Three days of rigging

Re: The Revenge of GlenS

Heres one of the many tops that had to be butt hitched and snubbed off to prevent contacting the wire. It is rigged into 3 rigging points.
 

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Rigging some of the big wood close to the wire, its still dead.
 

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We rigged the rest of the tree live. We had plenty of room now. We were able to fell a large spar. The tree had a bit of side and back lean. We used 3 ropes to pull it over one on a GRCS and 2 on the kubota. The tires were spinning on the plywood with those ag. tires.
 

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Re: The Revenge of GlenS

Thursday we rigged out this tree. Myself and crew showed up last week to wreck it. We came up with a plan got all ready as I spiked up around 8'9' it sounded funny. So I sounded it and it sounded bad.
 

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Re: The Revenge of GlenS

I then did a resistogragh on it heres a few of the graphs. The DBH is 47".
 

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The graphs said 1 1/2" to 2 1/2" of wood. I decided not to climb it. the tree needed to be a full rig. We decided to rent this 35 ton and tie into it and still rig the tree manually. The crane is only good for 1000# minus the ball. We had to lift the dumpster out of the way also PITA.
 

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Luis would not let me climb it, he wanted me to get some rest for this weekends TCC.
 

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On this cut the men were worried the load would hit the fence. I showed them how to pretension the load with the winch and then suck the slack out as it goes over heres were it landed.
 

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Re: The Revenge of GlenS

Grade A work todd k. good luck w/the IAA tcc! there's a trip to Hawaii on the line this year! come on buddy! (the hawaii trip alone almost made me ditch work and try to get that one!)
 
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