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That storm removal job in Austin back in 2018 changed how I rig branches
We had a huge live oak come down on a house and I watched an old climber use a speedline to lower pieces without touching the roof. Now I set up a redirect on every big removal, has anyone else switched their rigging after seeing it done a certain way?
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fiona73722d ago
...and nobody ever talks about what happens when the speedline is rigged too tight. I saw a guy in Houston last year put so much tension on his line that when he cut the branch it zipped straight through the redirect and damn near took out a fence. You gotta leave some sag or that stored energy turns your controlled drop into a slingshot. Ever watched a 200 pound log start spinning because the line tension turned it into a pendulum? That's the kind of thing that makes you rethink your whole setup real quick.
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grace_hunt8422d ago
...and that Houston story is exactly why I stopped trying to get my speedline perfectly level. I was on a job last spring where the guy I was working with kept yelling at me to "tighten it up" and I was like nope, been there done that. Now I just give it a little droop and let gravity do its thing.
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