I was so sad when you said you were done making videos Reg I live watching a true calculated professional so the fact that you’ve continued is amazing I’d watch you climb and video a 30’ maple and be thoroughly happy I really like hearing your explanation for what you’re doing on a job
Iv been watching your videos for years and i must say i have learnd alot. I love it how you get complicated jobs done with very simple gear that every climber should have. Your in my top 5 of damn good climbers.
I'm giving a quick thumbs up, before the video even starts, cause in my opinion, the concept of the vertical speedline is not talked about/seen NEARLY enough!
I XAN SEE WHAT YOU MEAN PLANNING IS EVERYTHING STILL SOOOOO DANGEROUS GLAD YOU ARE CALM AND COOL AND REMEMBER TO FOLLOW YOUR SAFETY RULES GREAT VIEW WITH THAT CAMERA ATTACHED TO THE FALLING TREE TAKE CARE AWESOME WORK Signing off Scott's wife Vickie
A bummer you couldn’t have let that big ol 20 foot tall stump full of woodpecker holes stay standing. I know it’s probly not your call but the land owners but, that ol stump would have just decayed in its own footprint and sustained many a critter. Great vid as always Reg.
This is my favorite youtube channel! Excellent production quality as always. I love that music selection, and the timing and placement of it! I'll bet you're a Mark Knophler fan like myself. Let me be the first to say that, "Reg Coates is to Arboriculture what Mark Knophler is to guitar music"!
Thank you for sharing. This seems like a great way to help prevent things going where we don't want them. Almost zero side load to the stem so that is nice, too! Always a pleasure when you drop by. (And by that I mean when you post a video.) You are like a favorite Uncle and we always look forward to your visits. Stay safe!
Good one Reg, so it appears you were just moving a running bowline down for your speedline which is as you say much quicker than dealing with the sling, block etc, but how were you retrieving the sling with the ring on it, used for the chunks, just pulling it back up each time?
Talkin to a tree surgeon in bolton the other day, did he watch your vids?.. yea he said smiling as he told me. did you know his dad was in a band I said.. yea, I think his dads brother was a tree surgeon, played in the band and worked the tree's during the week.. fks sake I've been wonderin how Reg got into doin tree's for ages. so thats how he got into tree work, family business of sorts.. fella workin with the tree surgeon I was talking to trained under you apparently.. didn't catch his name. He used to get a table bring it near to the stage and jump on it swinging the mike round his head. Hahaha, so he was a bit of a showman was he then?. Oh, yea, he was bloody good, packed out every time he played there. one of my customers remembering his time watching the reg coats duo at tongue moor labour club?.. well I can't figure what I'm more pleased with myself about, figuring out how you got into tree work or finding out your dad started his act swinging the mike round his head before throwing himself on a table.. must mention mark hatch, I think that was the name he mentioned.. the tree surgeon I was speaking to.
Mark was me Dads drummer for a while. It was Mark who got me the job to start with. Great bloke. Great tree climber, immense will power. His brother Steve and sons Sean and Anthony were all in the business. All solid blokes
My Dad came from a long line of musicians in his family back in Ireland. Father a pianist, mother a singer, uncles and siblings all played in bands at one time or another. His great Uncle, Sir Eric Coates was quite a famous composer back in the day....not really to my taste, but it adds some weight and authenticity to the pedigree at least.
@@Recoates damn it Reg, I found Eric's even on utube playin his london bridge thingymagic... prefer your dads Angelino myself mind. your dad impressed the fellla from the church in brieghmet I was talking to, face lit up remembering and talking about his time back in the day watching him.. and, as did mine as I didn't expect he had heard of your dads band, being a church type an all.. I do the church on my grass cutting run. do the tree's and bushes in his own garden. nice chap he is.. made my day when he told me he not only had heard of your dads band but watched him many times over the yrs..
Reg Coates that’s really bizarre in the fact when your talking in your vids when you describe certain jobs your voice picks up a pitch and I was going to ask if you had Irish ancestry it’s such an Irish trait , you carry a touch of the Irish traits from your ancestry although you may not have lived in Ireland but taken it from your fathers family it’s funny to hear but I notice it totally bizarre....I do it myself and the mrs calls it a twang ! Great video thanks 😊
Thank you, Reg. Great video as always! Why did you decide to use a vertical Zipline for this tree? In order to keep cut parts from flying apart? It's seemingly enough space in the drop zone on the ground. Thank you.
what kind of knots do you tend to use when securing yourself in a tree before you balay around to trim? also what kind of knots are you usinf in general? iv had a bit of frustration knowing which ones to use for what reasons. thankx a bunch
Thank you for taking the time to make and post up more video Reg, I appreciate it. I've used that technique a few times and find it to be a very quick, efficient and safe way to work a tree in some situations. I have no doubt I could take advantage of it more than I do now. As you said at he beginning of the video, I just don't think to use it as an option. Thanks again and keep yourself safe! Randy
I’m always excited to see that you’ve posted a new video. It’s nice to see someone that takes such pride in his job and goes the extra mile to make sure it all goes well. Thanks for sharing your immense professionalism.
Great technique on a slope! Just looked down and i got some piss on my trousers and laughed about it thinking about one of your older videos. It will happen to all of us sooner or later. Be well Reg
It’s always a pleasure to watch you fell trees. I built my home and fell all the trees by myself. I was much younger man then. Hat tip bro. You always have a foxhole to jump to. I know the kind of man you are. Strength and humility. You’re the man!
Hey Reg, great vid and explanation. One question: what do you find to be the most efficient way to get the x-ring back to the climber after each section? Seems like you'd either put a midline knot in the rigging line and pull it up (and then have to tend a bunch of slack out) or you'd have to pull it off the other end of the rope and send it up on the climber's line. Neither option sounds that good to me; wondering if there's a better way.
I leave the rigging line running through the eye the whole time, and just tie it to my climbline to haul it back up. It basically never comes off the rigging line until the job is done
I didn’t even watch the vid yet. I was the first, and I thought I’d be a dick, hoping Reg would know by now to not give a fuck and let the evidence speak for itself. I look forward to watching the master.
Am I right in thinking you’re using the same ring/sling the whole time? I assume you have to pull it back up on your climb line each time. Good stuff as always.
Yes. It stays on the rigging line throughout the whole job....same as the rigging line stays choked on the top of the stem throughout. You just slide rigging line down the stem between logs, and pull up the sling on your climb line. Easy work, try it
The whole Job is about limiting any risk or causing Damage on a home owners land ! This was the best way of achieving that VERTICAL STOP and control very effective Sir .
Love vertical speed lining in these situations, it's a nice trick. Great footage! I think you need a lightweight mid sized saw, I used to run 16" bars and chunk as much as I could with them too but I found it's faster and better on my body to just have a limbing saw (echo 2511t 10" bar) and a wood saw (modified husky 555xp 20" bar or modified stihl 462c 25" bar) this little change in my approach to removals has made my life easier. Obviously, if your solo you have to go old school but if you have a groundie it's well worth having him send something else up.
@@Tsjoni theres always bad apples in every community. Although I suspect junkies wandering the streets in the dead of night, peeping through windows and pulling on door handles hoping something will open. I was rushing after work, and forgot to take the saw and backpack blower off the back of the chip truck. I came out the next day and someone had done it for me. Boyh items gone. So, partly due to my forgetfulness, but they still had to walk down the driveway and under the carport to look on the back of the truck. Just one time I forgot, and that's all it took
Dude, what a bummer! I love my 550 but it only gets used by the groundies now that I have the 462, IMO it's the best saw stihl has come out with since the 200. The power to weight ratio is amazing and has the torque to really pull through anything effortlessly without bogging down. Hands down it's my favorite saw because it gets me out of the tree faster and less fatigued.
Hey reg, might be a dumb question but, I know how you have transitioned into preferring SRT over DRT over time, and I’m just really curious as to what canopy anchor that’s retrievable do you prefer to use?
3-5 hours after you release your videos, I can sit with my morning coffee and enjoy the view in Canada and that would be enough for me😀 the rest is bonus info (I like that too though). Keep sharing 🙏/ Denmark
I have to say I'm very impressed. My highest climb was a 34 m grand fir in my home country Germany. The trees here usually are about 20 m. Youre always way more higher and have greater views. I think you get used to these heights. I would shit my pants spuring up 70 m ...
That's a lot of fir. The arbutus is beautiful too. I like the orange coloration to it. I resembles candle wax i think. Great work and safely done as usually!
Great vid Reg. I hate to ask a dumb question but what is the advantage of the Cow Hitch? Does it stay tighter on the block than the running bowline since it's freefalling then bouncing a little?
That must nice. I run my own small company as well on the east coast of the US and most people don’t want the wood. Luckily a big tree around here is about 60 feet. Thanks for putting up the videos. If things go back to normal I would love to come out there for a bit to see what it’s like working with tall trees if you would be interested.
Nice, I suppose this provides some control in terms of limiting the path each piece can travel, and it doesn't shake the stem all over, but honestly I think an experienced guy like you could've free fallen all of those logs with just as much precision, but better off doing it safe and not smashing up anything. Great video, glad to see something new from you.
It only takes one bad bounce on a slope and all the hard work and care you put in previously becomes meaningless when you then have to pay for collateral damage. Keep in mind too that those logs were staying put in whatever size that I could safely land them, no bucking. So they were big enough to keep my sawing un the tree to a minimum, but not so big that Aaron couldn't move each one to make room for the next.
