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    Air Spade for Dummies

    Works best with soils at field capacity. Avoid work in saturated conditions. Get the vacuum attachment. Refer to tool as pneumatic excavator..not by brand name. Root Cause LLC in Seattle area does this work as their specialty. Contact Brian Holers...he is friendly.
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    reputable 15 yr old Seattle tree company hiring climbers

    Seattle has really great trees and great arborist's like Kathy Holzer to care for them. You could not get a better opportunity to learn, and have some fun with a great team!
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    Help. What's wrong with this baby?

    Looks like Leyland cypress to me. They are prone to a canker and also susceptible to root disease. One of my least favorite tree species when planted here where I live in the PNW.
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    who carries a knife into the tree?

    Swiss army knife is always with me...cut two wedding cakes with one!
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    This is the Akimbo

    Nice work. I would like to try one. Looks much cleaner than some of the other devices out there.
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    Nalini Nadkarni fall

    I am happy to report that I had a wonderful visit with Nalini this morning. She is in good spirits and getting great care. When I arrived her son Gus was napping by her side and she was napping too. We talked about a lot of stuff. We both got emotional. Nailini says that the Caring Bridge site...
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    Nalini Nadkarni fall

    Nalini was injured an accident recently on one of her research sites in the Olympic Forest. She fell 50 feet when, apparently, her rope failed. I have no technical details but when they are available I expect we will hear the whole story. She is in the hospital, Harborview in Seattle, with...
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    any thoughts about the timing of air spading

    Brian Holers in Seattle has a business "Root Cause" that specializes in below ground tree care. http://rootcauseseattle.com/ He has been bare rooting some sizable trees for transplants and getting a lot of other cool soils work with pneumatic excavators and vacuum system (Air Knife and Air Spade...
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    New Tribe Onyx

    I am very happy with my Onyx saddle. Very comfy. Packs small for travel. I need to get some suspenders for it though as my noassatall has become worse in my old age.... Casey has designed some suspenders that I will be getting.
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    Well Known Arborist and Industry Leader Terrill Collier has passed away.

    Lets all get on the bandwagon here and get the Collier Arborist Training Trust fund rolling. If everyone who uses this list gave what they could manage... we could give the Fund a great start. Here is the link again: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/?key=treefund Scroll down to select the CATT so...
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    Well Known Arborist and Industry Leader Terrill Collier has passed away.

    I know that many Buzzers knew Terrill. He fought a long battle with cancer and passed on May 11. He was 60 years old. He was a great supporter of our profession. An avid scientist, educator, skier, cyclist and supporter of the Tour des Trees and the TREE Fund, he was a man with tremendous...
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    Close call - severed hinge?

    That is the dumbest tree falling technique ever! Axe man is right.
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    Maintaining Views Through Long Term Maintenance

    Ryan contact me directly. Likely to be a regulatory issue. We do a lot of plans for this sort of situation. Scott
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    Dang! Accident, no injuries

    Back in the 70's Mark James and I stove in the door of our brand new custom built truck when we felled a fir butt log...plenty of room...but a mossy timber bench, as I recall, shot that log like a spear! One in a million happens more than we think!
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    Does anyone offer zip line installations for residential homes?

    There are several "toy" zip line kits that you'll see out there. I would stay away from these. Generally these are the type where the rider is holding on with their hands and not clipped in to a trolley. As Guy says there is an ANSI Standard for challenge courses and zip lines. You must be...
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