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    Tractor, skid steer, or excavator?

    Yeah my skidding winch lives on the back of my tractor. It weighs a lot and I’ve got the rear tires filled with beet juice so that increases the lifting capacity a bit.
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    Avant 528 vs cast 33d

    528. Want a 700 series.
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    Tractor, skid steer, or excavator?

    So basically you are saying you overload the crap out of it and it flexes because of it. That’s why I wish I would’ve gone with a bigger Avant. So many times I’m operating it at its limits. Do that too much with anything and you are going to trash it.
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    Battery ground saws

    We run the rear handle Husky electric as one of our ground saw options. Works great. The batteries definitely have less power in really cold temps but that isn’t a huge problem most of the time. Just like any smaller saw, my only issue with them is people not wanting to switch out to an...
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    Two Rope Climbing

    At that time of that accident a lot of the rings on the market had no markings on them. When a manufacturer has things made in a factory that makes rings of varying quality and intended uses, it isn’t that hard to imagine this occurring. Didn’t Sherrill end up paying for a recall because...
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    Tractor, skid steer, or excavator?

    Articulated loaders and skid steers often have way more lifting capacity per horsepower and pound than tractors due to the geometry of how they are put together. My 25 horsepower Avant which weighs 3000 pounds can load similar sized logs as my 60 horsepower Kubota tractor which weighs more than...
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    Tractor, skid steer, or excavator?

    Agreed. I bought 10 mats to prevent lawn damage and because of how easy my Avant is on yards we almost never bring them to jobs.
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    Today....

    It was a quercus garryana (aka Oregon white oak or Gary Oak). That tree wasn’t really tall maybe 65 feet at most but DBH was around 42”. The difficult part was knowing how big we could get away with rigging considering how much decay we knew was present in the stump. We also switched back and...
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    Avant 528 vs cast 33d

    We have a big Kubota tractor with the winch and grapple along with other attachments. It comes out on jobs a few times a year and the rest of the time we use it on our farm. Hindsight being what it is, I would’ve likely bought a smaller tractor and a larger Avant.
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    Tractor, skid steer, or excavator?

    what kind of terrain do you work on the most? Manicured yards? Rural agricultural areas? If you do more steep or forestry type areas or agricultural type terrain I would go skid steer or tractor. But if you do more manicured yards and neighborhood type work I would go with an articulated...
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    Today....

    The client at this home had asked me to look at this tree to give a quote for pruning. It was during my walk around when I noticed mushrooms at the base. I identified the fungus as armalaria (aka honey mushroom) and because of that ID decided that a root crown excavation was needed to see how...
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    Avant 528 vs cast 33d

    The Avant certainly has a learning curve. Every vehicle you drive steers with the front. If you are always looking forward and thinking that where your front tires are pointing is where you are going, you are in for a surprise on an Avant. Where your ass is pointing is what decides where you...
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    Avant 528 vs cast 33d

    I’ve been very impressed with the turf tires. I have had 2 flats both from nails or screws. Even using it in the woods with lots of stumps hasn’t been a problem for me. I did buy a set of the more aggressive tires on rims for extra traction on certain jobs. With an impact driver it takes...
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    Avant 528 vs cast 33d

    I run my Avant 528 hard. No mechanical issues so far. The plastic panels do take a beating so if you have a crew that doesn’t take care of things maybe you should go with an all metal machine. That said, every time the panels got damaged it was because someone was doing something they...
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    GRCS stories

    So a long long time ago (2006?) in a county far far away (Washington County) I worked for a company called Walt’s Tree Service. There was no Walt. But that is another story… So, the owner Dave lived around the corner from our shop. His street intersected with West Union Blvd right where there...
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    GRCS stories

    I posted these stories on Facebook. Thought you guys might get a kick out of them. Let me tell you a story. It is about a GRCS that had quite the adventure. One of my friends who will go nameless set his GRCS winch on his truck and went for a drive and lost it in Portland. He called me...
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    Grant funding freeze

    All over the US fuels reduction projects are grant funded through the USDA. That is going to have a huge effect in our area. My wife and I just applied for a fuels reduction grant for our 64 acres. Many folks in our area depend on that funding to tackle that important work that otherwise...
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    Beefy hedge shears

    I second Tom’s suggestion of loppers and hand saw. Slow and steady wins the race. The quality of cuts will be much higher than with other methods and will yield a product that can be sheared in future visits.
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    I’m a big fan of man knitting aka splicing. Thankfully though we have been having really good weather and are still working most every day.
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    Today....

    Seems like a good way to keep carbon out of the atmosphere. We just need to figure out a low carbon way to truck all the wood in Cali to the desert to just sit instead of grinding it or burning it in cogen plants.

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