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    Work Photos

    135’ lightning struck ponderosa. I’m the tiny black dot taking the top. Major decay in the first 30+ feet of the tree and significant lean to the east from our prevailing winds made this one memorable. It will be interesting to see how much decay there is while craning the wood down next...
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    Love tree work. Not the tree business.

    In certain ways things have improved in that I hired a guy from Portland who was a contract climber who I truly respected. He has made it so I can step away from most anything and not worry about whether it will get done. Then we hired a replacement for a ground guy who quit and the new...
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    Love tree work. Not the tree business.

    Still getting out of bed and putting one foot in front of the other. Have another person really close to us who just got diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Will likely be gone in 6 months or less. Losing close friends is rather demoralizing. I still love tree work but perpetually struggle to...
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    Iso 4srt chester

    I might. I'll look tomorrow.
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    So what you’re saying is… a

    A steep drop is inevitable considering the tanking birthrates for a myriad of reasons.
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    So what you’re saying is… a

    Except that during the pandemic business boomed more than ever at least in this country. And business booming means trees dying.
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    Rope Runner Vertec Limited Edition

    My conspiracy theory is that this person is one of owners of Treebuzz trying to rekindle interest in this forum and get all the old members all fired up. Some of the posts even look/read like they were written by AI. Come on Daniel, back me up here bro.
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    PNW get together

    Mt Hood. A lot of days I look at our view and can't believe we ended up with this property.
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    TCIA WTF?

    TCIA is basically run for and by its sponsors. The backbone of TCIA is the banking sector that provides financing for all the iron, the insurance sector, the equipment manufacturers that sell the big iron, and lastly the people who actually care about and care for trees. Caring for trees...
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    PNW get together

    I'm hosting an arborist get together at my place this weekend.
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    Possible damage from impact of felling a large tree close to a house.

    Years ago the company I worked for did a job in the exclusive Dunthorp neighborhood south of Portland where the homeowner cleared their entire lot of trees. Many of those were large firs up to 160' tall. When those trees were hitting the ground the ground was shaking. We had neighbors coming...
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    New TreeBuzz Ad Format???

    I’m over it. Thanks for the good times Treebuzz. Not worth the headaches with this new format. We the users providing clicks don’t benefit. Especially with the trash being marketed to us.
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    New “ to me” Husqvarna Batteries?

    That’s why I get the good batteries for my saw and the rest of the crew get the older batteries!
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    New TreeBuzz Ad Format???

    I’ve found that before any action such as liking a post or hitting post reply I just have to hit refresh or I risk being taken to an advertiser’s page. Literally just happened…
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    New TreeBuzz Ad Format???

    Can we just pay a membership fee to NOT have ads? I’m very sick of getting taken to the Tracked Lifts web page.
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