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    Where to sell old equipment?

    Does anyone know of any companies that by old/damaged but still salvagable equipment and refurbish it for resale? I've got a morbark 15r chipper with a blown motor ~2k machine hours that we repowered once already and are sick of looking at... Drum, frame, chassis all still in good shape. Looking...
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    Powered pole saw with side-cutting blade

    There used to be this stihl adapter that fit all the stihl 1 inch round shaft pruners (hedge trimmers, power pruners, string trimmers, etc) though I never saw one in the wild... I would assume, though I can't find anything, that there would be something available for some of the hta battery...
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    Are living trees warmer than dead trees?

    Interesting on the detecting decay side of things. The utility I used to trim for absolutely used infrared cameras to check vegetation growth, the trees would heat to as the conducted energy of they got too close to the wires. I only ever saw it used on voltages about 34kv
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    Are living trees warmer than dead trees?

    Sounds like a stupid question but hear me out... Today in upstate New York we had a light bit of snow and temperatures hovering around the freezing point most of the morning. As I was driving around looking at jobs I noticed that there were a noticable number of standing dead ash (ash borer...
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    What’s your favourite lanyard set up

    https://treetools.co.nz/brands/shizll/shizll-easy-balancer-big I've used my own version of this as a balancer and pasted around with it for a lanyard and 2 sperate lanyards is probably easier in the long run. Mostly though I'd rather use my climb line as a second lanyard if needed and bring a...
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    2024 Z133 REVIEW and PUBLIC COMMMENT

    Yep it's that time again for our industry standards to be up for review and public comment. I missed the first round but there is a second round of public comments starting on 1-26-2024. Here's a link with relevant info on the ISA's website...
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    Avant hydraulics issue. Random grapple opening and closing.

    One of the blue and red buttons that activates the auxiliary controls was failing. They're relatively easy to replace if you can solder. I found it easiest to remove the pistol grip from the machine then split it apart of the bench and replaced the buttons
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    Zigzag and rope ends?

    Hardcore zigzag user here (i'm on my 7th? ish? heavy ass climber they do wear out... anyways) Usually I just use some good electrical tape on the end of the rope... wrap it down past the cut end and and back up so it encases all the fibers. Nothing more fancy than that especially on new ropes...
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    ISC UltraLink recall update

    I remember reading somewhere back in the day that he revolver pulley ceasing to behave like a roller pulley at 5kn was a deliberate design choice to encourage people to use more appropriately sized pulleys where higher loading might be encountered.
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    Re-purposed vinyl billboard tarps

    We bought a roll (i think it was 1000 feet long) of miss printed billboard vinyl for use as weed block under water. Stitched rebar to it with zip ties for balast.... anyways other story 3 years being under water in full sun and now going on 10+ years on dry land without any issues... Not like...
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    Documenting my hand-sewn eye process

    reminds me of the old metal crimps and plates that you would hammer onto ropes to make crude eyes and keep the ends of 3/4 strand ropes from unfraying
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    Wrench looking kinda device, the Apex.

    It was an early demo made in Jammie's garage so its not really representative of what a v2 R.E version would look like (it still had a upper tending point hole for example that's definitely being removed) Talking with Jamie a bit it sounded like the only real major changes were the friction...
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    petzl flow splice instructions

    Looks a lot like the "instructions" in this thread over here https://www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/cousin-atrax-splice-how-to.41463/
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    Avant hydraulics issue. Random grapple opening and closing.

    I've got an avant 528 with knock around grapple that as the title says, will randomly open and close the grapple; which as I'm sure you can imagine is really annoying when carrying brush and logs. It seems to be more frequent once the machine has warmed up a bit, and when you're running multiple...
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    How many feet do you climb in a day?

    A lot of guys I used to work with had fitbits and watches with "altimeters" but they either weren't sensetive enough to get real elevation changes in the 5-10 foot range and missed a lot of data... OR they were motion activated step counters, and things like flaking rope would add hundreds of...
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