As you were discussing working with Damien vs working alone I was reminded of Proverbs 27:17 "as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another". Ya'll make a great team.

I cannot begin to explain how much I appreciate you explaining what you were doing. I’m probably one of the people you would think knows these things but what I don’t know is what you know and that’s over half of the reason I watch your episodes. thank you for continuing to deliver to us, so that we can learn from you and enjoy our craft even more

I love it when you do more explaining !!!!! I loved it when you were first doing flying lessons and realized you might need to dumb it down for us newer guy's 😁👍👍 you're the bomb August , Thank you ❤

Come for Rock, Paper, Scissors and stay for awesome tree work. Best wishes August and Damien ! 👍

So this is what all that stuff about pulleys and leverage in grade 8 science was about....

Love the editing of the loss of the shoot to Damien limbing his way up the trunk. You guys do good work. Love the channel

The editing of the fir put a big smile on my face. -- pom pom rope ends 😂 --

Thats crazy how that top is bent over with that rope pulley

Down only jobs with awesome people like Damien are the best!

Tackling problems, blocking obstacles and pulling for a predictable execution. Good instruction and equipment demonstration.

"Using a throwline, Damien has got the..." *shows how high it is* I wanna see that throwline throw. That is incredibly high. I bought a fishing pole and a 6oz lead weight to throw, and I can only get up about 80 feet while I need 120. I'm considering assembling a potato cannon and using compressed air to launch the lead weight.

I really enjoyed that video. Thanks.

Amazing as always !!!!

Excellent Brother!! God Bless. 😊

Awesome job 👏 😊

Like somebody else said: Proverbs 27:17 ... interesting dynamics of thinking and talking feedback like that... even if the other guy isn't even saying anything. Great explanations... August has gotten better and better as a teacher... seems like increasing in maturity and wisdom as far as teaching...and looks like being more aware of the less experienced... sincere observation... no flatter intended, but beware, nevertheless: Proverbs 29:5! ... but keep up the good work. I've "retired" from tree work but my son has taken it up.... I'm going to send him this video. Best regards and wishes to you and Damien. Robert Wood

That noodliness you mentioned when talking about whether or not you’d need to pull more on the back cut is legitimate. Cut a pine the other day in a real similar way. When I started my face with tension applied, it was still leaning back a little, but it was super eager to go without adding any more tension.

Nice Work!

I like this video August and Damien have a good day ( Ty Ron

My fiddle blocks have saved me a LOT of time and climbing. Good shootin

We use that 5:1 system regularly out here in Colorado.

Hey August..... I found out the Colorado spruce trees send their branches out horizontal ... I should have said perpendicular to the trunk of the tree.... We have lots of those on the Washington State coastal area along with a lot of engelmann and setka spruce trees.... I noticed something about these Colorado trees the bark is real craggy and tough.... This one tree person we have here in town thought that he could almost climb the tree by hanging onto the bark..... I saw a Colorado spruce tree here in town that is barely 70 ft tall with a 1 ft diameter Branch along with others that are very large which is typical of that Colorado spruce and it has lots and lots of b r a n c h e s...... KZfaq is full of information about spruce trees. I was going to be a boat builder when I was in high school.... I remember how interesting my wood shop teacher made everything..... He used to be able to identify lots of different types of wood just by looking at the knots in a milled plank.... Violin makers for some reason like the Colorado spruce tree.

Yer some very cool 5 to one kits out there. Hows the rope grab go never used one?

Out of interest how come you didnt climb it and break it down? Love the channel by the way. Very good information

Nice thing to say to damo' cheers

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Sorry infront cant remember but much esier to gain. Cheers nice job.

Nice vid! I'm sure europeans would say your bar was too long. 😆 I'm curious about what goes into the decision making concerning when to climb and chunk a leaner down vs pulling and doing a tricky fall with limited space.

Love the educational explanation of the setup. I have to say though that I disagree with your assessment about how you got the tree to drift a bit at the very end by shaving more of the hinge wood on your cutting side. The tree went where you aimed it with the initial notch, perpendicular to the hinge. On you post fall stump view, we can clearly see the hinge had holding wood across it's entire length. That tells us the butt had to have stayed fully attached during the fall travel and had fallen on a line perpendicular to the hinge. The thinning of the hinge you did at the very end just decreased the resistance of the hinge as a whole and allowed the tree to commit to the pull/fall easier. The tree went where you aimed.

Regarding that frayed rope end….Do you typically burn/melt the fibers in addition to taping a frayed rope end like that?

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Hey August I have a question for you about people who watch the trees get cut down are you used to have people watch you cut? Or do you get nervous

Hi August, what is the reason for the shackle ( 6:50 )? I would recommend to use stopper prussik instead, so it can be pretensioned and let go.

TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE!

Hate to be a part of the peanut gallery but I would also like to note that the higher your tie in the more leverage you have, but you have to go out far enough that you are pulling away instead of straight down. Not a critique just my 2 cents

You goof around too much.