View our full range of videos, read our arborist blogs, scan the calendar for. This section is an overview of the fundamental techniques of rigging. In retrospect, it now appears as if those days were actually more difficult and a whole lot longer. He used a rope for rigging and tree wraps for lowering when friction was.
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