What to anchor to...?!

Mark_B.

Mark_B.

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This was one interesting job we did a while back. It was in this stunning place up in the mountains, surrounded by fortifications. We'd been there before to reduce some trees on this sheer rock face, with a hundred meter drop straight down. The forester had been and he'd removed the trees on the inside, so that left the trees sitting right on the edge of the ledge. Hmmm.., why doesn't that strike me as being a very good idea?

Anyway, our job was to reduce and remove some of the trees. Oh, I don't think I've mentioned yet that these guys are seriously into growing weed, hemp, ganja... whatever! We're talking industrial quantities, like the whole area inside the fortifications! So when we're taking these trees down and we don't have anywhere to attach the come-along to, we used one of the stacks of the super-vitamin-enhanced-hormone-drenched-dutch-mega-dope fertiliser.

It was good. Notice the floating anchor. Bizarr. You do get to see some weird places in this line of work!
 

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Interesting situation. No whereto anchor off to on the ground happens around here every now and then. I have with good results used large screw in ground anchors. If you use two or three and put in an equalized floating anchor they do not seem to move if you have good ground lots of clay around here.
 
Dan, the rig itself was nothing spectacular, this was the attachment point. Essentially I just wanted enough mechanical advantage to be able to pull the trees - that were leaning the other way over the cliff - upright and over. Rigging V.T.'s are great - in my opinion they're one of the few applications where Tenex makes sense... whoops, I've said it now.
 

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i like Tenex for life line friction hitches (especially Icicle) and save old tress cords for rigging support work. i use the 3/8"/5000# tensile Tenex. i theorize the legs bent at such an angle in friction hitch are more like choke position doubled, rather than basket strength at unleveraged angle; so guesstimate 5000 x 80% for 4000# in choke for Tenex, then x 2 for ~8000#(if new)in double legged friction hitch.

i like the power and stash ability of a 1 ton chain hoist; haven't seen the cords slip on the 1/2" host lines using like 6/1 distel for simplicity. Though i have tied slip knot back ups in host behind distel a few times.

Chaihoist is a lil heavy, but tough, strong; stashes well in ammo box for nice lil'kit with olde cords. Won't lose mechanical advantage like comealong in use; and continues your effort racing in one direction, rather than stop/start of comealong. Chain and hook can be made to choke around an anchor in a pinch.
 
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these guys are seriously into growing weed, hemp, ganja... whatever! We're talking industrial quantities, like the whole area inside the fortifications! So when we're taking these trees down and we don't have anywhere to attach the come-along to, we used one of the stacks of the super-vitamin-enhanced-hormone-drenched-dutch-mega-dope fertiliser.


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I've seen some strange anchor points in my time in treework but that is without doubt the most bizarre yet!
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What did they weight each? 1 ton?

Any photos of the fields of Cannabis sativa?

Cool story.
 
thats how we anchored the supports for rope bridges back in my scouting days. they don't look like they hold much but they do....when they are set up right
 
I too favor the ground anchor approach, they onlt downside to this is you need longer lenght for heavier loads. So if you need to put one or two in by 4' you get pretty dizzy soinning around. I like to take a gas or electric drill outfitted with the appropriate sized socket and drill thew into ground. CAUTION not to be used at exttream speeds for fear of hitting obstructions underground and twisting drill out of hand
 
looks like they had a bailer out there , could you have used a pick up or tractor ? I'm sure the bales worked , they're heavy when they're wet .
 
You Euros get all the cool work. Nothing like that around here (pot fields, 100 meter rock faces). I noticed the loads are on pallets. Something had to move the pallets. Use the pallet mover as an anchor with a pallet on it.

Very clever work Mark B. and crew.
 
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