Tips and Tricks

Caballos

Caballos

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Charlotte, NC.
I am interested in learning some new tips or tricks. I looked through the older threads and thought maybe some people have some new ideas. So let's have it! Here are some I recently learned. 1) To get hockles out of my rope after descending from rigging off the crane. I pull the eye of my climbing line which pulls all 200 feet of rope through the shackle on the crane eliminating the hockles. 2) Also after descending from the crane to get ready to rig the next pick I often leave my system intact and pull my line through the system reverse but, then I end up with the tail of my rope on top of a 200 foot pile of rope, instead of grabbing the tail and flaking the rope into another pile with my eye on top, which is time consuming, I pick up the entire pile and flip it over.
 
Mahk Adams came up with the idea of a two-ended rope bag. Each end has a spin-drift collar with lighter nylon and a drawcord closure. You then have access to either end of the rope and don't have to flip the flaked pile over which can lead to a portal for the Interdimensional Creatures to enter. The ICs are responsible for the appearance of unexplainable rope snarls.
 
Use a shorter rope while climbing with cranes. 200' is 150' too much for a lot of crane picks, since you can stay in the tree.

Then again, maybe you are picking branchless 100' poles on a daily basis.
 
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Use a shorter rope while climbing with cranes. 200' is 150' too much for a lot of crane picks, since you can stay in the tree.

Then again, maybe you are picking branchless 100' poles on a daily basis.

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Most often it's one man in the tree cutting and another tying spider legs. Most of the removals we do are very large willow oaks with a wide canopy. Our crew pretty much travels with the crane on a daily basis. The 200 ft rope is what I was supplied with I need the length more often than not. We also do a lot of the larger pruning jobs, 120 ft poplars are common here too. I may be wrong but, aren't you in Asheville? I'm in Charlotte, maybe you should come over and work with us for a week. Just go to Heartwood.com and email the front desk if you're interested.

Now bring on the tips please! I want to become very efficient all the while making it look easy.
 
I appreciate the invite, Cab, but I don't have that kind of time available. Already know that Heartwood is one of the tops in NC. Glad I don't have to compete with you here in AVL.

Anyway, to the point, you are asking for tips and tricks, my tip is really that 200' of rope is waaaay too much for most crane removals, but if you have two climbers standard, maybe you are the up and down guy and need all of it.

So, I tried to supply a tip, but the tip is moot, for you. So be it!
 
Got another one! Remember I'm new to all this so a lot of you may know this too. Having your climbing system already attached to your climbing line when you're footlocking Ddrt
(if you access the tree this way). That way when I pull the eye splice up my system is ready to go or, have my ground man pull the tail and run the whole system up to me.
 
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Anyway, to the point, you are asking for tips and tricks, my tip is really that 200' of rope is waaaay too much for most crane removals,

So, I tried to supply a tip, but the tip is moot, for you. So be it!

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don't blame him for disregarding your advice as you are dead wrong.
 
"...you are dead wrong."

Sorry, what?

Of course, I'm exaggerating to make a point when saying "...150' too long." The tip is that 200' is an extraordinary amount of rope when taking crane picks, most of the time, in the way I do crane picks.

Everyone does things a little differently. You included, "oldirty."

No sweat off my back, but hold the "dead wrong" for tips that don't increase productivity. Shorter ropes save energy and time. Of course, still use stopper knots to prevent accidents -even more important on short ropes.

Stepping out of this discussion so as not to de-rail.
 
Rope bags help to "shorten" the rope. Carry the rope up with you in the bag then it can be dropped when needed. Have a second shorter rope as well. I like Tom's post about the double ended bag, hmmmmmmm.....
 
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"...you are dead wrong."

Sorry, what?

Of course, I'm exaggerating to make a point when saying "...150' too long." The tip is that 200' is an extraordinary amount of rope when taking crane picks, most of the time, in the way I do crane picks.

Everyone does things a little differently. You included, "oldirty."

No sweat off my back, but hold the "dead wrong" for tips that don't increase productivity. Shorter ropes save energy and time. Of course, still use stopper knots to prevent accidents -even more important on short ropes.

Stepping out of this discussion so as not to de-rail.

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ok. say you choke something at 80ft. but whatever you only taking 1200lbs form the tree so its a little pick how you plan on getting to the ground with a 60ft rope?

something catastrophic happens, how are you getting to the ground?

stay in the conversation, i'd love to see how you may be right. would love to see it, actually.

and i use a 200ft rope on every pick. guarantee your game is not anywhere near as productive regardless how short your rope is.

i understand others do things differently, what amazes me is how wrong it gets done. and differently.
 
I'm with OD on this one. I used to be in the camp of shorter rope is all you need, b/c you're only coming down to make the cut, most times its not that far down. Had to carry 2nd longer rope for picking big pieces or whole trees.

Ditched the short rope theory when someone presented me with the question, what if something happened and you had to be rescued!?

All it took for me to hear.
 
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