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    Spruce pine

    Tom D., How close to Spruce Pine are you? Memories... Our neighbor, Sally Tappan grew up in Spruce Pine. There is a Tappan St. in Spruce Pine. Her daddy was a longtime sheriff there and she had about a gallon and a half of real nice moonshine he had confiscated from a rogue still in the...
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    Trees from a distance

    Yep, a Magnolia which is not uncommon, just not native to this country... (Magnolia denudata or Yulan Magnolia)
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    Trees from a distance

    Adkpk,... I only said 'Platanus' cause i wasn't sure if it was one or the other... Here is an exotic I saw today.
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    Ipad app for tree inventory,

    Talking2Trees looks like it costs $1000 ($250 discount if you're a member of your state's forestry council). Anyone using a simple, closer-to-free app for inventories? I have a very small church community with no budget, but they own the largest remaining stand of trees in their small town. I...
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    Trees from a distance

    Platanus?
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    Fare Thee Well Auld Man

    Thank you all for your comments and remembrances. I am sure at Mac's memorial there will be an amazing sound from all of the bagpipers. It is still hard to believe he was driving around town just a few weeks ago... Dutch295, We never get over our losses, but rather incorporate them into...
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    Fare Thee Well Auld Man

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZCAtVJSNdQE
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    Fare Thee Well Auld Man

    Maclean Macleod died last night. Awoke to the email from his son-in-law, dated Sunday 22, 2013 at 12:49 "Mac just passed away ...on Friday morning he noted how good his life has been and how lucky he was to have his daughters live nearby. It is a gift to know that he has no regrets. He went...
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    Fare Thee Well Auld Man

    Nick, I have many more books from his time in Scotland which are obscure and somewhat dated, but it is because of you I posted that particular picture (the Davey connection). The International Shade Tree Conference page was from the Penn-Del Chapter 1972 conference. It is now called the...
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    Fare Thee Well Auld Man

    Not to wish anyone dead before their time, but I said goodbye to a mentor and a great tree man today. He is in hospice and has only hours to days left in this sphere. Attaining 90 years of age is a worthy time on this earth and Mac's many accomplishments show that he took his time here...
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    Syria?

    I agree.
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    Antique chainsaws

    That was the first saw I ran, too. Blue Homelite, bare metal handle and no vibration dampening. Great cutting saw...
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    Right shoulder surgery

    Have not had issues with getting 'bound up'... have a good bowel protocol. GrahamS, Good to hear how well you have come back... I am being -real- patient. I do not want to re-rupture and I -never- want to have to go through that surgery again; it wasn't fun at all the first four days, and...
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    Trees from a distance

    Large tree in background looks like a cherry? Tree in question a Linden? Student in foreground appears to be the female of Homo sapien...
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    Crane flip in MA

    Interesting... I will be interested in what the investigators determine happened there.
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    Crane flip in MA

    Awful... I am not an electrical engineer and this is purely conjecture, but the heated driveway circuits caught my attention, too. I don't know anyone with a heated driveway this far South of the snow-belt. If the crane was situated on the ground/driveway and it was wet (my assumption is it is...
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    Definition of 'Professional'

    Re: Definition of \'Professional\' Thanks, So maybe I'm approaching 'professional' status in regards to analyzing and commenting on such posts in the forum As far as tree work, even after 28 years I doubt to a certain degree the outcome of every event, each climb, each tree falled, each...
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    Definition of 'Professional'

    Re: Definition of \'Professional\' Perhaps Buchannan's definition could be slightly altered to read: ...In his mind you become professional when 'any group of un-biased observers individually and together, upon adequate critical observation of your means and methods, becomes as' confident...
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    COAST REDWOOD by Beranek

    Re: COAST REDWOOD by Beranek *DELETED* Got mine right before surgery... doc kept sayin', "son, we need to give you the anesthesia and get started here"... and I just held a finger up and kept sayin', "I still have just a few pages to go"... Daughter is thrilled to be in one of the photos...
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    munter hitch vs figure 8

    Oak (Sam Johnson) and I climbed together a few years back in Doug Firs and Coasties and each day played, " what equipment can we leave behind and still climb and still rescue each other". The Monster Munter was the failsafe, for when we left behind almost everything... ... works well, easy to...

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