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  1. Oxman

    Lightning Struck Trees

    Howdy, Is this a thread where you want us to decide how long we can tolerate incipient risk while 'letting the tree's intelligence to 'make up it's mind' about what it wants to do? Or is it a place to post stuff about lightning damage? OK, here ya go: Dominoes falling Arboreally yours, Ox
  2. Oxman

    moral dilemma

    Howdy Daniel, Never having dealt much with disease vectors, I've gotta defer to the literature, so I checked with a city about 150 miles south of Seattle. https://www.portland.gov/trees/dutch-elm-disease The real questions you might be dealing with here might be: Am I a Tree Health Care...
  3. Oxman

    Crack monitoring gauge applied to arboriculture

    Here's some info on how failures occur. John Goodfellow's report on Branch Failures.
  4. Oxman

    Share your photos for the Treebuzz Instagram feed

    Can Instagram help us find owners of custom vehicle license plates in all 50 states?
  5. Oxman

    Near Miss Today

    You crane guys do amazing work!
  6. Oxman

    Near Miss Today

    Howdy all, Here's some comments. First off, thanks for the climbing lesson. This scary description seems to accurately portray what actually occurred. Most recounting of how a climb went leaves out something, making the account unclear, with questions about the incident. I'm so glad that this...
  7. Oxman

    Crossbow Linesetting

    A flat-topped redwood is located at Jughandle Creek. The process of shooting the arrow and installing the climbing lines is demonstrated in this video by Jerry Beranek. Click here for the video: Jughandle Creek Redwood
  8. Oxman

    Crossbow Linesetting

    What gear is needed once you leave the ground? In addition to your climbing kit, here's an unboxing video of what is contained in my backpack. This video is located in a Facebook group called Old Growth Tree Climbing. Check it out & Join. Everything is public, but you must be a member to post...
  9. Oxman

    Crossbow Linesetting

    This thread discusses the archery tools used for linesetting, with the combination of fishing gear and not-so-much, the rope ascending techniques. We can get into the why part--how fun it is to be up there in the overstory. What do you do when you get up there? Another video was filmed in 2020...
  10. Oxman

    Crossbow Linesetting

    None of this is possible without the low-stretch properties of HDPE polyester fishing line. The arrow must be lifted slightly, and then allowed to drop suddenly by releasing the fishing line in a 'plucking' operation. If the line were to be made of elastic material, it would not be able to raise...
  11. Oxman

    Crossbow Linesetting

    The article was picked up by ArbClimber after we published a 10 minute video about a group climb in June 2021. When the video opens in the Youtube app, click on the settings icon in the lower right corner, which looks like a gear. Change the resolution setting to 2160p, which is 4K. If...
  12. Oxman

    Crossbow Linesetting

    The latest issue of ArbClimber has a pictorial about the multi-stage line pulling process of 1) fishing line; 2) throwline; 3) climbing line. The magazine is available in print, or as a free .pdf download at rescuemagazines.com.
  13. Oxman

    Crossbow Linesetting

    Here's one of the guys hefting a more powerful version of a crossbow that has compound string action and split limbs and a huge Mitchell 600 spinning reel for higher shots about 200'.
  14. Oxman

    Crossbow Linesetting

    Crossbows are great for setting lines way high up in giant trees. We've been building some crossbows as a fundraiser for the scholarship program for college students who are doing tree research. Here's a stab at explaining how the 3-stage line pull operation works. Arboreally yours, Ox
  15. Oxman

    Share your photos for the Treebuzz Instagram feed

    I've got your post right here.
  16. Oxman

    tree launcher shoots VERY accurate up to 250 feet- Thoughts?

    Here's an alternative - the linesetting crossbow. Guess it should have it's own thread. It might already.
  17. Oxman

    A Fir Removal

    The URL to the video has changed, to
  18. Oxman

    US Constitution Bicentennial Living Witness Trees

    The Smithsonian Blog has an update. https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/big-pine
  19. Oxman

    US Constitution Bicentennial Living Witness Trees

    In 1987, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall boycotted the official ceremony of the U. S. Constitution Bicentennial. He had harsh words for the founding fathers. Read his version of a racist American history.
  20. Oxman

    Report Style for Hazard Tree on neighboring property

    Howdy rfvt ! Those reports can be tricky without the client's written statement (in writing) of what they expect from you. Sometimes you have to play dumb, repeating your request for a scope of work, in their words. If you write the scope of work, then they reply, "yeah, what you said", the...

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