WTF?

I use a tagline frequently, but never without wedge's as a backup. When we are using a tagline while cutting aloft we are exposed to serious danger if our groundie doesnt know how to properly use a tagline. If your groundie is pulling and releasing slack back into the system (as the nitwits in the vid did) it can cause your hinge to snap during the backward motion causing you to loose your log over backwards. So now you have lost a log over backwards and it has a rope attached to it. I sure hope that rope doesn't come find you and fucking kill you? I have seen this exact scenario play out and the result weren't pretty. This is why I alway use wedges when chunking down wood.

Last year I was working with a new groundie who talked a big game, but it turned out he didn't know how to run a rope puller and said he would just pull by hand. I said ok and gave him very clear instructions to not get my tagline bouncing back and forth when we were pulling over logs, but wouldn't you know it thats exactly what he did. Luckily I was prepared for his fucking nonsense and had already employed my trusty wedges. I finished the job, overpaid this asshole, and never called him again. What a fucking useless, lazy tool.
 
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Jemco said:
The kick from my guns requires you aim abouta foot below the crotch you want.

A five gallon bucket in front of yu with carefully coiled line it.

Trigger's critical for sure. Greg's floating hollow inertia valve's brilliant.

It has a steel ball in the hollow valve one inch track.

Pressurizing the gun applies air to one side of the steel ball slamming slamming the floating valve shut.

Squeezing the trigger applies air to the other side of the steel ball slamming the floating valve wide open into the barrel.

Very smooth trigger mech, quite ingenious, kudos to Greg McMaster!

May he RIP.

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Your description of the trigger sounds very similar to how pneumatic nail guns work, and yes it is freaking brilliant!
 
rico said:
I use a tagline frequently, but never without wedge's as a backup. When we are using a tagline while cutting aloft we are exposed to serious danger if our groundie doesnt know how to properly use a tagline. If your groundie is pulling and releasing slack back into the system (as the nitwits in the vid did) it can cause your hinge to snap during the backward motion causing you to loose your log over backwards. So now you have lost a log over backwards and it has a rope attached to it. I sure hope that rope doesn't come find you and fucking kill you? I have seen this exact scenario play out and the result weren't pretty. This is why I alway use wedges when chunking down wood.

Last year I was working with a new groundie who talked a big game, but it turned out he didn't know how to run a rope puller and said he would just pull by hand. I said ok and gave him very clear instructions to not get my tagline bouncing back and forth when we were pulling over logs, but wouldn't you know it thats exactly what he did. Luckily I was prepared for his fucking nonsense and had already employed my trusty wedges. I finished the job, overpaid this asshole, and never called him again. What a fucking useless, lazy tool.
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It’s actually specified in my insurance policy to always use a tag and wedges when felling. I didn’t make a argument about it, but occasionally will opt out of a tag
 
Steve Connally said:
Thanks. I never know the cool kid lingo
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Neither did I, might be a Canadian thing? I was in a bar, talking about the mistakes I made with my oldest. Dude laughing at me said the first is always a pancake. I got a little offended, the. After sobering up the next morning the phrase clicked around breakfast
 
rico said:
Back in the day we used to make the trip down to the old Sierra Moreno in Mountain View and buy gear. I still have my original old Hobbs from the 1st run. Its seen better days since I ran over it with a skidder, but its been welded back together and functions damn near perfectly. I never knew Don very well but he was always very kind, helpful, and extremely informative. A well deserved legend for sure. Long live the Euc Man!
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Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I drove up there to his shop from San Luis in 1998 I think it was. I didn't really know who Don was at the time, I just had been told it was a legit Arborist supply shop and if I wanted a saddle that was the place to go. Rolled in like a Tuesday morning so it was quiet. He was showing me saddles and when I was tied into the ceiling hook and leaning into the saddle trying to simulate a limb walk he kinda snapped at me about my technique. I was a little taken back by it but out of respect just apologized and said I'm a new climber and still learning the ropes. After a pause he apologized in turn and said his mom I think it was was sick or had just passed, something like that. Anyway, after talking about life for a few minutes he spent the next couple hours teaching me about the industry, climbing, equipment, and everything in between. It ended up being one of those kinda magical days where the amount of knowledge he dropped on me felt like it fast forwarded my learning curve by a decade. A treasured memory.

After moving to the bay area I stopped in a handful of times in the subsequent years but never did run into him again.
 
brydan said:
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I drove up there to his shop from San Luis in 1998 I think it was. I didn't really know who Don was at the time, I just had been told it was a legit Arborist supply shop and if I wanted a saddle that was the place to go. Rolled in like a Tuesday morning so it was quiet. He was showing me saddles and when I was tied into the ceiling hook and leaning into the saddle trying to simulate a limb walk he kinda snapped at me about my technique. I was a little taken back by it but out of respect just apologized and said I'm a new climber and still learning the ropes. After a pause he apologized in turn and said his mom I think it was was sick or had just passed, something like that. Anyway, after talking about life for a few minutes he spent the next couple hours teaching me about the industry, climbing, equipment, and everything in between. It ended up being one of those kinda magical days where the amount of knowledge he dropped on me felt like it fast forwarded my learning curve by a decade. A treasured memory.

After moving to the bay area I stopped in a handful of times in the subsequent years but never did run into him again.
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Gee I wonder where you got the Brydan handle?
 
rico said:
I use a tagline frequently, but never without wedge's as a backup. When we are using a tagline while cutting aloft we are exposed to serious danger if our groundie doesnt know how to properly use a tagline. If your groundie is pulling and releasing slack back into the system (as the nitwits in the vid did) it can cause your hinge to snap during the backward motion causing you to loose your log over backwards. So now you have lost a log over backwards and it has a rope attached to it. I sure hope that rope doesn't come find you and fucking kill you? I have seen this exact scenario play out and the result weren't pretty. This is why I alway use wedges when chunking down wood.

Last year I was working with a new groundie who talked a big game, but it turned out he didn't know how to run a rope puller and said he would just pull by hand. I said ok and gave him very clear instructions to not get my tagline bouncing back and forth when we were pulling over logs, but wouldn't you know it thats exactly what he did. Luckily I was prepared for his fucking nonsense and had already employed my trusty wedges. I finished the job, overpaid this asshole, and never called him again. What a fucking useless, lazy tool.
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I read everything you write. I always pick up some great tips. Always. I am a wedge man. Always. But I so understand physics. Had a tree go over backwards years ago with 3 guys pulling. Never ever have I not used wedges since. Guys pulled too soon and released at a critical moment. Lesson learned ....busted a chainlink fence and my ego. But I learned. It was a fell after I removed a good set of backweight.....it was funny to say the least. But a teachable moment. Only tree that I ever lost. Lol.
 
rico said:
Gee I wonder where you got the Brydan handle?
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I know right! After Don explained some of the history behind it there was no chance I was walking out of there with anything else :D. It was funny, some of the guys I worked with always ribbed me about it being "old school" and all that. Then one weekend we all went to an ISA comp and afterward we were talking to Gary Abrojena for a few min. He was far and away the best climber we'd ever seen and when they saw he was using a Bry-Dan too they never teased me about it again haha
 
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