Yard work and safe chain usage?

What he said!!!!!!

 

I thought you guys might like to see some pics of what I've been working on lately. I've been cutting down some trees on our 5 acres that were too close to our house. On Saturday, I brought in the pros to cut down a 75' tall white oak that was about 50' from our house. The tree measured 42" in diameter when I measured the stump-a little much for me to cut with my 18" Stihl FarmBoss 290 saw... They used a around a 40" bar Stihl Magnum-not sure of the exact model, but they cut through it like nothing. After cutting it, they winched the 3 sections of the main log into a more level area so I could work on cutting it up (or have someone else cut it up).

I wish I had my camera handy Saturday morning when they came out. They attempted to pull their bucket truck into the other side of the yard to trim up another tree and managed to get their truck stuck. I hooked up to their truck in 4lo diff lock engaged and tried to pull them out using one of their recovery straps. I had no luck-my truck just dug four holes. They had brought out some heavy mats to put in the yard to prevent the truck from sinking (which they should have used to begin with). We put those under my truck at all four tires and tried again. This time it pulled their truck right out and up onto their mats. I was pretty impressed my little truck was able to pull out their big bucket truck

BTW, I did NOT use the chain to move any of the large trunk sections as the logging chain I have is only rated to 2600 lbs.

 

I wanna see the bragging pic (the one where you're towing them out)!

Would a kinetic rope (and a run up) have worked?

 

from one student to another...exactly.

a chain by itself will store little to no energy. the reason it would recoil would be if it is attached to something with elastic properties (winch line, tow strap, etc)

 

Like I said, I didn't have the camera with me at the time so no pic

 

i am a civil engineer in the construction biz. GREAT THREAD! i have done the very same thing. the dangers with chains and rigging (from what i have seen) is not the chain, but more so with the attachment points. those chains that come with hooks on the ends? some of those hooks are designed to only be hooked back onto itself and NOT onto the load.

i use Round slings (with shackles), which are readily available on my jobsites. great to have in a 4x4. i gave my bro one, and he tossed everything else.