Tricky Removal

Tricky job for a 2 man crew!

The 1 ground guy has his work cut out for him! Did you come out of the tree regulary to help him lug out?

Block down in small biscuits with good pad and house protection. Small bits will save your groundie some work!

With a 4 man crew on( 1 climber, 3 groundies) and putting the tree on for one day, I would charge $3080.00. That is including stump grind (if services were not an issue).

So do the math -Half the crew,twice the time.... would probably make me charge about the same rate.

Hope all goes well for you.
 
Hey TL it's the O-Rig technique, Oh, oh, oh, O Rig! - luv it!

On second thought for your spar I would forget the vert speedline and just bomb small cookies into a REALLY nice crash pad like jomoco described. Not enought room for tricky rigging there. Keep your saw sharp and cookies small and plan to spend awhile in your spikes, hope it goes well.
 
We just did a job like that with no alley way. GRCS'ed most stuff over the roof and out to the street via speed line. The trunk was able to go the other way through the house. The branches wouldn't have fit. We lowered the trunk piece by piece nice and easy it was bit less hairy than what you got there with the adjacent house but not much.

I don't see any lowering device or rigging rope?
Good luck and don't work too hard.

That is none other that the famed treehumper. I'll try to post some more pics later somewhere else not to derail.

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I have found there are certain lateral reach rigging situations where 3-4 men on the lowering line working in concert together can suck up a 200 lb limb/log to avoid a target far faster than a GRCS can.

Which leads me to believe that one day a lowering device will be developed that has a capstan with an adjustable rotary spring that can be pretensioned to suck up limbs/logs weighing between 2-500 lbs faster and more consistently than any number of men working together on a lowering line are capable of, particularly in tight quarters.

jomoco
 
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nah, don't worry about a derail. the purpose of this was to get more ideas. and similar job pics always help.

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I don't see any lowering device or rigging rope?

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we had a portawrap around the trunk, 1/2" stablebraid, and a block set up, but all the pics were either early day, or after I was out of the tree. I even tried my rigging paw out for the first time to create a floating rig point, but i need to research proper use a little more before I use it on larger pieces. most of the limbs over the roof were tip and butt tied (2 separate ropes). i controlled the butt-line with figure 8 strapped to trunk, groundie controlled tip. this allowed us to swing the limbs out horizontally over the roof and then lower them vertically, over the alley.

not the biggest tree ever but we'll remember it for a long time. i personally love the challenge of it.
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That is how we did it.


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Your friend and mine Rob Gillies better know as "treehumper".

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Me, it looks like I feeding the chipper but I'm not. I just there to give orders.

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Thanks for the pics Adkpk. I wish our roof was that flat. It has nothing but felt paper on it right now and has a nasty slope on it. Don't think we'll be lowering anything to it if we can help it. Getting decent $ for the job so we'll survive.
 
Can you get a small boom truck in there? I've used my friend's kboom for a tight removal. Was the ticket. Only about a 14' wide spread for the two outriggers, nothing like a 'regular' crane

Met another guy with a 60' cable crane with a small footprint. Minimal over the width of the truck.

I know you said its tight.
 
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Can you get a small boom truck in there? I've used my friend's kboom for a tight removal. Was the ticket. Only about a 14' wide spread for the two outriggers, nothing like a 'regular' crane

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i think the drive is more like 10' wide, possibly smaller. we busted butt on the job yesterday and have two vertical stems remaining. no other foliage on the tree. i have more pics that i'll post soon.
 
Day 2, Pic 3

got the brush piled up in the back, ready to build crash pads - at the request of Jomoco (:
 

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Looks like you're doing a good job in pretty tight quarters mate.

But tell me, were you on that client's roof TL?

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Looks like you're doing a good job in pretty tight quarters mate.

But tell me, were you on that client's roof TL?

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Nope, not even once. Though, I've been known to lower stuff to a roof when easiest. Why do you ask?

BTW, we had a 3-man crew on day 2...still one out sick, but so much better than day 1.

Raven, I tried the O Rig for the 1st time. I understand why now. Your hands are beneath the knot, instead of above, so all slack is eliminated on each pull. Brilliant. Hard to reach the VT when it doesn't wanna grab, though. All in all I love it. I have more questions but I'll try to find an existing thread or create a new one.
 
The vt might set better with shorter legs, possibly.

Looks like there is a 3-4' space between the pavers for the driveway which is dirt. Are you loading rounds or leaving them onsite, or do you prefer larger pieces?

Some plywood on the pavers might do some dispersion of the force. You can go with brush on top of that or tires. Since you have the brush there still, might be the way to go. A horse stall mat on top of the brush might make it an easier extraction for wood, keeping it from embedding into the brush pile. They're around $40.
 
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