Dead Tree, Coming down

I cut down a dead Maple Tree

[@WaynePolcin]

One of the most prominent characteristics I’ve observed about you as you work is that every movement you make is slow and deliberate. That is a skill I admire and desire to emulate! It’s as if all the rules were designed for the vast majority of us who just can’t wait to get the job done and do not give careful thought to every movement. Great video, Reg!

[@Boomer_in_the_Trees]

That's well stated. I've watched this video now a dozen times just to drill into my head the way he moves so smoothly and seamlessly through the tree in hopes of emulating even a portion of it.

[@bradcordle7743]

A humble and very gifted arborist. Thanks for taking the time out of your jobs and sometimes leisure time to bring us (the KZbin world) up the stem and on your journey’s. Out of the hundreds of company’s and arborist I’ve watched on here over the years, you have to be my favorite. You never speak without genuinely trying to help someone. Happy Father’s Day Reg from the lower 48!

[@andyp8752]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the awesome throttle control! Every cut he makes the chain comes out pretty much stationary 👌

[@davidelko9864]

I've watched several of your videos you have very good work habits. I can see you work same as you speak calm yet forceful your a good man. I agree with your views on everything you've be talking about, I've learned much from you thank you. I've got my harnesses and ropes and going to take down a 100 foot pine tomorrow, I do trust my equipment

[@shanejongebloed3590]

Couldn’t believe my eyes, another video from our man Reg………2 in a week. Simple, methodical and safe. Another enjoyable vid. Thanks Reg and thanks to ‘Jay’ for the job referral.

[@dan-dan-da-treeman]

You inspire figuring out sketchy trees. Thanks for all sharing of your thought process. Your voice is in my head every time I'm in the nasty ones. I hope you have a great weekend. I send my respect and love tree brother. You can't not except either. 🤙

[@robh3267]

By easy you mean familiar because nothing you do is easy but it definitely is amazing thanks for the video.

[@yetisteps8200]

Kia ora from New Zealand. Just wanted to point out how grateful I am of your exceptional throttle control Reg, I get a lot from your videos but I don't get sore ears. Always pleasurable watching a true professional climber at work. Cheers

[@kevinc.8869]

Kia Ora!

[@petehendry4756]

Reg coats . THE best .

[@Triplaglol]

Gorgeous weather and an awesome tree job, what a pleasure to watch, thanks Reg.

[@richardminchin5415]

Thanks. Every vid has a nugget of wisdom earned from experience. This no exception. Really grateful for your efforts in putting these together.

[@whitleyjohnson29]

Thank you for your videos Reg, I learn something new every time. This time was hanging a bag of gear up in the tree.. so simple but never thought to do it. 👌🏼 My favorite part of the whole video though, was that you decided to keep in the clip of you flicking the bug off. 🤣🤣

[@bonesthenorthwoodswarriors1854]

Just want to comment to up the video as much as possible, thanks for another superb video Reg, hope your family is doing well mate.

[@samspade9980]

Only a true professional makes the insane look easy. My hat is off to you good sir.

[@jeremywoundy5346]

Giant ice cream after a hard days work is exactly my kinda day. Thanks for the video!

[@kingslew1866]

Thanks Reg! Thanks for taking the time to do the videos. Well done, by the way. The music was tasteful and just enough. You helped me solve a situation that I have coming up that was eluding me, I always get something from your vids, but they're enjoyable on their own despite being elucidating and educational. Thanks again!

[@daveaskin1333]

Very grateful for your taking time to share. Closeups on Hitches... always appreciated. Thankyou.

[@marksmith9295]

Well earned ice cream Reg! Your comfort in the hardwoods is obvious as is your skill. Thanks for sharing.

[@dougroberts3643]

I can balance real good in my sleep also because I'm lying down. It's when I'm awake and standing that gives me a problem.

[@tomlorenzen4062]

It's always nice when the customers wait till the bark is falling off to decide to cut their tree down. I always ask them- what's your hurry?

[@kevinc.8869]

Money.

[@colsinclair7793]

For The time you take to make these vids! thank you👍🏻

[@chrisa1250]

Many thanks for the great video, music and comments Reg. I learn lots from each one. Much respect!

[@twoeagledrones]

Always a joy to watch you work.

[@NHlocal]

Reg, I appreciate you posting up a bit of your work. It takes extra time and effort to do that, thank you. Cheers and keep yourself safe. 😎👍❤️🌲 Randy

[@Boomer_in_the_Trees]

That was amazing to watch. I have no words.

[@paulmorin2582]

Another great video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insights, Reg.

[@alanhutchins4233]

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to make the video, interesting and informative.

[@smev4341]

Thanks for the vid. Always a pleasure to watch. Yes I was thinking of now moving to SRT as I’m not getting any younger at 53. So I’m looking into the rope wrench and tree runner and the kimbo. So will look forward to your videos on that. Anyhow enjoy your ice cream and catch up later.

[@waynecroom535]

A craftsman is well worth his pay. And the proof is in this video. Thanks Reg.

[@brianfloyd8033]

Nicely done as usual!! Thanks for sharing buddy

[@charlesmercer1975]

Thanks for sharing. Well done and fairly priced

[@area46241]

Fantastic video! Treestuff good stuff. Thank you for showing how it's done

[@basedtonto]

Nicely done. Thank you for showing us.

[@bonzey1171]

Nice one Reg. Always nice to be able to tie in above the work on a crispy old snag

[@willkirke4312]

Great to see reg back doing tree videos . For me the best ones and only ones I genuinely want to watch . 👍 many thanks

[@gambianzambian]

lone wolf legend .. I thoroughly enjoy watching your vids , please keep em comming . Also pleased to hear you got yr sen a hound , you deserve one . All the best ..

[@skogsmats]

Heck of a tree, can realy understand wh ynot liked to have lanyard/second support in it. Nice work as always in your videos. Be safe.

[@claytonmorrow1966]

Great video's and a GREAT Work ethic Thank you . You are the kind of person that makes the world go with the can do attitude like the harmless farmer on KZbin again great video's thank you and all your hard work.

[@vespasian266]

K' I'm goin gettin my ice cream.. well deserved Reg.

[@c42cly]

Interesting stuff, handy having the pine to work from above. Thanks for the insights!

[@norbaggar]

Thank you! A legend, and true inspiration. 👍

[@br-dj2ti]

Another video thanks buddy stay safe my friend God-bless

[@gerritvanwilligen]

Thanks for the video. Much appreciated. Great choice in music in this video, by the way 👍😃

[@neightjay]

All the best. Thanks Reg.

[@waynebfr8953]

Very good explaining the job etc thanks stay safe 👍🏼

[@jamesglenn2006]

That was a real decent price for a good bit of work 👍 You make it look easy 🍻

[@billbliss2500]

Love what you do!

[@br-dj2ti]

I can't wait for the rope runner video I'm excited buddy no matter what I know you always tell the truth a 100% that's the type of man you are I don't even know you and I can tell God-bless you my friend stay safe

[@ronburke]

Good to see ya Reg, Another fine job as usual.

[@petercossburn9768]

Nice job reg srt is definitely the way forward for solo climbing as you dont have to worry about fouling your rope with brash. Love the sig fuel bottle for refueling, going to get myself one of them

[@kram7917]

Awesome skills. watched this several times. respect

[@alfadoofus]

Thanks for putting in the extra effort into the camera work in the start of the vid , the perspective it gave makes it look easy, which it's not . Congrats on the getting a dog :)

[@nelligan1531]

Love your vids, will always appreciate our time working together w/ bob. keep well!

[@IanT372]

Thanks for always being awesome Reg!

[@jerrysmith376]

Amazing balance on those long skinny shakey limb walks

[@boxedowl]

Good video. Music was a nice touch, especially as this one was a bit longer. I also appreciate you taking the time to explain the why behind your decisions.

[@wicklamulla]

serene location, weather and views.

[@rogerford4427]

Very nice video. Stay humble, and not indeed to others. Life in it self is very complex.

[@TBPollock]

Kind of a grim, supremely confident and competent man. Hard to imagine him as a husband and father. I'd want him on my side in any dire circumstance, that's for sure.

[@neild7971]

Grim? He is working. I would actually put engaging, caring/thoughtful, artful and even humorous before grim from what I have seen in these vids

[@calvinwoodman6116]

AND FUNNY at times video at his home one time with Blower demo ( cleaning house up ) 😅🤣🌅👍

[@TBPollock]

@@neild7971 Not to mention, cheerful, brave, clean and reverent.

[@TheToolnut]

He's very North of England.

[@LookNook2020]

Another great video!

[@boyse69]

Good to see you looking well Reg

[@Tsjoni]

What a humongous maple 😰! 👏 👊 I have always troubles with these kind of dead trees, that the sawoil is not enough, the sawdust gets ’burned’ to the chain, and then sawing is a pain in the butt… I raise my hat, sir! Nice one!

[@ishure8849]

G'day Reg, nice job you looked liked you had a hard earned thirst 👍🇦🇺.

[@eliseo3500]

Thanks Mr Coates , very self explanatory. No need of redirect just a bunch of balance keep u the good work Sr

[@briankennedy1313]

What in the hell would a redirect accomplish? He was walking about not using a lanyard to triangulate when your tie in has you already positioned. You know all the srt lingo, you get it, you’re down with it.

[@notyouraveragearborist1135]

Fuel in the tinny is a great idea for those long ones 👌🏻

[@nottstrees]

Thanks for posting reg, you made that look easy and we all know its not, looking so comfortable aswell

[@skogsmats]

Almost like yoga 😂, zenlike, nothing wihout a reason.

[@shug831]

You make it look easy but there's a lot of skilful rope work + the strength required to do that all day.

[@julianalderson6996]

Thats a great price. For them. Lot done cheers much respect bro.

[@jesusischrist1527]

One day I was working on a massive self support tower up in South Carolina and I was safetied off to a wind lacer behind me and the climbing face in front of me simultaneously and I slipped , fell and was hanging in the center of the tower at around the half way point of the because of my lanyards ... One was hooked behind me and I couldn't reach far enough forward to unhook from the climbing face and because I was hooked to the climbing face I couldn't reach far enough behind me to unhook from the wind lacer haha .. I was stuck floating almost 200ft in the air and had to have some one climb up to unhook my safety from behind me before I could do anything else haha.. I was literally stuck half way up the tower because of my safety hooks ... After that I decided to stop using both my safeties at the same time which made it a lot easier to work and climb around but unfortunately the day came in 2009 down in Louisiana when that bad decision caught up with me and I ended up falling off the tower completely and even though I was only at the first flange (20ft off the ground) , it still broke me up pretty bad ... After I got out of the hospital that job was shut down because of my fall and we ended up going to change guide wires on a 250ft guide tower in Alabama just two days after falling in Louisiana and I was at the top of the tower with a cast on my right leg (took me forever to climb up wearing a cast on my leg haha) but I finally got up to the top of the tower and started breaking the old guidewire free and I be darned if I didn't fall again but this time I was wearing both safeties which saved my life that day .... The point of all of this is - when you think it's okay to NOT wear your safeties and be 100% tied off is when you need it the most and no matter how aggravating they are and how much of a pain in the butt it is to climb up and down unhooking your safeties , stay 100% saftied off because the day will come when you wish you had of (if you survive) and I was blessed enough to not have died down in Louisiana that day and had I wore my safeties that day it would have saved me from a lot of pain and suffering because once my leg and foot healed up I still suffered not just from all the hospital bills but especially from all the embarrassment from falling and having to hear about it everytime someone even just mentioned anything about the possibility of a fall for the next 9 or 10 years after that haha ... Your safeties slow you down and can become a huge aggravating headache but you have to have them no matter if your 20ft or 200ft , a fall on your back or neck from more than 4 or 5 feet can kill you much less a fall from 20-30 ft and especially from off a radio or cell tower at 200 or even 2000ft , but even just falling from that tree and landing on a bunch of jagged rocks , a fence post or even just landing on all the small tree branches you've already cut and thrown down can become a spear and go all the way through you so make sure you stay 100% safetied off at all times no matter how slow or aggravating it is okay ... be blessed and stay safe out there my friends ...

[@TimberTrainer]

High ties are great. Lanyards on sketchy material can be dangerous. I use a small loop of Dynaglide for work positioning on hazardous trees. It's strong enough to hold position, but will breakaway in an emergency.

[@stevepalmer4072]

Great job again Reg.

[@markroth9827]

Thank you for your video.

[@julianalderson6996]

Love ya vids, altho takin fuel up, puttin groundys outa work, cheers

[@mute7116]

Hehe...30 years and still pluggin' on the crappers...props, man.

[@MrBernie101]

Nice one Reg, I thought I was there working with you. I needed a lie down at the end of the vid. I liked the way you negotiated those power lines and a few other nuisance's. Also the fuel flask, to top up the top handle. All that you do, oozes 30 years plus experience. That's why I and I suspect, the thousands of others just love watching you at work. Just one quick inquiry, The tie in point in the Fir, did you have to climb back up to release it, or have you got a remote release method. Thanx once again, Bernie SW Wales UK

[@gustavo-tree_work.relative]

Great climb reg.. work position at its finest

[@br-dj2ti]

I truly wish you could start a climbing school I would be the 1st one there to learn from you it would be amazing

[@emandeli1585]

Found your videos, showing my kids. Fascinating, dangerous as heck, super scary for me to watch (fear of heights). very interesting videos! Looked at the "About" section and says you are in Victoria (we are Ladysmith :)

[@Recoates]

Ladysmith, beautiful little town. Nice to hear from you. I actually made a video on fear if heights. You might take something from it. Just scroll back down the list.

[@ricardoarrais6910]

very good mastery of space and time - like someone who has done this before. Very good video!

[@ricardoarrais6910]

And at the end a requiem to a tre

[@Bibibosh]

Im 32 and i have been a machinist for 16 years. Its the only thing i know and i do it well. I am safe and cautious and i sometimes take risks and I haven't been seriously hurt. Metal doesn't forgive neither does gravity. People can get tangled up in situations that humans aren't meant to be in. Be safe and enjoy what you do, what you do makes you, dont let it break you.

[@briankennedy1313]

“What you do makes you” said the dull boy.

[@troythompson2798]

Have you tried the Knut hitch? It's my absolute favorite because it tends and bites so responsively, never creeps, and if I change from double to single or visa versa mid climb it stays put without the need to fiddle with a hitch chord aloft.

[@stevenconner3082]

Big fan of the t540 myself, only downside is having to climb with fuel all the time ha. great content as always.

[@AdamGoldswain]

That’s why I love the 020/200t , old school I know but I just love the fuel capacity

[@vonigis]

Great beings, those trees🙏. I wonder how you feel about them, leaving their post, Reg? It seems, from the way you treat them, it goes deep. Thank you 🌞

[@KennysTreeRemoval]

good work Reg and good price

[@johndurant8687]

I can't say enough about how awesome this video is. I will watch many more times. One question I have is why the battery power saw with an extra battery wasn't preferred over the 540 with the extra canister of fuel?

[@Recoates]

The gas saw is better for bigger logs, John, of which there were many. But I just didn't film them.

[@1994wiebe]

Nice work man! keep it up :)

[@professionaltreeclimbersp.9625]

Awesome Job!

[@jameslaird5540]

You're the man bro...love your work. Respectfully...you can get a lot more for skill level. I understand being comfortable and not having to touch the wood once you touch down but DAMNIT... That was extremely inexpensive...keep rocking buddy love your channel.

[@fishabit]

Nice camera work! That tree had limbs for days.

[@cojones8518]

You can keep a cheap keyring carabiner to use as a breakaway link on your flipline for when you don't want to be tied solid to a tree. Cheap carabiner will hold enough for stability, but will break if the whole tree gives out under you. Piece of paracord would work too.

[@christietz5020]

I used to be a husq dealer until I had to deal with poulan stuff. Work for a stihl dealer now. I see he's using the es stihl bar. In Virginia Beach stihl gold training, they have a turbine powered saw-just a fun project they did.

[@zephyr1408]

Yes your very fair! I paid a tree service (licensed ) to take down a small birch (40’ maybe?) and they charged $850? Of course he had a crew several jobs for the day and very professional cleaned up, and ground the stump! I use them because they do it all plus I watched them take down a neighbors redwood 90’ fences, houses on both sides and never touched a thing! Yea, I learned you use pro’s not handy man guys ! Nothing against them I just think they hv a place but it’s not doing pro work for a cut rate! Ok Reg thank you for making the video and opening a door into your world as a pro craftsman!

[@pmcwoodsman9962]

Hi Reg . Paul from Ireland here . Never posted on you tube before in fact prefer to keep myself to myself !! . However your videos blow me away esp this one (very grateful) (music Inc). Been around wood and trees all my life but only got into forestry at 50 and did climbing course at 55 ....now 64 and have a few more climbs in me (not sure how many 😗) . Comments talk of srt but seems you used the rope wrench drt at the start ??. Just wondering how you think it compaires to the zigzag ?? .thanks again 😃

[@ItsFishh]

If i didn’t climb in pine sap all day that rope wrench configuration looks like a sure thing, great video stay safe Reg ❤️

[@johngiannetti.]

What's your go-to system for pines?

[@ItsFishh]

@@johngiannetti. I’ve been using a rope runner, forrrreverrrr but... about a year ago i switched to the petzl zigzag with the chicane! It’s so smooth I’d never look back to a rope runner! It’s just that the rope runner is so jumpy on decent with sap on the rope.

[@SR20FTW]

@@ItsFishh +1 for the Zigzag and Chicane. Love mine.

[@johngiannetti.]

@@ItsFishh ah cool, gotcha. So the zig zag doesn’t lock up on sap like other systems?

[@ItsFishh]

@@johngiannetti. if it’s really sapped up it’ll be a little jumpy but if you keep your rope somewhat clean from old sap it shouldn’t be anything but buttery smooth

[@1975dbryant]

What do you think about that Notch Fusion teather Reg? Been curiouse, think i'd like to have one😎😎

[@Recoates]

Pretty good Dale. Seem to tend and release the hitch better. I think that has something to do with the rigid curve in the tether positions the wrench more favorably.

[@br-dj2ti]

Reg do you keep your gaffs super super sharp how do you prefer

[@richie1593]

Master class

[@ragnarsbrother6049]

You;re the man Reg Coates!

[@StihlChainsaws]

Enjoy that ice cream brother. You earned it😎👍

[@snowyseb]

G'day Reg, This might seem naive, when swapping to a larger saw by yourself do you have to go down and collect it and climb back up, have a separate line on connected to it waiting and tied out of the way to be pulled up, or was the customer savy with sending the saw up to you? I'm also curious about your rope walking setup with spurs, I've been having difficulty finding a system with spurs that's efficient and stays out of the way, any suggestions? Cheers from Australia, definitely not ice-cream weather here at the moment. 🇦🇺

[@Recoates]

Hello Seb. Yes, I went down, had a drink and a snack, then climbed back up with the bigger saw. I dont have a rope walking system with spurs, although I have on occasion strapped on a foot ascender under a spur. I think having an ascender bolted onto the shaft of one spur could definitely be advantageous at times. The Kiwi Climbers spurs appear to have done an excellent job with their product, even if they are expensive. Light weight spurs/foot acsender, with a twin handle rope grab is probably how Id do it. Alternative between one foot and two hands.

[@snowyseb]

@@Recoates Thank you for your response!