Wraptor vs Haas

Oh my, love that vid Prichard....very cool stuff....Brian that is one BIG FELLA....everyone all cozy in here lately....love it...I now come to the buzz a lot these days....giving FB a run for it's money....happy friday folks....lol
 
I want to do a series of them with different tools , bigshot, apta heck have someone footlock, bodythrust it will be fun. Just keep speeding up the video so we are not really going that fast , it just looks that way.lol
 
Bixler said:
Wonderful pics Reg, glad to see you finally make another rec climb. ;)

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Great news for our crew, we recently added a Wraptor to the arsenal... :D

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Wrecked out a 160ft White Fir. The tree was 5' at the base, covered in ivy, and we were lucky enough to set a TIP at 90ft. Great investment for saving energy and a long-term increased production.

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cool t shirt (and picts bixy)
 
Bixler said:
Wonderful pics Reg, glad to see you finally make another rec climb. ;)

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Great news for our crew, we recently added a Wraptor to the arsenal... :D

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Wrecked out a 160ft White Fir. The tree was 5' at the base, covered in ivy, and we were lucky enough to set a TIP at 90ft. Great investment for saving energy and a long-term increased production.

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I'm gonna try and hold off until I hit 60. I'll probably be ready for it by then.

Did you get pics of wraptoring up the tree, or working perhaps ? Tell me that's not all, Brian ?
 
No other pics worth posting Reg, just one lame selfie after topping the sumbitch. I had the head cam on, but I'm afraid that's it for the photos.IMG_1154.webp

Jimmy, fun vid, thanks, I've noticed a lot of the competition climbers using a long lanyard organized very neatly on the saddle, looks nice. - How does your climber like his SideWinder? It sure is a nice addition to tidy up the saddle...
 
He loves it , he just doesn't like anything hanging down. Me and him climb different and I probably use my lanyard in a lot of different ways then he does..
 
Thanks Jimmy, it didn't seem like yours hangs down further than anything else does. I've seen similar setups on Lawrence and Casey Selner - I wouldn't doubt that SwingDude and Oceans do the same...

It's tough to understand why anyone wouldn't use the SideWinder, but different styles ect...
 
treevet said:
hey if you climb needled giant phone poles all day with no side branches...prob won't need it then either Reg :)
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Good to know, Dave. Thanks.

Although, wouldn't matter much what I was climbing. Up is still up, whether that be a conifer or hardwood. If anything harwoods offer much easier targets for setting lines.
 
I found myself climbing off the Wraptor the other day, I climbed single rope off of the Wraptor accent line. It worked great for the scenario at hand, I just had to be really careful.

Forgive my ignorance but is that a frowned upon practice?
 
Reg said:
Good to know, Dave. Thanks.

Although, wouldn't matter much what I was climbing. Up is still up, whether that be a conifer or hardwood. If anything harwoods offer much easier targets for setting lines.
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point was Reg, tho mainly in jest because I know you do it all, it is all about energy expended in an hour, day, week, month...career (extreme heat) ...that keeps you productive (I pay a LOT of bills), able to sustain enjoyment of the job (which I LOVE) and lessens injuries (although you and I have discussed genetics) in my opinion. If you are working a conifer, you go up the stem and cut the limbs off on the way up, sever the top and chunk down...in a "hardwood" you generally are working side branches and stems, and expending much more energy and the machine takes one significant part of that out of it. I have had a wraptor for maybe 5 years and that means about 40 other years I have had to look for anything I can to simplify the job to last this long. Cheers mate. thanks for the log trolley, part of that strategy.
 
treevet said:
point was Reg, tho mainly in jest because I know you do it all, it is all about energy expended in an hour, day, week, month...career (extreme heat) ...that keeps you productive (I pay a LOT of bills), able to sustain enjoyment of the job (which I LOVE) and lessens injuries (although you and I have discussed genetics) in my opinion. If you are working a conifer, you go up the stem and cut the limbs off on the way up, sever the top and chunk down...in a "hardwood" you generally are working side branches and stems, and expending much more energy and the machine takes one significant part of that out of it. I have had a wraptor for maybe 5 years and that means about 40 other years I have had to look for anything I can to simplify the job to last this long. Cheers mate. thanks for the log trolley, part of that strategy.
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I see what you are saying Dave, the bigger picture.

Some conifer s are really uncomplicated, regardless of height etc, agreed....particularly those in groups ie straight up form like you described.

To be fair though, they not all like that. Theress lots of previously topped firs with now multiple leaders; those that have formed as a stand alone tree, almost taking the form of a hardwood; and then there's those growing in extremely fertile land which has seemingly amazing vigor and growth rate ie, the pics I put up earlier 1&2 less than 100 years old yet 150 ft in height with limbs up to 35 ft long.....the task was end-weight reduction, all had to be rigged.

Point being, not all straight up and down easy $hit. I am actually fitter now through working the up and down form of conifers, than I previously was with the in and out working on sprawling hardwoods. My lung capacity has increased, I can feel it....as has the strength in my legs for example, they still skinny mind you.

I'd like to be working more hardwoods, but they are the minority compared to conifers out here. I wouldn't say my skills are eroding, but they do get rusty from not doing certain things in a daily basis. I'm glad though that I got so many years under my belt previous. Other side if the coin, there as lots of born and bread climbers out here, who while outstanding at wrecking out a huge single stemmed conifer, are otherwise completely out if sorts attempting the same with a 60 ft × 60 ft maple. Its interesting to watch.

Sorry for the detail Jimmy, Dave and I go back a few years now.
 
Keep on Reg ,I enjoy reading about others experiences in the industry, stuff that I will probably never get to do. I would love to do weight reduction on a giant conifer , I mean that's something we just don't have. Our trees are primarily Hardwoods and hardly anything gets over 90 feet tall.
 
Crazy_Jimmy said:
Keep on Reg ,I enjoy reading about others experiences in the industry, stuff that I will probably never get to do. I would love to do weight reduction on a giant conifer , I mean that's something we just don't have. Our trees are primarily Hardwoods and hardly anything gets over 90 feet tall.
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The big fir I mentioned had also been lightening struck, previously. The pic is looking at the top 40 ft. And no theyre not spur marks, nobodies ever been up that tree previously.

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Another lightning struck tree just recently. This one had extensive termite damage further down, with the above portion of the tree leaning over the HO house. A bit drastic but we took off probably 40ft, and left the lower part of the tree standing with enough foliage to hang on to life. The HO would have preferred the tree gone altogether, but the root system of it and others hard their part to play in holding the embankment together which led down to the ocean. Im about to rig the top in that picture.
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Taking such drastic measures to retain a tree as a standing, living biomass doesnt happen so often, thankfully. Most often the pruning/wounding is a lot more subtle....end weight reduction seems to be a good means to retain seemingly over-extended limbs for example. To lose a handful of isolated limbs limbs in a storm from a tree that holds 60 others probably doesnt seem that much but its the damage a big limb can do on the way down to those underneath that can often justify such preventative work....so in a lot of cases you end up tip reducing much of the tree if its something like symmetrical to start with. Very little of the conifer work is aesthetic....the incentive is near all always hazard preventive.

I work the task SRT for the best part. Sometimes DdRT to transfer to another tree top....but other than that DdRT is just way too much work. Not just because of the frequent and prolonged ascending, but also that of the many redirects your line will take as you access portions of the tree below you're TIP. I wouldnt say its harder or easier than doing similar to navigating the canopies of hardwoods, but its definitely different. You plan a little differently. Its certainly a good workout.
 
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