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  1. Stumpsprouts

    Lakeside Work

    I would call this a learning experience. Now you can outline a realistic expectation for customers and most of the time they will be pleasantly surprised by how much you did NOT fuck up their lawn. And when it just happens, you can say sorry, but this is just the nature of tree work. It’ll look...
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    SRS and MRS length

    Yes- I have connected two ropes with splices with a carabiner in the past, but I prefer not having hardware down where a branch could impact it during work. Zeppelin is very reliable and it makes me look cool tying it, which is of course very important.
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    ICE is abducting all kinds of folks now, not just folks of color but recently detained this white Canadian citizen, who was in one of the American Pie films. She was held for nearly two weeks due to an ‘incomplete work visa’. No political or legal conflicts whatsoever. “They are housed...
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    Hey guys Czech this out

    …what! This reminds me of a walnut I was deadwooding back in my rookie days in Brooklyn. It was in a park in the promenade, and part of the tree dropped down like 150 feet to the BQE (very busy highway). I skipped that section of the tree…
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    Throw bag hitting shingle roof...How bad?

    Sometimes homeowners have bad ideas, this was not such a great idea. An arborist cares for trees… we have to advocate for them daily while still making sales... homeowners don’t know trees, so explain to them in a sweet way. Removing low limbs from trees increases their overall likelihood of...
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    tree rope winch and some large sturdy braces to save trees?

    The trees pictured do not look particularly large or mature. In those growing conditions they can’t reach maturity, the soil is barely being held together. So time for new species. Seems like this is essentially a wetland now, so look towards wetland restoration projects for replanting (I’m sure...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    What gave me hope today is that Ann Coulter spoke up against this illegal deportation attempt. The guy didn’t commit a crime. The right to protest and the right to free speech are enshrined in our constitution. They can’t just disappear people because of their politics, what the hell are we...
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    Oh my handyman and landscapers!

    One thing to think about is that the person who did it for $600 may hear from the client that someone bid $1000, and so he might look at the next job that’s similar and say I’ll try to bid $750, etc, and slowly the collective bidding increases. Prices in my service area were pitiful up until...
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    Helene

    The article came out today, feels pretty surreal to be in the paper! Really good article that lays out the challenges ahead here. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/asheville-trees-hurricane-helene-north-carolina I also posted a reel for the masses with some of my findings on Ig...
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    Work Photos

    Another biggen today on an estimate of this and that… encountered 64” DBH Red oak on a ridge out in the country. No work to be done on this. Doing quite fine.
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    Work Photos

    Even in the areas with large blowdown, there’s still a lot of surviving trees, which will hopefully take over the canopy in short order. I just went to a talk with a USDA Forest Service employee who laid out the situation we’re facing. The real work we need to do is remove all the fuel that’s in...
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    Work Photos

    I’ve been dealing with a lot of biggens lately. We lost a lot of huge trees too in the storm. Trees over 36” DBH were 6% of the failures I surveyed and only make up 1.5% of the general population of trees. So there’s been a lot of talk about how we can retain these important trees, or what might...
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    Work Photos

    Deadwooded a 44” White oak today that got real fat around 10’ up, put the tape on it and it was 71” diameter! Thing had very little pruning cuts evident (the one in the lower photo was the only one I could see anywhere) and very little deadwood, just some low key interior limbs and a few aborted...
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    anyone successfully start a business with no equipment or land?

    I’m also confused about this particular bid. When I mention cranes as a possibility I usually present it as just that, a possibility- the price is set regardless, as not using a crane will require equal parts additional labor. Sometimes the crane operator we contract out might not be able to...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    That’s what I’m talking about. Less talking, more retaliation. Dems just sit around trying to win an argument.
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    Too bad log prices are at an all time low and the big mills around here are all closed. Loggers hardly make any money as it is on projects here, supply is too high. Just like with the expansion of drilling, this is just posturing. There are so many drilling contracts in public lands that have...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    Seems like the conservatives here are just taking a few days to contemplate why their taxes are going to be raised and why it’s some minority’s fault or something. No way to spin this tax bill. Allow for your minds to be changed. They are screwing us over so hard.
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    4.5 trillion dollars would be added to the deficit with proposed GOP tax cuts. Need I say more.
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    Oh it’s very clear it’s for tax cuts for the rich. He’ll bill it as tax cuts for everyone else but we will have to look at the fine print to tease out the bs. This won’t produce a balanced budget either. They’ll say they will but it’s total bullshit. I already earned my $8m earlier in the...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    A few online friends lost their jobs as urban foresters, I guess their jobs were funded via grants from the Arbor Day Foundation. The grants had some DEI language (increasing access to trees and their benefits to disadvantaged communities). No more urban foresters in those lil cities! Some...

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