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  1. southsoundtree

    Olympia, WA, various needs.

    Searching for someone mentally sharp, safe, experienced, good communicator, trainable unless already fully competent in PNW trees. Call and Respond is a must. Strong, fit, with endurance. $30-50 per hour. Physically fit enough to keep up with us. I'm almost 53. Customers have called her a...
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    Today....

    I wonder if I can rent a Spider. It would be helpful.
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    Today....

    Is that your spider?
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    Today....

    I bet you'll love it,
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    Root Collar Excavation/ Stem-girdling Root Pruning thread

    I can get a rental easily, with a jobsite delivery option for a fee.
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    My Name is Mud

    If subcontracting, doing everything for oneself can be easier and safer. Cut and chuck keeps you out of danger from others, at a cost. If subbing with competent professionals, it's very different.
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    Root Collar Excavation/ Stem-girdling Root Pruning thread

    Just a little basic, manual work to start. 2 wheelbarrow loads of soil from the easiest 20% of the circumference. I found a plastic plant tag at sidewalk level, 8" +/- down from the built-up soil and mulch. So far, almost no roots where there are problematic. I'm looking forward to an air...
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    Shagbark Hickory preservation

    Digging some test pits may indicate the depth of added soil. More info at the start of the planning is better.
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    Today....

    A drive in my neighborhood to get to 'the' Steamboat Island. We've had a black beer and a mountain lion sighted within 2 miles of my house. Supposedly, my groundworker spotted a lion watching is at work during a quite time while I was climbing and pruning around 10 years ago.
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    What would you call this cut?

    The CoosWyby.
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    Shagbark Hickory preservation

    Agree with all. Test before fert. How much soil was added? Mats decrease psi. Tracks are low psi when not loaded down putting point loads, but some mats/ ply abs staying off the restored area is sensible. Maybe a Carefully operated mini-x with a wide bucket to skim, using a spotter, perhaps.
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    Today....

    Pointy bars are low- kickback and worse for boring.
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    What would you call this cut?

    Does a Coos Bay work there? I use CBs in-tree regularly for split-resistance and flat drops.
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    PNW get together

    I get that!
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    Today....

    Lost a drive motor seal on my Boxer. Luckily, I bought a micro-x that's been filling in okay. We removed 26 trees fir a shop build. Took firewood to people in need, left some chainsaw-millable logs and lots of chips. We would blow directly into their trailer fir use on other areas of the...
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    PNW get together

    When are you thinking @davidwyby ?
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    ISO masdam

    And the portability for getting a truck unstuck, upright a tipped loader, or side-tilt a mini to reinstall a popped track on a sidehill in a forest. I have 2. A simple guy line and simply pull line work together well. I most often feed my rope through the puller, advance some slack, tie a...
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    Bored backcuts/ anti-barberchair/ anti-fiber pull Thread

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    Bored backcuts/ anti-barberchair/ anti-fiber pull Thread

    Anything and Everything related...Go! This was just a spur of the moment video on a 27 hazard / future problem tree removal job. We used bored-back cuts and Coos Bays for 16 alders. No chaining/ binding. A little splitting in my apprentice... she was new to bored/ slanted backcuts and CBs...
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    Passing of Boomslang

    Damn!

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