Recent content by Merle Nelson

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    Walked away after starting a job today

    This is an important part of the whole OP's original point in my mind.
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    Repacking a silvey tree jack

    What a find.
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    Walked away after starting a job today

    Good to clarify your boundaries to a client like them, great to reaffirm your boundaries to yourself - after a bit of the annoying sting wears off. I welcome people being various versions of this, just not with me. They can enjoy their life with others.
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    Bandit ZT1844

    Gotta love Tree Buzz and the kept history of the forum. I was trying to figure out how much I paid for my ZT 1844 as I want to sell it and get the SG40H.
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    Wall of Trees

    Tom I like to read the comments when I watch YT posts and others. Often find added knowledge from first hand or inside info participants. This seems to have several of those too.
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    Oregon man who shot at arborists fired hundreds of rounds, police say

    Wow. Very fortunate no crew members were hurt or killed. I had a disgruntled neighbor cap off rounds when I was working on a vineyard property once. Paused, sheriff got involved and took him to jail, went back to working 12 hour days.
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    Pricing

    One additional facet on doing something for another.... Jesus is said to have told one guy to come down out of the tree, for tonight I sup with thee. I view that as a gift given to the tree climber, an opportunity to provide food for someone he admired and revered.
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    Vermeer SC372 Diesel

    Saw the Bandit SG40 tracked at a workshop the other day. They seem to have a lot of kinks worked out since I bought the close to original ZT1844. Tracked with adjustment, 36 or 40 hp, hydro rather than dealing with belt stretch. (If you can run one and hydro delivers enough hp to the cutter...
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    Storing a branch manager

    Ha, I thought the Avant unit was expensive until I googled "hydraulic lever couplers". Turns out they're the affordable model.
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    Storing a branch manager

    Sounds like a good present for my stepson who bought his first excavator.
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    Storing a branch manager

    I will say, this looks simple enough. If I had an excavator or something with no Avant hook up I might use this. (In the comments there seems to be several people saying it's easy to set controles to not have pressure on fittings.) But, I wouldn’t know myself. Do you sometimes need help in...
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    Storing a branch manager

    Not sure of how much time people spend with connections not working right off the bat, so I can't say. But I can say the Avant set up is 3 seconds or so. Swipe a glove or rag across the connection points to clear any dust, mate up, and toggle the handle over.
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    Diesel fuel addative.

    Yeah, that episode slowed down my stocking up on hard to get oils.
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    Storing a branch manager

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    Storing a branch manager

    That's an interesting work around. The Avant leveraged handle works flawlessly to connect and disconnect. When I've heard this discussed in the past I've thought I would get an Avant hyd connect part and install it if I had other equipment, or, I've since seen a similarly made copy of that unit.
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