you might want to watch dropping weight onto a taught speedline. If you keep doing what you did, you will likely snap the top out of the tree sometime. Think about dropping the material into a slacked speedline and let the control line take the force. then raise the speedline. If the speedline takes the hit, the speedline can put tremendous force on the anchor points; therefor, snapping the top out of the tree. Looked like possibly a Tulip Tree too, scary to me and I do speedlines.
Exactly, xman. That top put too much side load on the spar. Had the speed line been tighter, it could well have broken the spar...NOT a good thing. I'm not sure if there was a control line in use...the top may have simply hung up before zipping away. If you read this carrol tree, take note. xman is the consummate pro, and I've only been doing tree work for 36 years..ran my first speed line ~1989.....
Also the spar could have been guyed back. wasn't there a tree well placed behind the action?
It was a huge top indeed! Wow. I would have messed myself if I were the climber...
jampmayer 2 years ago
you might want to watch dropping weight onto a taught speedline. If you keep doing what you did, you will likely snap the top out of the tree sometime. Think about dropping the material into a slacked speedline and let the control line take the force. then raise the speedline. If the speedline takes the hit, the speedline can put tremendous force on the anchor points; therefor, snapping the top out of the tree. Looked like possibly a Tulip Tree too, scary to me and I do speedlines.
thexmanjdd 2 years ago
Exactly, xman. That top put too much side load on the spar. Had the speed line been tighter, it could well have broken the spar...NOT a good thing. I'm not sure if there was a control line in use...the top may have simply hung up before zipping away. If you read this carrol tree, take note. xman is the consummate pro, and I've only been doing tree work for 36 years..ran my first speed line ~1989.....
Also the spar could have been guyed back. wasn't there a tree well placed behind the action?
rbtree 3 months ago
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climberdad 3 years ago