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    Work Photos

    The 562 was one of my most exciting saw purchases when it first came out, saved up for it, finally got it, super happy, then 2nd day in a fit of unprecedented stupidity I managed to lose it off the back of the truck and ran over it with the chipper. As a result of that boneheaded incident the...
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    Storing a branch manager

    I need one. I fight with connecting, to the point of hardly ever disconnecting just to avoid the struggle.
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    Teach me about dump trailers

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    Teach me about dump trailers

    If you put a rotating log grapple on that you’ll wonder how you ever got along without it. Keep a bucket for digging but for tree work the grapple is king. And a ridged is going to be way more versatile than a dangle
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    Teach me about dump trailers

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    Odd Ways You've Seen a Tree Accessed

    Back when I started climbing I never used a lanyard or rope on the way up. Just spurs to the top and then I’d install my climb rope. I thought that was the way it was done so I did it. I remember one day I was climbing up a 4’ diameter white fir, first limbs were up60 or 70’ and it was like...
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    Ben "Stihlmad" Williams

    I am sorry to hear this Steve, I always liked Ben, I sent a couple pm’s on here to him a year or more ago but never got a response. @data farm 26 ? You got anything?
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    Work Photos

    Thanks
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    Work Photos

    Love the winches. I’ve got a 16.5 that’s starting to surge. What’s causing that? Bad ground connection was my thought but haven’t checked yet
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    Texting a business card

    I get that sometimes too. And then when I’m able to convince them over the phone to let me look at the tree it turns out to be a simple job.
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    Tree Gear on Amazon

    Couple years ago I ordered some Pferd Chisel files from Amazon. They are not Pferd. Have the logo but they are junk. The angles are all wrong. Couldn’t figure it out at first , thought I forgot how to file a chisel chain , nothing matched up. Junk.
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    Work Photos

    Bet that crazy top was “fun”. “Where should we build our new greenhouse? Oh, I know. Let’s put it under the biggest tree on the property!”
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    FREE Branch Manager "Pro" Grapple

    Same here. And he continued to help long after the purchase of my giant. Definitely a tree career changing event.
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    Tree oddities

    We get those here too although I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sapling growing out of one. That’s cool!
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    Work Photos

    Wasn’t much trunk wood holding that thing together. Good job.
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