Today....

Yesterday I made an handle extension for my folding saw,
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and I climbed up here
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to cut down this dead broken off limb that was hanging by a sliver.
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It was my highest ever climb, and it used all 200 feet of rope on my 3:1 rig.
 
If the pic was taken open a cell phone trying reorienting it on your phone a few times before downloading it. Helps on my IPhone sometimes.
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don’t know why these are loading sideways ? @Tom Dunlap
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Jzack605 said:
Interesting contraption. Why not use a pole saw?
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The tree had several limbs I had to work my way around, so getting a pole saw with its longer handle up there would have been difficult. Making the handle extension out of leftover pipe stuff didn't take long, and it worked OK.

I left a bookmark in the tree, but I hope I never need to use it. Not a fun climb.
 
Daren Smith said:
...about to lose his propane tank...
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I get a lot of those, out here in farm country. Surprisingly, they usually put the tank next to the tree because they thought it would protect/shade the tank. Doesn't usually work out that way, because they spend nothing in either money or time taking care of the tree.

A couple of years ago I built a shelter for a local guy's tank... he liked it so much, I'm building one for his well head and tank this year, on a 160-acre field he owns. He said that I could probably build them all summer if I want, but he isn't giving me any names until his is done. It's actually going to be nice to spend a little more time this summer standing on the ground and not breathing two-stroke fumes all day.
 
I spent about three hours over the last two days making mistakes, learning from them and using gear and techniques I have never tried before. I'm fairly new to climbing and yesterday I got my climbing line, both throw bags and two steel biners stuck about 10' shy of the tippy top of this giant Mulberry in my back yard. I love this tree but normally hesitate to climb it because there are so many little snaggy branchlets everywhere that I worry about getting my throw line stuck. Last week I decided to give it a try and ended up hitting my crotch of choice on the very first throw so that made me a little cocky. Yesterday, I aimed a little higher in the tree and after about 30 attempts I hit what I would consider the highest safe TIP this tree has to offer. I got my 200' chunk of X-static up in to the crotch and back down to me, where I decided to double bag the rope and added two steel biners for extra weight. Then I made mistake #1; I detached my throw line from the rope, assuming that I had attached enough weight to the end that the rope would drop down into the spot I was trying to get it to fall into. Instead, it got wedged into a super tight union about 5 feet above and lateral to the crotch I was in. After an hour of trying to shake it loose, I gave up and went inside for the night. Today, I grabbed a 2lb clevis pin from a tractor and used that as a throw weight, hitting a crotch about 12' below and 25' lateral of the stuck spot. I ascended, tied in with my lanyard and unhooked my RR and advanced the TIP, which I did wrong twice before I got it oriented right finally. Hooked back in to the higher TIP and got out the Captain Hook for the first time. I moved out and up one of three leaders until I was close enough to reach the stuck bags with my Marvin pole pruner with all three sections and pulled the bags and biners back to me and then lowered that whole mess to the ground. I walked back to the main stem and descended down my shorter line to realize that I was about 6' shy of the ground because I had advanced the TIP(mistake #3). I ascended back up, lowered the TIP, and came down for good. Unhooked all the junk from the first line and it came out easy. Mistakes are the best teachers, and I knew I had enough gear on me to accomplish my task even if I effed up, which I did hahaha20200402_165804.jpg
 
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I find myself needing two outfits depending on whether I'm removing trees, or fine pruning them.

One outfit weighs twenty more pounds than the other.

Jemco
 
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