(My comments from elsewhere) This was a very tight fell. Theres been a lot of thought and process go in to this situation. I dont see a rush job here. Id say the climber had very good reasoning for this process. I doubt, even at my age and experience (and forthrightedness) Id have stepped in to challenge the decisions made here, (not too much anyways) climbers are very determined, adrenaline fueled machines... Climb higher. (One could assume the tree had rot however it didnt break up on impact with pole/fence/ground and they trusted it enough to pull hard from high up with the pull rope so?) Dont cut out your hinge. (He had a very tight window to work in. On the far right middle of the screen you can see hes tied back power lines running parallel to the ones above/behind him all running parallel to the yard hes felling into. Id guesstimate he had less than 5° to work with, a very, very tight felling window. The combination of face/scarf cut, back cut & pull rope had to be as close to perfect as you could. At a guess, and it often is the cause, Id have been pulling slightly more left on the screen with a different scarf applied though i doubt Id have been at that spot on the trunk. Id have ground felled or climbed higher and rigged it. There are more options to this though highly unorthodox.) Box scarf if in doubt. (Box scarf will hold on the longest of any scarf. Used for back leaning and side leaning or when the pull line is critical. The hinge sometimes wont break until the tree is on the ground. This scarf is one of a few options that would have been better suited to this operation, with a butt tied rigging line to keep it off the fence below him, however, Id say he wanted the log to jump off the stump and away from the fence below him, thus the assumption of his cutting a very flat scarf/face and cutting out the hinge.) Id add; the wide angle camera view is very deceptive and it appears the yard is shorter than it looks this the assumption the tree cant be ground felled due to the cedar in the left of frame. There are options around this though. The forces in felling can be explosive. He is more than lucky to be relatively uninjured. I doubt he was truly uninjured. Its a dog eat dog competitive industry. Some of us have had worse than this happen and lived to be grateful of small mercies.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 02:42:37 +0000
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