locust off house.mov

A large locust has fallen and is leaning at 60 degrees onto the back of a house. This video shows the step by step dismantling of the top and the subsequent rigging system used to lift the tree off the roof and pull it harmlessly into the backyard.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• tree removal
• treework
• technical tree rigging
• dangerous tree
• daniel murphy
• chainsaw demonstration

[Gonq310]

i hope you through both those ropes out when you got back to the shop

[murphy4trees]

@Gonq310 Ya .. replacing ropes is much cheaper than paying for a crane .. I get the occasional call for setting up a swing, and keep old lines in the plow trucks as tow straps etc.. Certainly don't mind buying new lines.. just part of the cost of doing business.. That said, you might be surprised at the kind of forces generated in shock loading situations, which can get huge, and do more damage to rope fibers than loading with a truck or skid steer..

[Gonq310]

@murphy4trees perhaps im sure im not telling you anything you dont already know but the mbs of 1/2 in stable brade is 10 400 which means "idealy" you only put 1000 pounds in to it i would presume you were useing 3/4 on the bucket truck but its still only an swl of 2000 pounds

plus with the redirect, into the block and all the unknown factors of the bucket truck hp, i wouldnt go as far as to say that your shock loading does more damage then a bucket truck, either way agree to disagree

[murphy4trees]

@Gonq310 AS with almost everything in tree work, the exact forces are not known, and so we guestimate and leave a lot of margins in SWL, replace lines on regualr intervals etc.. I tend to be hard on my lines and exceeding SWL is not uncommon. Understanding rope characteristics is a science unto itslef.. All I was saying is that cycles to failure will be much lower when shock loading, given the same force in play.. Does that make sense?

[spearmintmonkey]

I could use a bucket truck like that to trim these Live Oak trees that completely cover my house.

[shiftclick]

Stop it all of you ( esp. gong310)!

This Guy does it right and in real time.

Props to him, if you need a pro , I would be lucky to get his number.

[TheExtremetree]

Nice work!

[maxhole2]

Well done !