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    Lightning kills line clearance worker

    Lightening is a very awesome force on nature. When I moved to Arkansas in 200 I was amazed at the intensity of the storms there. Seems like they have all of Oklahoma to roll up and gather momentum and then when they hot the Ouachita Mountains they let loose. Another time I was driving up a...
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    Rigging Point Failure

    Ugly column of rot there Steve and hard to pick up in the preclimb assessment. Glad you are ok and no real damage. We have been seeing an inordinate amount of similiar type failures down here.
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    When things go super smoothly and when they don't

    What a mess of a tree! Great job Andrew.
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    Spring cleaning multiple items

    I have 2 of them.
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    ISO masdam

    Still trying to bother as many people as I can at the City. The end is coming into sight though. Would love to pull stakes and get back north but not sure if I will be able to afford housing up there anymore. I keep telling people that I am NOT a damn Yankee, just a temporarily displaced one.
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    ISO masdam

    'S up stranger? Been wondering how you have been.
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    Iso 4srt chester

    Sorry, no. I love that piece of gear.
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    What has everyone used to pull small brush/trees?

    Better chech with the state EPD. In Georgia you have to leave a 25 foot undisturbed buffer on State waters. You can't remove any vegetation.
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    What has everyone used to pull small brush/trees?

    How close to the brook do you have to clear?
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    Spring cleaning multiple items

    Item arrived in good order and as presented. Thanks so much.
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    Spring cleaning multiple items

    DM sent.
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    ISC Nessie

    I'm with you pcp. 50 years of lanyard right and saw left is just too hard to break.
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    Today....

    I always hate to see such magnificent trees go away, especially for the wrong reasons. Don't know what the reason is for this one to go away, just saying. The biggest reason around here is "I can't get my grass to grow."
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    Another crane down

    We had one go over last week too. Excuse was soft ground. Crane karate chopped bucket truck ejecting the operator. Shattered leg, 3 ribs, pun turned lung and head injuries. Co is very thin on insurance.
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    ISA TRAQ & CEU changes

    As for the increase cost for TRAQ, gotta pay for the penthouse office space in downtown atlanta.
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