Video: Wild Thing, another precision drop

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Well, what I did here was used the clinometer to get tree ht, came down from the top of the tree by the length of the yard, compensated for the butt landing away from the trunk and fit this multi leadered ironbark in the sweet spot.

The thing that worried me was having to cut so close below the unions and some were included plus there was a large one going out the back.

I made sure the pull rope went thru the 3 extremities to ensure a good catch.

Anyway, 1.45mins and 9.01mb wmv

www.palmtreeservices.com.au/video/wildthing.wmv
 
You and Ulead are doing some great stuff...not to mention how well you fit that top into that itsy-bitsy space. The slow mo sound was good, too.

Most excellent work, all the way around.
 
Haha Steve, it's all science and fits.

I checked that 3 times and kept looking at it thinking ... nah, but the numbers said otherwise.

So, having faith in your instruments just like your climbing gear I went for it. And once again it was spot on.

I do this a lot.

And each time you get more confident and better. The video camera wasn't that close by mistake, and if you look extremely carefully at the slow mode you'll notice the roof wasn't touched. You'll see that with a lot of the palms I do too, after they hit the deck they sprawl out.

You get the clinometer out, measure down from the top of the tree the drop space you have, mark an imaginery line and so on.

Before you know it you'll feel 16 again. /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
That was amazing. I've never seen anything so awesome in my entire life. PLEASE keep posting these excellent videos! They teach me so much that I never knew before!

Eric, you're the greatest!
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Oh MB, you're so cheeky.

Where a clinometer comes in handy is when the ground is on a slope. As it has a spirit level type of gizmo you can measure the slope and even compensate for that.

It truly is a great gadget and it claims to have only a 1% error. I carry around a 30m tape measure to do all the measuring.
 
Clinometers aren't as effective as they claim in my experience. I'd trust to a tape any day!

Worked out nicley there though. I've done that before, only the home owner thought the lack of margin was reckless.

She has a point.
 
Those gum trees are deceiving when it come to height. I reckon it is due to unnatural taper or lack there of.

Ekka had me judge a few and I missed them big time.

In San Louis Obispo today. Saw some Queensland Brushbox.
 
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Can you get a pic, I wonder how it's going for the brushbox. They're a tough tree ... till I went to that national park with you and saw them fallen over as big as they were. Man there was some monsters in there, the victorians have been planting them under power wires as street trees. Ooooh, some-ones gonna cop it for that in 10 years time.

I used a tape measure on the ground ... that should help. /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I was more worried about smashing the video camera though. lol.

I notched and felled it with a 66 and it was my Mrs tracy on the kanga pulling it over, then we sawed it up and left a big mess for the customer.

There was one very good thing why I went for it ... no gutter. Ha, now the secrets out, watch them darned gutters.

What i've done on others with gutters is ..........
......................... just foam em up! /forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
i think a clinometer or rake trick on a leaning tree would give error by cosine.

Standing to side and using stick to site topand bottom of tree, then rotating stick to fall of tree might be more accurate. If can gauge lean degree of tree, measuring/pacing off by cosine would be accurate IMLHO.

Any calculation should have 'headroom' for error i think; usually more than just calculating that the soft end will flex alleviating damage.

Nice that ya called it and got away without damage this round though!
 
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