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I hate to say it years of climbing a tree, i just now used a choking friction saver for DRT. Cant believe i use to just spike and lanyard spars, kind of ignorant. Full believer in it now.
I feel like companies that get huge jobs like this always have the best team dynamics. You get an entry level position at a struggling Davey office in the midde of nowhere and all your coworkers are dicks and make tree work suck. Might just be me though lol
Should be titled: Why California is F'd... Can't even cut a tree growing dead straight down with nothing around it except one single house on one side and some powerlines somewhere in the vicinity where it would have been 10X cheaper to just drop the power lines if they were a problem and drop the tree in one go...
Well for a lot of years climbers wore jeans. I was one em. Been doing this work for 40 some odd years and havnt seen anyone lay a chain saw on their leg yet. So yes chainsaw pants ,and chaps are good but not the end of the world to go with out.
Cute video. These are currently cleaning up the Caldor fire along Hwy 50. You didn’t mention the big wood getting decked or hauled in that knuckleboom. Knuckle boom is also a 3rd man. I will give the machine it’s respect when it is showcased doing dead crispy trees next to high voltage lines. But this! Wide open drop zone and baby trees not to mention broadcasting chips. Our 4 man crew would slay 40-60 of those trees in a day. I’m genuinely interested in knowing what the minimum scope of work would be to mobilize those units.
I’m with you on that! We have an established a minimum at this point, but we are trying to use mechanized equipment wherever we can and send the traditional climb, rig, bucket crews to where we can’t get the mechanized equipment. We haven’t replaced anyone with these machines, these machines have only helped us to augment our workforce. Force multipliers!🌲💪🏼
Thanks for the question! We currently run wheels on our Sennebogens because it allows us to move them on paved roads, which eases logistics in many circumstances.
RE: helmet cam Here's a nice example of using video from both helmet cam and ground cam ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ox4BD_AbQ3M.html
This could have been a good video BUT - *NOTHING was visible.All I saw was rope flapping around and heard klink klink.The second demo was a little better but you guys are NOT teachers! Next time check the video - can all actions be seen or not otherwise it is a waste of time.
Interesting piece of kit. What I have always done is tied the sharp end of my DRT system in a running bowline around the working side, thus providing a choking system, then either tying a double overhand or using the splice and inserting a carabiner, running the brake hand side of the rope up into the carabiner to allow decent on a single strand and the system is retrievable from the spar.
