Huge Aerial Rigging --Go Big-- Go Home
3,369 views · Published 3 July 2016 · 8:49 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: rbtree · 2016 · Travel & Events
Thanks to a new full static 9/16 Plasma core rigging line by Puget Sound Ropes---- (forget Samson) rated at 29000 tensile, and a well placed Douglas-fir for a gin pole, we were able to rig two 17 foot logs, and two 21 footers, tip tied, running through a huge Hobbs style 7/8th 5-6" sheave block, slung with a 5/8th inch spectra sling, rated at ~38,000 lb, tip tied, tensioned, held and lowered via the venerable GRCS, and butt hitched with a 9/16th double braid spectra core PSRopes D/S Composite sling, rated at 19000 lb, with a 5/8th Samson Sable Braid line rigged through a 3/4" ISC block and handled by a portawrap, slung with a 7/8th Tenex 20 foot loopie. The largest log could well have weighed 3000 lb, and is close to 300 board feet. Will scale it out tomorrow. I chunked down the gin pole tree to about 48 feet, and felled the butt onto a slight side slope. The log truck used it and a log laid sideways across the bunk to protect his truck when we felled the about 55' buttlog.. you can see his truck rock as it landed... close call !!!!.... the good wood in it scaled out at 700 board feet. The job was underbid a bit, and I hate to cut firewood when there's an alternative. Well, this rigging was risky and the GRCS barely held, but I hope to net $600-750 for the wood, which will help the job to be somewhat profitable. I also got $800 to climb and drop two dead back leaning alders, not easy but this old man got em down in under two hours...
