Thanks. I love the "remote" shot of Jerry!
Glen
Glen
TREE Fun(d) Redwood Climb
- Thread starter Oxman
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Jamie Goddard, the Yale Cordage factory rep from Maine, supplied a mile of climbing line used during the event. In this attachment photo, Jamie fearlessly walks a tightrope strung between 2 redwood trees about a hundred feet apart.
The thing is, Jamie is 150 feet above the ground, suspended by a plethora of belay lines.
The thing is, Jamie is 150 feet above the ground, suspended by a plethora of belay lines.
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After arriving the termination point of the traverse, Jamie transfers to a trolley ride down a zipline to the base of an ivy-covered Douglas fir about 200 feet away.
This double e-ticket amusement park attaction made our time at the event the most fun in California since Disneyland.
This double e-ticket amusement park attaction made our time at the event the most fun in California since Disneyland.
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Glad you're with us Glens, and digging it!~
The belay-master at the receiving end of the traverse, and the start of the trolley, is Frans Smith, of Healdsburg, California. Frans calmly attended to the needs of the climbers and their rigging at the transfer point. Safety was the order of the day, since the complex spiderweb can get overwhelming at times.
The belay-master at the receiving end of the traverse, and the start of the trolley, is Frans Smith, of Healdsburg, California. Frans calmly attended to the needs of the climbers and their rigging at the transfer point. Safety was the order of the day, since the complex spiderweb can get overwhelming at times.
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Jack Harrison, owner of the Redwoods River Resort, walks the tightrope traverse 150 feet above the ground. 2 lines were stretched tight, one about 5 feet above the other. The upper line has a tandem pulley running back and forth, between two trees. The climber is suspended from this pulley.
Frans pulled the slack out of a belay line attached to the pulley through a Gri-Gri as the climber advanced under his own steam. The climber trailed his own climbing line along behind, also through a Gri-Gri, which was let out bit by bit as the climber advanced sideways.
James Piercy & I traded off the duty at the send-off point of the traverse. Our job was to assist each climber in getting his weight transferred from the climb line to the traverse line.
Frans pulled the slack out of a belay line attached to the pulley through a Gri-Gri as the climber advanced under his own steam. The climber trailed his own climbing line along behind, also through a Gri-Gri, which was let out bit by bit as the climber advanced sideways.
James Piercy & I traded off the duty at the send-off point of the traverse. Our job was to assist each climber in getting his weight transferred from the climb line to the traverse line.
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Tim Bushnell has just arrived at the end of the traverse, unhooked, and attached himself to the zipline. Ready to make the diagonal descent controlled by Frans.
Tim works for one of the event sponsors, Sherrill Arborist Supply, and is donating his time for the Tree Research & Education Endowment Fund.
He is also one of the 25 people that climbed the Bogachiel Spruce tree in the week prior to the 2002 ISA conference in Seattle.
Tim works for one of the event sponsors, Sherrill Arborist Supply, and is donating his time for the Tree Research & Education Endowment Fund.
He is also one of the 25 people that climbed the Bogachiel Spruce tree in the week prior to the 2002 ISA conference in Seattle.
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Some serious appetites were generated by these climbers. Scott Chapple really outdid himself cooking up a storm for this crowd.
Here, ersatz climber & landscape designer from Seattle, Shelley Retchless, gets an assist cranking up the chicken BBQ from Buddy.
Here, ersatz climber & landscape designer from Seattle, Shelley Retchless, gets an assist cranking up the chicken BBQ from Buddy.
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Very Very nice shots /forum/images/graemlins/applaudit.gif, it will take another 1000 years /forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif for my own Sequoia to grow that big. If it will get that big...... /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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- Home of the New Jersey Devils
Yeah Ox, THANKS!
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- healdsburg, CA
Re: TREE Fun(d) Redwood Climb & the CMI TROLLEY
This picture is a real good shot of the Trolley device thought up by Charly Portoroff and put into productioin by CMI.
This tool is great for speed lines and high leads. It dispurses the weight of the load on the working line and is real smooth.
A must for any speed line operation. The smaller trolleys seem like toys (and are) in comparison. This is a working tool for serious arborists.
Frans
This picture is a real good shot of the Trolley device thought up by Charly Portoroff and put into productioin by CMI.
This tool is great for speed lines and high leads. It dispurses the weight of the load on the working line and is real smooth.
A must for any speed line operation. The smaller trolleys seem like toys (and are) in comparison. This is a working tool for serious arborists.
Frans
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- magalia california
Re: TREE Fun(d) Redwood Climb & the CMI TROLLEY
what picture would that be Snarf ?.... do I have to post one for you ?.....lol
Greg
what picture would that be Snarf ?.... do I have to post one for you ?.....lol
Greg
- Location
- healdsburg, CA
- Location
- magalia california
- Location
- magalia california
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