Weirdest Tie-Off Thread

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All right everyone, without compromising safety, let’s see the oddest pick or rigging tie-offs you’ve managed to come ip with. I’ll start with this one…had to yank 3 in 1 off the side of a huge Linden due to the smaller nature of the LZ. Made due with only 3 slings and one extra shorty for the smallest piece.
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Matias said:
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This recent raywood ash I took out gave me an opportunity to see how far around I could swing a piece, and the tie off in this pic was the last cut of the day, and came down 270⁰ or so from the direction it's pointing. Try not to worry about that carabiner- it's a 70kn ISC wizard
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Love it! I did some like that with @DBH a few years back, swinging some good 25-30’ laterals out of the neighbor’s side. I love the GRCS with the Makita Drill for that business.
 
Steve Connally said:
IDK if this counts but it was a hard leaner growing inside the canopy of a codom cedar with a mature maple above it. Was like a game of Operation where the buzzer was a hydraulic shower from rimming off something expensive.View attachment 95567
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You’re the doctor
Got the patient on the run!

I’m just old enough to remember that commercial. Haha! Good one, Steve!
 
I love this question, and yeah, totally.

I really wish pictures could do this one justice. Just one of our hurricane crane jobs, two large red oaks crashed into a Chestnut oak. So many small and medium bent and broken branches, as well as canopies, and everything just wedged together. It reminded me of those puzzles where you have to match the tail of the snake with the head of the snake, and it's all twisted with a whole mess of other snakes. 4 slings, plus webbing slings, and sometimes mid tying a piece with a sling and using the tail of the sling to hook something else. There was 3 or so really funky picks like that for this one, and only one really satisfyingly large canopy pick, and the stems were thankfully anticlimactic because we set up a nice tie back on them and could take small sections.

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Stumpsprouts said:
I love this question, and yeah, totally.

I really wish pictures could do this one justice. Just one of our hurricane crane jobs, two large red oaks crashed into a Chestnut oak. So many small and medium bent and broken branches, as well as canopies, and everything just wedged together. It reminded me of those puzzles where you have to match the tail of the snake with the head of the snake, and it's all twisted with a whole mess of other snakes. 4 slings, plus webbing slings, and sometimes mid tying a piece with a sling and using the tail of the sling to hook something else. There was 3 or so really funky picks like that for this one, and only one really satisfyingly large canopy pick, and the stems were thankfully anticlimactic because we set up a nice tie back on them and could take small sections.

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Those definitely look whack-tacular! Haha! One of those jobs where each sling could easily have its own prussic spider leg. It’s sometimes the only option other than a second crane.
 
One of todays Helene picks. One pine failed midstem, then this other pine landed exactly on the 6’ spar. The pieces were cut on either side, I just had him lift this and put it on the ground so I could cut it in half and re sling it. A couple quick climbs on the ball but made dozens and dozens of picks of just logs on the ground uphill behind the house where a machine couldn’t get to. Another hillside where the devastation is just beyond your imagination. We made a pile of about 5 trailers of logs in the curb and FEMA was actively loading it and carting it away all day.


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oceans said:
Have you guys worked a climber tie-in on your new boom that’s improved over the old one? You must be loving the new truck.
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Hey dude sorry I missed your call today!! I was doing this
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I have owned it for a year now and that flew by and I’m still so happy with it everyday bro! Theres a lot better about the palfinger vs. the old heila no doubt, but my tip is similar yet definitely different with the improvement of the setting on the manual pull out extension. Nothing ground breaking ( pun intended ) just safe and flexible ! I’ll get some pics of the set up this week!
 
Treetopflyer said:
Hey dude sorry I missed your call today!! I was doing this
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I have owned it for a year now and that flew by and I’m still so happy with it everyday bro! Theres a lot better about the palfinger vs. the old heila no doubt, but my tip is similar yet definitely different with the improvement of the setting on the manual pull out extension. Nothing ground breaking ( pun intended ) just safe and flexible ! I’ll get some pics of the set up this week!
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That’s alright. We’ll catch up soon enough! Looks like you were having fun, but what’s that box with all the buttons on your left hip? Is that a prototype saw scabbard or something??? Haha! Sounds like the new crane is checking all the boxes. Finally got my Class A so it’s all over now!
 
No picture. I often work on ranches where "quickest/cheapest" is a factor. A big 4 foot dia spreading cypress tree was ailing from years of soil compaction etc. in the work yard. It was going to take a long time to lower 30 foot plus limbs one by one and then I realized I could drop the tree whole if I reduced its height. I cut an old 5/8 rigging rope into shorter lengths and rigged 5 or 6 taller spars and the top down leaving them hanging on the tree now about a third shorter. Went down and fell it.
 
Merle Nelson said:
No picture. I often work on ranches where "quickest/cheapest" is a factor. A big 4 foot dia spreading cypress tree was ailing from years of soil compaction etc. in the work yard. It was going to take a long time to lower 30 foot plus limbs one by one and then I realized I could drop the tree whole if I reduced its height. I cut an old 5/8 rigging rope into shorter lengths and rigged 5 or 6 taller spars and the top down leaving them hanging on the tree now about a third shorter. Went down and fell it.
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That’s sounds like a wild project merle
 
Merle Nelson said:
No picture. I often work on ranches where "quickest/cheapest" is a factor. A big 4 foot dia spreading cypress tree was ailing from years of soil compaction etc. in the work yard. It was going to take a long time to lower 30 foot plus limbs one by one and then I realized I could drop the tree whole if I reduced its height. I cut an old 5/8 rigging rope into shorter lengths and rigged 5 or 6 taller spars and the top down leaving them hanging on the tree now about a third shorter. Went down and fell it.
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Hey Paul! @SoftBankHawks Merle did a picture perfect Seiji han!
 
Treetopflyer said:
Hey dude sorry I missed your call today!! I was doing this
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I have owned it for a year now and that flew by and I’m still so happy with it everyday bro! Theres a lot better about the palfinger vs. the old heila no doubt, but my tip is similar yet definitely different with the improvement of the setting on the manual pull out extension. Nothing ground breaking ( pun intended ) just safe and flexible ! I’ll get some pics of the set up this week!
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I'd like to see the TIP also if you post it on here. I have a pretty workable system but like seeing other ideas.
 
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