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    Visiting The Redwoods (Crescent City?)

    For context, that banana slug could be 6" long.
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    Tree oddities

    Wild. Haven't seen it in doug-fir.
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    Love tree work. Not the tree business.

    If it was even just sorta hard, lots of people would be entrepreneurs.
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    Love tree work. Not the tree business.

    I started my response early in the thread on my phone and have been editing it. Might be a bit jumbly. .................. It's understandable to long for adventurous days in younger years with less responsibility over mundane details and ultimate responsibility for a tree manuever pulled off...
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    Ban bamboo.

    Heat treatment: "What high soil temperate kills bamboo"...
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    Brush bandit 1890

    People will want to know hours and year.
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    Tall Cottonwood = scary? Made to top!

    I may add a weight to my heavy steel Fusion D termination biner.
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    Tree man.

    A sad loss
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    Only rigging

    Cool. What kind of loader?
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    Bandit Chipper possible options - and why.

    I just bought a JetSled to experiment with. Winch uphill, slide downhill.
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    If DMM made more carabiners that locked on a ring like the Revolver

    Idk. I use a ponytail/ hair band to keep my akimbo centered on my DMM oval. It doesn't crossload at the bridge ring when snug on the device at the other end. Very cheap and easy.
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    Treatment for board/ lag bolt compressed trees from a treehouse swing.

    I haven't seen necrosis in the previous handful of years. The owners of about 9 years got the tree house and swing as part of the property. A handful of years ago, she initially asked about a removal bid since the doug-fir had a lot of dead branches. She thought dead branches meant it was...
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    Treatment for board/ lag bolt compressed trees from a treehouse swing.

    Nothing like making the tree roundish.
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    Energy absorber for rock climbing.

    Yes, clipped with 2 clove hitches with an extra 3 feet of climb line slack between hitches. Last week, one clove, one butterfly that was my emergency clip- in loop for lowering.
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    Treatment for board/ lag bolt compressed trees from a treehouse swing.

    I removed 2 opposite-sided 2x6s lag-bolted, with opposite-sided 2x6s lag bolted one layer of framing higher. 2 parellel flats below with 2 parellel flats above, set 90⁰ to the first.
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