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    Love tree work. Not the tree business.

    As a very young kid, my parents were pillars in my community. My father pioneered a large commercial fishery from the infrastructure to the market itself. He employed a lot of people and make a lot of money. The problem was that he really didn’t want to be a fisherman, or even run a business for...
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    more fun with knucklebooms

    Single whip is very easy to reeve and attach to the pill. Multiple whips (or parts) can take more time to reeve and is usually only required for final trunk wood. The hoisting speed also drops down considerably. In the case of my crane, the pill is 2 plates with a removable center pin. In...
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    Tree oddities

    I can’t speak to vigor due to the process unless it has to do with root mass to stem size ratio. It might take a bit for the roots to build up on larger layered stems. I have also seen the bonsai gardeners will use the technique to create new trees of larger size much more quickly than from...
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    Tree oddities

    One of these days I want to get into cloning via “air layering”. Once I learned about the technique I’ve been fascinated but also too busy to ever try it.
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    more fun with knucklebooms

    The winch is definitely a powerful option. One of the first spider crane jobs I did was in a 10’ wide area behind a house. We did the tree with next to zero slewing, and really only extended to begin and retract to finish. These spidey winch wire ropes should really be understood to stay in 50%...
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    New TreeBuzz Ad Format???

    I’ve also waited for the page to settle down and then made an intentional click on a navigation arrow or page number, etc, only to have it open an ad. Seems like it has to be baked onto the site which isn’t very cool.
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    Today....

    Our Winter has been a liiiiiiitle different. We just got a record snow accumulation with more potential snow in the forecast. Haven’t seen anything like this since I was 4.
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    Ban bamboo.

    My old neighbors managed to erase a huge infestation without any herbicide. It had crossed the road via a silted up culvert and was invading another property. The prescription was manual cutting as low as possible followed by over a year of solarization with huge mats of rolled rubber roofing...
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    Today....

    I’m betting Pagan.
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    Euro tracked chippers.

    All that could be effective. I’m thinking about having the chipper sit transverse on the front of the hooklift chip body. Put the body on the ground and fill it or bring the chipper out back…lots of options there.
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    Euro tracked chippers.

    Yes. I was drawn to the XR8D well before knowing about the M600. I’ve been talking to both Kenny and Chris respectively for a bit now. Hoping to see both machines at Arbor Expo and make a final choice.
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    New TreeBuzz Ad Format???

    I’ll give it a try. Thank you!
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    Euro tracked chippers.

    I can appreciate all that. It’s gone through my mind to be sure, but I’m also thinking of this as a real niche thing. I have a large scale project coming up on a remote island, mostly slopes. Lots of material 8” minus, and much of it 2” in dense clumps. That M600 would be pretty clutch...
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    New TreeBuzz Ad Format???

    Can that be done on an iPad?
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    Euro tracked chippers.

    It also has to mesh with your existing kit. One thing I see is the M600 is less than half the weight of the Forst XR8D but well more than half the capacity. That’s something. If a slightly bigger chipper saves me 20 minutes on the job but requires another 2 hours of mobilization, it’s still...
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