Trimming White Pines

Greetings Lumberjack,
Really enjoyed your photos. When I get to be more computer savoy I'll share some photos I took of Katrina trees.
Question, on the last photo what is your climbing line/saddle tied to? If it's the equipment in backround how?
 
Its tied off to my man lift. I believe I tied into the main bolt that holds the basket to the jib. Normally I tie off to the connection points in the basket.
 
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Its tied off to my man lift. I believe I tied into the main bolt that holds the basket to the jib. Normally I tie off to the connection points in the basket.

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Yeah, I saw that too. I do that quite a bit when the bucket arc won't reach low enough.
 
Ha you wont believe this but I had a couple paragraphs about just that that I deleted.

Whats that they say about great minds? However your 75' bucket will do 53' horizonal (offhand), aint that right?

Your crane will also reach below the truck, probably to the tune of 40ish' below the truck?
 
So far since the windstorms blowing thourh here I have been doing allot of white pines. I have been in them in the wind probably about 5' from the top not TIP, top, And just to rehash Rap your rope completly around the trunk. Ladder climbing is nice with two lanyards then set your line were you are comfortable and prune down, its the fastest way I found your groundie wont like it much, especailly when all the brush falls in one big clump. But I really dont think they would mind unless your one of those climbers that are just to good for dragging brush.
 
The nice thing about the log truck is that it is 56 feet straight out and then stays that far out for the entire arc. Plus you get the height of the boom mount (68') when reaching up. Like you said Carl, park it near the slope and then reach out and down.
 
Thanks for all your help guys.

That was one of the things I was wondering about on trimming white pines, whether I should wrap my climbing line completely around the trunk or use a branch if it was large enough.

I know that they are not the best to use especially as your TIP gets higher up.
 
I perfer or normally insist that my TIP is around the stem, not just a limb.

Mark, cant you bring the primary (top boom) all the way over on the bucket so its sitting straight out at 53' I believe? Then you can raise the bottom boom with the top straight out giving you a 53' constant arc. Is that right? I am a bucket flying virgin!
 
The arc would be a 53' radius, no? Not changing, but a true arc 53' from the main pin of the boom eh? I assume the crane can stay at a 56' radius at heigher (and lower) elevations? I guess the best way to know is buy one of each and compare!

The main reason I came to the thread was today I tied into a loblolly pine under 6' from the tips to work the tree. My rigging point was about 10' lower than my TIP.

Figures I say I wouldnt, and there I did haha.
 
That's funny Carl. It really depends on the task as far as how high I tie in. I only go a lil higher than I have to!

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My rigging point was about 10' lower than my TIP

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Used to be that we were taught to do the opposite. This way a breakout caused by rigging would not take your TIP. That never used to work too well for me, but I did it. Then I started to tie in higher and rig lower. It just makes more sense to me for the rigging point to be larger and stronger- hence lower.
 
I am following your idea, if the rigging pulled the top out, and somehow it broke above my TIP, I surely wouldnt want to catch the top or have me and my climbing line be the redirect!

Phooey on that old idea! /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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