Solo rigging

[mark_sauls]

This thread is a classic Reg. The topic matches your style, which I admire. Clean, fast, and efficient. We are having a BC weather day. 40 and rain, good day for buzzin it up.

 

[Symbioun]

I had a chance to try this technique out today on some storm damaged willows. It worked amazingly and saved a lots of time and headaches. It was so simple I regret not learning about it earlier.
I mainly used it to secure hanging limbs, which I whittled away at and made them a manageable size for tossing down.
Thanks Reg

 

[Mangoes]

Very clever Reg. Necessity is the mother of invention.

In the past life as a production climber i tried a couple techniques as well.

1. Ring & ring Friction Saver; friction saver dedicated for rigging afixed to target limb (suitable union req'd). Set up like a double-whip-tackle system to my cutting postition with a porty for lowering. Once the target limb was on the ground, the friction saver was removed from the limb as you would from aloft, brought back to the canopy and reused.

2. Gri-gri; (exceptionally handy on understaffed jobs, req's groundy)Working end of line attached to target limb, ascends to suitable natural/block rigging point, fall of the line to gri-gri adjacent to work position. Limb is severed, and climber lowers to groundy. Did some fairly large projects with 2 man crew. Pieces were cut so groundy simply untied and humped out of yard (i.e. processed aloft). Climber kept busy, groundy kept busy (i.e. single groundy wasnt buried with a large rig they had to process, leaving the climber to wait) Had a rigging dedicated gri-gri for quit a while for this.

 

[treehumper]

Nice simple system Reg. I typically use a sling and biner attached to a secondary limb or if the limb isn't too heavy, myself. Its the independent nature of this one that makes it a great tool for the bag.

As for the side bar on skill level of the ground crew when contract climbing, it was always a part of the job to assess the level of competency then adjust to suit. That could mean training in some basic skills to revising the set up to add an extra degree of safety.

Thanks for taking the time in your day to record and share this with us!