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    My "ultra shorty-bury" finishes/tails on Ultraslings, one's the Trex boom-sling and the other's my TEC Safebloc sling, my 2-most-used because they're Ultra's! Am preferring these tiny, tight, redundantly lock-stitched like crazy, shorty tails!! The TRex is short but that TEC.... ;D
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    Anyone else seeing a significant spike to their general liability/umbrella insurance this year? My renewal is 50% higher than my 1st year...

    @ATH my Like of your comment was Liking you mentioning it / calling it for what it is, not for you having to be around it! But tendencies towards monopolies are inherent and IMO probably inescapable (watch Walmart get into the insurance game tomorrow!) Not trying to be nihilistic or anything...
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    [felling shorter, FAT trunks] Some Q's on crash-pads, and on "butt-tying" trunks (yup, butt tying a trunk, you read it right!)

    Will finish bucking the pieces tomorrow....that big saw/bar is sooo heavy I mean I'm a real small guy so for me it's that much more exaggerated!! Client had been posting videos of me on the 2 prior sessions (I did the whole canopy myself over 3 separate sessions, days apart) when I was just...
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    [felling shorter, FAT trunks] Some Q's on crash-pads, and on "butt-tying" trunks (yup, butt tying a trunk, you read it right!)

    Oh I should mention that I do have some materials to put under the proposed "5' long, halved pieces", specifically I left a ~15-20' tall leader on top of my 15' trunk, just kinda to ensure some yokel didn't come fell my trunk lol but also because I wanted the client there as I'll be ziplining...
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    [felling shorter, FAT trunks] Some Q's on crash-pads, and on "butt-tying" trunks (yup, butt tying a trunk, you read it right!)

    This is the tallest, and one of the thickest bases, I handled all year....was doing far too many pruning jobs / not putting myself out there for removals as much, anyway I did this w/ the 36cc 355t, complete PITA and would've saved hours having the 590 but still got the job done ;D Very very...
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    [felling shorter, FAT trunks] Some Q's on crash-pads, and on "butt-tying" trunks (yup, butt tying a trunk, you read it right!)

    LOL it took way longer than it should've for me to realize what you meant by 'skid'... I don't work around skids very often anymore, pretty 'lone wolf' out here although have been collaborating with someone a bit lately which has been neat! Have used random stuff myself before, here I'm just a...
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    [saw & B&C reco's sought] My biggest saw is a 42cc/18"...w/ the storms coming I feel naked, uncertain what to buy :/

    So well-put, thanks for such a thorough reply (have yet to finish reading the others' replies so not saying this "is best" or putting others' down!) So....what you say Re skip-chains had crossed my mind, a regular full-house chain is gonna have 50% as many cutters as total-links, whereas a...
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    [felling shorter, FAT trunks] Some Q's on crash-pads, and on "butt-tying" trunks (yup, butt tying a trunk, you read it right!)

    tl;dr--- If you have a ~14' tall, 4' wide DBH oak trunk (just trunk) to fell, but a very tight felling-zone, wouldn't it be OK to simply take the top 4' section off, noodle/cut it in half lengthwise and lay the two halves on the sod cut-faces down and perpendicular-to the trunk you're about to...
  9. eyehearttrees

    Anyone else seeing a significant spike to their general liability/umbrella insurance this year? My renewal is 50% higher than my 1st year...

    Oh and Re insurers' focus on the companies they insure, I am certainly not thinking it's a regional thing because I know a roofing company that just went from 5k/mo to 20k because of a problem-employee (they just let him go, finally, after a 3rd accident!) And my agency is 'real' lol it's office...
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    Anyone else seeing a significant spike to their general liability/umbrella insurance this year? My renewal is 50% higher than my 1st year...

    Thanks a million for all the insight, am just blown-away at how different my insurance is....it's "real insurance" lol a $1M policy (Evanston is the actual insurer), but basing stuff on income/sales? Checking-in on me on a job? ROFL--- I literally could've been in a wheelchair, and obtained...
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    How to best clean air-filters? Can you use brake-fluid? Other basic maintenance Q's :)

    Awesome replies guys thank you!! Anyone using foam filters, the type that require oil IE you soak-then-wring the filter before installation? This is the type used on most Max Flow filters, or Red Beard or Stoekel Stacks filters, they all need the soak-&-squeeze in oil like a lawnmower...
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    MS 261 muffler mod

    Has anyone actually gone and shown a benefit to the pipes? I presume you mean "Straight pipe out of my OEM muffler" and not an actual straight pipe design (for instance like the following: When I'd first learned of ^ that type, via "iron horse" youtube, thought "awesome, IF it's not tooooo...
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    MS 261 muffler mod

    Could you explain any details about how you get such a precise finished product here? I'm eager to replicate that type of louver/fish gilling (only I want a couple long ones on the top of my muff) but have tested technique on throwaway mufflers and the results aren't "a lil subpar" they're...
  14. eyehearttrees

    How to best clean air-filters? Can you use brake-fluid? Other basic maintenance Q's :)

    Re plugs I must have been un-clear...I think I do run a lil rich in many instances but it's not enough to be problematic and I've actually only replaced a failed spark plug once (a 2.5yr old chinese clonesaw, its OEM plug finally rattled itself into 2 pieces, and I don't mean the type you just...
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    How to best clean air-filters? Can you use brake-fluid? Other basic maintenance Q's :)

    I only removed it after seeing the flow-bench #'s, it is quite restrictive, I do have OEM in fact it just went to the 590-build-pile like 10min ago lol am going to modify it somehow, haven't looked at it enough to know how yet but know you don't need that much restriction (was well over 10% IIRC...
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    How to best clean air-filters? Can you use brake-fluid? Other basic maintenance Q's :)

    Kinda interesting thing I've been doing, would like to know thoughts because "it seems to have been working for me"... On my ~1.5yr old 355t, one of my most-used saws, the compression is now insane (which, I hope, is simply 'good news' compression from proper use, I did not go in and alter...
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    How to best clean air-filters? Can you use brake-fluid? Other basic maintenance Q's :)

    So on a new bigger saw I got there was this 'baffle' inside the air filter, total 'choke' on airflow, so it was removed (think the flow-bench data on it is on this very site!), anyways I subsequently found from anecdotes & experience that removal of this lil piece allows the carb to spit-back...
  18. eyehearttrees

    Anyone else seeing a significant spike to their general liability/umbrella insurance this year? My renewal is 50% higher than my 1st year...

    [If I didn't mention, I am a 1-person / sole proprietorship, and am speaking "comercial liability insurance $1M coverage" insurance only :) I'll check-around as much as I can today but I f'd up and waited too long, I guess I could just pause and go w/o insurance for a few days (obviously would...
  19. eyehearttrees

    Anyone else seeing a significant spike to their general liability/umbrella insurance this year? My renewal is 50% higher than my 1st year...

    [btw Re my last thread -- I am sorry I didn't get the pics up of that over-fence Jacaranda, I do have some awesome pics (IMO :P ) and'll get them up, was a funky one I ended up setting a zipline, working over client's neighbor's yard but not being able to drop a piece down onto their lawn!]
  20. eyehearttrees

    Anyone else seeing a significant spike to their general liability/umbrella insurance this year? My renewal is 50% higher than my 1st year...

    Title... Got my renewal (and put it off, so I basically "have to" re-sign tomorrow, although I'm sure if I waited a week they would still happily take my money) Got insured just under a year ago, knew renewal was coming-up so I saved $500 (my initial down-payment, last year), just in case...

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