towmorrows job

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R_Schra

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Darn, have to rig down a DED elm towmorrow. Its growing above 3 gardens full of ornaments and plants, also a wooden veranda under it. Nice job to try my first time professional use of a slideline.... /forum/images/graemlins/9lame.gif

Ill post pics of the broken bits and pieces in those gardens after the job is done /forum/images/graemlins/bangtard.gif

Lol looking forward to get it done safe and secure...

rgrds ronald
 
Looking forward to the pictures...I love to see how folks rig those slidelines...please get some close-ups of your anchor points and how you attach the pieces.

Have fun! /forum/images/graemlins/bud.gif
 
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Looking forward to the pictures...I love to see how folks rig those slidelines...please get some close-ups of your anchor points and how you attach the pieces.

Have fun! /forum/images/graemlins/bud.gif

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MMM, to late for close up pics :) Pics are also somewhat bad.... Groundie didnt know how to use a SLR-digicam.

Ill post some of the tree.

This pic is from the entrance at the neighbours parking lot. Just wide enough between the houses to turn into it with my van and chipper. To small to get into with our tractor and trailor. So towmorrow we have to get a small dump trailor behind a van and pull that in....
 

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Here a pic as i installed the slide line and going for the first limb. Had to make a 'balancer' on the spot.

I set up the slide line anchor in a almost dead top at ø20cm wood. (sling with to D rings as anchor). On the slide line a pulley with carabiner to hold the balancer. from the pulley also a line trough one D of the anchor sling and down to the bolder. This line is to control the lowering and hoist the pulley back up. Down at the parking i put the line onto a manual winch to tension it.

(place balancer on limb, tension slide line, cut the limb, tension the slide line more, lower the limb over obstacles on the parking, remove balancer, slack the slide line, hoist pulley/balancer back up. and go again.)
 

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Getting good photographers is the HARDEST part!

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Photographers? LOL i dont like to see my 1500€ digi cam in other hands as mine..... Certainly not when they are starting to pushing and turning all buttons. Dang had to bring that kodak from the firm with me for such (ab)use.

Another pic of that balancing limb
 

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The parking lot where we chip and saw the limbs in firewood.
The slide line is attached to the van's trailor hook :) Fast giving slack and tension by driving <-> a capstan would be nice for this though.
 

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Topping the main trunk. Also last pic the groundie made :(

We got the limbs of today and the right big trunck down to the forkle. Towmorrow i lower the main trunk and finish up. Darn what a debri of dead branches came off...... took us an hour to clear the 2 lawns and roof of that garage....
 

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Ok finishing up, A groundie wrecked a parking light :( he also dropped my gear into a nice area with lavendel that all got messed up :( instead of taking the ladder down the garage and put the stuff in the van.
 

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That small tipper trailor was half filled with chips of that tree and loaded on top full with all the sawdust and dead branches in 1000's of pieces. We got that crane to get the wood over the 3 meter high gardenwall
 

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THANK YOU...those pictures are a real treat...your explanations, too. It looks like that top you cut had to be interesting as it transferred its weight (fell!) onto the slide line.

And the "canyons" you worked in are very unusual...I have never seen a yard like that before.

Thanks again for taking the time to document your work.
 
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THANK YOU...those pictures are a real treat...your explanations, too.

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As it is fun to see pics of work i believe its just as interesting to hear the story. That two combined will give a better look at the situation. To bad some co workers dont like to be told the story behind a operation to do things right. They 'think' they know it all already.

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It looks like that top you cut had to be interesting as it transferred its weight (fell!) onto the slide line.

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Yes it fell indeed down from above the anchor point. The load from falling was reduced by catching into the bolder with the control line. So less weight fell in the slide line wich we tensioned after the cutting.
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And the "canyons" you worked in are very unusual...I have never seen a yard like that before.

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LOL, there's not that much 'canyons' around here with big trees inside.
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Thanks again for taking the time to document your work.

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With pleasure done.

Regards Ronald
 
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