2 things stood out. 1) a couple of pulleys and a 100' of rope would make hauling supplies up from the river a LOT easier. 2) Instead of cutting wood and tossing aside, stack that along the trail and haul some back ea day. No sense in cutting wood and not using it at camp.
You can put a center mass of river rocks in the middle of the bridge simply by pounding in rebar deeply and attaching heavy wire caging then filling it with rocks.
@@neutonrenda2303 It will take a lot of effort just to get to a point where I can start building a cabin. Thanks for your support. I'm fully invested and I will do whatever it takes to make this place my home.
I enjoyed this video very much Alaska sure is a beautiful place you put in a lot of hard work I'm really excited to see where your journey goes and looking forward to part 2 next week😊👍🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟
I have watched your previous video and was interested to follow your journey. Watching from the far country Philippines. I pray you will be successful in your endeavors. GODBLESS
Depending on how deep the creek is,you might use a tripods to hold long poles use as a foot bridge. 4inch diameter and 6 foot long, 3 poles per tripod. Tie them together with spruce roots. Split and soak the roots, to use as a rope. Cut one end of tripods to a point, drive in with spruce round sledge hammer. You could use spruce logs, build a coffer dam in center of the stream then fill with creek rocks, then lay the logs on top.
as you are clearing trail i thought to put logs along sides as markers as well to help with water drainage trail maintenance. saves a bit of energy rather than lifting and tossing away. glad you made it back ..enjoy your content
I still appreciate the struggle. Also in AZ. Watching this, I started thinking back to my BSA Pioneering Merit Badge days and building structures with logs and rope, thinking on how I would approach this problem. Good stuff. Onward.
loved it. thank you for this great video. idea: use the logs you are cutting up, line them up on the sides of your path, next time you have to weedwack you only have to do it between the logs. stay safe and God bless
Good work , I’ve cleared and cut a few trails and it’s definitely not easy work , and I’d leave the trees longer out on the bank , instead of cutting them off so close to waters edge , more tree on the bank , less likely to get washed away , from high water or ice break up in spring , also having alittle bridge on land gets you away from waters edge so ground don’t erode away once you really start using the trail ,
Mi amigho estoy siguiendo tu maravillosa aventura , te envio los mejores deseos de exito en todo lo que vayas a realizar , estare pendiente , mil felicitaciones por tu coraje, saludos desde Cuenca Ecuador
Wow. All that deadwood would be great for a hugleculture! Plant your potatoes on a hugleculture and you will probably have great success. Build it this fall and plant on it in the spring.
I liked your progress. If you could build a small island out of bigger rocks in the midle of the creek, you could reinforce the stability of the bridge.
Once you have your trail made the rest will be easier because you have opportunity to pick your travel . either by water -when the water is higher, trail when it is drier and during the winter time by snowmachine and Argo. Once you start hauling materials it gets heavy and saving time with a good trail will save you time and safety. Add some trail cameras if you can on your trail and you can time the animals passing by. if you can afford a chainsaw wrench and heavy duty rope and cable , it will save you time and energy. Put short logs under the tree for rollers. On your lines put a blanket or large towel to prevent wimp lash. I'm in my 70's and we did that when I was your age will less tools then they have today to use, Good job
Awesome for giving it a go, was wondering if we were going to get another video. Hopefully, not a lot of work for a little payoff. Good luck out there.
Good progress think you should Make the bridge base log higher of the ground , it will last longer and give you more clearance from rising water levels or getting damaged by floating debri in floods .
@@karljenkinson361 I think you are right about this. Next summer I will swap out that skinny log for a thicker black spruce log. I'll probably burn it to help preserve it as well.
You might want to get some from Alaska to check you out on a few things. We get people up here all the time doing this. Eventually they run out of steam and leave. White people had to learn from the natives how to live here. Now with a certain amount of technology people think they can just live off the land. Pro tip: get a rope come- along. Make your trail only as wide as you need. You might want to look at the laws about working around anadromomus streams in Alaska if there is a salmon run in that stream.
@@deadpinecollective oh you are deadpine trappers. You know Cabin River Outdoors? I love his channel. I've been meaning to check out your channel as well to learn some stuff about trapping. Thanks for commenting. I just subscribed
Hiya Ty, loved the video, pleased all your equipment & hut were as you left them. Nothing beats the feeling of being alone and at peace. After watching you struggle pulling that plastic sledge with all your kit on, have you thought about maybe rigging up a harness of some sort that you wear and it also attaches to the sledge? thick nylon straps would do the trick, so that your body is dragging it as you walk, rather than you dragging it with your hands. Obviously, it wouldn't work down a slope, but it would hopefully make life out in the wilderness easier for you. Keep safe LJ x
if you have a hard board (zip board) you can cut it to size.. and place it inside the yellow lid storage.. as shelves.. 1 per storage..to keep more things in 1 unit.... it will get easier once you get in the grove of things at your property.
@@edwardseth1230 yes my storage situation is lacking convenience. Thanks for the recommendation. I almost need a whole separate structure already just for my tools.
@@JBlack-n2i let's hope it doesn't🤞🏼 if it can survive breakup it should be fine. Another viewer suggested I use a thicker log on the low end of the bridge. I will definitely be swapping that out next summer.
I noticed that the boat you borrowed to bring your gear up the river had a longtail "mud" motor on it. I was wondering how one of those motors might work on shallow, rocky rivers. The props are supposed to work well even if the top half of the rotation is above the surface. The skeg underneath the prop could help protect the blades from hitting rocks and the replacement props are not too expensive. I'd be interested in watching the boat being propelled by that motor sometime. Thanks for the video ! BTW, I live in a redwood logging area where massive log bridges used to be common. The design and construction of those bridges was impressive. Being made from redwood logs they lasted for decades. I don't recall the last time I saw one. I think the lumber in them became so valuable that the logs were salvaged and replaced with large culverts or train flat car deck bridges.
Great Video, going to follow this for sure. Have you thought about a "leonardo da vinci bridge design", you have some pretty big trees to make a bridge big enough to carry supplies across with an argo. maybe a future upgrade.
Bud if you’re planing on catching fish, make a weir baskets and place them in the stream along the creek, then check them once a. day. Set some. Snares, more the better, check them once a day too.
You should get a roll of HEAVY plastic to cover the front of your hut to keep the heat in and if you can not find Moss to cover you roof get some large tarps
I wouldn’t use spikes to tie the trees together. I’d drill a hole through both w an auger drill bit, then threaded rod all the way through both and fasten w nuts/washers.
Love your videos bro,👍 is there a link you can post,where to buy a piece of property in Alaska,I'm hoping to be there in the next 5 to 6 years,thank you,keep up the good work
I appreciate your hard work-- I think you should get a rod and reel for the creek, use bolts for your bridge-- nails just won't hold it together . How are you keeping your food from going bad???
I think an old fashion block and tackle pulley system would have worked much better pulling the logs doing a mechanical advantage of a 4:1 would have made that much easier.
@@theinvasivespecies1119 possibly true if I could pull the rope with something. I estimated these logs to be around 2,000lbs each. A 4:1 ratio of that would be 400 lbs minimum. I like to think I'm pretty strong. But not that strong. Now if I had an ATV or argo to pull the rope with, no doubt this would be the way to go.
Just get a small Boat or Canoe like you used to get into your Cabin why do that work making a bridge that way you can spend more time enjoying your time on your property. Good luck and enjoy your time at your Cabin.
So would you get to utilise all that timber that you cut down, from creating a trail? thinking firewood,.must write that you have a beautiful surround environment and yes awesome to be by a water supply.
Great video. Looks like difficult work but rewarding. You are cutting a nice wide trail are you planning on driving a quad or side by side in? The steel barrels full of rocks (if you can easily find them ) would work great for a center post for your bridges. At least for a few years. Maybe use plastic barrels instead. The wouldn’t rust out. Looking forward to the next video
@@LifeonFishCreek nice that explains the concentration on the trail rather then the cabin. Also something to consider is a chainsaw winch and if running a synthetic rope on you can use a couple of offset winch rings as a pulley soft shackles and tree savers. Check out yankum ropes. Anyway it would help in moving large heavy trees roots or anything else that doesn’t want to budge
I think it would do you good to talk to Sean from @cabin river outdoors he did what you are doing , very similar but he’s a year or two down the road so I think you guys would have some good chats nd exchange information.
The 2nd Amendment ? The fact that any moron can get a gun ? Thats what you envy ? In Finland you can get a gun too if you're a law abiding citizen ! Why would you want anyone to have the right to bare arms ?
@@FlyinFinnInNC You realy think that criminals needs a 2nd amendment to get a gun? 2nd amendment is to protect your self from morons like that. Are you living under some rock or something? Every criminal has a gun.
@@FlyinFinnInNCSounds like you don’t appreciate our 2nd Amendment rights. There are many more positives to the right to bear arms than negatives. Maybe Finland is a good fit for you.
Wow what a beautiful place. Are you wanting to make that full time home or a camping get away? Wish I had building skills I would want to live ft out there gardening fishing canning. I get so all that in wv we have pretty mountains all around but not like that. Wishing you luck of your adventure.
@@jamesd.8997 very good question, when it sits on the ground like that it soaks up tons of water and starts decaying fairly quickly. there is tons of standing dead trees that would work better for that stuff. And there is so much of it around I can't waste time dealing with and saving every log I come across.
If someone wants to get up the creek past your bridge by boat, how are they supposed to do that without cutting down your bridge? And when run off comes won’t your bridge wash away?
Pulling those trees across with the comealong is a bit risky. Specially when you're right in line with it. At least put something heavy drapped across the cable
@@Buzz420 I too was worried about this as I've seen what can happen if a chain breaks under extreme tension. I estimated these big logs weigh roughly 2,000 pounds each. The rope I used is a 16 strand 1/2" thick arborist bull rope rated for nearly 4000lbs(tensile strength), same as the come alongs. As far as the straps go, they are heavy duty recovery straps rated for 8,000 pounds each. So yes I was conscious of the risks, but I also didn't think I was pushing the limits on any of the gear used. If anything was giving me resistance above normal, I would go free up the snag rather than just keep cranking on the come along.
How long have you been doing tree work? I can tell by the knot's and the way you take down the trees I'm going into my 4th week of tree service work and learning the knot's
2 things stood out.
1) a couple of pulleys and a 100' of rope would make hauling supplies up from the river a LOT easier.
2) Instead of cutting wood and tossing aside, stack that along the trail and haul some back ea day. No sense in cutting wood and not using it at camp.
You can put a center mass of river rocks in the middle of the bridge simply by pounding in rebar deeply and attaching heavy wire caging then filling it with rocks.
You are one hard working dude! Can't wait to see your place evolve over time!
Great progress, lots of hard work but you are getting there. Looking forward to the next update. 👍
@@neutonrenda2303 It will take a lot of effort just to get to a point where I can start building a cabin. Thanks for your support. I'm fully invested and I will do whatever it takes to make this place my home.
Beautiful fall colors!
I think so too!
Fish creek must feel like Waterworld compared to Arizona, like you stepped into prehistoric times. Love it.👍
@@neutonrenda2303 This is very true.
Welcome back my friend - been looking forward to what you do next. All the way from Perth, Western Australia.
Glad to see ya back at it 👍
Watching from Australia. Can't wait for the next one 🤙🏻
Looking forward to next video😊
Great episode....looking forward to seeing how the bridge build turns out. Going to be a challenge for sure.
😂😂😂
Absolutely Am Amazed by Your Strength & Courage It is a Place of Beauty 😊🙏💪❤️
@@SEA-U2 Thank you kind soul. I appreciate your support
I enjoyed this video very much Alaska sure is a beautiful place you put in a lot of hard work I'm really excited to see where your journey goes and looking forward to part 2 next week😊👍🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟
I have watched your previous video and was interested to follow your journey. Watching from the far country Philippines.
I pray you will be successful in your endeavors.
GODBLESS
Clever idea the way you are building that bridge! 😊What an epic adventure 👏🏼🌲
Depending on how deep the creek is,you might use a tripods to hold long poles use as a foot bridge. 4inch diameter and 6 foot long, 3 poles per tripod. Tie them together with spruce roots. Split and soak the roots, to use as a rope. Cut one end of tripods to a point, drive in with spruce round sledge hammer. You could use spruce logs, build a coffer dam in center of the stream then fill with creek rocks, then lay the logs on top.
as you are clearing trail i thought to put logs along sides as markers as well to help with water drainage trail maintenance. saves a bit of energy rather than lifting and tossing away. glad you made it back ..enjoy your content
Been waiting patiently for this one. Not much harder than making trails, good job, well done. Looking forward to the next.
I still appreciate the struggle. Also in AZ. Watching this, I started thinking back to my BSA Pioneering Merit Badge days and building structures with logs and rope, thinking on how I would approach this problem. Good stuff. Onward.
loved it. thank you for this great video. idea: use the logs you are cutting up, line them up on the sides of your path, next time you have to weedwack you only have to do it between the logs. stay safe and God bless
Thanks for the tips!
Happy to see you back so soon!
Amazing video, so happy to see another from you and cant wait to see the next part! This is HIGH QUALITY CONTENT!
Very good video. Can not wait to see the next one where the bridge is starting to take shape All the best Take care
Thank you, next part will be awesome!
Good work , I’ve cleared and cut a few trails and it’s definitely not easy work , and I’d leave the trees longer out on the bank , instead of cutting them off so close to waters edge , more tree on the bank , less likely to get washed away , from high water or ice break up in spring , also having alittle bridge on land gets you away from waters edge so ground don’t erode away once you really start using the trail ,
@@Saskatchewan1984 Thank you sir for the wise words, next summer I'll do a little more work on that low side before I start using the trail heavily.
Thank you for video.
God blessing.❤
Damn brother that was a lot of back braking work, welcome back, glad to see you, I am looking forward to see how the bridge turns out, good luck
@@skeetermalcolm1655 Thank you so much for following along
Mi amigho estoy siguiendo tu maravillosa aventura , te envio los mejores deseos de exito en todo lo que vayas a realizar , estare pendiente , mil felicitaciones por tu coraje, saludos desde Cuenca Ecuador
Thanks. My long awaited video.
Wow. All that deadwood would be great for a hugleculture! Plant your potatoes on a hugleculture and you will probably have great success. Build it this fall and plant on it in the spring.
Highly tensioned cable at head height. Great idea.
Awesome video, my man. Keep it up, I'll be following along.
Great job!!
Looking forward to it 👍😊
When pulling that sledge you’d be better to make a wooden handle which would be easier on your hands…respect from Ireland 🇮🇪 love your content 👍
You should invest in a capstan winch. Will make quick work moving those big spruce into place. Can mount it to your saw. Awesome videos
I liked your progress.
If you could build a small island out of bigger rocks in the midle of the creek, you could reinforce the stability of the bridge.
@@MrMycoo very interesting idea! Might be a lot of work but then again, so is everything out here
Well your strength and you determination,is amazing,Good luck you deserve it.I will be watching .
Great video brother
Once you have your trail made the rest will be easier because you have opportunity to pick your travel . either by water -when the water is higher, trail when it is drier and during the winter time by snowmachine and Argo. Once you start hauling materials it gets heavy and saving time with a good trail will save you time and safety. Add some trail cameras if you can on your trail and you can time the animals passing by. if you can afford a chainsaw wrench and heavy duty rope and cable , it will save you time and energy. Put short logs under the tree for rollers. On your lines put a blanket or large towel to prevent wimp lash. I'm in my 70's and we did that when I was your age will less tools then they have today to use, Good job
Awesome for giving it a go, was wondering if we were going to get another video. Hopefully, not a lot of work for a little payoff. Good luck out there.
@@jwall62 next and last part of the year is coming out next week
❤😊 thanks for the update
Good progress think you should Make the bridge base log higher of the ground , it will last longer and give you more clearance from rising water levels or getting damaged by floating debri in floods .
@@karljenkinson361 I think you are right about this. Next summer I will swap out that skinny log for a thicker black spruce log. I'll probably burn it to help preserve it as well.
It takes more than a day to build a bridge we say in Holland...love the vid😊
51:44 this was funny, but also i felt for you too. The struggle is real
You had me waiting for a new video keep it coming
Fantastic content
@@colinflenley1203 Thank you so much!
You might want to get some from Alaska to check you out on a few things. We get people up here all the time doing this. Eventually they run out of steam and leave. White people had to learn from the natives how to live here. Now with a certain amount of technology people think they can just live off the land. Pro tip: get a rope come- along. Make your trail only as wide as you need. You might want to look at the laws about working around anadromomus streams in Alaska if there is a salmon run in that stream.
Great video
Really interesting video! But I must admit I worry about the ice in the spring.
Same here man, same here
Calm and relaxing to watch, subbed to the highest bidder 😊🇬🇧
That is some nice dry wood. Easy splitting
@@deadpinecollective makes for great firewood in a seemingly constant wet climate👍🏼
@@deadpinecollective oh you are deadpine trappers. You know Cabin River Outdoors? I love his channel. I've been meaning to check out your channel as well to learn some stuff about trapping. Thanks for commenting. I just subscribed
Hiya Ty, loved the video, pleased all your equipment & hut were as you left them. Nothing beats the feeling of being alone and at peace.
After watching you struggle pulling that plastic sledge with all your kit on, have you thought about maybe rigging up a harness of some sort that you wear and it also attaches to the sledge? thick nylon straps would do the trick, so that your body is dragging it as you walk, rather than you dragging it with your hands. Obviously, it wouldn't work down a slope, but it would hopefully make life out in the wilderness easier for you.
Keep safe
LJ x
Have you thought about using piers for your bridge? A couple of 45 gallon drums, for example, would work. Enjoy watching your videos!
Should just over-build it, like a trestle
if you have a hard board (zip board) you can cut it to size.. and place it inside the yellow lid storage.. as shelves.. 1 per storage..to keep more things in 1 unit.... it will get easier once you get in the grove of things at your property.
@@edwardseth1230 yes my storage situation is lacking convenience. Thanks for the recommendation. I almost need a whole separate structure already just for my tools.
Great videos!
Great video ,love the land ,I am afraid when creek gets up high might wash the bridge away.
@@scottnorman4572 let's hope it doesnt
High water in spring might take it out.
@@JBlack-n2i let's hope it doesn't🤞🏼 if it can survive breakup it should be fine. Another viewer suggested I use a thicker log on the low end of the bridge. I will definitely be swapping that out next summer.
I noticed that the boat you borrowed to bring your gear up the river had a longtail "mud" motor on it. I was wondering how one of those motors might work on shallow, rocky rivers. The props are supposed to work well even if the top half of the rotation is above the surface. The skeg underneath the prop could help protect the blades from hitting rocks and the replacement props are not too expensive. I'd be interested in watching the boat being propelled by that motor sometime. Thanks for the video !
BTW, I live in a redwood logging area where massive log bridges used to be common. The design and construction of those bridges was impressive. Being made from redwood logs they lasted for decades. I don't recall the last time I saw one. I think the lumber in them became so valuable that the logs were salvaged and replaced with large culverts or train flat car deck bridges.
Maybe cut 3foot round logs and place under the trees you are trying to move, the tree will roll faster.
Great Video, going to follow this for sure. Have you thought about a "leonardo da vinci bridge design", you have some pretty big trees to make a bridge big enough to carry supplies across with an argo. maybe a future upgrade.
@@jeffrey1421 interesting idea, maybe I'll try that on the second bridge see how it works
Bud if you’re planing on catching fish, make a weir baskets and place them in the stream along the creek, then check them once a. day. Set some. Snares, more the better, check them once a day too.
I love these long videos
I'm in, seriously, i'll buy in if i can :) if not i'm moving up there soon myself :) :) this is awesome
You should get a roll of HEAVY plastic to cover the front of your hut to keep the heat in and if you can not find Moss to cover you roof get some large tarps
You should trim the branches off the tees you are building the bridge with and put some logs under so it rolls easier
Good video!
I wouldn’t use spikes to tie the trees together. I’d drill a hole through both w an auger drill bit, then threaded rod all the way through both and fasten w nuts/washers.
Bear bells to alert the wildlife that you are coming through. Tiny wood stove for your hut.
Love your videos bro,👍 is there a link you can post,where to buy a piece of property in Alaska,I'm hoping to be there in the next 5 to 6 years,thank you,keep up the good work
I appreciate your hard work-- I think you should get a rod and reel for the creek, use bolts for your bridge-- nails just won't hold it together . How are you keeping your food from going bad???
I think an old fashion block and tackle pulley system would have worked much better pulling the logs doing a mechanical advantage of a 4:1 would have made that much easier.
@@theinvasivespecies1119 possibly true if I could pull the rope with something. I estimated these logs to be around 2,000lbs each. A 4:1 ratio of that would be 400 lbs minimum. I like to think I'm pretty strong. But not that strong. Now if I had an ATV or argo to pull the rope with, no doubt this would be the way to go.
Just get a small Boat or Canoe like you used to get into your Cabin why do that work making a bridge that way you can spend more time enjoying your time on your property.
Good luck and enjoy your time at your Cabin.
So would you get to utilise all that timber that you cut down, from creating a trail? thinking firewood,.must write that you have a beautiful surround environment and yes awesome to be by a water supply.
I think you need to be much further back from the bank in case of flooding... ur right on the edge.
Be safe and remember you are in the middle of nowhere so please don’t get hurt
Why not make piles of all the dead wood and use it for firewood?? Just wondering ?????
I think a SOLID blade trimer would clear the land would be better
also you ca make a storage shed out of the thin trees you are clearing the land
Great video. Looks like difficult work but rewarding. You are cutting a nice wide trail are you planning on driving a quad or side by side in?
The steel barrels full of rocks (if you can easily find them ) would work great for a center post for your bridges. At least for a few years. Maybe use plastic barrels instead. The wouldn’t rust out.
Looking forward to the next video
@@mikecrawford7352 this is a very interesting idea, thank you very much! Yes it's an argo/snowmachine trail
@@LifeonFishCreek nice that explains the concentration on the trail rather then the cabin. Also something to consider is a chainsaw winch and if running a synthetic rope on you can use a couple of offset winch rings as a pulley soft shackles and tree savers. Check out yankum ropes. Anyway it would help in moving large heavy trees roots or anything else that doesn’t want to budge
Do you worry about the high water in the spring taking out your bridge?
I think it would do you good to talk to Sean from @cabin river outdoors he did what you are doing , very similar but he’s a year or two down the road so I think you guys would have some good chats nd exchange information.
@@jellies6996 I am a big fan of his channel. I don't know if he would message me back. But maybe I'll give it a shot
You going to need a small stove in your hut and if you can get a small 4 wheeler up would be great
What are you going to use the barrels for ? Storage would be my guess
@@steveh994 keep the bears from chewing on my gas cans, freeze dried meals, sleeping bags, rubber boots, etc.
You're making me feel cold with all those holes in your hut.
I think you should where a good glove when you are pulling stuff
Why are you throwing away good firewood? I know it’s wet but you could at least use it as a boundary for your path 😮
I wish i have been born in Usa. The freedom of doing stuff like this and the 2nd amendment❤
The 2nd Amendment ? The fact that any moron can get a gun ? Thats what you envy ? In Finland you can get a gun too if you're a law abiding citizen ! Why would you want anyone to have the right to bare arms ?
@@FlyinFinnInNC You realy think that criminals needs a 2nd amendment to get a gun? 2nd amendment is to protect your self from morons like that. Are you living under some rock or something? Every criminal has a gun.
@@FlyinFinnInNCSounds like you don’t appreciate our 2nd Amendment rights. There are many more positives to the right to bear arms than negatives. Maybe Finland is a good fit for you.
Wow what a beautiful place.
Are you wanting to make that full time home or a camping get away? Wish I had building skills I would want to live ft out there gardening fishing canning. I get so all that in wv we have pretty mountains all around but not like that. Wishing you luck of your adventure.
LETS GOOOOOO
Enjoy your Videos. Question though why aren't you piling the dead fall lumber up that you cut for firewood or post that you can use for building?
@@jamesd.8997 very good question, when it sits on the ground like that it soaks up tons of water and starts decaying fairly quickly. there is tons of standing dead trees that would work better for that stuff. And there is so much of it around I can't waste time dealing with and saving every log I come across.
If someone wants to get up the creek past your bridge by boat, how are they supposed to do that without cutting down your bridge? And when run off comes won’t your bridge wash away?
@@JustRick2206 no boats on that creek
@@LifeonFishCreekwasn't your boat on the creek?
@@jwall62 it's there to motor around on the lake. Gotta walk it up the creek.
Isn’t it possible to dry these logs out for firewood? Obviously I don’t have a clue, so just asking as it seems a lot of waste. Ty 🌸
Pulling those trees across with the comealong is a bit risky. Specially when you're right in line with it. At least put something heavy drapped across the cable
@@Buzz420 I too was worried about this as I've seen what can happen if a chain breaks under extreme tension. I estimated these big logs weigh roughly 2,000 pounds each. The rope I used is a 16 strand 1/2" thick arborist bull rope rated for nearly 4000lbs(tensile strength), same as the come alongs. As far as the straps go, they are heavy duty recovery straps rated for 8,000 pounds each. So yes I was conscious of the risks, but I also didn't think I was pushing the limits on any of the gear used. If anything was giving me resistance above normal, I would go free up the snag rather than just keep cranking on the come along.
I appreciate your concern and your comment. 👍🏼
Progress
During the melt off wave buy to a bridge im wondering if his shed could be in jeopardy
How long have you been doing tree work? I can tell by the knot's and the way you take down the trees I'm going into my 4th week of tree service work and learning the knot's
@@hippie_james part 1 was the first time I had ever cut a tree down.
@@LifeonFishCreek you did vary good job make sure you sharpen the teeth of the chain. But you did great job try and keep it out of the dirt
@@hippie_james Thank you sir
Grow your taters in 5 gallon buckets, you won't regret it.
How many acres you got? Was it expensive. ?
Good luck 👍
flood level?
hope you have a battery power tools instead of fuel ones.
Are you allowed to build the Bridges ? How will people drift down under bridge ? Thanks 🙏