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    Advice sought...Got an offer that'll pay much more $$, but is a swap from 'tree surgeon' to'clearing land' :/

    Very few people get to do something they truly enjoy and make money with it, you should let that be your focus. I have this day planner that gives hokey advice every month, but this month's was pretty good and VERY true- "A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business...
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    Root Failure When The Ground is Saturated with Rain

    Several years ago, I was working for a small municipality north of Houston and we had some really odd patterns of trees uprooting. The clay content in the soil was really high in the area and we had just gone through a long dry spell followed by some very thorough soaking rains. Trees were...
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    Tree ID

    I agree with a cherry. Almost looks like black cherry, but the fruit is weird. I bet that bark texture changes with age of the tissue making a match a little more difficult.
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    Are These The Same Tree? (Willow?)

    It (the first picture) looks like a desert willow. Well-suited for Midland. The others look like some variety/cultivar of black willow that will probably always have issues over there. Tree Loving Care in Midland is a great company that has a guy that can coach y'all on other varieties that may...
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    Momentum Solar Contacting Tree Companies?

    When I was a city forester, I would get tree removal applications from a few solar companies way out of town and it would be with a local tree removal company. It was always almost too formal, but legit nonetheless. I wouldn't dismiss it as a scam too quickly.
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    Proper Care & Maintenance for an Apple Tree

    Apples fruit on 2+ year old wood, depending on variety. Sometimes pruning too heavily removes all your fruit wood. Also, some varieties are prone to over bearing and can break that valuable fruit wood for next year. Every consult I've given on non producing apple trees has been after the...
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    A Perfect Small Job?

    I'm dying to know how that conversation went...
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    Ninja? What's up with that?

    Does it at least get easier to tighten with the wear?
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    Spider Jack 3 pg 91 ??

    From personal experience, your brake function requires a lot more pressure and your release is jerky when your lines aren't parallel due to being too close to a fat tie in point. I could see an extreme scenario where you'd drop a little bit unexpectedly.
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    Customer appreciation

    What are y'all doing for your big/loyal repeat customers to show your appreciation? What's your cutoff for who gets it and who doesn't? When I was at a large commercial outfit, we'd give gift boxes with local beers, wines or whiskies to each salesman's 3 biggest customers. It was always branded...
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    Oak wilt - Is it OK to remove a dead branch during bug season?

    The text book says not to and you may get some flak from onlookers...but really there is no way for the fungus to enter the tree's vascular system from a dead branch pruned outside the branch collar. Paint it as soon as possible to remove all doubt. I think the easily available guidelines are...
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    Tree Labels & an ID

    Black cherry
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    Mixing Brands of Saw Poles

    They are interchangable. I've found them to be stiff when first connecting between brands, but maybe a generalbreak in thing. I use them often mixed up, no issues.
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    Flippin' Palm Trees

    So we ended up removing 18 palm trees. Most of them were starting to stink a little like death, but didn't find any to be sketchy climbing or rigging with them. Most were a little drier at the first cut below the heart, but still had strength. 2.5 months after mortality, there was not much...
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    Flippin' Palm Trees

    Talking to a lot of seemingly experienced folks locally, the freeze is the wild card. If certain fungi start showing up, the weakness is quicker and can even show up years later in seemingly healthy "trees." Also, these folks aren't the ones climbing them. There is very little info on the matter...
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    Flippin' Palm Trees

    There's only 9 that aren't accessible by the lift. It'd be a pretty long stretch for a crane, but I imagine that's how they got them in there. It may be cheaper at that point to replace the rock work and landscaping...this place is pretty remote to start with. If the first few we take with the...
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    Flippin' Palm Trees

    I am hoping they are drier and lighter than I'm thinking and not have to rig them. I don't think I'll be that lucky...There's a lot of flagstone, landscaping and a pool/house all knees and elbows amongst them. Perhaps they won't be planted back...I think if trees were planted and planned for it...
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    Flippin' Palm Trees

    As an arborist in Texas, I unfortunately get roped into fooling with palm trees. I have a property I manage down in far south Texas that had a quite a bit of mortality with the Mexican fan palms. We'll start removing them next week, mostly with a lift. There are a couple handfuls we'll have to...
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    Incorrect knot in Petzl official information?

    It's probably supposed to represent a prusik.
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    Palm Tree Help

    It seems to me that the canary dates have a fatter trunk and the petiole scars on the trunk are less obvious than the medjools. Also the petiole bases are differently shaped...more flat on the canary dates. I realize this can be all site specific and we all look at trees differently for those...

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