Taglines.

Another year has commenced, and I haven't been posting much, although I have been climbing quite a bit, so that is a good thing. Maybe it's a cop-out. Maybe a resolution is in order, but I'm not trying to make any promises I can't keep, so I'll leave it at that. A nice selfie, and some thoughts for the day.

I have been contract climbing in Forkston this past week on a project that has been on going for a few years. Selective thinning of the woodlot, mostly for the firewood resource.  On my end, lots of aerial felling, especially with the use of a tagline for added control throughout the felling process.  The canopy is dense enough to typically have an alternate anchor in a nearby tree while working the spar of the removal at hand from gaffs and lanyard.  SRT work positioning both with basal and canopy anchors has been employed in most cases.

But it's the tagline that amazes me, as I'm able to time and again pull over large tops through tight felling lanes with just the right amount of leverage and tension. Simple physics, and it just never gets old.