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    Suspension treehouse

    Treehouses mounted on properly sized TABS will outlast a suspended design with a lot less engineering concerns. If you think about the hardware size, safety factors, and on and on, the static TABS that treehouse builders use really do make the most sense. When I first got into treehouses as an...
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    Suspension treehouse

    Seth- From what I’ve seen, if trees are healthy they aren’t negatively affected by the hardware even if placed in a vertical orientation. It is worth going to a place where old TABS are in trees and seeing how the trees just swallow that hardware over time.
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    Prescription Pruning Qualification PPQ

    I’ve never wanted to go to Ohio before. You finally gave me a reason.
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    Bandit Chipper possible options - and why.

    Everybody seems into this but I’ve got a question. Can you turn the chute to face backwards if you have this feature? When driving we have our crew turn the chute backwards on one of our chippers as they have damaged it by hitting the truck with it during sharp turns/backing up a few times...
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    Why Is It So Expensive to Cut Down a Tree?

    In my town our cost of living is so high that I feel bad paying anything less than $20 an hour even for entry level ground crew. People wonder why it is so expensive…. Look at everything these days. Are service industries supposed to stay the same price while everything else goes up and up?
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    Happy New Year

    It can’t be worse than last year. Right?
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    Ropeguide 2010 feedback

    Colin Bugg likely has some really clean methods. Look him up on Instagram. cpbugg if I remember right.
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    Throw bag-line accuracy issues

    I tell my crew “throw for your ideal shot a few times and after that start shooting for something that gets you in the tree.” On most trees advancing doesn’t take that long. I hate being on a job and seeing 3 guys watching one guy throwing over and over trying to hit an impossible dream when...
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    Where do you start training a new climber?

    I like my guys to start with a prussik and pulley. But we also try to send them to an actual class at a Portland community college where they learn all the fundamentals and it isn’t coming from the boss in a production environment.
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    Looking for website, social media and Google help

    This is who we used. https://arboristmarketingagency.com/ I met them at TCIA. Every other marketing company there wouldn’t even talk to me when they found out that we weren’t grossing over a million. They would lead the conversation with “what is your gross revenue” and then bluntly say they...
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    Enhancing Fall energy absorption

    Remember the good ole days of climbing on New England Fly rope? Now those were some bouncy ascents.
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    Squirrel Damage

    I worked for a client one time who was an engineer. He built an amazing mousetrap which was a pipe aimed at a plate of steel. Inside the pipe was a photocell that released a burst of compressed air launching the mouse into the steel plate. Maybe what these squirrels need is a cannon that...
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    Enhancing Fall energy absorption

    One big difference between arb falls and rock and ice climbing falls is that cliffs and ice routes don’t move and absorb shock while trees do to some degree. I’ve taken factor 2 falls on rock and have taken some exciting tumbles in the trees as well. The movement of trees seems to me that it...
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    RAIN PANTS

    I have the Raingear Pro bibs. Durable but limited range of motion. Not going to be doing yoga in them that’s for sure. I stay dry and they seem to be holding up but I would like to be able to move a bit more than they allow.
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    Squirrel Damage

    On my original reply I was thinking that there has to be a birth control option. Even just live traps, and a carefully placed rubber band on the males would make a difference. A few less nuts might make a few less squirrels?
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    New device from ISC

    In regards to any potential patent infringement Petzl likely doesn’t care because when it comes down to it the Zigzag will likely always outsell the ISC device because of one thing: Price. Also, it is comparatively simple and more suited for less technically minded folks: new climbers and...
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    Enhancing Fall energy absorption

    ART has the Snake Anchor and the Snake Tail which both are designed to have the pockets blow at 2.5 kn? Great tools both for basal anchors and in canopy use.
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    Squirrel Damage

    https://goodnature.co/products/a18-squirrel-trap-kit No projectile, no poison. Just a dead squirrel. I’m going to get one of their models for ground squirrels next year. In our area this year we saw a lot of squirrel damage on the oak trees. They looked splotchy with orange leaves in...
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    New device from ISC

    I climb on a Zigzag every day. I used to climb on the plus with the swivel but now I just love the one without. I just really like the simplicity of it and not having that extra length and motion.
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    New device from ISC

    It certainly looks intriguing but my initial reaction is to wonder when the first recalls will happen?

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