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  1. Birdyman88

    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    I know. I wanted to like the guy way back, but unfortunately I've seen too many politicians pull the wool over our eyes for too long, and this particular guy had already established a long history of screwing people over. But, he was also a master at propaganda, so he got people to bite. To be...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    I looked in the mirror, and I saw a company called Howard Industries from Laurel Missisissippi. One of the largest ICE raids in the country took place there a few years ago. I actually interviewed with them back in the day and they didn't want to pay anything. I would be willing to bet their...
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    Visiting Norfolk VA, Looking for Brew and Food Recommendations

    We just got to kingsmill resort. I'll check out Fat Canary.
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    Crane accident 8/31/21 Washington State

    They have one with Daft Punk if you prefer that lol
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    Crane accident 8/31/21 Washington State

    If you can make Phil Collins cool and sexy, then you're doing something right.
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    Crane accident 8/31/21 Washington State

    You know, this company here has pretty much set the gold standard for arb video. How can you not feel at least a little inadequate trying to post a vid after seeing something from their channel. They have one on their YT channel where they're actually using a tape to make sure they don't exceed...
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    Visiting Norfolk VA, Looking for Brew and Food Recommendations

    Thanks @Steve Connally. Well, as far as brew, malty, really malty, with good quality hops. If it is brewed by monks, then that's good enough. I'm old school - no fruit peel, ridiculous spices, or other experimental junk. I know that's asking a lot nowadays. As for food, good oyster house first...
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    Best motorized backpack sprayer?

    Have you ever by chance used the Flowzone cyclone? It looks like it only goes to 65 psi, but they still claim 25 ft distance. I don't know if 25 ft is up or out, or if it's realistic seeing the cyclone has half the pressure of the Typhoon.
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    Crane accident 8/31/21 Washington State

    OMG. I can't believe they concocted that story of root rot on the other tree just so they could take it down to solve the cluster f--k they made of the first tree. That's sad. I don't really see a problem with cutting it free from stump, but they should have done that right from the git-go with...
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    Visiting Norfolk VA, Looking for Brew and Food Recommendations

    @Tom Dunlap Can you move this to Tree Free Zone? Thanks.
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    Visiting Norfolk VA, Looking for Brew and Food Recommendations

    My son and his wife just relocated to the Coast Guard base down there. They bought a house in Hampton and going to visit for a week. A long time ago, some wise German said "mach diesen Scheiß nicht in mein Bier" ("don't put that s--t in my beer") and then made a law against it. If you happen to...
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    SK900 Coming

    My salesman said it was going to debut in Sept at the utility show in KY. Basically an SK800 with a Yanmar turbo. Cost will be about +3k over SK800. Supposedly these will be rolling off faster than the SK800 because the Kubota engines are bottlenecked. I actually had vermeer salesman tell me the...
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    Crane accident 8/31/21 Washington State

    I'll just say this then shut up. If they had swung everything pendulum from horizontal to bottom, the swing would have only tripled the effective load seen because it's being absorbed into a long swing. So yes they could have picked it after cutting and swung it onto crane for only 3x the load...
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    Crane accident 8/31/21 Washington State

    It took me several tries too, but then I realized that if it were tip down, there would be a lot more sling showing between ball and butt. But after watching it make it to ground, it's definitely butt down. Even better, on the fall the tips raked across the ball and the ring sling he had girthed...
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    Crane accident 8/31/21 Washington State

    Man, I just want to make an observation here regarding the video where they swung the top onto the crane. I don't know if you noticed or not, but when the top fell, it got hung up on the cable and it actually swung down on the pendulum UPRIGHT. Or am I just seeing things? Anyway, I don't know if...
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    Songs of Perfection

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    Negative rigging

    From Yale. Look at the column that says "Working energy Absorption". This will show you how different the dynamic absorption capability of Yale's flavor are. Also note that the value is based pounds of rope, not any specific diameter or length, and it's also based on keeping peak load at 20% MBS...
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    Negative rigging

    This topic keeps coming up again and again, and Yale has an answer. If you really want to know how to calculate the dynamic forces on the rope, go visit Yale's website and look up something called "Energy Absorption Factor". They have an EA for each of their rigging lines. It is the only way to...
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    My crew is going to be working on a maple tree inBuffalo and it has poison ivy or poison oak right up all the way 30 feet. what should we do before w

    It never hurts to clip the vines a few weeks prior. Even if the oils are still present, you'll have much less contact with the dead foliage than you would if it was thriving. If a customer agrees to do work while I'm still on site, I'll usually get permission and just clip them right there...
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    Colorado Tree ID #2

    Glad you got it figured out. When the pH is high, the Fe and Mn are in oxidized forms and not able to be [easily] taken up by tree.

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