Rope in Chipper Accidents (Adam Speaks)

and then you run it as far as you can without hitting the deck with it okay [Music] so i'm making my way up through the limbs here this is a tree that was cabled many years ago and cables don't last forever and cable is busted but look at this incredibly ridiculous amount of vandalism by squirrels i mean come on guys they're chewing all the bark off the top of every limb this is a major problem later when these these limbs are gonna bust out of here destructive little suckers i mean i would think it was bb gun time if i saw him up here okay youtube i'm gonna see if you guys have any comments i can answer while i'm waiting this guy says that he's a fellow tree worker that got hurt really bad on a job he wants to share his story so all companies know how important it is not to have ropes near the wood chipper i'm alive but hurt really bad i had less than a second to save my own life but again want my story to be heard by all so we know this is a big deal thank you and stay safe yeah man um i've had my rope chipped i almost got yanked out of a tree and killed so did joe and people die and they lose arms and legs and rope and chipper is a rough one it's on now if you're on the ground and the chipper is nearby the climber's rope or even the rigging rope oh there's a lot of people could make rules about it and say that it should never be done that the chipper would be running at all with the rope nearby i'm not sure that's a bad rule one of the cool things about speed lining is speed line gets the people away from the base of the tree but often it puts a speed line rope which is attached to the tree near the chip chipper because everybody wants to speed line things to the chipper so you just gotta gotta really have your head screwed on steri and probably the most beneficial thing that there is is helmet communication because if the climber who's always mindful of his rope and where it's at if he has any questions it's nice for him to be like hey you're not going to tangle my rope right or hey my rope's tangled my rope's tangled adam you got any advice to tell them okay adam's down there saying good stuff i'll have to get the camera down to him so if you're on the ground and the ropes are right next to the chipper um one thing i like to do is if i'm rigging i'll take my reading rope like out of the line of direction of where brush will be dragging um and if you can't always do that then um you just keep a real close eye on it just snug you're not over tight you want to make sure the climber i mean if you have seen a unit if you haven't seen a communication you can tell them hey i'm gonna grab that but if you don't have um scenic communication i think it's important for the climber to know that you see that the rope is tangled up in the brush so the way to do that is just get it untangled as soon as possible before you drag it to the chipper um it keeps the climber from stressing out and uh not thinking you don't see it and then also a good basic understanding of how a chipper works i know for the longest time i thought um you know the feed wheel the slow-moving feed wheel like if i saw the rope go in i would just reverse the feed wheel and it would be fine but it's not the feed wheel that's the problem it's drum you never actually got a rope in a chipper though right no no but i never really stressed the emergency of it either so he's saying he looked at the slow-moving feed wheel and thought what's the big deal i could just reverse it exactly and that people don't realize that there's a 60 mile an hour drum that's gonna kill everybody in a second yeah if the rope touches the drum exactly exactly so a good understanding of how dangerous the the chipper is yeah and that goes back to the video we had before where i talked about it where i kept explaining how serious it was to the guy and and he just never i never like looked like he cared until he chipped my rope yeah yeah and um really just kind of keeping an eye on it when it's i mean it's always good to keep an eye on the climber's rope but it's just uh extra stress when it's in chipper's reach i guess so if it's tangled in a lamb you get it out immediately you stop everything until it's untangled correct yeah there's got to be some other detail well and i was thinking too you know like you said i mean if if it's not continue on to redwood highway i don't know if it's not really that crucial to chip the brush uh maybe wait until the climber is done and down uh you can stage it in piles where you can just do handfuls yeah whenever possible try not to have ropes by the chipper yeah uh another thing this is a stay in the left two lanes a really strong argument for srt climbing is in 1.5 miles turn left onto southeast curtis drive is the when you're srt climbing you don't need a whole bunch of rope at the base of the tree you only need enough rope to get to the ground because you're just going down stationary rope the rope isn't moving you don't need a bunch on the ground in order to have enough to get to the ground and so just srt climbing alone when it's done right can save and stop a lot of rope and chipper accident keeping your rope in a bag i've seen joe elevate his you know a few feet above the ground yeah so joe's rope got chipped and it was a rigging rope but it still wrecked him and still hurt him and people on the ground get their arms and legs ripped off by a bite of line when when the chipper grabs it oh we were chipping just last week we were shipping vines and both ends were going in like this like a u and i was in the center and damien saw it but i it wasn't so it's a good uh reaction to the safety on the chip so were the vines going in like mock or were they just going in feed wheel speed feed wheels yeah yeah because if a rope touches the drum where the knife is it's going to wind it up yeah it's not going to cut it yeah no but it but i was in that u so it was slowly being sucked in if i wasn't if i can see it but if you were in the u of a rope right right right you would be ripped in half yeah yeah definitely at those speed yeah that would be over yeah i get well i was and i so i guess with that being said is know where your emergency stop is where your reverse oh look at that i got you guys on the rear view mirror know where your emergency stops are where your reverse is on the feed wheel um just in case i get i don't know i mean if when the vines you know i mean have a rope yeah if a rope touches the drum man it's yeah it's i mean at that point it's too late yeah yeah totally it should never get down to that but um oh it's still good to know instinct because that was just that just happened last week with the vines i mean we were pulling vines from i i wonder if there's vines that will act like a rope where where the knife hits it but it doesn't sever it that'd be gnarly yeah back when i first started all of our chippers took everything in like that just there was no feed wheel the truck and knocker yeah you you got out of the way as soon as you threw anything into it because it was going i remember working i've used one one time and yeah it's like toss them in and yeah it's like yeah and uh weeping willow is called whipping willow oh i can see that yeah those things beat you up yeah i don't have too much experience there's the knife just whipping right there in front of you yeah hey why don't you give him some more ground man tips just in general pay attention to uh i like to kind of be one step ahead so it's um you know if you see the climber's gonna need rings or something uh just get them out and just have it all ready so it's uh anticipate the next move anticipate the next move yeah definitely um which comes with experience i mean if you don't know the next move pay attention try to uh stay in the middle lane let's see this is the stuff that a lot of people ask me man talk have adam tell us about the ground what's going on um let's see what else uh and also like it seems like a lot of people on like quarter wraps they'll do way too much like it's almost like uh like you don't necessarily want to stop the you just want to prevent forces and dynam you know like smooth it down you're not really i mean there's times where you need to stop it don't get me wrong where you cut it and you gotta keep the height and stuff like that but um it just let it run yeah let it run yeah exactly be smooth about it um oh uh like say there's a big like a lot of limbs on the ground or something i noticed there's actually like if you're systematic about it it might be common sense to a lot of people but um like the biggest pieces come out first and then like there's no reason to pick up a rake um or a blower or a blower if there's big pieces on the ground um sometimes it's easy to just stay up on cleanup by crane pigs in between crane pigs and stuff uh because you don't really want the climbers to have to clean up or if they do as minimal as possible so um so get the big stuff out and then uh and then the medium size and then it has the money but it's all kind of systematic so it um it works and like i said it might be common sense but uh but yeah you don't want to be doing stuff twice uh one thing i like to do is if they're doing a prune and they're kind of circling the tree once they're about halfway about 180 degrees from where they started you can start detailing that other side because they're done and then that kind of helps it so when the climbers get down it's detailed um and usually if they have to go back then it's just kind of a quick little break up and or pick up a branch or something but uh finish the parts that you can but don't finish it twice don't if if they if you know they're gonna be going back over there there's no point no point in getting the rake out exactly yeah unless [Music] there's nothing else to do right totally i i mean i don't know i like to tell these guys on jobs where there's not a lot to do i kind of am happy for left onto rhonda drive then the destination yeah i think there's a cul-de-sac anyway um if they have an easy day good for them so don't do busy work just for the sake of i mean i had a guy years ago that i worked for that if there was no work to be done it infuriated him that anyone was standing around ever ever and he would be like wash the rooms of my truck you know and i just like dude uh if you have back breaking terrible hardcore days then it's only fair to have some when the day isn't like that let them enjoy it you know yeah it is not i mean for me i just uh like if it's no cleanup uh i feel bad staring around i'll i'll try to maintain something uh you know i i usually zerk the chipper or the maintenance stuff blow out the air filters yeah greasing the equipment is like that's really good idea yeah so where are we so here we are on the job maybe we'll just show we'll let adam have the camera and just show you what he's up to okay so i'm gonna climb this and cut it down it grows out over the deck it's not a big tree or anything it's not a difficult thing we'll put everything in here and then adam's gonna take a very short journey to the chipper with it all i can see how i might be helped out by an srt tie-in in this tree poison oak right at the base of the tree growing up this stuff will go nuts and it'll if you leave it it would just be 40 feet up the tree kind of sucks having your ropes in the poison oak and then your hands all over the rope you go home and you open the door and now poison oak is on the doorknob and then you go and you're like i gotta put these clothes in the laundry so my wife doesn't get poison oak and then you put your clothes in the laundry and and you you know you close the lid and you turn the controls and poison oak just gets spread everywhere like corona anything you feel like telling them you can do okay well he's heading up let's just see if this rope reaches the chipper and uh that'll be determined how whether i need to watch the rope or not so let's so this is a prime scenario where brush is coming down and i need to drag it to the chipper that towards the chipper i'm gonna move his rope right now so i don't have to worry about it so another thing is is when they're smaller limbs like this there's no point in doing like carrying one or two branches at a time let them build up and take one big pile of small stuff rather than uh especially when it's side hill like this but less trips the better so um and it's faster so bundle and delivery so another thing is you can use you know one big limb pile all your your small stuff on top of it and just grab that one uh base branch and that also works for rake up if there's tons of crumblies coming off stay up on that by just throwing it on top of a limb and then chip it that way you don't have a whole bunch of material when uh when the climber comes down you already got three-fourths of it out of the way [Music] hmm also another thing to keep in mind is if you ever go into the chipper to get gas an oil for the climber or go to the chipper truck for any reason grab a load of brush and bring it to the chipper there's no reason to walk that direction if there's brush on the ground with nothing in your hands make yourself a little bit more efficient ah wow uh um right so ah so okay wow um wow so youtube something to keep in mind when you have when you have the when you have the trail to the chipper that the ground men are taking and it's under a big canopy when you're down there it's almost like an illusion of protection like you're under a ceiling but you can walk out from under that ceiling and be bam right in the drop zone and the climber can't really see you until all of a sudden you show up there like a kid running out between parked cars to chase a ball or something adam knows what's up down there he's aware of it but just i guess we're just trying to think of things so youtube i was tempted to just rig this whole tree off of that but because this tree's been here the whole time then that tree will naturally be sparse of limbs on this side and i don't want to like break the limbs off of it on this side and have it look even more lopsided so that's why i'm going all the way to the top taking the limbs off and that's why i'm taking a small top out this way and adam will need to run it down there miss the deck and get it out free of these little ones before he takes control of it so yeah adam i'm gonna take it right out toward uh their car and then you run it as far as you can without hitting the deck with it okay okay here we go perfect yeah see we went past all this little stuff right into the hole clear yeah oh [Music] so good time to point out that's all that's here when i get on the ground a couple of twigs three four logs oh now three logs so one guy on the ground kept up with that so that's not cutting much slack up there either that's staying busy and he's got her done down here almost done when i hit the ground so yeah anyway [Music] i liked what you were saying about not wasting a trip to the chipper oh yeah yeah i was wondering if you have to tell a guy that you might be talking to the wrong guy yeah yeah maybe not maybe i'm just i mean a lot of it too is little i mean it's kind of common sense but it's stuff that you i didn't really pick up till yeah year and a half where but um yeah i mean it's but when i got out of that tree this place was pretty well cleaned up cool good that's my goal yeah tree fighter monkey field damn

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Published: Mon May 10 2021