Habits for Longevity in Arboriculture & Life

[evo]

I wish dust only came from dull saws! Hollow old growth firs are nothing but a tube of dust, but I wore an N95 mask today for this remaining portion once I was no longer climbing and was then working in a semi enclosed space.

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There is a special place for those who love trees so much they kill them by building a structure around them / on them. ‘Hey look, I love nature so much I saved this tree by building X around it’….. oh something that has lived on this patch of dirt for X number of years didn’t like you f-en with its home?
Ok rant over, I need a vacation

 

[Steve Connally]

I've been taking high dose melatoin and it's been awesome. Learned about it from studying alternative cancer therapies. I think it was the Italians that showed 180 mg before bed and 3x60 mg during the day can double life expectancy in certain terminal cancers. It's good for the motochondria

COmbine that with Turmeric anc CBD oil before bed and it's lights out. I think the CBD is helping my wrist too. I haven;t been noticing it as much.

I had to buy my melaton in bulk and cap it by hand. Take the 00s and just fill the small end

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I've read a ton that Melatonin supplementation is not good for you. Increases serotonin and despite the mainstream thinking, Ray Pete and other practitioners have found that to be extremely bad for you at the mitochondria level. Can source it if interested, if not and you're happy with what you're doing, disregard my meddling.

 

[Steve Connally]

Tom - goin' out on a limb here maybe - spark from gasoline engine (grinder, chainsaw) with faulty spark arrester or muffler could do it. Really fine dust might ignite with a hot surface (or a summer of beetle killed pines and fine dust made me paranoid?). Just thought I'd point it out (we carry fire extinguishers/ water pump an tank when it's hot and humidity is low when working in tinder dry forest). Fuel-air-ignition source - the fire triangle. A good breeze is probably our saviour, a debris fence to concentrate the dust is not. My two cents anyway. Cheers.

In the fire service it's known as a dust explosion. It can occur with static electricity. Used to see it in grain silos. Its an actual hazard that has to be mitigated.

 

[Matias]

I've read a ton that Melatonin supplementation is not good for you. Increases serotonin and despite the mainstream thinking, Ray Pete and other practitioners have found that to be extremely bad for you at the mitochondria level. Can source it if interested, if not and you're happy with what you're doing, disregard my meddling.

I would like those sauces please. I have been supplementing melatonin and am worried I am becoming dependent on the extra to sleep. I was sleeping like shit before anyway, but that's a separate discussion

 

[ghostice]

In the fire service it's known as a dust explosion. It can occur with static electricity. Used to see it in grain silos. Its an actual hazard that has to be mitigated.

Many many years ago attended the aftermath of an explosion and fire at a millwork facility. Donkey engineers (these guys kept marryin' their sisters for generations or what ???) who had designed their dust collection systems (too large ducts - on sale I guess) all but guaranteed wood dust depositing in the system (keep your transport velocity up), someone had put in new unrated fan motors and belts and when something finally lit off, the explosion blew down the ducting (sorta like those sewer explosion videos on the internet) right outside into the cyclones, parts of which were found almost a block away (ignition source was machinery inside). Fortunately no one was killed but wow did that place need an interior decorator after it as all put out! So not as much risk maybe as a hydrogen plant, but still worthy of care in my books anyway (witness all the fire in mills in BC when they started cutting pine beetle wood - cuts way more dusty). Cheers all.

 

[rico]

I've read a ton that Melatonin supplementation is not good for you. Increases serotonin and despite the mainstream thinking, Ray Pete and other practitioners have found that to be extremely bad for you at the mitochondria level. Can source it if interested, if not and you're happy with what you're doing, disregard my meddling.

I am a very good sleeping and was taking melatonin for its reported immune benefits, but it certainly didn't work for me. I got wicked hangovers from the stuff, and the longer I was on it the more I began to feel like a sluggish, slightly depressed zombie. We are all genetically unique and melatonin is one of those supplements that is definitely not gonna work for everyone. My advise would be to tread lightly with this over the counter supplement...

 

[southsoundtree]

Pole spurs when applicable over tree spurs.

Put a sling on cut-and-chuck pieces as applicable to prevent joint torque when catching and throwing. Avoid supporting the pieces as much as possible by cutting and guiding.

Avoid spinal twisting under load.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

I see these sort of threads from time to time across various platforms.
Theres always lots new age stuff and hocus-pocus about supplements and yoga and stuff.
I think to myself, why don’t you actually ask older people who are still at the coal face their secrets?


I mean thats the end goal isn’t it?

 

[ghostice]

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[islandarb]

I see these sort of threads from time to time across various platforms.
Theres always lots new age stuff and hocus-pocus about supplements and yoga and stuff.
I think to myself, why don’t you actually ask older people who are still at the coal face their secrets?


I mean thats the end goal isn’t it?

Love this post. It is 100% reality. All that stuff above it noise. Bluezones on netflix never mentioned any of that new age mumbo jumbo.....these folks working at 100,no savings no house no debt. Happy as fuck with very little. Things not right with with modern thinking......

 

[bobs yeruncle]

Haha sometimes if you ask them the secret turns out to be smoking three packs a day until they're 97 years old

 

[Serf Life]

Haha sometimes if you ask them the secret turns out to be smoking three packs a day until they're 97 years old

There was a Cuban documentary where an ancient trumpet player was like “I started smoking cigars at 9,” and on the other end we loat my non-smoking mother in law at 59.

 

[chiselbit]

Maybe it was mentioned before but stop jumping off of things. Don’t jump off the truck bed, the loader, retaining walls, all of it. Just quit it now and your knees and spine will thank you when you’re older.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

I’m all about boring youngsters with my ‘wisdom’
It melts my stony old heart when I see their young eyes roll in boredom when start a sentence with “life lesson incoming…”

When you make a cock up trying to save time, like leaving a stub on the trunk cos you can’t be bothered to get the topping saw in deep to give it a flush cut. So when you rig a branch and it hangs up on the stub, you have to go down and cut it up so it’ll descend, then you have to get back up, having lost your rhythm and expended lots of energy, well I say “you’re borrowing energy from this afternoon, you won’t feel it now but later you’ll hit the wall earlier than you should have cos of that mistake”
They love that, sometimes I catch them laughing together and they go silent when they see me walk up.
I know they’re awestruck at my wisdom and are discussing it.

 

[chiselbit]

I’m all about boring youngsters with my ‘wisdom’
It melts my stony old heart when I see their young eyes roll in boredom when start a sentence with “life lesson incoming…”

When you make a cock up trying to save time, like leaving a stub on the trunk cos you can’t be bothered to get the topping saw in deep to give it a flush cut. So when you rig a branch and it hangs up on the stub, you have to go down and cut it up so it’ll descend, then you have to get back up, having lost your rhythm and expended lots of energy, well I say “you’re borrowing energy from this afternoon, you won’t feel it now but later you’ll hit the wall earlier than you should have cos of that mistake”
They love that, sometimes I catch them laughing together and they go silent when they see me walk up.
I know they’re awestruck at my wisdom and are discussing it.

I just wish now that I had listened then when I was being bored by my wise elders.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

I just wish now that I had listened then when I was being bored by my wise elders.

I suspect you were listening, just didn’t realise you’d recall it years later.
Old guys are/were great.
“I’ll tell you this thing now, I don’t give a shit if you listen or agree, but I’m telling you for my own benefit, so I know I fulfilled the obligation to the bastard that told me”

 

[chiselbit]

I suspect you were listening, just didn’t realise you’d recall it years later.
Old guys are/were great.
“I’ll tell you this thing now, I don’t give a shit if you listen or agree, but I’m telling you for my own benefit, so I know I fulfilled the obligation to the bastard that told me”

That is perfect.

 

[Steve Connally]

Here's 4 starters on Melatonin. Its not a simple read but Ray Peat is a very notable researcher with a ton of information available.

Melatonin Reduces Estrogens Through Multiple Pathways

At the receptor JBC : Journal of Biological Chemistry Melatonin reduces LH, 17 beta-estradiol and induces differential regulation of sex steroid receptors in reproductive tissues during rat ovulation By reducing aromatase Inhibitory effects of pharmacological doses of melatonin on aromatase...

raypeatforum.com

Serotonin and Melatonin Lower Progesterone – Functional Performance Systems (FPS)

Ray Peat

Ray Peat

raypeat.com

Can You Overdose On Melatonin?

More people are taking melatonin than ever before in order to get better sleep. Some may even be using it at dangerously high levels, and the side effects are real. Here's what you need to consider, along with suggestions for other natural options for sleep improvement.

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In response to the new age supplement statement. If it was as simple as asking out elders but its not. There is a lot of study on octogenarians on Japanese islands but the major factor that makes any sense at all is their culture has not had a change in diet, technology, lifestyle, habits in a century. They are relatively locked in time and we are not. Our air, soil, food technology, EMF, water, education, attitude, physical activity, sleep, health....ect. ad nauseam is vastly different than it was 100 years ago. Heck they weren't even using veggie or cola oil back then, no margarine, no irradiated eggs or milk. The bottom line is, we aren't getting what we need from our food anymore and can benefit from supplementation. Even our grass fed beef doesn't have the vitamins and minerals we need because the leafy material they are eating is effected by things as simple as overspray of glysophate from neighboring farms. Its not new age bullshit, its just a different time with a different approach of you choose to see it that way. Heck, look at leaded vs unleaded gas. I think if you want to supplement and be new age, yoga, meditate exercise and it works for you....awesome. If not.....awesome. I try very hard not to call people out for having different ideas than my own as I'm quite confident I'm not the smarted person in the universe. I always try to lear both sides before I form my decision. Its worked out ok for me so far so I'll stick with it. I have more Melatonin stuff if needed but there's a lot to digest in those 4 links, each on a different depth from basic read to dig into the medical, to see what people are discussing. Enjoy if you so choose.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

I have more fulfilling things to do with my time than read links about supplements.

I often wonder if (what seems to me) the American obsession with finding some miracle substance that’ll transform their health is based in the cost of healthcare out there, it’s certainly not mirrored in Europe where most people seem to realise that everything in moderation is ok.

(not wanting to start a debate on healthcare, that’s for another time, just curious as to the origins of this preoccupation many Americans have)

Unless you’re unwell, a varied diet with plenty of greens, not too much fat and salt is perfect to maintain a normal healthy life.

 

[Steve Connally]

2 people asked for me to share the information, thats why I posted it. It wasn't directed at you. Please feel free to ignore it if it doesn't apply.