Good luck with your teaching seminar tomorrow. The folks in Hong Kong attending the 3rd annual International Arboriculture Summit are lucky to have accomplished arborists like you doing their training. http://www.asiatreepreservation.com/
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Thanks for the salient comments. This group may bring out the factors affecting the spread of infection of DED thru roots exposed by excavation during construction. In particular, the winter season work removing 6,500 truckloads of soil may affect other trees on campus. I would like to...
University of Washington is pouring money into campus construction projects.
The city code has little power to require environmental protection due to weak language, as dictated by developers.
The University of Washington:
is in the process of a 9 acre clearcut in the state Arboretum to...
Stanley Longstaff Music Video
I also attended the 1997 ISA convention where Stanley had his splicing demonstration display table set up at the park in Salt Lake City.
Mark Chisholm won the competition in a huge Sycamore with an amazingly smooth running French prussik knot on his climbing...
Re: Another video
One more video of the elevator, taken this time with my Samsung Galaxy phone. An experiment at direct uploading with the phone's Android file sharing utility. Pretty seamless.
This time, it is of Seattle Consulting Arborist Brian Gilles. The posting is actually a bribe, in an...
Another video
Thanks to the crew for putting this event on--great fun !
It was novel being a spectator at an old growth climb. It was a pleasure to be the one who pays the money and takes the chances for a change.
After all the group climbs, this one had it's own distinct flavor that made it...
Re: Mt Shasta dead 175\' Ponderosa removal
Cris Fraser got this shot of the lightning scar from the bucket truck with his 35mm camera.
What looks like an extra flipline is the rope used to attach the saw to the tree while cutting.
What are the screw jacks described in "Sometimes A Great Notion"? The book tells of skidding logs downhill by hand using these jacks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sometimes_a_Great_Notion
The movie changed the description of the accident to a felling barberchair.
New photo from September, 2010. No need to click on the attachment, this photo is it.
The guylines holding the tree up were cut on the 4th of July, 2010 . The tree is now down on the ground. End of an era.
The Kirbyville Giant is another Quercus kellogii California Black Oak nearby on...
Re: Mt Shasta dead 175\' Ponderosa removal
The smaller tree would have ended up across the street if it had been 'hit'. No damage.
The video has been re edited to include several more scenes.
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Re: Mt Shasta dead 175\' Ponderosa removal
The mountain has an unusually small amount of snow this year. Global Warming?
The house was built with a corner notch around the trunk.
The Ponderosa had a very slight back lean from the rain gutters to the ground, but was relatively vertical above...
Re: Sebastian Junger\'s climbing accident
Restrepo the movie is Sebastians war story. Robert was mentioned in the last paragraph on the last page of the April 17, 2009 NY Times article. Turning Tables ambush
Sebastian Junger\'s climbing accident
Sebastian Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm", wrote about his climbing accident in a book about hazardous professions. The chapter on the perils of commercial fishing became the book & movie starring George Cloony.
He had an adventure with an out of...
Here's the view from across the street.
Hope this photo isn't too big. It shows the size of the climber at the far right. These trees were planted during World War I, which ake 'em about 90 years old.