BIG RIGGING!

Endors's Arborist & Rope Supply:

Check out their website and if you're ever in Canton Ohio, stop by and check them out. They gave a super cool shop.

[trimbaker]

Hi, George here, I had a limb from a big pin oak that had cracked and come to rest on the ridge of my friends house. This limb was about fifty feet long and started out about 18" in diameter. It was almost horizontal and about 25 feet off the ground. The break was not quite complete and could fail at any time. Working alone, I rigged this in suspension from two other huge trees nearby and from the next huge limb on this old plantation age tree. The base of the trunk was an oval seven feet wide, co-dominant trunks. I managed to eventually lift the weight from the house and cut this monster free from the broken end. Man what an exhausting day. Hot weather too. I came down after multiple ascents and lowered the limb, cutting it to size as it came near the ground. While I was working on the other dead oaks that threatened to hit her house, a copperhead snake struck my right leg above my logging boot. I wear Pfanner Gladiator chainsaw pants and the snake could not get through to my flesh. I stomped it to grease with my logging boot. dont bring your little fangs to a boot fight. Once I had bucked all the firewood over the next few days I returned to the cabin I stay at up in the mountains of North Carolina and enjoyed a really bad case of poison ivy/oak. Oh, and I got stung my hornets on that job. Main thing is, my friends house is safe again... : )

[geoffreygreen]

You definitely have something I don’t have. Proper articulation. When you work alone as long as I have you forget how to communicate. Well done. Another great video.

[HaroldCook-fobs]

Great job buddy. 36 yrs. in the business and that was the prettiest release of a giant I've ever seen. 👏👏👏 ✌😎❤🙏🌲🌴🌳

[jodypaul]

Just a couple tips when using this method. Don’t use a face cut, just use a back cut, and cut towards the pulley. This will give you more control and the piece won’t prematurely pop off before you or the ground guys are ready. Also try and leave you’re last bit of holding wood, or fibers on the side you want the piece to pop off and drop (opposite of you). This way it won’t get hung up like it did for you. Lastly you can also use a tag on the butt so the ground guys can guide it down, and also act as a brake so it doesn’t pop off towards you (I think you mentioned this in the video after it got hung up). All in all great job. I don’t see a lot of guys using the stand up method but I love it, especially for right drop zones, or large sections overhanging structures.

[mattrybacki]

Good teamwork and a tidy job site go a long way with word of mouth business. Glad you got this one uploaded.

[ryanarborist]

It's nice to see you have your life line separate from the rigging line pulling you up in the beginning. One guy I worked for used to have a ground guy in a pickup truck pull him into the tree with no life line. Then he'd tie in once he got up there. When they talk about how dangerous this job is, half of it are people with thoughts like that.

[ryandupra]

Those little holes in the bark are from what are called sap suckers. It’s a bird that finds its food and pokes its beak into the bark finding it forming a damn near close to perfect line of holes. From what I was told.

[br-djti]

I wish buddy you would have recorded this job from start to finish out of love to watch it still excites me man and I've been doing it for so long it's crazy just learning s*** from other people still after all these years

[pesarirooni]

talk about an anxiety trip OMG LOL this work is definitely not for the faint of heart 🤯

[TreeMuggs_PatrickM]

Nice job. I'm in the market for a GRCS at the moment, been watching lots of ✌️. - Patrick

[spelunkerd]

Watching that limb come down and snag in the lower branches made me think that one needs a well rounded skill set to get out of trouble. Not everything happens exactly according to plan, and an ability to extract yourself from difficulty is key. It would have been interesting to see how you would have to manage if it got truly stuck half way down.

[monsieurbenoit]

Pretty sure those horizontal holes at around 3 minutes in are sapsucker damage. I've had an experience where a branch with such damage that i was rigging off of broke after being loaded a few times. Something to be aware of when a rigging point is above those holes, even if it's a pretty stout branch...

[timkirkpatrick]

We call that folding umbrella limbing. Then you chunk off the bottom as it is lowered. Great tight space method. Also usually use a tag line on the bottom to keep it from swinging and pull it into the trunk.

[steeleta]

Nice, that's a perfect tree for the GRCS!

[termite]

those horizontal holes are from a small bird called a yellow bellied sapsucker..i get asked alot about them being in the pest control business by customers all the time..

[rorymcvay]

I'm just a novice and self taught, so I appreciate any feedback on this:

when I was watching that 50 ft branch, after the GRCS stood it up, it looked like about 6ft of rope at I'm guessing a 70-degree angle. Therefore, I'd EXPECT a 6 ft+ dynamic loading situation... "+" because or rope stretch on a heavy branch.

instead, the branch dropped ONLY 2-3 ft toward you. I can't figure out why. same question from a different direction is why you said you expected it to be fairly static loading.

thanks a million

[StihlChainsaws]

Sap sucker holes.
Woodpecker that drills holes into cambium layer. Waits for insects to come to the holes, then comes back & eats the bugs.

[Velcrostraps]

Never really had the mentality of risk it for the biscuit. Lol. Good work. Wouldn't of been doable without GCRS and comms. Good use of tools. 🤙

[ServicestarOy]

Nice work! Would be nice to have GRCS sometimes...Greetings from a climber in cold and snowy Finland!

[houndsong]

I like how you're wearing the silky holster on the shin. Smart idea.