Climbing and Rigging

Mismatch Cut & Drop Cut

This Climbing and Rigging Podcast has two parts: 1. Rip demonstrates how a mismatch cut can help to remove a branch that’s too big to handle on your own, but too small to set up rigging by using a mismatch cut. 2. Rip and Ken show some of the cautions about using a classic drop cut for removing a large limb.

Hinge Cut & Lifting Cut

This Climbing and Rigging Podcast has two parts: 1. Ken demonstrates how to use a face notch to cause a limb to swing in a desired direction after cutting. 2. Ken and Rip show how to use a face notch to lift a limb during rigging operations.

Chain Saw Safety in the Tree

Rip and Ken discuss basic chain saw safety while in a tree. The accompanying quiz covers this episode plus the episodes Making a Felling Plan, Working the Felling Plan, Felling with Forward Lean, Limbing, and Bucking. (A,T,L,Bp)

Bucking

Rip demonstrates different bucking techniques in the tree removal process to safely cut a tree trunk into shorter, manageable sections.

Limbing

Ken demonstrates how to properly cut different tree limbs from a fallen tree so that you avoid injury yourself and your equipment.