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Post by loggersdaughter on Jul 6, 2012 10:21:41 GMT -8
 You have to look close to see him. He is all the way up in the top of the tree on the right, you can barely make him out leaning out away from the tree. |
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Post by loggersdaughter on Jul 6, 2012 10:26:51 GMT -8
 Here is another photo that shows him just getting started up the tree, shows a little more of his rigging. |
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Post by slurrydog on Jul 7, 2012 5:50:33 GMT -8
What a great picture
Dave
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Post by tufftin on Jul 7, 2012 5:55:54 GMT -8
Getting to be a lost art.
Mike
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Post by loggersdaughter on Jul 7, 2012 8:38:28 GMT -8
Mike, do they do much high climbing anymore.
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Post by tufftin on Jul 8, 2012 8:00:20 GMT -8
There are a few around but it's pretty much a lost art. When they started building steel tubes for the yarders the demand for climbers fell abruptly. I have a friend in Washington that still climbs and he is used often to "top" trees on private properties where they don't have room to fall the entire tree.
There are still the climbers at the logging shows racing from the ground up a slick spar tree about 100 feet or so off the ground. Ring a bell when they reach the top and do an almost free fall to the ground. It's exciting to watch.
I guess I should have started with the old days but........in the day the boss would pick a site and a nice, sound, tall tree for the rigging and then a climer would scale the tree, de-limbing as he went and then fasten all the rigging blocks for the cablres near the top. They were kept quite busy as the old steam donkies moved often so when the setting was being logged, the rigging crew was off setting up a new site.
Hope this helps.
Mike
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Post by loggersdaughter on Jul 8, 2012 12:13:31 GMT -8
Oh yes,,thanks for the info. I haven't been up around a logging site for some years now. So many things are changing and disappearing.
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