Haha thanks Bill! I do my best to keep it real amd real certainly isn't perfect

Absolutely, I've only dabbled with rock climbing, but I was also suprised at how intensely different the equipment is. It's also all held to very different standards.

That's true. Therefore the main rope has to be taut all the time. It's very dangerous to fall into an arborist rope.

Thays excellent! I'm glad it was helpful! Good luck with your project, and listen to your gut. If something doesn't seem like it's going to go right, it probably isn't 😅

Haha, you're too kind. Thanks for watching!

Haha you're not wrong and thats the beauty of it!

Thanks, man! This weekend's video will be a little more of the same. Not as well explained, but I'm mostly interested in helping people get better at what they do as I learn and grow myself. Sharing my mistakes seems to be about the best method I know. Rope is xstatic, saddle is the treerex by edelrid. I like both very much and don't see myself trying anything different for quite a while.

Thank man!

Thanks Jason! That rigging rope is 12mm (1/2") All Gear Husky Bull Rope. I believe MBS in in the 10,000lb range. Here is a link to it at my favorite dealer: www.endorstreegear.com/collections/1-2in-rigging-rope/products/12-mm-1-2-all-gear-husky-bull-rope

@@zaccheus Thats great thank you! I will definitely check it out.

Thanks man! I just try to shoot it straight. Nobody is perfect and to pretend otherwise doesn't benefit anyone.

Impressive. It takes a very long time to be confident and smooth as you are ) or make it look ,cause I know there's times where we could be having a stroke inside but calm cool and collected on the outside so to speak. Lol... Very nice work enjoy checking out your style and plan of attack . Be safe.

Wow, man, that must have been quite the experience! It is tough to find affordable equipment because most people are out making money with their stuff and therefore willing to spend a lot on it. Whe I was uo there, my client took me to Minneapolis Saw Co. 831 40th Ave NE, Columbia Heights, MN 55421 That place had a decent selection of stuff and you could maybe even try some of it on before purchase. I wpuld a avoid used gear because it's impossible to know what's happened to textiles and whether or not they've been overloaded and damaged in a way that you can't see. Spikes are the only thing I'd buy used. SRT is all the rage these days and it is the fastest way to do a lot of things, but if you're looking to keep the price down. Climbing DRT with a Blake's hitch is as cheap as it gets. Whatever you do I would advise getting a rated tree climbing harness with independent legs and a rope bridge. That will make your experience a whole lot better.

@@zaccheus thanks for the input! Yes it was quite an interesting experience, and while I wouldn't want to do it for a living, I can see why you guys enjoy it so much! It was pretty exhilarating and I actually enjoyed it. Yes, I'm definitely staying away from used gear for the same reason, no idea how old it is or if it's been abused by the previous owner. I'll look into the DRT technique a little more!

@feelthepayne88 Best of luck to you with your endeavors!

Absolutely, I always try to make a plan before I leave the ground, but I often keep it to myself until I get up in the tree. Otherwise I just confusing everyone by giving them a second strategy after I get up there.😅

Thanks man! It's not my favorite. It's nice and smoth and easy to use, but it's also easily triggered by things around it. I often find it catch on my leg or my rope tail and llfind it letting some rope through it unexpectedly. I just picked up am ART Positioner 2 and I'm really loving that unit.

@@zaccheus Nice. I totally hear you. I personally love the zillon, but I absolutely have had the links get incidentally triggered and have a mini 6 inch whipper unexpectedly while doing something important in the tree. But for my wrists which have some tendinitis it’s just the smoothest to tend. I also have the ART and enjoy that as well. Along with just a pulley and hitch. Love your channel. Keep up the great work.

@@judsonkimble I think it's a really good device and there are things about it that I like more than the poisitioner. I might end up using it again 🤷‍♂️ Thanks!

Haha thanks Steven!

Thanks!

That's never a dumb question. I took a more foolish route and self taught my way into tree work. If I could do it over again, I would aim to find a company who was willing to invest in mentoring me rather than just throwing me in a tree and hoping for the best. With that, I would surely aim to make their time and energy worth it by sticking around for as long as I could afford. Way too many people in our industry are under educated and most of the time it's to the fault of their employer. Good employers are hard to find in tree work, but I'd take a quality boss over the higher paycheck any day.

Hey! Thanks for watching! It was a real pleasure to work for you guys!

Oooo, that's no fun at all. Thanks!

Oh very interesting. Is that something you gotta do for every cut or just at the beginning of the day?

@@zaccheus no when you first fired up in the morning keep it on choke with the brake on let it run for like 30 seconds to a minute and then you're ready to rock and roll buddy

@@br-dj2ti ill be sure to give that a try, thanks!

@@zaccheus yeah no problem buddy definitely I had no idea about that neither some guy told me I started doing it and it seems to work great

It's the most dangerous part of what we do for sure. Even hand saws pose a threat. I have a buddy who nearly cut through a critical part of his harness with one once.

I use double braid for all of my rigging. Almost all high rated rigging ropes are double braid of some kind. I use 1/2 for 90% of what I do and only break out the 5/8 for really big trees or negative rigging down some heavy wood. Aside from double braid, the next most common is 12 strand. You can natural crotch rig with 12 strand but not with double braid.

@@zaccheus Thanks man, I really appreciate the insight.

@@alotl1kevegas860 No problem! Whatever you do, pay attention to that SWL 😅

@@zaccheus Thanks for the advice man. I just bought a 1/2" Samson Stable Braid 200ft rope 😊

@@alotl1kevegas860 I'm sure that'll serve you well! 200ft is super nice for span rigging and such where a little more rope is required. Best of luck, stay safe up there!

Mmmm, I don't know off of the top of my head... I think I keep the top pretty tight and the bottom pretty loose. There is a handy procedure for finding a good setting. I saw it on youtube here somewhere, but basically you want it to not slip when you bounce on it and not have the top and bottom touch when you pull down on the top. There will probably be a few setting combinations that produce that scenario and chosing among those just comes down to preference.

Yep, pretty much all srt mechanical devices flatten the rope. The key for me has been finding a rooe that resist flattening as much as possible. I've found xstatic to be pretty good, blue moon flattens pretty bad. The xstatic still flattens out some, but not nearly as bad the blue moon. I personally hate drenaline for srt. I didn't even climb on it long enough to remember how bad it flattens, but I'll never buy another hank of that again 😅

@@zaccheus yea I first noticed it with my Blue moon rope too but it was a pretty old rope so I chalked it up to that and honestly stopped SRT because my hitch cord wouldn't even bite anymore. Then a friend gave me his drenaline rope and the same thing! I used what I think was Silver Ivy the other day and I forget to watch it but I didn't notice any real flattening so I'm going to try it again. It's reassuring to hear it's a common thing, although I'm not sure how easy I can overlook it lol. Thanks for the input

Thanks man, took me an unfortunate amount of time to figure out how much it's worth taking the time to set things up to make better rope angles and rig swings and everything.

@@zaccheus Same here, I'm still not great at it, but getting there! Looks like you're doing a fine job too.

@@sizemoretreeworks Thanks man, it's just time and perseverance

Thanks for your concern! Oak Wilt is serious stuff and it's definitely worth scheduling oak pruning and removals for the appropriate season. I did this work mid to late October last year. Since we were in Minnesota, it was an appropriate time of the year. It was actually 20° on the morning of my first day there 🤙

@@zaccheus much appreciated brother! Been fun watching you learn and grow. Doing it right along with you over in west Michigan. Wilt has ravaged our woods. Keep up the good work and be safe! ✌️

Glad to hear it, thanks!

I'll have to take a look. I love a good controlled speedline.

Ah man, sorry to hear that. Where did you get cut?

I had a very bad accident last year. I was tied into a spar that failed, ripped me out of the tree and my tie in point was on the ground with the leader that failed. Only thing that saved me from a severe accident was my saddle lanyard ran all 18 ft. through my friction hitch but kept me tied into the tree. I was literally suspended mid air. However, unknown to me the person running rope (who had tons of experience) wrongly wrapped the rope around his hand and as a consequence got pulled into the ground area where the huge leader fell and busted him up really bad. He survive although had multiple injuries that needed surgery. He is doing well now but has two huge bolts permanently in his pelvis and is sore after doing activities. It is a truly awful feeling knowing your hand was involved in someone else getting hurt. I could not climb for about a month. I kept replaying the accident in my mind. There was no way I could get back into it emotionally twisted and not able to focus. But. I wanted to keep pursuing this line of work so I had to convince myself to accept it happened because of a mistake I made, understand the mistake, forgive myself for that mistake, vow I would never forget about it so as to do all I can to never let it happen again. A good way to overcome the fear after an accident is give yourself enough time to make sure you are in the right state of mind to fully concentrate. You'll know. Days, weeks, months don't matter. My first time back in the tree was scary, didn't know if I could do it. But I trusted myself and FOCUSED ON THE TASK AT HAND. Don't allow your mind to wander with thoughts that take you out of the moment. Zach made two mistakes in this vid. Happens all the time to everyone, including the very best.

@@geekay4703 Wow man, you said that so much better than I ever could have. Thanks for sharing.

@@zaccheus I openly share what happened. I want to turn it into something others can appreciate enough to avoid happening to him or herself and hopefully not just a story people judge me by. I believe it is very important in a high danger profession like this to openly admit mistakes and swallow your ego.

@@geekay4703 Absolutely. I've never seen an ego be of benefit to anyone

I struggle with guessing the size on saw pants too. I try to go to shows or store around me if I can. Arborwear has a store about an hour and a half from me. I'm hoping to try their dog wood pants. I have had success with pfanner gladiator vents. I just want to see if I can find something a little different. I've had good success with my treeTex. It does hand adjustable elastic straps that go between the leg support and back supports. It's definitely light weight and well ventilated. It also offers a number of gifferent options for bridge configuration. My least favorite thing about it is that the upper D rings can be tricky to get a lanyard hooked into sometimes.

@@zaccheus I have 2 pair of solidur.. climb pants there grey with green and blue closest match to clogger I've found.but are still little warm buy you would like them .being little taller..you should check them out .of course there rated fir protection. Hard find light ones .those are best I've found .but there so great looking it's kinda Shame to get oil on them...we have one or 2 dealerships but they are over priced on gear and clothing. They only order from one place...was also looking into the SIP pants as well

@@zaccheus my monkey beaver original with leg pads is most comfortable thing ever worn but gets hot summer.i bought some monkey beaver suspenders installed on my old tree motion S light . Realy like that it's just the leg pads don't have buckles but other wise great saddle .there on sale at bartlett arborist supply for 380.00 that's a steal

Yeah, its pretty normal for us to use a regular rope for a lanyard here. I started out with a steel core and I would recommend that anyone start out using one. Do you use a cam device or a prusik on yours?

Thanks for the answer. I use a cam device on my steel core and a prusik on the regular lanyard. @@zaccheus

@christ2381 Very interesting! Here we aren't allowed to use steel core with certain companies (like power line clearance companies) and though we are allowed, some guys avoid the cam style grab because it has to be unweighted to be released in a rescue scenario.

Heyy, send me an email at zaccheus.climber@gmail.com and let's talk about it!

I have a friend who has one with a narrow kerf kit on it. That little thing rips! I've been tempted to buy one many times, but I've been getting along woth the 201 and big silky saw just fine and so I've avoided spending the money.

Fair observation. I don't really make many pruning videos and when I do it's normally when we are removing a larger portion of the tree. For those projects I don't see a problem with aiding production by wearing spikes and spiking only the part of the tree we are removing. When I'm just deadwooding and oak or something, I don't wear spikes. I also don't film, because who wants to see that? 😅

Not regularly, but I made a trip up for a subscriber who had some work for me.

@@zaccheus Ah ok. Well I am new to the climbing world. If you ever come up this way and need a good groundie I'd love help and maybe learn a thing or two.

@@Gregory-xv3kf Sure thing, what part of the state are you in?

@@zaccheus Near Alexandria MN. Its pretty much right in the middle. Even if it was a couple hour drive to come help I'd still be willing to do that. Really want to learn as much about climbing as I can.

@@Gregory-xv3kf I gotcha. I was working in St Paul that time around. KZfaq is a good source for many things, but finding a mentor is definitely the way to go. Good ones are just hard to find

Mm, that's an interesting thought. I think it might have also helped if it would have pointed the hinge away from myself a little more.

@@zaccheus that's that 20 20 hindsight. I recently got a GoPro and have been watching myself climb it's such a useful tool to improve yourself.

@@MassiveRam Absolutely! I changed a lot about my climbing since I started watching myself. The biggest thing was probably my one handed saw habits. I started seeing how close my left hand really came to that chain all the time. Scared me into changing my ways 😅

@@zaccheus yeah! man im pretty bad with the one handing myself

@@MassiveRam It's easy to get into the habit. Seems like most climbers have hit their left hand or arm at one time or another. I hit my knee early on before I did tree work professionally and I learned that I don't wanna go through that again 😅

Yep, that's his name. I think he told me that he contacted Yale cordage to see if he could buy a shirt from them and they just sent him one for free 😂

@@zaccheus you should try 11 .7 focus from yale at wesspur I just got my 200ft it's bluemoon family .beautiful rope came with best tight eye splice ever seen . 15 percent off ... be safe

I’d have used a ring-n-ring rigging point and then it could be retrieved from the ground when I was done. I try to stay under 200# when rigging with a ring-n-ring, but have rigged a few that were in the 500# range. Save a lot of time.

@small-town-southern-man3573 Yeah, this might have been a good application for one of those! They don't work out great if you have and redirects, and I think I did use one in this video. But it was a long time ago, and I'm not really sure.

Wait, what's wrong with the carabiner? 😬

It wouldnt pass the gear test in a comp for example the gate didnt close all the way by itslef

@Suave Oh my, thank you for noticing and mentioning that. I know exactly which one that is and I'll be sure to give it a good inspection

Lol, thanks. Nah, I've never needed one so I've never et bought one.

awe, so advancing the device by hand is the way to go!

@climbhightreeservice2153 if I'm just using a foot ascender to move up a little, yes, but if I have a long ascent, I use an elastic neck tether. Controversial, but I'm comfortable with it. Here is a video on it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oKmeeNSKsbHIhp8.html

Ah, I typically don't take my mistakes personally. I mostly include them, recognize them and try to talk about how to avoid them in an effort help other people learn. I only get disappointed if the mistakes was something I shouod have foreseen 😅 I'm 100% self taught. Especially in the last year I've put a good bit of effort into learning safer work practices and better tree care practices. I've also got a few friend in the industry that I regularly exchange information with. I started out double rope long ago, but I haven't done much recently. I did just recently pick up some more drt friendly stuff and I hope to use it more for removals and such. I have heard of using loop runner for that, I just always forget about it 😅

Aw man, that would have been great! To be honest, I was gone long enough and I don't think I would have been super excited about doing more whil I was out there. Having a wife a home makes me wanna go home 😅

@@zaccheus Well if you're ever out this way again...

@@lastplacetrophy3821 lol, you got it!

Absolutely, thats my favorite method. It does get a little unreliable when there isn't much rope weight hanging below the saw though. When I don't have much tail on the ground, I'll often ask for a knot.

@@zaccheus choke it with an extra loop around the brake or wrap the handle twice.

@@idea999 I could see that working well.

Haha there might be in the back of some training books. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have. It might help anyone else reading the comments aswell. I often forget what language is specific to the industry 😅

Hahah, thanks Lenoard!

@@zaccheus 🤙🤙👌👍👍😊