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    Views. Here is one of mine. Lets see yours.....so many great views out there.

    Frost hoar on Fraxinus
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    Let’s talk about hook lift trucks

    With a set of log tongs, I use my Stellar for wood forwarding and loading
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    Plug your own leaky tires

    The puncture went through the edge of the tread and sidewall
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    Plug your own leaky tires

    I recently replaced a worn chipper tire after a few years with a plug. The tire shop wouldn't repair a puncture through the sidewall. It held air without issue
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    Wood pellet cat litter

    We always used Feline Pine. The loose grind stuff not the extruded pellets
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    Health Insurance Y/N

    Yes that was total out of pocket for the year (this was mid-December so the year total restarted from $0 two weeks later) and the out of network ambulance ride with the first dose of pain medication (about $1100)
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    Health Insurance Y/N

    Yes, pay for health insurance or workman's comp insurance. It doesn't feel worth the cost until you need the service. My hospitalization would have cost over $110,000 last year. I wasn't in the shape to be shopping from the menu of procedures and the system spared no expense because I was...
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    Views. Here is one of mine. Lets see yours.....so many great views out there.

    Stoked to add a 14 footer to the fleet. A view of Longs Peak from the Boulder Creek valley.
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    Cut through holding wood ....

    I prefer to finish the cut with a straight blade handsaw. It slows things down to allow you to access the rigging and communicate any adjustments. I will one hand with a handsaw and use the other to push the piece. Also be sure to be high enough to not be reaching up too high
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    Snowplowing/blowing rates

    You can avoid the liability issues by plowing as a subcontractor. My friend pays me $100/hour doing mostly office and retail parking lots
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    Rotten silver maple leader fails while I was climbing

    Thank you for asking. I healed up quickly and started climbing again after 6 weeks. No longterm pain or meds addiction which were my two concerns. Still paying bills to around $7000 out of pocket with good insurance. The total would have been $102,000 without insurance. Only other...
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    Chipper radiator deep cleaning tips?

    Twice I have had to drain and take the radiator out of my chipper. Chips and cottonwood fruits had packed the gaps and bent fins on the fan side. I bought a radiator fin comb to straighten the bent fins and carefully used a metal pick to dislodge stuck chips. A lot of medium pressure water...
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    The Body Language of Trees - A handbook for failure analysis

    Yes. Stupsi the Hedgehog. I saw him speak in Ft. Collins 20 years ago. "Shorten the lever-arm". He explains the biomechanics of trees. An engineer who walked his woods in Germany and wrote about what he saw. He was the first man I saw wear Uggs and purple glasses. I learned a ton
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    What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

    I haven't owned a disc chipper for a while. Do you think it throws chips better because of the paddles on the disc? I always chip into a truck so not much of a concern
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    I gouged myself. Not one handing.

    ouch. Thank you for the heads up
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    Preferred method for solo rigging

    Yes that is about right. Rope in a bag either hung in the tree near me or on my saddle. Usually the first ring a few feet below my left foot. Thread the working end through that ring then the rigging ring under the face cut and tied to the piece. This gives me about a 180° turn on both rings...
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    Preferred method for solo rigging

    I use 1/2" lowering lines and two rigging rings. One ring below the cut as my primary rigging point and the other below my feet as a friction device. I let it run without having my hands being too close to the rigging
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    finger in pruner head no bueno

    That is so easy to do. I have received a couple of warning cuts doing the same thing. I hope you heal up quickly
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    Close Call Today

    Good lesson learned. Thank you for sharing
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    Rotten silver maple leader fails while I was climbing

    Our 5000 foot sun is always in your face this time of year and it is hot. Sleeves channel the heat up to my face and cause my glasses to fog. This gun show is free of charge considering how much strength I have lost being stuck on the ground

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