Rotten Tree....safe to climb ?
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- 1 of 3 trees from a mornings work. Couldn't fall the tree without first cutting down several others. Diagonal fencing prevented also made it awkward. So I said I could take the tree down in sections.
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I know you say your videos aren't for instruction but, I've been watching your videos going on 13 years now and the amount I've learned from that is monumental. Just want to say Thanks
Same except the 13 years lol 😂
Me too, and enjoying the understatement & humor. Ongoing thanks, to Reg.
Same, thank you.
# me too. Cheers Reg. Thanks
The way you quietly consider each move, and let gravity do the hard work, is impressive. Almost a zen quality to the work flow, little wasted energy.
Thanks for giving us all this great advice for free. I know you have paid for that knowledge with many gallons of sweat
When you decide to retire you can absolutely be the next David Attenborough and narrate shows. You have the voice of an angel haha
"Lets have a look at what we were tied into....not a lot" 😄Calm and cool as always. Thanks for posting. Always love learning from your work. Your skill and demeanor are top shelf.
I don't understand how he's so calm while inspecting that tie in...
@@jackberdine Agreed. As a recovering hot head, these videos are therapy for me. He's also calm when tired and in hairy situations. Unreal. I'm trying to change
@@greenfeetmowingco same bruh. i use my anger as fuel like im anakin skywalker haha. easy way to burn out or make rash decisions. he's an anomoly.
"I'm not trying to add fake drama" he says... from the top of a bloody rotten old tree... I think we can all agree the drama is glaringly real! 🤣
Your calm, measured and thoughtful approach to what looks like a horror of a task is instructional beyond the world of tree work. Love the insights into the tree's condition too, fascinating. Thank you for taking the time to share.
The level of skill, knowledge, experience never gets old or boring to watch. Great tip on the larger saw
Thank you Reg !!! Always great to see one of yours pop up ❤
I like it when I get solo work now a days. There is no anxiety to be in a rush. The work seems to melt away. Some of those dead ones really make me feel alive. Thanks for sharing Reg. Have a beautiful rest of your week sir, and folks.
Cheers Reg, great video as always
Love from the UK 🇬🇧 ❤️ 🪓
I have a a huge appreciation for the smooth ascent .. joe from California
I've been watching Reg's videos for years and I can't say I remember ever seeing him use a tag line or a wedge to fell a log.
I was wrong - 6 years ago - "Tree Falling, Stopping a huge Log"
Thank you, interesting. When we were on holiday in the Lake District in the 1970s, our Dad showed us how to set up a resonance with dead Birch, giving them a little push and watching the swing, and pushing just at the right time to amplify the rocking motion.He regularly managed to get the top to fall off the stem, sometimes the whole tree would fall. Your gentle pulling on the top of that Fir reminded me of that. I'm currently writing my autobiography and need to add that anecdote.
Love ur vids Reg. Much respect
I'm aware that you understand what you're doing, but still glad to see that you're still with us Reg!
Wish we could havea video from you every day reg, think i've watched the whole catalogue 3 or 4 times over now xD Great work as always
Great job Reg, I always look forward to your videos! 🎯
Awesome video Reg! thanks for a ll the great content!
Always enjoy your videos! Thanks and hope all is well with your tooths and the climbing device project!
Thanks Reg. So glad to see this level of detail. I'll go through it a few times and make some notes. Great information for my tool box. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I do enjoy your videos. I find them very informative and I like the way that you work very methodically.
Love the Assessment process!
Thanks for sharing 🤙 love your videos👍
Good to see that you’re taking your time and being cautious. Probably the only way to proceed on trees such as this one.
I really enjoyed the way you dismantled all the decay ! Wow what a nervous job in the beginning.. great coverage with camera angles too !
Great explanation on punky wood. And knowing limitations of said wood.
I can’t wait to try that new device and I hope to see it on the market soon ! Cheers Reg
Thank you Reg good stuff as always.
I love getting off work and watching a reg video.. I get so excited reg God bless you my friend hope all is well you're always in my prayers God bless
Top notch Reg. Cool 👍
Such a great idea!!! Your amazing, I learn so much from you make climbing big trees with the utmost respect and safety in mind... thanks so much Reg!
One of the best fella's out there, Thanks for filming your work for our entertainment. I learned quite a bit from watching your videos which made/makes me a better climber.
Nice and steady Sir thanks for the video Reg
Once again very informative, thank you. David UK.
Great job Reg
I learn something every time.
Thank you Reg that was awesome sir.
enjoyed that one. best one in a while. thanks reg.
Certainly a lot of vegetation on those trees, great footage and aerial views. I certainly admire and have a great deal of gratitude for you tree guys. I prefer my feet on the ground, limbing and bucking the stems for firewood. Nature is certainly very beautiful and wonderous. Thank you again, Mr. Reg Coates!
Yer calmness bro. Thanx always good vids
Grear video! Thank you Sir!
Thanks for the trunk strain test. Although I am a structural engineer, I missed that one in my approach. I was just climbing and waiting for the bang :D. Sometimes I drilled holes to see what's inside, but it's easy to miss a weak spot
Nice job reg 👍🏻
Thank you 🙏, good stuff
Thanks Reg! That was fun...
Absolute best of the best 🙏🙌
Thank you Reg ,Warrington UK
Run into sap rot a lot on the east coast USA. Never saw it in Cali. Crazy how much they can hold while 20% of the tree girth is coming off with each gaff. Terrifying at first. Very strange judgement call, but experience helps and that comparative movement analysis you did at the beginning also helps a lot. I frequently think about recent storms and go out and watch trees in storms for reference.
I tell ya it really adds a stress too a days of work (removing dead trees) !😔😕
Excellent!
Nothing like climbing a tall breadstick to sharpen your focus. 👍
I wouldn't have climbed that tree myself unless another tree next to it to hang climb rope on. Nice to see you do it logically tho that ivy really gets in way of seeing what the work is and any climb lines!
Yeah I wouldn't have either I'd be too sketched out for sure. Fair play to reg for doing it.
Dang brother there was a lot of dust in some of the cuts but knowing what your looking at is the difference great call 👊
I like your reasoning
Great pre climb test
Thanks for a really informative expert-level video Reg. Maybe the subtitle could be 'climbing healthy fungi '
Keep your Parachute With Ya Mate, At All Times. 😁🤗🤗😎😎😎🙂😉😃😇. With All That Ground Cover, """""Vines"""" . It Looks Like They'll Be Calling You Again. The Vines Kill The Trees. Climb That Tree Like A Stealthy Cat!!!!! """"""""Nice Job Reg!!!!!!!! Love Watching. That Stuff Would Make Good Campfire Wood. Vines And All!!!
G'day Reg, correcting your English you don't hear that very often these days, nice shot with the line at the start by the way 👍.
It’s not my style….we all love your style and the accent, take care cheers from Luxembourg 🇱🇺 europe
I wish reg I could think like you do a lot of the times I sat there and I over-think what if what if what if I've been trying to train my mind not to I just sometimes depend on the situation and what tree I'm doing I always think what if The way you think and the way you move in the tree is so smooth it is absolutely amazing. If there was one person I could meet it would be you and that's the God's truth
Nice video
Reg "Lionheart" aka "Steelheart" aka "Big Cajones" aka "The Fearless One" Coates
@Reg did you see the wild saddle that August just built?
One of the words we use down my way to describe the rotted wood you were showing us is 'Punky'. It burns pretty ugly and stinky also. Liked your reading of what that tree was like on the inside.🤘😎✌️
No I didnt see that
Reg is so cool.
now this one was rlly bad! jeeez glad youre safe
Can you do a video of your SRT set up sometime? Great video as always stay safe ✔️
I see your using your New ascender / decender 😊
Much appreciated! Keep the content coming. I learn every time. What are you thoughts about solo work in terms of safety?
As an owner/operator I think working alone is ok, so long as you know your limitations and accept any added risk and consequences. As an employer I dont think its fair to put that on employees as you have a responsibility to make their environment as safe as practically possible. Having someone stood there watching me climb that dead tree certainly wouldn't make me any safer and neither would I want to put it on someone else if the situation turned bad. Fire fighters can do the recovery out, they trained and well rehearsed at that kind if thing. I obviously carry responsibilities as a father and husband too but my work practices decisions are always based on logic not emotion.
be safe... great work.. still don't like you working solo though... my gut says you'll be fine, but still... strange things happen in this biz
Thanks Dan, stranger things seem to happen with groups of workers too. No cleanup on this job so paying someone to stand there watching seems like a waste of money that I cant afford to just give away.
nope, nopety nope nope nope... yer braver then me Reg, course I'm also twice as heavy lol.
Thank you Reg for another great video.
I always appreciate your commentary on safety and reasoning. My biggest concern after you discussed the spar would have been any root rot but I guess you eliminated that by hooking the top with your rope and pulling on the tree before you started climbing.
Correct?
Yes, the pull test was a good indicator
@@Recoates Thank you for your response Reg
Very interesting stuff Reg. As a new climber your videos are priceless :) I was up some dead trees the other week and used a similar logic. Will your new device be available over the pond in Blighty when it is released? Will you announce when it will be hitting the shop shelves?
Ill have updates on the device here on TH-cam. There's actually 2, I just haven't shown the second yet, which might actually be available before the one in the videos. Its an arduous, drawn out process, especially where other people are involved, but will.come to fruition one way or another.
Hey I got those same spurs is there a spur ascender that is made for them?
That was cool! Have not climbed any firs, usually just dead cottonwoods here in Colorado. Since you started with a basal tie, does that become your retrieval as you work your way down srt?
The base tie became redundant as soon as I got to the top, because I pulled all the hanging part of the line up and the choked the end to work off
Hey mate, where do ya climb in colorado? How do you find working there? I'm from england like reg but my wife is from colorado. May end up there in a few years
@@Jay-lr3me How are ya? I work the front range of Colorado and now mainly in Colorado Springs. For broad trees we have Cottonwoods, Siberian Elm. Honey Locust,and Silver Maple. For single stem we have Ponderosa Pine, Spruce and at higher elevations Douglas Fir. I do miss climbing the mighty Oaks, but what can ya do?
Great Video! This is what I noticed this time around: you used a running bowline knot and attached your ascend / descend, mechanical device and used it as a secondary attachment to come down with. Like a second safety device?
top footage Reg an well done again , Just a thought but would it be feasible to use a drone to drop a line in , or check the set ? i know there a lot more affordable these days .
That would be tricky. Keeping the line out of the rotors in particular
Great video. Was that Ganoderma on the other limb that had snapped out already? And on the tree you were climbing?
Hi Reg, in a scenario where your throw bag were to get snagged in something like this, how would you go about retrieving it/getting a line in? Cheers
Firstly Id use the stuck throwline to perform the same pull test, but probably more severely in the hope it might pull free. Then Id contemplate putting a second line up, as it would be unlikely anyway to get a line stuck when you are shooting right over the top of the tree. However, if it did seem likely that I might get the second line stuck Id just have to spur up there.
Wow, I'm still working at 70. Don't think I could stare down a rotten tree
The bracket fungi looked like Ganoderma australe? a selective white rotting parasitic fungi leaving behind the soft mushy wood after it degrades the lignin (which is responsible for the woods rigidity)
Looks like Ganoderma but not sure the type. Not usually that colorful here and is mostly a butt rot.
@@RecoatesThanks Reg. It looked like some brackets were much higher up the stem
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Hey Reg can you explain how you descended at the end? Double rope around the stem with no choker, was it on a ledge? Thanks for the video! I like that idea for getting a feel for the wood while on the ground. God bless.
There was a stub on the back side so i was able to descend double line
@@Recoates thank you sir!
Also reg I see you did not work your way up from the bottom taking the branches off in your opinion if you would have took the branches off on your way up would it have made the tree stronger or weaker just curious thank you God bless
The strength would remain the same. The difference is that the tree is more susceptible to oscillating *moving* when the branches are removed. By cutting top down, he eliminates the risk of being at the top of the spar when the tree is more susceptible to movement. Sometimes the force of a tree oscillating can be enough to cause a fracture.
If you think about it, are you more balanced when you have your arms stretched out to the side or tucked in beside you? The same applies with trees.
@@shdj1105 that makes perfect sense thank you so very much
Hi Reg, when you saw what you were tied into and said " not a lot", what did you think?, I know if the rotten bit had broke your rope would have slipped to a lower limb, I'm just being nosey, basically I wondered if you thought " phew" or something similar.Thanks for the content, always appreciated and respected.
I didn't really think anything about that, because it wasn't a surprise. I was thinking about a $1400 dental bill that I have to pay this morning
@@Recoates Jesus Murphy, I'm going grab a pan, run outside and give a good post pandemic bang for the NHS. Thanks Reg.
F-ing English ivy, that needed to stay at home! You're a fine import, however, Reg!
Do you deal with poison ivy where you are? I live in the Midwest (USA) and have several dead oak trees that need to come down but they are covered with poison ivy
i do sometimes wonder if you'd be better making a gap in a fence to fall a tree through. were possible that is.
I recon a mended fence after the job is cheaper than a broken neck.
The fence ran diagonal across the fall path, so it would've been a lot more than just a hole. And evidently my neck is fine for another day
@@Recoates
Oh I see, I only mentioned it because I happen to be in the middle of putting some paddock fencing up.
the idea of taking out the old posts was sort of annoying till I got stuck in and then it didn't seem so bad.
sort of made me wonder if you'd ever chogged down a tree on account of not wanting the hassle of shifting part of a fence.
Making sure I get this correctly, once you reached the top you layarded in, removed your climbing device from the line (guessing it's a midline attachable device like akimbo/roperunner/hitch+ropewrench), pulled up the tail of the line to you and used the tail of the line as a spar tie-in (leaving the base-tie in place) and then installing your climbing device back on the line? Guess that'd only work when blocking down a tree, would be awkward to go for a limb walk with you tail still tied to the base ;)
Ahhh... A master class in f*** that lolz
I think I'm the only person on the planet who shoots my slingshot with the pouch and bag on top rather than underneath. Found it interesting wobbling the stem back and forth. I would have been scared to do that and it breaks and takes out the fence. Do you take extra gas and oil up with you when you solo? If so, any pro tips on how much, container type etc?
If I thought I needed extra gas I would, but in this case it didn't look like it. We use MSR camping gas bottles to carry fuel in the trees. If the top had collapsed on the fence due to me testing it with a line then I think it would have been a fair sacrifice than finding out the hard way that it was in fact too weak to take my weight.
reg do you like that husqvarana helmet? mine got broken and im looking for a new one. i was wearing kask super plasma before
No, its quite annoying. Visor becomes unhinged at the slightest bumb
@@Recoates thanks. I'm sadly not surprised to hear that. Thanks for your videos. I appreciated the insight about working from the top down in order to keep stability in a rotten tree. I know lions tailing makes things a bit more dynamic. But I've never put two and two together 😂 cheers 👍
This was super scary. Climbing without a lanyard, not knowing how well or poor is the line attached to the top. Can you please explain why you did not use lanyard when climbing? Stay safe! I love your videos.
Probably because all of the branches, and like he said at the top, even if it did drop, he would only fall a few feet before the line snagged onto something else - all the branches at the top.
vines would have made that a nightmare...I don't see anyone using lanyards when ascending srt
So you kept your basal anchor but worked off the other side on a running bowline once you reached the top?
Yes, not much brush accumulated at the base, so it was easy enough to access and untie when I got down
Is the ivy parasitic the cause of the tree dying? 🤔🇬🇧
Doubt it mate, but it certainly doesn't help the tree either
How did you switch from srt to being tied into the spar with no helper?
Listen again at 2:50
@@Recoates thanks
Hey Reg, how's the mechanical prusik project coming along?
Great. Weighs about the same as rope runner pro. Just experimenting with some last minute tweaks to make sure I haven't overlooked anything that could be advantageous.
@@Recoates
👍 It will be nice to see it come to market sometime soon!
@@Recoates will it work in drt ? Or solely for srt? I’d be interested in buying one
Apologies, I commented half way through the video then watched you rappel down on double rope haha. That answers my question
@@adventurecub7687 It will do whatever you want but technically might only be certified for for SRT due to the specific standards criteria. That side of things is a bit of a minefield.
Be nice to send up a mini drone for a quick check. 5 minutes.
Nothing in particular to say right now. Just commenting to add to any Coates-positive algorithm 👍 (Of course this was more gold for free 😁)
Why not fall it what was the reason for ascending to dismantle
Because of a fence and other trees in the way as stated in the description and start of the video
Which climbing device are you using Sir Reg
One that I made