Basic Tips for Surviving Tree Work

[Music] is it hard to let down jeff's like watch this i'll swing it all the way around the tree and nail him [Music] [Laughter] august is gonna pay remember that one time [Applause] this morning i took one of those advil gel caps and i broke it and i rubbed it on my elbow but it didn't work i don't know we'd need a bucket truck for sure or else i'd have to cut into it just to make sure it's even climbable oh i was thinking there's a lot of green on that thing there's a lot of green a lot of green on a black oak yeah um doesn't mean the roots are good so here's the tree we're going to cut down today they're concerned about roots that have been cut the tree is a little sketchy there's some raccoon poop so there might be a raccoon up there have to watch for that fair amount of decay in the tree some funky funky look to it we'll get up there and rig it out i see some uh that's a blue jay so i'm climbing today we'll get up there and we'll rig this thing out and then we'll probably flop some um logs down here cameras always rob terrain but there's this little bit of drain right here and the tree leans this way so rather than we shouldn't have to rig this uh stem wood down we should be able to flop this wood out here there's sprinklers some irrigation and whatnot but firewood sized pieces would hit that terrain and go flying off somewhere so we'll probably pull some bigger pieces out and that'll control the deflection how far they balance the ricochet anyway let's get to work let's just show you some work okay this is the rc 2000 lowering device this one's designed by regcoats you can find him on youtube first try i wondered if it would be what do you think first try no we got some nice grass here and we got to protect it we got some sprinklers where the cones are and i don't have anything else to say so youtube right up in here and a lot of these old trees you find a lot of raccoon poop so like i throw my rope over and then all that stuff dropping down is a raccoon raccoon scat what you touched it without gloves i don't think raccoon poop has a corona [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh okay youtube here i am in the top i'm going to show you how i set up the rigging in case you want to see and i'll try to do less helmet cam work today because it's so dizzy making oh there goes my saver it just fell off i dropped my pulley that i use for uh rigging myself out of the tree you know the tie-in and it's way down there on a crotch so i made this little grappling hook and it'll be easier to use this than it will be to go down there and get it and come back because they can't get it from the ground so i'll show you this is the these are the little problem solving things we do ah let's see which side should i start on i think okay youtube i'm rick this is my no i'm talking to youtube this this is my rig for me coming off of this and this is the rig for the all the trunks i'm going to lower off so i'm going to lower off all that and then this and then i'll go over to this whole other side and we'll swing this whole other side down there and then when we're done with that we'll come to the other side and we'll rig the all of that off and then we'll do this top last so that's it three rings here for bend radius that's a david driver um thing he's the guy that started the x-rings and uh joe made this for me it's uh custom it's pinto pulley with uh yeah i don't i don't want to talk a lot i just want to work so let's do that okay that's one [Music] nice [Music] a little more slipperiness on the butt i'm wow [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] so [Music] so uh oh ah ah i'll check in with you youtube that was a quick one two three boom that's done uh now we're gonna we'll take this one that the limb i mean that we'll take this one now that the camera was on we were here looking down but we'll take this off and then we'll pop over there i'll find a new place for you right now i think i'll put you guys right [Music] here [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] where are we gonna put these guys where should we put you youtube gonna be doing that stuff over there that's a little place so that i can clamp you guys right there do you want to see that i'll show it to you maybe some of you youtube guys here's the clamp and we just clamp it on like this clamp it like on uh beverly hillbillies [Music] yep [Laughter] oh [Music] laughs [Music] nice [Music] [Applause] [Music] wow uh [Music] [Applause] wow um ah all right [Music] uh ah so uh [Music] [Music] checking in with youtube that was a one-two wham-bam done and now this one a couple little leaves on the other side of the fence but it's been a really clean quick smooth show so far i think it's time to swap this battery and maybe i'll keep you guys up close for the next damian thanks that if i throw you to him that he'll be able to catch you that's what he thinks are you ready oh i was about to throw it and you looked away are you ready i'm ready that thing gained some serious speed i'm putting a new battery in it yeah dude i'm like damian said he's gonna go is he so youtube in case you didn't know we keep swapping ends if i'm rigging on on this side then we'll put the snap on this side and we'll and then the man will hold this side but if we're rigging trees off this side then we tie the rope onto the rigged piece and then the man holds this one pretty simple stuff so we just swapped in he's gonna have this one he'll be standing out there see him there and then this will be going up through the rings and down and we'll we'll probably hook it right there and then i'll cut it clear down there where it comes off and i can't really leave the camera up here because if i pointed out the work there then it won't see the cut down there so it'll be better if i take the camera with me i guess and maybe put it on my helmet or something okay i put you guys on my helmet i'll swing over there i'll make the cut i'll try to hold my head still so that you get that view without getting all dizzy from uh too much head movement head movement as i say in mma oh yeah you guys are going to want to tighten this one up well the less banging around it does um the less chance of a giant dead thing breaking off and falling you guys be careful i'm coughing from sawdust not corona i promise you guys be careful that um nothing big falls on you if if something breaks because there's a few dead things on this one you guys got it pre-tensioned pretty good all right all right nope no big breaks okay youtube crowd we'll do this in two pieces we could do it in one but it'll be a little smoother if we go one two and um because we're swinging it kind of beside the tree and those ornamentals so it's kind of up to jeff to just to take it down and away and through like that something else worth mentioning is don't leave a lot of stub cuts i had a guy in one of my comment sections the other day he was saying you can tell he doesn't know what he's doing he didn't leave a bunch of limbs sticking out because you might need those for rigging and it was like such a dumb thing to say because rigging snags up if you leave a bunch of of well i don't have any to show you but that's that big cut down there the reason why i went through the effort of slicing it off smooth so that this stuff when jeff's rigging it passed doesn't hang up on something that you left behind because you were either lazy or you weren't sure what you were going to do later so you left something because you don't know if you need it because you don't really know what the heck you're doing we all kind of go through that phase and when you go through it hard and find yourself hung up enough times then later you know what you're doing and you don't want to do that so we're going to rig this off the the line it's butt tied so when it comes off you want the rope pulling against the spine of the snap not out here on the gate and that's something that it's a detail this snap it wouldn't be a problem if it leaned on the gate but it's just a principle i guess all right ready jeff just one the bottom one you're gonna take it out in between the shrubs and down into your lap kinda so i'm i'm kind of facing it out away from me so that you can take it down in between the ornamentals ready make sure you guys are on sometimes you think you're on and you're not on you're up there off and then you spend all this time yakking and then you're not even there see he went right between the ornamentals in the tree and he brushed right up against where that trunk was cut off that would have snagged up if we didn't know what to do i want to talk to youtube for a second before you tie that i want to tell them something i'm going to tell them something so youtube i i hook them like this a lot because it chokes and it's it's good enough um on real slippery trees then you want to hook it with a marl somebody asked me a while back what a marl is so tomorrow you put a half hitch here so this is gonna invert and then the rope will be like that on it and then your other one hooks up like normal like this see and it's more for them to untie but it's a safeguard against the whole thing just slipping off the end but you don't have to have redundant rules if you understand why the rules are there it's to keep things from slipping off the butt so i'm gonna cut it down here and this would keep this from slipping off the butt if it were necessary and it's not this will not move when damian was first getting all rigged savvy working with us he marled every single one and i would tell him damian you don't have to borrow every single now we say it all the time so so youtube this one is not gonna invert i'm gonna tip tie this one so if we wanted to be all super uh book safe or whatever then the marl would be here so it's got the double choke basically not all the pressure here because it's twisted and backed up by this one these are basics people [Music] sometimes youtube yeah you gotta be ready for nice job both you and the climber gotta be ready to uh because you gotta know that when you're hooked a certain way you're about to see a certain action that's pretty vague but you'll know when you know and you'll know if you know nice job this would be one that i would normally flush off so that didn't get in the way of my rigging but i'm confident that that stuff we can do it and get it past this without hanging it up otherwise i wouldn't mess around i'll flush that off so yeah when it comes to those ones that you're hiding from like i was there where you're cutting and dodging that that's climbing that's part of the job and you have to be able to kind of read what's about to happen the story that you just wrote by the way you planned it out by the way you rigged it it's like prophecy it's gonna happen and if you if you can anticipate that then you'll know where to hide now i suppose you could argue that you should just rig it small enough and controlled enough that you never have to do any of that kind of stuff but again not everybody's got an equal amount of knowledge so if you know you can do something then it's within your wheelhouse to do it that's all freedom sweet freedom i gotta make a face cut so hold on this side make sure you run it enough to not hang it up on that thing that i left behind so so youtube this is the last one the one that i'm tied to you get that youtube you guys see that augusto at his finest there adam's oppo just viewing and jeff schroeder on ropes nice job jeff that was smooth we have a place that we can drop wood there but we're rigging all the big brush out because it's too big to not destroy all the little plants but i can thread the wood down in there [Applause] [Music] wow okay do it by hand you don't want to hang it up on that thing i left back down there oh sorry yeah you should have had gloves but that was a really nice run ten o'clock august has all the brush off this thing by 10 o'clock hey get him out of there that's craziness flatness all right i'm ready to go again adam's such a good ground man he just can't help himself climber ain't gonna have to do nothing when he hits the ground still i don't want him to get flattened you know okay are you ready b plus coming down that was an a flatness flatness but then it rolled over that little grassy thing like a steamroller [Music] youtube this is the echo 2511 t with a panther bar and a quarter pitch chain quarter pitch bar and chain this thing i love it there's the mod you want to see the modified exhaust youtube don't anybody go under this log little straight pipes this saw is i mean can you believe like i've done almost every bit of this tree with this tiny little saw it's just epic okay i'm gonna try to flip this one oh we're back to b plus are we okay i just want an a plus i want a plus so bad that's not an a plus that's a v plus that's a plus [Applause] okay youtube here we are at the bottom you can see the fence has not been impacted by us shrubs little ornamentals that's an old wound obviously a little dogwood irrigation sprinklers are still intact and we'll flop a log right there on that cleanup's done so youtube the lean how do i explain this for people who don't know so the the tree was like was like this and the face cut is basically level so i could tell it wanted to go a little to the left but i didn't want to miss so at the end there i was cutting off this corner because i didn't want this corner grabbing much and then of course i left a nice um bit of holding wood on this corner so that it would move this direction as much as possible for the face cut we had there so yeah that's uh that's a wrap i hope you enjoyed it as much as we did

Channel: August Hunicke

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Length: 40min 8sec (2408 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 30 2020