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    Let’s talk about hook lift trucks

    In the meantime, you might consider a rolloff trailer. I owned a Nedland Industries 14,000 lbs rolloff trailer for a few years. Pulled with a f450 and the gooseneck made it pretty versatile. Like a hooklift container, you can't beat loading wood at ground level
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    Views. Here is one of mine. Lets see yours.....so many great views out there.

    Frost hoar on Fraxinus
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    Let’s talk about hook lift trucks

    With a set of log tongs, I use my Stellar for wood forwarding and loading
  4. M

    Plug your own leaky tires

    The puncture went through the edge of the tread and sidewall
  5. M

    Plug your own leaky tires

    I recently replaced a worn chipper tire after a few years with a plug. The tire shop wouldn't repair a puncture through the sidewall. It held air without issue
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    Wood pellet cat litter

    We always used Feline Pine. The loose grind stuff not the extruded pellets
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    Health Insurance Y/N

    Yes that was total out of pocket for the year (this was mid-December so the year total restarted from $0 two weeks later) and the out of network ambulance ride with the first dose of pain medication (about $1100)
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    Health Insurance Y/N

    Yes, pay for health insurance or workman's comp insurance. It doesn't feel worth the cost until you need the service. My hospitalization would have cost over $110,000 last year. I wasn't in the shape to be shopping from the menu of procedures and the system spared no expense because I was...
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    Views. Here is one of mine. Lets see yours.....so many great views out there.

    Stoked to add a 14 footer to the fleet. A view of Longs Peak from the Boulder Creek valley.
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    Cut through holding wood ....

    I prefer to finish the cut with a straight blade handsaw. It slows things down to allow you to access the rigging and communicate any adjustments. I will one hand with a handsaw and use the other to push the piece. Also be sure to be high enough to not be reaching up too high
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    Snowplowing/blowing rates

    You can avoid the liability issues by plowing as a subcontractor. My friend pays me $100/hour doing mostly office and retail parking lots
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    Rotten silver maple leader fails while I was climbing

    Thank you for asking. I healed up quickly and started climbing again after 6 weeks. No longterm pain or meds addiction which were my two concerns. Still paying bills to around $7000 out of pocket with good insurance. The total would have been $102,000 without insurance. Only other...
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    Chipper radiator deep cleaning tips?

    Twice I have had to drain and take the radiator out of my chipper. Chips and cottonwood fruits had packed the gaps and bent fins on the fan side. I bought a radiator fin comb to straighten the bent fins and carefully used a metal pick to dislodge stuck chips. A lot of medium pressure water...
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    The Body Language of Trees - A handbook for failure analysis

    Yes. Stupsi the Hedgehog. I saw him speak in Ft. Collins 20 years ago. "Shorten the lever-arm". He explains the biomechanics of trees. An engineer who walked his woods in Germany and wrote about what he saw. He was the first man I saw wear Uggs and purple glasses. I learned a ton
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    What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

    I haven't owned a disc chipper for a while. Do you think it throws chips better because of the paddles on the disc? I always chip into a truck so not much of a concern
  16. M

    I gouged myself. Not one handing.

    ouch. Thank you for the heads up
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    Preferred method for solo rigging

    Yes that is about right. Rope in a bag either hung in the tree near me or on my saddle. Usually the first ring a few feet below my left foot. Thread the working end through that ring then the rigging ring under the face cut and tied to the piece. This gives me about a 180° turn on both rings...
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    Preferred method for solo rigging

    I use 1/2" lowering lines and two rigging rings. One ring below the cut as my primary rigging point and the other below my feet as a friction device. I let it run without having my hands being too close to the rigging
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    finger in pruner head no bueno

    That is so easy to do. I have received a couple of warning cuts doing the same thing. I hope you heal up quickly
  20. M

    Close Call Today

    Good lesson learned. Thank you for sharing

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