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    Risk assessment – fungi

    Sounding and boring/ drilling removals with significant decay is a great pre-work info load.
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    China fir looks like it's having a bad year - advice pls

    I wonder about girdling roots, too.
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    China fir looks like it's having a bad year - advice pls

    Is it all older foliage and shades foliage that is dying? Any newer foliage or sunny areas affected? How's the soil, mulch, heat stress (adjacent to/ root zone under sunny asphalt, abiotic stressors?
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    Risk assessment – fungi

    Basic beetle query, not gospel... Elms The chemical that primarily attracts smaller European elm bark beetles (Scolytus multistriatus) to fresh pruning cuts and logs is a natural plant volatile called α-cubebene (α-cubebene). When an elm tree is cut, pruned, or damaged, it undergoes stress...
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    Risk assessment – fungi

    Drilling a tree before removal is wise. Know what you're dealing with before heavy rigging or lopsiding weight, particularly during storm season.
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    Risk assessment – fungi

    I leave "saving trees" out of my wording.
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    Giant root plate

    Very cool
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    New guy and Douglas Firs

    There are good big maples ( fun climbing!) and big firs and big everything at Frye Cove. Beware raccoon latrines, particularly maples. We were going to climb an awesome maple on Hope Island in the Sound, but upon canoeing there in the summer, it was terrible. We found another cool maple to...
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    Homemade Gaff Guards

    Garden hose
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    Risk assessment – fungi

    What fungi are you ID-ing?
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    Risk assessment – fungi

    Any drill/ resistograph type testing? By the time I am seeing Ganoderma applanatum conks, there is a considerable about of decay.
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    Bobcat L28 for Tree Work

    I saw a video that said, " I don't know who needs to hear this, but breakdowns are more expensive than payments".
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    New guy and Douglas Firs

    There's a guy who want an apprenticeship (career military) to up his rescue-rigging game. He's community service oriented. I was thinking of just offering to go climb a big tree, first. Maybe we can all get together at Frye Cove park for a climb.
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    Bobcat L28 for Tree Work

    A demo can be great. My chipper came with 40 hours of field testing. Someone else paid the initial depreciation.
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    Bobcat L28 for Tree Work

    No horse in the race. I resisted financing for too long. Financing means keeping a bigger nest egg. New and what you want is so good. What you want makes money best, if you're judging the situation well. Financing builds history. My neighbor told me that in bad times, owing on a...
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