| It was an early Saturday morning as fall was
just starting to set in with the sun just coming through the
trees and not a cloud in the sky. The night had been cool and
traces of frost and ice still lingered in the trees. There
nestled in the clearing beyond the campfire were the skeleton
remains of what once was a majestic oak...
Ok... so much for my attempts at writing a novel. But this job was
some what like that. The tree was located on a wooded lot a couple
hundred feet from the house (just left of the first picture). The only
obstacles were the stone fire pit (not much could be damaged here) but
on the left are cables that attach an antenna to the roof of the house.
This antenna is several hundred feet high.
The tree had a slight lean to the wires and we wanted to make
sure all would go according to plan. So we decided to take the
limbs on the bottom and backside off before felling it. What a
gorgeous day for it!
Aaron climbed the tree and dropped the lower limbs as he went. Then
we dropped the felled of the tree nicely by the fire ring. This was a
subcontract job so we only needed to get the tree on the ground and they
would cut it up and remove it for the home owner. UPDATE: about this
time Aaron had given up the third line for climbing and was
using just the flip line. He had succumbed to the "it's faster"
attitude giving up the "it's safer" practicality. His argument
being he almost went off the end of his rope over a couple of
steel steaks on a job by Silver Lake. Would not have been good!
So instead of tying a knot in the end he had lost his faith in
the line and went with the flip line instead. This is not to
knock Aaron here at all, just a note to anyone who may be wonder
why or is thinking about using just the flip line. We do not
recommend it. (see
three
point system) |
