I work in technology and watched my neighbor have a tree removed. Now I’m super into tree trimming. Never thought I’d be watching these kinds of videos.

Shout out for the groundsman, never underestimate the trust you put into your buddy. Great vid, we salute you.

This is so awesome I'm not even into all that but I imagined there's so much that goes into it technically and safety wise. Thanks for this very great and educational content.

Thanks for posting your videos! I really appreciate how you take the time to explain step by step!

Cool video. Thanks for the tips. I've filmed a few different arborist on our channel. One arborist climbed/rigged and cut a 200 ft tree. The other used a winch from the ground to fell the tree. The climber had no way of felling the tree without damaging the concrete picnic benches. Sure takes a lot of skill to do this method.

Your a good educater! I appreciate your time , as a fellow climber!

I've never performed this before but after watching it I sure would like to introduce this method into my everyday experience. Seems very efficient

Truly professional. Nice job and great rope skills. 👍

It’s funny watching someone else do it. So much of that is automatic now, it’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t done it. Thanks to your camera work, now I can show.

I respect your work and appreciate this video, stay safe!

Excellent training video! Thank you for sharing. Very well done and nice safe methodical technique mate

I normally don't like watching videos, but when I do, I prefer arborist videos! Stay safe my friend!

that's gotta be a hell of a feeling knowing every time you push that log off the top knowing the tree is about to shake the shit out of you.

This stuff always fascinates me!

You have the balls of a dump truck, ace..That is dangerous work!

thanks a lot for this good shot.the day after tomorrow have an exam,hope to do the same as you did.

I enjoy your videos. Thanks for the time. I have seen many of your videos. Do you have a video if this , but doing it solo? Was wondering how the rigging block would be set up solo.

Hi Dan, many thanks for posting this video. On my CS41 Rigging Course and this has been a great asset to reference. Cheers dude. Alex, Oxfordshire

Great description of the knots....

Great video! I found this part pf the job very very difficult when the main trunk is back leaning and is necessary to rigging it. Difficult to climbing and positionating with the spikes and difficult to work with the chainsaw and to do the rigg

3:39 one of the most valuable tips ever! Always play the movie in your head: How does this scene end?

30 years for me GOOD JOB BROTHER. SAFETY IS OUR MIDDLE NAME.

I have my rigging training next week. Not come across many arborists that bother to get this qualification. I’m looking forward to it. I do like a technical dismantle.

Love looking at ur videos. I learn alot from them.

damn!! this is no joke!!! Skilled badass

Your videos are my favorites for learning. I'm a new climber.

Clever stuff. Great work. Excellent vid. I've cut trees down but never anything like this. Always on the ground with somewhere to run is my style.

I love the way you showed the half hitch into the running Bowline stating around 2:20 . I watched that 10 x or more! pointing out how to know distanced and not crush feet was also a great tip lol! great Vijayo my friend!!!!!

Great job, I learn a lot watching your videos! What size rope do you use for rigging?

Awesome, thank you for the great video!

So enjoy these vids. Jist found out my friend Joe does this , and he gave me free firewood, which i am sitting by a fire made from it as i type :)

Excellent job! Have you ever used a whoopie sling for your pulley, I use one, I like it because it prevents the need for a knot and makes it much easier when having to reset the pulley as you go down the tree. Thanks again for the video, nice job.

Super informative. THANKS. I'm never doing this, but how do you prepare for trunk vibration ? Cut small enough pieces they don't swing wide ? great camera work. ?

Great work on the larger one

you do a real nice job with your videos , thanks for posting

Great professional work!

Thanks for sharing this very interesting point of view (pun intended)! Glad there are people who can do this sort of work because I am totally useless at anything higher than 12 ft. involving a tree, ladder.or narrow walkway.

That's beautiful. I love knots!

This is much slower, and much safer than when I get to cuttin ;) Good work!

Man that last tree was intimidating

I used to love climbing trees on my grandparents farm. The key phrase here is used to.

Can you tell me what size ropes are pulleys you are using in this video? and that looks like an ISC rigging block, what size is that and how do you like it? I love your videos they are very helpful and you are great at explaining what youre doing as you go!

great instructional video well done mate

hi Dan, I have a question. I have listened tos ome other people that specify your climbing line and lanyard should be above your rigging rope and therefore outside the rig)ging system(the rope which the arb block is attached to - cow hitch with a better half). I noticed you have your climbing line and lanyard attached underneath this rigging point. Can you give me some clarity around this. Thankyou

Outstanding video, thanks for sharing.

Great vid! Make it look easy!

What an amazing technique

You earn your money man. God bless you and protect you.

Well Done! Good video too!

Clean cuts my friend!!👍🏼

Nice explanation. If you were working with larger sections, I would recommend placing the back at least an inch above the horizontal notch cut. Otherwise, the wood hinge cannot help you control the direction as well and it can roll back on you. That is if the section was larger. As it is it is small enough to be easily controlled by hand. Thank you for a nice job.

Good Job! Slower is Better and Safer, You Live to Climb another Day! I myself have been cross cutting manageable logs in from both sides leaving 3/4 of an inch hold in between, clip saw, snap and throw the log. I only rope large limbs and drop catch them myself, had 1 or 2 close calls over 24 years ago by a ground man not allowing enough slack for clearance and my safety was put at risk. But everyone does what is best for them self and safety. Once again Good Job!

Great demonstration and nice comments.

I've tried a lot of harnesses, and there is no harness that does not compress the femoral arteries that I know of. But some do it less. Right now I am using a 'Tree Motion' harness. This guy is good. I almost bought the harness that he has on. The Glide Light, or 'Ergovation'.

thanks for video. How does ground man absorb shock load?

Excellent video ! just wanted to share, its always nerve rattling. when the piece your cutting. stops when the slack run out knowing its only falling a foot or so. And the limb less tree shakes a little :-)

great video , thank you for show becarfull all the times..

Hi mate. Been watching through your vids. very informative. just done my 30/31 and aiming for my 38/39 shortly. just wondering where your main climbing line is in this vid? sorry if i sound like a noooob lol. ive actually learned quite a lot from you.

great video , ive never seen a running bowline tied like that ,,, very handy

Damn impressive shit man...thank you for your time

Thanks bro it's very helpful

Brilliant mate. Here in America you would be lucky to see that quality of safty. I have seen so many destroyed lawns and dimpled driveways because of free fall drop methods.

Nice one.Thanks for that mate.

My stomach wasn't as numb from another video.

another day at the office... MAN, HARD WORK !

I have a lot of respect for arborists that work safe and dont over due the size of their fall. Way to many idiots with chain saws in far to much of a hurry dropping 10ft sections of tree. I watched a guy years ago cut off a good 12ft section of oak trunk, trunk had to weigh 3000lbs at least if not more, took the grounds man straight off the ground and damn near sent him to the moon.

best harness ever tried for me is the edelrid tree magic..it is light as a feather and really comfortable, worst iv'e used is komet dragonfly 2

Good video, as are your others. Thanks for posting. Ive always used a running bowline for this application and I think most UK and North American riggers do. But I wonder why we dont use a cow hitch as an alternative primary knot as well..Ive done so on occassion and not had a problem with it. Any thoughts?

He did a fine job. Another day at the office. I generally tell my clients they can have a hole a couple feet deep the size of a hula hoop in their lawn or spend an extra $3-400 to have the chunks roped out. You can either do this work or you cant. It takes balls but mostly it takes a sense of self preservation, to never assume, and good attention to detail. If you don't have those things you're gonna screw up and hurt something, someone or yourself. No amount of training will save you. Those failed guys are the "safety trolls" that tear apart all these vids. They wind up working for some union or government job as a "safety instructor" lol. Or if they do still work they are the overpriced guys that that cover up their fear and laziness by hiding behind safety. Again good work.

I have one question. I know you use a cow hitch to attach the block to the tree. But which knot do you use to attach the rope to your block? Thankyou. I tried the running bowline and it worked but the stopper knot was hard to untie afterward shock (or dynamic?) loading pieces of trunk.

Well done!

Brilliant job safely done. Are you in America or Canada? Where ever you are good job. Well done.

Our difference is in the definition of a stopper knot I think. It's good to tie the tail after a bowline back around itself in half hitches or whatever. My definition of a stopper knot is a knot in the tail on the tail itself, like a stopper knot in the tail after a prussic friction hitch. Which is something you don't want with a bowline because if something pulls hard on the tail of a bowline it can flip out; takes a lot of force though.

Beautiful!

Thank you for the video

Great info thanks for sharing, greatly appreciate it. What size rope as far as thickness for the cowhitch?

Thanks and respect !

that looks like a lot fun

textbook, good work man.

So my question is how do you rig up the lower section or do you just loop it around the bottom of the tree for friction.

Great job dude !! Nice and safe and no property damage..!! and don't pay no attention to the comments from Texas tree service....ur doing just fine the way ur doing it...stay safe my fellow tree dogg..!!

Thanks for the video, what kind a rope you used for larger sections?

Nice point about the feet getting crushed

Great job.

skillful & brave 👏

That’s definitely impressive, so you have another pulley tied to the lower section of the tree and someone keep intention on the rope? I was just wondering about the trunk coming down, pulling the person holding the rope

Good job mate. I normally rig it all up first specially if the tree is rotted out just in case there is no integrity in the guts of it and it fails. but you can usually tell if its solid enough to put the scarf in first. Is that a go pro camera ?

Good job Thanks

Well done.

Won’t lie, I misjudged the length of the drop once. Life lesson never forgotten.

Thank you!

you're a pro. Good video.

good job ive done it without a pully but that pully saves your rope.

I thought about it but I changed my mind. Y'all can have this one! This is for the big dogs!

Good vid. nothing wrong with backing up any knot with a stopper knot, especially when impact loading. You have to always prepare for the worst, so that if a knot or piece of kit fails, the outcome is not fatal. When coming down a spar, have a loose lifeline wrapped, double wrapped or choked around the trunk, as a back up to your lanyard. Doesnt hinder your progress significantly on average girth trunks and could save your life. Like Cheedz said it HAS happened, and can happen.

thank you. could do with some help knowing what size pullys i can get away with and shock loading / what kn limits on bits about the size your doing in the vid. can i use a pinto or is it to small? cheers RachelRoots

nice chainsaw and is it a new chain or u sharpened it good

Crazy! XD Super video !

Hello. please tell me What kind of rope to use, and what is the diameter at the descent of the heavy parts of the tree?

Pretty amazing to watch