Tree Felling Swing Line Explained

[00:00:00]bunch of weight hooks back over here.

[00:00:03]And when you combine that with the incredible amount of lean downhill, see how it goes out over the fence. So those factors plus that it's big leaf maple, which is quite brittle on the stump. The wood is not very hingy, breaks easy, mean that I have set up a compensation pole back to my skid steer. It's more of a swing line at this point.

[00:00:32]I threw it over a big crotch up there that you can't really see through the brush. And then I base tied it here with a running bowl in.

[00:00:41]And I put a fair bit of tension on it.

[00:00:45]And now I will make a face cut out this way.

[00:00:52]And then make a back cut with more wood on the left side where I need it to hold. And I'll swing this right in here.

[00:01:01]Without these steps, I would likely cream the fence long ways. If I tried to do this with no rope and uh no compensation pulling, I got into yellow jackets over here and had to pause everything and kill them. This is fairly tight here. So, this disallows it from wrecking the fence. Even if I did sort of a botchy cut down here and it and it wasn't um proper, this would come tight as the tree drifted down and and it would pull it this way. So, this tree is going to drop right out in here. When I very first got into this, well, when I started to become worthy to take uh residential tree jobs, it was because of logging jobs for the company I worked for where we had property lines and power lines and stuff. And I would always take on these trees that I would pull down with compensation doing things like swing lines and and various uh pulling over back leans and stuff.

[00:02:13]So, it still comes in handy although I haven't really done any logging for a lot of years.

[00:02:37]Heat.

[00:02:58]Heat.

[00:03:19]I brought this corner up to I want I want some hinge all the way across. So I stopped here and then I left this fat and then I sort of poked out the middle.

[00:03:32]leaving a little bit of hinge. It was It was more about the swing line though to to get it in that spot with that amount of lean and whatnot right there in the hole.

[00:03:50]See, this is tight. Still tight all the way down. So the swing line was was in use as the tree fell that when that brittle when that brittle wood broke the swing line kept it over here where we needed it. This right here is a mun technically.

[00:04:14]I can always get it untied afterwards, but it it comes together like this. I don't need to pull up to the end of the line. I just get a loop about so long and I pull it tight. Then I go around both of those and back through.

[00:04:39]See, now this it it bites on on this right here. Some guys will even use something like this to repel. They'll do something like this through their carabiner and and you can actually repel using something like this. But if you let go of it with your hand, you fall.

[00:04:58]And then um but when I'm pulling I I I want a little more.

[00:05:04]So I have the double bite, which I guess would be called a double mter if I'm right. And you could go from there into another one if you wanted, but double is enough. So then it's just couple half hitches.

[00:05:22]I'll do that again. Whether you go over or under isn't so important. Go over this time.

[00:05:30]Then around like this and back through like this.

[00:05:37]Then as you come over it, you're just going to bite it again like this using this spot here.

[00:05:46]See, that's strong. With two half hitches, that ain't going nowhere. But if you're worried about it, how tight you're going to pull it, and the fact that you'd want to get it untied later.

[00:05:59]So, the longer you postpone the half hitches, cuz those are the ones that'll get real tight on you. So, if you want to go around again, then now we got a triple MTER. Uh the tensioning of the knot is all going to be happening in here and it's not even going to get to these two half hitches.

[00:06:19]So you could pull on this with a ship or something and get it crazy tight, but you'd still be able to come over here and loosen these half hitches if you have enough muners to take up the tension. Cuz once the half hitches are off, this just comes right out. Some may have wondered why the high stump in that situation and it was because I wanted to move the pivot point because if I had cut it low then I would have given the tree would have been trying to reach further that way and thus it would be putting more force on the swing line and thus it would have swung more to the left. So, by moving the the stump cut up a little bit, I forced it to pivot in a shorter uh in a shorter radius. There's more that could be said about this, but I guess I have hopefully more days to show you things.