Thanks for the help Zach, it was a fun job to do together. A bit strange being a groundie but it was a nice change of pace. Looking forward to working together on another sometime

Balls of steel! Nice job man you do a good job explaining stuff. Keep up the good work man and keep posting, I think you’ll have a big channel in no time,

From a professional bow maker :) Most elms are very strong in tension and have particularly interlocking grain/fibers. It makes great bows for these reasons. Your branch held on so long because of the woods tension strength...even so I would've expected it to pop off sooner than that! The woodworms absolutely love the stuff as well - as seen by the patterns under the bark. Interesting to see your work - thanks.

Great video with lots of useful information. As a 21 year old its cool to see a fellow young guy taking pride in his work and perfecting his craft. Stay safe man.

I tend to stay away from real dead trees in terms of climbing unless there’s a nearby tree I can tie into. However, every climber has their own personal tolerance for risk and what they are comfortable with. I think it’s very important to be in tune with that. Nice work, and good explanation of stuff.

Great job Zach, you are proving to be a diligent student of your craft. I’ve been in many a dead elm. And they are quite stable through the second year, three year dead elms are definitely troublesome. Another option to consider on dead trees is to rig from the top down if the structure allows for it, to leave a dampening effect in the lower canopy. This looked like a pretty sturdy tree. Great job, you speak to the work well. Keep it up. Great seeing you yesterday. Thanks for stopping by.

I made it to 5:32. Probably watch the rest later. If one needs a hinge to hold longer, the hinge can be established closer to the trunk where there is the overlap of trunk and branch wood with a low, for lack of a better descriptor, back cut. Also, if roping having the rope farther out on the branch helps support the piece and aids the hinge. Your work positioning lanyard would have to be elsewhere because it is in the area where this cutting would happen. I use this method in black walnut and even white pine. Hope this makes sense. I climb a fair amount of dead trees as well. Thanks for the content.

That comment on reaction wood behavior for angiosperm and gymnosperms was an eye opener for why some cuts I made in the past didn't behave as I anticipated. All the information helps thanks for the great videos👍

I just made it for the first time to your channel and found it very interesting and informative. Great job teaching and showing! Thank you for your work.

Hey Zack that was a nice piece of work I appreciate your professionalism I see you have a lot of potential to be one of the best in our business I've been climbing for 17 years and what I seen with a very good job young man I hope you make a boatload of money and stay safe and remember when in doubt rope it out will keep looking up

Nice job on the tree - My first of your video's and would have to say you have a great style with explaining the simple stuff which is important. Bring it on!

Nice job explaining your moves and why. Appreciate it.👍😀

This was fantastic. Two hard working professionals making a hard job look east. Homeowner was very lucky to have found y’all.

Thanks for bringing up reaction wood. Just defined it for the first time and did a DEEP dive. The tension for angiosperms (deciduous) and compression for gymnosperms (conifers except some broad leaf) is cool. And I’d be terrified to climb that. Great job, you’re good at teachin stuff while climbing dead trees

I saw your comment on Spencer Lawn care. You invited people to come over to your channel to watch you cut trees. Enjoying so far. I subbed and hit the bell for notifications. Be careful out there.

His assistance work was smooth and beautiful. You both did very well.

Super impressed with your content! Informative, humble, and refined. I’m looking forward to following along.

A trick I learned from my grandfather was cutting two small side cuts where you put your rope. Helps on smooth bark trees and dead ones too. Keeps the rope from sliding off.

Good to see someone actually using the chainbrake. It’s there and easy to use, I don’t understand why so many people choose not to use it.

I've been pleasantly surprised by most trees that look bad by the amount of heartwood that is still solid. If you're in an area of severe weather, you know it's taken more stress than you will put on it by bombing or careful rigging. Of course a high tie in a close live tree is great when you can.

Quick way to tell if a hickory is shellbark or shagbark, most of the bark on shagbark exfoliates from the top and bottom (making it shaped like a" C") while shellbark only exfoliates from the bottom (more of a "J" shape).

You guys are amazing. Super talented and fantastic skills. Thank you for allowing us to see your magic! Awesome!!!

That last top you took that brushed those other limbs was perfect to take up the momentum and lessen forces at the anchor. No limbs broken.

Great video brother, keep climbing and be safe!

That is some nice firewood right there! Good job being safe and easy does it! Be safe and thanks for sharing!

When doing this style of face cut you might find it easier to do the angled cut first. It's what they teach and actually do have in Scandinavia. I'm sure you can figure out the advantages if you try it out and think it through.

A great way to see if you're working with a hollow tree (and only if the tree is big enough) is to do a vertical plunge cut straight through the tree. If the saw suddenly moves forwards you either have a cavity or some really rotten wood. Just don't do a horizontal plunge cut if you are about to climb the tree because that would weekend the tree far too much!! The vertical plunge cut is more on the same line as a vertical crack, so you'll still have the majority of the strength of the wood.

Good didactic video with fine explanations. For me as a garden owner it important to know about the value of professionals making this work. Plus: Your video has strong entertainment character at 28:31 like STIHL Timbersports: Contestants ready, hands on the wood, Go! Stay safe and alway good jobs!

Impressive job, very professional. That's some excellent firewood, dead already partially seasoned elm, very good stuff.

Elm wood is very strong and through being resistant to fungal decay, is very durable. These qualities, together with their upright habit, make elms one of the safest (or rather, least unsafe) trees to climb when dead. Underneath the bark of your tree many egg galleries of the Elm bark beetle are visible: many wavy grooves radiating out from a central short straight groove (which is where the beetle first bored into the tree). These beetles carry the fungus that causes Dutch Elm Disease, which was likely the cause of death of this tree. Elm wood used to be used for coffins and for funeral pyres; folklore holds that it burns with a cold smoke. But this is mistaken and true only when burning wet wood: the dense & fibrous nature of the wood means it holds onto the water content well and so it takes a very long time to season properly - 2 or 3 seasons for wood of any size. My experience is that it is wonderful firewood, burning hot and with very little smoke if really dry (15% or even less). Thanks for an interesting video - I notice and appreciate that you are a clear speaker, and articulate when describing your reasoning - which is well worth hearing. Though as Reg is the master of demonstrating, sometimes less is more.

It’s so great when your ground man is a pro and can let the rope run as smooth as this guy. Excellent work!

Beautiful work man. Delaminating trees make my palms sweat lol

Hey man just wanted to let you know you showed up in my recommended! Whatever you are doing the algorithm likes keep it up man!

you made that look safe and easy, good job! can I come over and learn from you? thanks!

5K!! You are crushing it!!

Nice work brother from one tree trimmer to another Subscribed👍👍

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh I hate climbing dead trees especially Ash trees.. Great job.. You're groundie is a Heck of a good guy..very smooth..he be a great asset to any tree company..

Enjoyed the video. I use a lot of loop runners for rigging also...as well as speed lining. Who makes the beefy runner you use for connecting your rigging line to the tree?

Wow great! I have also seen a giant tree getting removed by Clayton's Quality Tree Service. The did such amazing job.

Nicely done!!

Wow respect. You're crazy for climbing this! I would have either used a MEWP or felled it from the ground, definitely wouldn't be rigging off it lol.

Awesome video, as always

Little bit confused about kind of the tree, because It looks like a maple but it seems to me that the wood is like a pine 🤔. Nice job man 💪

I have really enjoyed this video! Art

If it were oak, ash or maple, even locust I would have declined. Elm is good, your assessment was accurate. Most local tree guys tend to be more cautious than you tube celebs, most work from a bucket since it's faster but not as glamorous. My advice: stay local if you're moving around and tap into the native climbers, find out what they are saying. Err on the side of caution.

How do you like the talons? I have been debating on getting them. I have geckos and kliens now.

Do you think the elderid spikes are worth the money?? I ask cause I noticed a monumental difference when I got gecko’s compared to evokes.. I was way more secure and not wobbly.. noe I’m thinking of the elderids

Any books you would suggest? I have the fundamentals of general tree work and tree climbers companion so far.

Awesome video brother as always

Hey Zach, what is the blue device you're clipped in to at 20min that you use on the blue/yellow rope a long with your flip line to descend? Thanks!

Great climb. Thanks for sharing.

That looks like elm bark beetle damage took that tree. 17:35 Two things. Spider leg rigging would have been another option there and also do you ever butt tie limbs when you grcs? Doing that with an old ratty rigging rope like 25 ft of it or whatever allows it to swing but stay on the stump and you then can undo it and control the descent with the rope to stop that out of control swinging. I usually put it on a baby buckingham 6.5 inch port a wrap but you can also just make wraps and tuck a bight the yank the bight out and allow the wraps act as friction control. Great groundie work there.

Awesome video dude. Good work too!

What did you bid on that? Nice work!

I'd climb that tree all day long but there's no way in hell I'd single line that tree with the rope ran through dead brush. I'd climb from the bottom up with spurs and cut my weight out as soon as humanly possible.

I usually score the smooth dead wood with a saw before or after tying on the rigging line to ensure it wont slip off. 3 kerfs on each side of the piece to be rigged. Try it sometime

I seen a safety slide show of arborist Safety, put on by a township forestry devision. They showed a kids picture who had been up to his waist int he shreader, awful stuff. Turns out was his first day no one told him not to stand on the machine and kick wood into it

Rock on boys thanks for the education!!!

Those weird grain patterns you saw could be sheer squares. Have you read The body language of trees? If not it is a great book on tree risk assessment, fungi and tree biomechanics in general.

Perfection!

Any particular reason you used the winch and not the bollard on the GRCS? Every rigging cycle is wearing the knurling off the winch drum, however slight it may be.

Hey man I’m super late to this post. I appreciated the balance between your appreciation for the academic side and recognition that in-field experience cannot be replicated. With that being said, in this video you’re using some sort of clevis on the standing end of your rope and using that to choke the spar. I’m sure it’s rated and considered legit kit, but please don’t use it. Clevises are really dangerous. In a different context I had one fail and it caused a fall. I’m only saying this as someone who doesn’t want anyone else to get hurt, please don’t trust a clevis with your lifeline. Great video and good job on this tree, stay safe.

Do you ever use a different device besides the grcs?

That tree sure looked sketchy. You guys did a smooth job on the takedown. I guess it pays off to have an experienced climber handling the drops. Nice work Osage! Zaccheus, I was cringing the whole time you were climbing and cutting. At first glance the beetle trails looked like emerald ash borer trails. But after pausing your video and doing some research (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_beetle) I could see they are more like Bark beetle trails. I know you said oak but man oh man when you were taking that bark off it reminded me of the ash trees in my yard I had to take down. One was about 20" in dia at the base and all the bark came off, EAB trails everywhere. I thought the beetle trail patterns looked cool so I use a couple bucked logs as side tables around the fire pit. I was able to catch one of the EABs. I see him everyday, sealed in clear packing tape stuck to the side of my monitor.

how do like the edelrid talons I'm on the fence about buy them please let me know you thoughts about them

How did you get the rope up on the tree in the first place?

My first big saw was an 044. That thing was a BEAST!

Only piece i ever had come out of a bowline was a on a dead tree with the bark peeling like that. Peel that bark when negative rigging those trunks

This is my first time seeing one of your videos. I want to say, your explanations are especially good for new guys. Now about that red pole tool that you used to help fell the tree. I have been an arborist a long time and newer saw one before. I understand it. But the item is new to me. What is its' commercial name? How much do they cost and where can I get one? I subscribed. Thanks for a good video.

Ohh and nice to meet your friend Jon

Nice job 👍🏽

Nice cuttin' brother!

Those trees always look so dangerous when they’re dead for awhile, I wouldn’t want to climb one.

How did you get the line up there (top) in the first place? 😁😁

Hey buddy how are you great video as always. we had a bad accident last week Tuesday one of the guys cut their hand pretty bad had to get surgery on it cut through tendons and everything. I did order a silver bull trauma kit I received it today if you don't have one please look into it never thought I needed it really until the accident happened I should have had it years ago God bless buddy be safe

Very professional. Way to go.

Dude you got balls of steel rigging out of trees that dead. Good job. I think I've seen John on one of reon rounds videos. Is that correct?

Climbing dead trees......as if there wasn't enough things to keep in mind with climbing healthy trees. But, people ain't calling to have their pretty trees taken out. Very vigilant work. Nice job.

That first Stihl is creating such a powder of the wood that I'd call it an explosion hazard. Get the gullet (sharpen that thing)

I've taken down a lot of trees for heat. And I found that dead trees are more likely to injure/kill you because of falling limbs.If you can, let it bring itself down.

Good work 👏 Keep safety first And don't get complacent

Do you film in super view? Climb high climb safe 💪🏼

Very nice video brother 👍 I would even say I leaned something. 🤙

I always thought climbers made the best groundies, as they’ve been on the rough side of rigging. Of course it’s rare to have a true climber to run it.

High-quality content 🚀 Thanks!

Great video. Subscribed.

Good job. BRW,what’s the name of red tool again the tree ? I want one 😄

Nice work again

You’ve got some balls Zach

Your comment about the grcs is why I prefer the Hobbs device

Im currently working on a very old, english crab apple tree, about about 40ft high, but its rotten so bad its split down the centre a while ago, then carried on growing as 2 seperate trees, the one side is growing abouve a garage, the right side is above 2 neighbours gardens, as well as a shed in the customers garden and one in neighbours. The garden is small, the tree does not have a main trunk where it split, its a good 8 ft wide trunk below the split, all where its split is fungus and pulp, spurs/gaffs arent finding wood to climb, there are no neighbour trees to tie in or anchor to, there are so many dangers in the garden as well as big, thick boughs/branches falling from rot. After losing 2 anchor points and a rig today, im here searching youtube for some worse, sketchy jobs to boost my confidence for tomorrow, but currently not finding anything close danger wise 😂 wish me luck 😂

angio is bottle in Greek and gymno means naked…therefore angiosperm means bottle seed and gymnosperm means naked seed or without a fleshy fruit bit. Just discovered your channel you’ve got a sub. Keep up the good work. Cheers. -Z

I’m guessing it’s cause you were talking but it might’ve been easier just to repel all the way down to your point then pull your alpine down to you instead of every step. Idk tho it could be easier situation could’ve been different too good job on not dying your doing awesome dawgy

I like to use clove knot when there nothing to stop the rope from coming off the limb

Great job! Stay safe

I love the story at the end around 30 minutes

Uh...how did the rope get all the way up in the tree for you to climb? Magic? I think the majority of us would find that very interesting.

What set up do you use all the time on your lanyard

Where did you buy that tree jack? Great video.

I've climbed and rigged down dead Elm trees in the past. The only thing i would have done differently would have been to spike up it. One can really see what's going on when you spike up to the T.I.P. I mainly climb M.R.S but i occasionally use S.R.S to access tall conifers. I wouldn't rig a tree with a basal anchor. There's just too much going on at the butt of the tree for my liking.