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    Hands On Crane Workshop

    Jim Can you put out a syllabus with updated dates please? I need to submit it to the administration so I can bring kids again this year. Thanks a bunch. Tex
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    Chip truck and Chipper for sale

    So is the truck gone and if so what is the cost of just the chipper?
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    Japaneese Maple Help

    So I need a hand with a Split-leaf Japaneese Maple. My mother planted this tree 19 years ago and it has gotten too big for it's location and she wants to re landscape the entire side yard. She loves the tree but the first quote she got to move it gave her some sticker shock but she was told the...
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    North American Hands -On Climber/Crane Training

    i would like to echo the many thanks extended already. i brought 8 of my seniors and they were all blown away. everything from the equipment to the communication simply floored them. the biggest thing that several of them commented on was how accessible and nice everyone was to them and they...
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    educational photos

    thanks all. thats very helpful cheers tex
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    educational photos

    hey i need a favor and figured this may be a good place to turn. i teach arbor @ bristol aggie (BCAHS.com) recently my hard drive crashed and took with it most of my tree pics. well now im trying to teach my sophs pruning and i need pics to put into my power points. i need the good the bad and...
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    wound weeping

    so a coworker and i were discussing pruning cuts weeping in the spring time. i was always taught that the tree sap lost due to weeping was of little to no consequence to tree health. she stated that she had heard that it would deplete nutrient reserves and stress the tree; which would in turn...
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    arbor history

    i recently took a teaching gig and one project that my new students are working on is a history of arboriculture display for a big community show that the school puts on. i needed some help and thought i might find some here. 2 things i was looking for were: 1. i need some good references/pics...
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    Arboriculture Instructor

    [ QUOTE ] Sure is, but we call him dumbass Seth! [/ QUOTE ] nice to meet you they call me d-bag mark
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    Climbing spikes

    a while ago while working for a different company i was trying to work with a brand new climber. the boss wasnt into taking the time to slow down and teach. learn by doing and taking the hard knocks. new guy went up a small maple. boss and i go back to work. after a bit we look back to find him...
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    mended face

    well as i sit here i am now the recipiant of 9 more stitches. heres what happened. we were elevating street trees. nothing big and all we have to do is raise them up over the sidewalk / road. i was on a stick saw. i snap cut a 4ish inch limb that was overhanging a car on the street. i had a...
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    flying wedge mangles face

    on the way to the job site this am i got a text from a buddy who loggs for a living. the text read "just broke my face with a wedge." come to find out that he was felling a tree. he went to drive a wedge in the kerf of his back cut. next thing he remembers he got struck in the face by either the...
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    cmm swivel

    Re: CMC swivel thanks a bunch. yeah had the acronym mixed up. cheers tex
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    cmm swivel

    anyone know where i can find a small cmm swivel? cheers tex
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    james the narcoleptic tree guy

    not sure if this is real or not but intertaining none the less. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7808769582406517692
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    swivel

    im thinkin about getting a swivel to play around with. im thinkin of usin it on my bridge as a centeral attachment. @ tci the tree maginers pointed out to me that not all swivels are rated to be loaded on their side. Give me some feed back about swivels if you can. Do you use one? for what? what...
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    Felling tricks

    thanks for the input gang. i believe that there are situations for all three types of notches in our day to day job(conventional humbolt and open). it is knowing when to use each that will separate one cutter from the next. most of the time i use an open faced with the bore cuts and plenty of...
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    Felling tricks

    i got a couple o thoughts that i would like some feed back on... 1. sniping your notch 2. low vs high back cut 3. steering a tree for roll ok here we go. this may be hard to explain but ill give it hell. 1.i was at work today and i saw the boss man snipe his notch. When using a conventional open...
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    Rope snap

    i just looked at the site didn't see a ct snap. any idea about the red baron one?
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    Rope snap

    ok ill look at it. ill see if this one can be "fixed" as well thanks cheers tex

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