Video: Bloody little ripper mate

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A helmet cam ride in the bucket truck, some craning and some fiddling around ..... see, good things come all the time contrary to what some deceivers will tell ya.
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http://www.palmtreeservices.com.au/video/bloodylittlerippermate.wmv
 
Using chains for treework is archaic and dangerous. Web or tube slings are safer and easier to manage. Heck, at the worst use a cable/clevis combo.
 
Like it Ekka. Helmet's a go go

I've been asked by a pommy b*stard to ask you if the Ozzies are gonna come out like its a one day'r at the Ashes? or play it out?

What ever the h*ll that means!

Its all kicking off in your city! Right?

Good luck with all that Sh*t.
 
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Using chains for treework is archaic and dangerous. Web or tube slings are safer and easier to manage. Heck, at the worst use a cable/clevis combo.

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What about a farrel wrap!
 
Grover, it's an Ashes test series so you dont come out swinging like a 1day'r ... it's stategic, your top line batsman gotta hold the fort, hopefully a century partnership.

If ya bowling, you better be right on the mark ... box em up and hammer the block hole. The odd bouncer is always good to keep em on their toes ... spinners usually freak out a lot of batsman, Warne's one of the worlds best.

Test matches go for 5 days, sometimes no result! Weather plays a part too.

Chains, chains always chains.

They wont let you use rope ever, and sometimes if you negotiate you can use synthetic loop slings.

I suppose I'm used to the chains and for lifting logs out "el naturale'" the chains are easily adjusted so you dont have to worry about straightening pieces.

The crane was a 20T Franna, their handy to drive the load around. Poinciana's have wide spread with crappy high points and rigging points ... large log on leans very difficult to rig off or bomb off.
 
Do they care if its a load rated sling? Seems like they are behind the times on that a bit. Chains usually break with out warning, at least with a nylon sling there are some warning signs. Crane guys here would freak if I tried to use a chain, maybe cable, never chain. Seems like chains are unsafe for that application. Tow truck=yes, overhead lifting = no
 

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Rated slings are fine to use, however it would be expected that the tree contractor supplied them. If the crane were to bring them it would be at an aditional cost.

Chains reputed to "break" or be "unsafe", is wrong. Chains are a "rated" item like slings. They require testing and use within their SWL.

I use, slings, chains and a combination of both. With the straight sided slipery wood that I work in I prefer useing chains at times as they seem to "bite" into the wood better. No Bivy, the concept that contractors useing chains are "behind the times", doesn't argue your prefrence well.

Graeme
 
Ekka, supposedly, monty panasar is going to cause your 'geriatrics' problems!!????!!!Havent a clue what that means!!!??Dont want to know either thanks.

Not sure about the chains - prefer slings myself.

When a chain twists under load you've got huge potential for failure.
 
I'm not argueing. I provide my own lifting kit. Chains seem cumbersome for the benefit of metal against wood. Try em' you'll like em'. Tuflex is way better. The pic I posted wasnt the close-up, sorry. Here ya go.
 

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I have used "em" for 15 plus years and like slings. Here is a 27 ton lift about ten years ago. that is a 250 ton unit lifting. However I mostly use chains, and use them in a manner which does not make them "cumbersome"

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I dont know what the big deal is, lifting little bitty pieces of wood with chains or slings, or even rope, who cares? It is small wood light weights, not serious loads.

Frans
 
Talking to one crane guy the reason they dont like slings is that the weight of the load is unknown.

In a recent crane accident on the Gold Coast where the load was cut wrong way and too heavy resulting in the crane falling and the boom cutting a house in half the onus was put onto the crane operator. Which is crazy as the arborist determines the load but that's how it went down.

Consequently there's a reluctance of crane operators doing trees and more reluctance of using slings as the weight is not a definate known. The slings they carry a generally 2T,3T,5T but the chains go a lot stronger than that so they're bullet proof in the eyes of the operators.

When lifting logs like that I find chains quick and easy to adjust.

MB & Frans:- If you want to have fun with big cranes and huge trees go to Victoria and Tasmania, but I aint moving coz you dont like our home or trees. No-one forces you to watch these videos and see what goes on outside your own pond. Whether working a load at 10' or 100' the principals remain the same. The largest crane job I done was 55T on a huge fig. The largest tower job I done was 40M on a 130' ironbark ... that's about it around here and that's rare. I have felled larger trees out on acre-age but you have room to fell them or go up a bit and fell them. But what we do have here is wide spread trees, pools and tight yards.

Sometimes height is an advantage as Graeme shows on his videos, I think he calls it head room, but this is city limits.
 
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MB & Frans:- If you want to have fun with big cranes and huge trees go to Victoria and Tasmania, but I aint moving coz you dont like our home or trees.

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Hey ekkka,
I was not putting down your video or your use of chains. The fact is, with the size of wood you cut, chains or slings does not matter either way.
 
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