When you love your job as a tree climbing arborist
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2021
- We have a row of tall Douglas Fir trees that overhang a group over houses and gardens. The clients want the large long branches reducing back to mitigate the risk of large limb failure, as well as major deadwood being removed.
This job means tall ascents, traversing from tree to tree, and using multiple ropes to maximize efficiency and work positioning.
We hope you enjoy…
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Thanks for throwing in the head set chatter. I feel like it adds to the overall video.
I feel exactly the same. There are so many videos of tree work these days that I want these to have a little something else. I feel that adding in the actual chatter makes you feel like you're there.
I agree, as an amateur climber, it helps me understand the logistics and thought process better. Thanks from Australia, and keep up the good work
All the new gear, (and I'll admit I'm so old school it's pathetic.) is great, But climbers STILL need to understand what was used before it! In a pinch, that knowledge will save a life. I loved this vid~ Of course I subbed!
excellent video ! Really crayon drawing of the work that was done .. a bonus for the viewers ..
Good job dan, nice work!
Thanks, I enjoyed this very much. Liked the schematics, and got the answer to "how can you better tell from above exactly what branches need pruning" - with eyes from the ground. Great ! ;)
Sweet job. Nice couple of days.
Great work as always bro.. 👏 👏
Thank you! Cheers!
Enjoy your video...wouldn’t mind seeing how you get your access line in to get started. Thanks
I'd also like to see that set up, looks like and awkward one to start.
wow nice climb!
i practice climbing a rope i fixed in my house since the quarantine to keep in shape. i know i cant climb that fast..!
Sweet!! Be sure to check out the featured video that premieres tomorrow 😃
I feel ancient still climbing on a prusik i had zigzag for a day just didn't feel right but I'm definitely going to change over to srt my shoulders are starting to give up only way to go I think for longevity.
Great vid Dan 👌
Yeah man, definitely add it to your toolbox of techniques. SRT/SRS shouldn't be seen as something special or advanced, it should be seen as a fundamental technique for the longevity reasons you mention, and the ease of tall ascents and redirecting ropes.
I'm loving your boys' videos 🤙🤙🤙
@@ClimbingArborist your 100% right stuck in old ways.
Wow man thats really something coming from you appreciate the positive comments Dan stay safe.
Other than rope twist what's the issue with a foot ascender on a drt? I'm a newbie..
@@abrahamlincoln6619 still alot less effort in single rope access I believe im at it now over ten years and the body is getting a little weaker every year.
@@abrahamlincoln6619 climbing drt means you are climbing twice the lenght of your rope with the weakest muscle groups unlike srt.
Yeah dude. 4 wrap prussik. A 6 wrap was was too exhausting, and its hard to get smooth movement.
Here in the PNW I have noticed that pruning back fir limbs often leads to lots of sap drips that never stop.. unless only removing very small pieces.. 2.5” or bigger even pruned correctly back to a lead will continue to drip forever. Have you noticed the same? Any input? Ive had people contact me asking if other tree companies had pruned their trees wrong because of this. Typically they were pruned correctly, but still just keep dripping.
How do you install an access rope on a tree which such amount of branches?
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3 Q’s: (for Douglas Fir) approx what’s smallest diameter of vertical trunk you’ll trust and climb up to?, approx what’s smallest diameter of branch you’ll trust for your hands/feet/ bodyweight (ie foot on branch right next to the trunk)? And any tips on dealing with the sticky sap?
Greetings from Washington state Dan. love your videos I've learned a lot. Good rigging all around! Just curious what's that you're using to tether your Silky? I've been looking for a good system. Stay safe
It's a tether from a wild country rock climbing nut tool. Its the best tether for a handasw
@@ClimbingArborist thanks! Going to look for it online
Anyone know where I can purchase a CT quick release as a stand alone product? Id like one for a belt. There is a knockoff called cobra that looks very similar to it but I would rather give my money to CT who actually spent money on r&d to make their products.
Sometimes its easier to take them out all together than struggle trimming . Sometimes
It doesn't matter how large a job is or how long it will take, you only ha e two hands... You can only do one thing at a time so just focus on the task at hand rather than the big picture. It's called living in the moment.
Do you use two foot ascenders instead of one and a foot loop? or what's your setup?
If you're wanting to look at a double ascender set up on srt you'd be better off going with a foot ascender combined with a knee ascender. Way easier to use, problem with 2 foot ascenders is that they tend to clash together when walking up your rope and interfere with eachother.
Are you living in BC now?? Loving all the content.
For the last 10 years
Oh shit no way?! This whole time I thought you were in Europe until the last few videos lol
What about the power line? Was it off/voltage free?
Don't know about ansi standards there but I'm QLC and as long as him or the tree are not within 10ft of energized lines he's legit
I don’t understand how these videos work lol I thought it was a live feed
The most interesting thing in the video to me is your handwriting. I learned Print Script, Cursive and Italic handwriting in U.S. school system. You look like you learned the same maybe.
OK, back to the arborist work. I wonder if the costumer asked you to cut the tip of the branches back like that? This will make the branches much heaver in a few years.
I always thin a fur tree and never top or cut the tips off the branches because this will make the tree grow heaver and become unstable.
I thin the tree so that the wind can blow threw the branches and not break them off.
We always called it spiral thinning. ( You know what spiral pruning or crown thinning are) We just make it look natural.
This is very hard work and takes time but better for the tree in the long run.
Please forgive me. I don't want to sound like a know it all. Because I do not know it all.
I grew up working in this industry at the age of twelve because my father had a full tree service.
He cleared power lines, had city contracts, and did residential work. He had all the equipment, even a sprayer and a tree spade with a nursery.
I started working as a pro in 1982 during the summers.
I have run my own tree service in the Northwest. WA State.
I was one of the few climbers in the late 1980's that would not gaff a tree. At that time it was not easy. We did not have the gear that we have today.
I'm just curious and would like to know what is going on with this job. The thinking and the what the customer said and wanted. Maybe if the customer knows very much about how thinning works. Making the limbs lighter and letting the wind blow threw?
Thank you
It's a very common misconception that thinning Douglas Fir trees is good. Thinning of Douglas Fir trees is the worst thing you can do to try and mitigate branch failure. Doug Fir branches aren't super flexible and the use each other to dampen how much each branch moves in the wind as the hit each other back and forth. Thinning would mean the branches are able to move much further and snap. Fir branches often fail in high winds and it's alway the ones the stick way out beyond the canopy. This tree had been pruned like this 8-10 years previous and hadn't got really heavy on the ends like you suggest.
@@ClimbingArborist Thank you very much for the answer.
Well they looked very, very heavy to me. Because they where cut back before you did it.
I am not saying you are wrong.
Look at the Spiral thinning in this video (" Tree thinning, spiral thinning Buckin' and the skinny kid ") Do you see how much lighter the limbs are and how the wind will blow threw? When I spiral thin I take the longest ones out. If it will not make a big hole in the canopy.
I can see how every time you cut them back. the branch will get thicker but so will the heavy growth/ how heavy the limb gets. This is how they get Included bark on the limbs sometimes. (Topping is really bad for this. As you know)
The problem is when the wind hits the top to hard. Because of the heavy thick growth and extra weight (in time this will add up to tons of extra weight on the tree) and the top breaks out or the whole tree is pushed over in the conman rainy windy winter weather. (The soil gets wet and over they go.)
Then it falls on a house and kills someone or just does tens of thousands of dollars of damage. ( Your name is on it)
In Nature fur trees naturally thin. The branches breaking off in the wind are good. This is what helps them live a long life.
If the top breaks out or the tree falls over it is dead. As you know.
A few limbs coming out in a big storm sucks, but the whole top coming down or the whole tree coming down on the house is very, very bad.
Something to think about. The life of a tree is much longer than the life of a human. So many people/families may live in the houses that are under the trees that you worked on.
Most people know very little about trees and do not even think about them. Many people will not have them looked at or worked on unless their is a problem with the trees.
Then many people will not have them worked on if they do not have the money to work on the trees.
You might be the last person to work on the trees in this video until they die or fall over.
I have seen many fur trees spiral thinned like this and the limbs do not come off in the wind as much as one might think. If their is a very big storm I would rather have the limbs come off as a safety. Rather than the whole top or tree.
Their are many things to think about when you do the thinning. It needs to be tight because of what you said about the dampening of the canopy but letting wind blow threw is also key.
Their are many ways to do this. But a lot of people don't want to take the time and work that hard.
This has been my thoughts on the subject for the last 39 years in this industry.
I 'm going to rethink this because of your info and input.
Thank you again.
Hey! This looks like the Northwest in the Americas, Not Europe. Canada maybe? :-)
Vancouver, B.C.
Stubs are yer friends too friends. Well sometimes
Hey...you fellas wanna climb big cottonwood trees...come see me in Oklahoma... 150 ft ropes and still needs more...🤘😆
Ben, I so feel you bro................I started in the redwoods in Humboldt county, and they were almost easy compared to a wet, gigantic cottonwood.
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Love the content. But your intro/job breakdown has me nauseous with the camera shake. Job looks good!