If you could've done it without going back up and having ground support..
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For me it depends on travel and frequency of jobs etc and availability of part time help. It is better to have help, but if I cant get help and pushing/pushed the job as far as I can without client looking elsewhere then got to get it done. All depends on resources available and cost.
 
Treetopflyer said:
You needed help imho..for what you probably pay a ground tech , wouldve been worth it vs. Cost you charged for the work.. you had me at going back up.. maybe you wraptor.. idk..either way... waste of time If you could've done it without going back up and having ground support..
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I'll take good, safe ground help when available. I'll pay what someone is worth. I train them correctly (like most guys can't sharpen a chain, nor keep it out of the dirt, nor cut effectively, years in, because nobody has actually trained them, just run 'em hard, dirty and dangerous). I can't put up with employees endangering me or themselves or each other.

Too often anyone worthwhile has their own company. It's so easy to do it legally, here.

Too often people in the laborer pool are left-overs. Sooo often, its basic, unnecessarily dangerous tree work as par for course. A lot of applicants have terrible training, and don't train well.
"I've don't this before!"
Redbull and cigarettes and gas station food.



One guy I hired two Thursdays ago, long interview /feel-out over breakfast at restaurant. He texted me for the actual address of the job Th afternoon for Friday 8 am. At 630a Friday morning he texts to say he wants to start another day.

With BS like that abounding in Olympia, I run self-sufficiently, taking help where i can.

I don't endanger myself. It's very chill. Not the most efficient job.Not my preferred plan.

Fits my no dangerous people on the jobsite plan, and parenting needs.
 
southsoundtree said:
I'll take good, safe ground help when available. I'll pay what someone is worth. I train them correctly (like most guys can't sharpen a chain, nor keep it out of the dirt, nor cut effectively, years in, because nobody has actually trained them, just run 'em hard, dirty and dangerous). I can't put up with employees endangering me or themselves or each other.

Too often anyone worthwhile has their own company. It's so easy to do it legally, here.

Too often people in the laborer pool are left-overs. Sooo often, its basic, unnecessarily dangerous tree work as par for course. A lot of applicants have terrible training, and don't train well.
"I've don't this before!"
Redbull and cigarettes and gas station food.



One guy I hired two Thursdays ago, long interview /feel-out over breakfast at restaurant. He texted me for the actual address of the job Th afternoon for Friday 8 am. At 630a Friday morning he texts to say he wants to start another day.

With BS like that abounding in Olympia, I run self-sufficiently, taking help where i can.

I don't endanger myself. It's very chill. Not the most efficient job.Not my preferred plan.

Fits my no dangerous people on the jobsite plan, and parenting needs.
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I can relate.
 
southsoundtree said:
I'll take good, safe ground help when available. I'll pay what someone is worth. I train them correctly (like most guys can't sharpen a chain, nor keep it out of the dirt, nor cut effectively, years in, because nobody has actually trained them, just run 'em hard, dirty and dangerous). I can't put up with employees endangering me or themselves or each other.

Too often anyone worthwhile has their own company. It's so easy to do it legally, here.

Too often people in the laborer pool are left-overs. Sooo often, its basic, unnecessarily dangerous tree work as par for course. A lot of applicants have terrible training, and don't train well.
"I've don't this before!"
Redbull and cigarettes and gas station food.



One guy I hired two Thursdays ago, long interview /feel-out over breakfast at restaurant. He texted me for the actual address of the job Th afternoon for Friday 8 am. At 630a Friday morning he texts to say he wants to start another day.

With BS like that abounding in Olympia, I run self-sufficiently, taking help where i can.

I don't endanger myself. It's very chill. Not the most efficient job.Not my preferred plan.

Fits my no dangerous people on the jobsite plan, and parenting needs.
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Your last 2 sentences says it all in my book.

Rock On.


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I had to do some solo rigging today. Had to remove some limbs out from over a storage building. Is the bouquet technique basically “double blocking” but with straps and biners? Either way, that’s how I did it. Rigging rings and straps w Biner is how I used it. Lower it down and then untie the end of the rope and pull it out of the strap/limb on the ground-then do it over as many times as necessary.
It does suck not getting quite as much accomplished in a given amount of time as I can w a groundie though. Sometimes It’s harder to make what I’d like to in those cases.
When there’s nothing directly underneath the tree but the stuff still needs to be lowered down it goes a little quicker. Biggest drawback I’ve noticed for that approach to me is that The limbs don’t always lay over the way you need/want them to.
 
Jehinten said:
It may be a little more work, but I find it more relaxing than working with a ground person. For me, I’m a terrible climber (I’m slow to move around). Lol. So if someone is on the ground I feel like they're constantly waiting waiting on me, and makes me frustrated at myself. Solo work listening to music all day makes for a relaxing day.
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Ha! Yeah, I'm afraid if I had a ground guy, I'd need to call an ambulance before the day is over, because he would just want to kill himself from the boredom.
 
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