I thought about this talk as I worked today. We had 2 good size maple removals, rigging most of them. 3 small pine removals and trimmed one large silver maple.
I paid attention to how often I tied in twice. I actually do it quite a bit on removals. 95% of those cuts I was tied in twice. If the cutting is anywhere near my climbing line, I definitely have the lanyard on too.
Rules bother me I guess, cause you can't say, "do it this way all the time". There's always too many unique senarios.
Like if I had to trim/ thin out a huge thick nasty bradford pear (callery pear). There's no freakin way I'm going to put in two climbing lines. Hard enough to work with one. PLUS, there's no way I'm going to put a lanyard on for every cut. I might make 150-200 cuts. Most of them with my arm extended way out and no where near the climbing line that is on the oposite side of my body, probaby 3 to 4 feet from the saw! Maybe my saw is so far away from my line cause I'm using ONE HAND (oh no!) when making so many little limb trimmings. If you guys really put a lanyard on and use two hands on every cut.... I can't imagine how long it takes you to trim a thick tree.
What about this thought on your two climbing line suggestion. I think you might get more people killed using that method. Here's why: I haven't known of anyone that had cut their climbing line (I know they are out there), but I have heard and known people that forgot to pull their climbing line out of a spar or leader and dropped that material with their line still in it. There are more deaths because of this right? (just going by how many times I've heard this). Now picture this, you have someone using two lines. Their mind isn't on exactly what they are doing, and they remove one line before they make the cut. This satisfies their need to remove their line and they forgot to remove the second line. Bye bye climber...
On the removals today. We had a lot of cranking on the LD and a lot of big long swings of the material to other trees. I had to really pay attention to my one climbing line. Two would have been pretty much impossible, asking for a swinging peice to grab a line and yank me good.
just my thoughts...