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    Are equipment prices dropping?

    I wouldn’t say cheap, but comparatively decent. There was a better price, if it was real, but the dealer was flakey and a poor communicator. I gave up waiting on them. Meanwhile, we’ve made ~150 yards of chips with the chipper that was delivered Friday; we should make at least 100 yards today.
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    Are equipment prices dropping?

    My chipper came from the Grand Rapids area.
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    Best practices for using a lift near exposed roots or patios

    We have lifts, a climber, and a rotating telehandler. We pick some balance of what is easiest overall physically, the most boring (repeatable vs heroics and hail marries), and profitable. I thought we were discussing what we would do in the situation, climb vs lift. We have two jobs...
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    Are equipment prices dropping?

    Tis the season for some to be thinning down before winter. Different parts of the country are doing better than others. Wide spread supply chain issues causing whole goods scarcity isn't really a problem anymore. I got what I think is a decent deal on a Morbark chipper last week from 800...
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    Best practices for using a lift near exposed roots or patios

    I can’t see enough from that picture to have a full plan, but assuming there’s a bit of room on the far side of the tree from the camera, 10-15 mins in the lift has the tree down with no rigging required. It’s a rare exception on normal tree work that we’ll climb if there is a lift on site...
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    Best practices for using a lift near exposed roots or patios

    Speed, longevity, practicality, safety.
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    Best practices for using a lift near exposed roots or patios

    The mower mowing the tops of the roots does more damage… unless there’s an obvious exception I don’t get overly concerned.
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    Best practices for using a lift near exposed roots or patios

    Climbing a removal that a good lift can reach is slow, futile, and expensive over a career.
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    Best practices for using a lift near exposed roots or patios

    Context matters. Structurally roots are hard spots, above ground hard spots are sometimes useful for setup. I wouldn’t want to setup up and have the pad slip and “fall” off the root. Typically using a pad to even out where the root is can be helpful in getting the support from the root...
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    Grapplesaw Heads

    Manitou!
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    Grapplesaw Heads

    Did someone say boom torque?
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    Grapplesaw Heads

    I don't know what the port was originally intended for from the rotator mfg.
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    Grapplesaw Heads

    A valve in the grapple gets pressurized oil from an accumulator in the grapple and back feeds it through a single port in the rotator.
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    Grapplesaw Heads

    I had a SG280 G2 on my 2017 PK40, I bought a 035 back in 2014-2015, and I bought a 050 in January of this year. I want to make a hanger for my 050 to mount on my rotating telehandler. If the situation presented itself I’d be game for a TTC 035 or 050 for it. I don’t really want another Mecanil.
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    Grapplesaw Heads

    They dampen above the limit of their torque holding ability. A snubber on a skidded uses the same kinda pack with adjustable preload on the pack. For a grapple saw you'd have to pick the amount of torque you want, what works on a large long log would be way too much for a smaller limb and...
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    Grapplesaw Heads

    I think you need the snubbers to be selective, free swinging at times, tight other times... like the TTC. Isn't the way the snubber pins and TTC works basically the same, a friction stack that has either springs or hydraulics to apply pressure to the stack to reduce the swing? The Mecanil has...
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    On call emergency response for Municipality's

    How do y'all handle towing/recovery rotations? Could you adapt from that?
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    2023 nifty lift sd64 4x4x4

    This engine was 33hp, his will be ~25hp. Theoretically the same hill climbing ability, but the lesser hp will climb more slowly. 3.5 minutes in or so
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    Software - client management question

    Each named customer gets its own profile, the property may be listed under multiple names. If we needed to track the work we'd done at an address (PHC, for instance), I'd make a note to refer to the other customer profile.
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    Refusing irresponsible tree work

    Unless I'm missing some legality aspect, someone removing a tree on their property isn't irresponsible, it's their purview over their domain. A tree over a a house is assuredly a risk to the house, to say otherwise in a professional setting is interesting. Just last week we had a $15k...

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