Joe looked like a serious bad ass with the music. Was really cool to have a making of the music video! Superb job with the editing. You should publish that part on MTV if they still exist.
The timing on watching this video today was perfect for me… Y’all make it look so easy! Merle has Law doing rigging on a 225’ tall 5’+ diameter Redwood today. Merle will run the Stein and the Avant… Law doing the climbing and the rigging. Merle took out about 50 feet of top last week. They’re bringing down 20 foot logs. I’ve seen the Stein work but it’s been a few years so this was a great refresher… Has me really appreciate the skill and focus it takes to do work like this. 🙏🏻Thanks so much August, Joe, Damion, and crew you guys are amazing!💪🏻
The upshot from the ground and seeing the dust blow from the cut is kind of cool looking. Big ol bits of wood coming down. 2’x8’ Need to get some Tiki or Totem skills or contacts and start offering them to be done to the last 10’x20’.
Nice job August, Joe killing it chunking down and Jeff your the man brother for real! You were doing a great job taking care of the climber! I really like my Stein RCW3001! Great video as always August! Keep up the great work and stay safe!
The 💸 bill for one of these huge trees 🌲 must be colossal, to remove all that wood 🪵 takes a lot of time and equipment and skill not to trash the property. Great job for the millionth time.
wow thats some serious editing , I assume its for all the views who want to see all those angles ? if yes then your pretty kind to the audience of tree viewers ..
@@a.wilson4809 Doing well thanks! Been crazy busy.....trying to make time to post up some videos, hopefully sooner rather than later. 🤪👍 Keep yourself safe! 😎👊❤️🌲
I can hear an Echo. Also I liked the way you set the RCW 3002 in the tree in this Video back in March 2018 "Tree work with Strong Rigging " 6:30 in I thought at the time a straight cut at the top would stop the rig lifting along with anchor rope ! sorry had to edit as took me a while to find the remembered Video . But you would only want to do this if you were taking the tree completely down You can use the RCW 3002 without impacting or causing damage !
I'm surprised nylon isn't more popular for rigging lines, like it is for nautical mooring lines. In marine application you want the extra 10% stretch that nylon offers, damping the spike in peak tension by absorbing some of that energy. Anybody know why not?
Missed opportunity - If you'd been flopping those pieces back toward the river, you could have had a wedge-shooting competition. (August _IS_ the reigning champion after all...)
my thought when he was cutting the chunks off, "...who needs a mechanical bull...?" lol (I get nervous going up an 8' ladder) Great video on showing the rigging you are using, it shows things pretty clearly. Even though I have absolutely NO plans on giving any of that I try. (see above comment re. 8' ladder...lol) Cheers from New Brunswick, Canada...eh
Thanks again for the "show and tell". Could you explain in a future vid, how you guestimate how long you make each section. I know it has to be based on weight, but is there some formula or just experience?
Is there a particular reason why you decided to drop these all towards the gap between the houses instead of toward the backyard, I mean other than the ease of removing them when they get to the ground? It seems like it would be safer to do so to me?
Is it adam does the ropes. Bro does a good job. I hadent hung a big peice for months made me nervous. An yer put one to many wraps on. Climber was fine. But yer feelin outa touch abit.
@@AugustHunicke I do the slow notch sometimes on negative rigging and whole tree fells to reduce impact, but I wonder how much it really does. Seems like it usually works when I want it to work because heavy wood typically means better holding wood. Now and then it might mess your accuracy up if a SMIDGE more of holding wood sends the stem one way or the other vs. having enough momentum/power to just break the hinge on the initial get go. If that makes sense.
Hey August, what type of a ascenders do you and the boys use? Looking at the peltz zigzag with chicane. Have you boys use these? If so, thoughts? Thx brother. GIFD. Black Label Society🤟
What are those glasses that Damian has talked about in previous videos. I’ve been looking but can’t find a reference in any videos. Gonna get me some new shades
I do the same thing as a climber with big chunks if I can't see the other side of the bar I put a hand up to feel the piece sit back or if it's going to naturally go. Tells me when to put a wedge in
Did a job the other day like that my legs were so sore the next day from being in the spikes with a big saw on my hip and my shoulders were hella sore as well lol shit is ruff sitting in spikes on a spar like that for long hours
Drive a heavy lag bolt above the bollard if your pushin the limits and worried it may slide up...of course that’s gonna put more in the riggin but we can calculate that
@@meadowviewlawncarellc8079 - Let's review - Something attached to a tree, when the tree is 20' tall...... .....will be (how many) feet up in the tree, after the tree grows to 100'? 🤔
Samuel Luria it would still be at 20 ft. It would be buried into the trunk but still at the same height. Trees grow from the top not up from the ground like grass.
Starting off with the big saw! That's why he has to do the hoochie coochi on each drop. Glad he missed the nail. How did it get way up there? I liked this video very much! Smooth and straight forward. Thanks!
Our crew certainly is, we just got a second one in. We’re running a 2 foot bar I believe since we don’t really need much more for what we’re doing however it can effectively run much higher than that.
Hey August how does the climbers saw sit perfectly level on his saddle? Looks more comfortable than the way I hang my 562 and with a 24" bar it's a lot of pull in one direction hanging vertically
Looks to me like hes running a CMI hook for hanging the saw. And the way he pins the wrap handle in keep the saw level? Dont know for sure but thats what it looks like to me
Were else can you drop 500lb plus pieces of wood from the sky, over a object (shed, house, driveway) catch it in mid air (controlled) while you stand above it holding a chain saw watching it happen. Our jobs kick ass!
I have a regular porta-wrap and instead of picking the porta up every single time. I just take a ratchet strap and make it to where I don't have to pick it up to tighten the rope. That got old real quick. But the RCW looks a lot more beef -e-er than a standard porta-wrap.
That’s pretty funny, I just weighed a piece today, 8’ by 2’ and it was 640kg. Doing calculations to see if the rigging we’d used was close to its limits 😬
@@AugustHunicke Hi August! Amazing videos you make and I learn alot from them! I am not that kind of a treeman but I have a gardening company and I cut down smaller trees, not close to yours though. I am just thinking out loud that in my eyes it would be more convinient with a battery saw up there. Its lighter and you dont have to start it. I saw you test the Stihl and thats not how my Husqvarna works. With a Husqvarna xp 540 you could take down at least the top half of this tree. I think its equivalent to a 40 cc gas saw. Pardon the F! Thumbs up from Sweden!
@@mattthetreeguy Hi Matt! Didnt you read about the Husqvarna 540 iXP? It cuts just as good as the small one August uses up in the tree. And you are wrong about wearing batterypack on the back. You dont do that when you use a chainsaw. And its not necessary. I use the Bli 300 inside the saw and its good for 3 hours cutting. In fact a battery lasts much longer than a tank of gas. And its still lighter than the gas saw. Heres a vid if you dont beleive me: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cGeQAX5rN6Q.html&ab_channel=cotontop3
