Welcome to Strider tree gear.
Today we're working on a little bit of more technical rigging.
And so I want to demonstrate a couple of cool techniques that we use
and some trickier trees.
This would generally be a good option for a crane, especially if you can
have access to one relatively inexpensively would be just a couple of
picks.
But the problem with that in this scenario is that I don't have
anywhere to set up that's in close proximity and it's not worth
dragging a big Crane and do it.
So our targets are not terribly valuable.
So we're going to avoid our targets.
It's a good one to demonstrate some cool techniques for you guys.
So here, let's check it out.
So what we've got here today is a big Cottonwood.
It's those of you who know, Cottonwood know.
It's not a particularly Stout tree.
It's fairly brittle Snappy.
There's quite a bit of debt in it, but it is alive and healthy.
So we're going to use it to
Rig itself down.
We're trying to avoid here are some Telecom lines coming in that are
right underneath a few of the larger limbs going out that direction.
We've got a little ornamental tree down
underneath it, a couple of them.
We've got a couple other little ornamentals
Over here that are all within the canopy spread.
So the idea on all of these is going to be to set a rigging Point,
such that we are able to either lift the branch and let it swing or at
least have the limbs that were rigging swing over.
And then drop down to a point where they're no longer over the top of
our targets.
So I've got two points up there, two rigging points rather than just one
what that's going to allow us to do is use the
GRCS us to excuse me, we're going to use the GRCS to apply quite a
bit of force on that ringing line.
And the reason I've set them in the way they are is it allows the
forces to be distributed in compression
Along those two spars, those two spars are going out, either way, if I
had the rope just going up and then pulling down the torque
that can be really extreme is going to happen down here at the bottom
of the spar and it's going to tend to want to bend it or flex it and
It's a weaker way to have that.
It's a way that doesn't take full advantage of the tree structure
I should say.
So by having the ringing line going from one spar over here across and
then down what happens when this is loaded, that ringing line is
loaded
It puts the force along the branch itself in compression rather than
pulling down on it.
And wood is extremely strong in compression.
So, by spreading those two rigging points out in the canopy, I'm able to
take advantage of the woods natural strength and take bigger pieces.
Put more force with the GRCS without risk of tearing limbs out.
Even though they are just brittle Cottonwood.
So want to show you guys that once we get a branch actually on the
line.
We got Dwight up there right now, monkeying around getting getting the
first one set.
I've got Dwight up there right now.
He's got a spider leg.
Basically, I took a second sling, use a little sheet bend, tied at midline on my
rigging lines.
Now he's got two ends to work with
one end is going to go out to the tip of the branch one end is
going to go out to the butt end of the branch or at least past the
balancing point.
And what that's going to do is going to give us some stability when I
lift up on the main line
It's going to pull that whole Branch a little bit up and it's going to
allow it to swing over up and off in a way.
From the lines that are running to our right
So because the pulleys off to the left, the lines are off to the
right, the branches in between them.
It should just swing right underneath that and then we'll be able to
lower it down.
It'll be nice and flat and fairly level.
The other thing he's going to do, that's worth mentioning.
If this is the branch that he's on.
And we're going to pretend my thumb is some of these Sprouts going vertical
that branch has a weird shape to it.
And I expect that if we just tied to the main branch tip and butt
that the whole thing will want to twist and then that has going to
hang down in might even reach our lines.
So what I'm going to advise him to do is to put a half hitch here on
the vertical part of the sprout
And then tie the end of the tail down, lower on the actual tip tie
in the main spar.
And what that's going to do is going to give it some resistance to
twisting.
It's not going to depend on that sprout for its structure because the
end is tied off, but it should keep it from rolling on us and give us
better stability to in this process.
So we've got our little spider leg
now in those two positions I was talking about, we got a face cut,
that's fairly nice and wide in the direction that we want the branch
to swing.
And now I'm going to have him get in position to make the back cut as
safely as possible.
So where he can duck out of the way behind the trunk, if things break
early and it starts to swing and he's going to make that back cut.
Hopefully, he'll stop
As soon as things start moving at all.
And we can just crank on it with a GRCS
He can stand in a safe spot and we can swing it over all nice and slow
and controlled.
So that's the plan.
Here we go.
lower this sucker here.
I've got Dwight worked his way up the trunk a little bit there.
So he's out of the way of the butt flinging.
I'm just going to try and ease it down.
Hopefully, it'll come down pretty nice and flat.
I'm not completely in the way either
Ideally.
It pinched, his flip line, a little, which is a bit of a risk I suppose.
It is nice to have a balanced
tie sometimes just for the sake of being able to rotate more easily.
So thanks for joining me Strider Tree Gear today.
Hope you found that useful.
That's a little bit of the rigging we do on a daily basis.
That's one of the slightly more technical more complex setups that we
have, but hopefully it made sense to you guys and you can improve your
safety and your rigging, take bigger picks.
Be safer, move faster,
Make more money.
So climb safe out there you guys
and I'll catch you next time.