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    Salewa Mountain Trainer Mid GTX

    I loved how comfortable these boots are. Like a glove out of the box immediately. HOWEVER I bought these boots in July. They were delivered to my door July 28, 2016. I started having issues with them the second week of October as far as the leather holding up. I gave them the benefit of the...
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    Hiring Employees - Best Practices

    As a stereotypical Boy Scout... Eagle Scout rather, knots have always fascinated me and been easy for me to learn. Give him knots. As stated. So much in this line of work depends on the proper knot and the proper procedure for dressing said knot. Tree work is about the only thing that keeps my...
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    One handled chainsaw use

    @Crazy_Jimmy 's page I believe. Climbing Arborist International if I recall correctly. I'm on several and they run together. That one typically has the best discussions IMO.
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    One handled chainsaw use

    Reg, this debate sparked another one on Facebook this past weekend. Maybe not directly, but regardless, this thread was mentioned. As a result of things said in that discussion, I've made only two handed cuts with the saw, just to force myself to get into better position to do so. My work is...
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    Caution Treestuff lag bolts

    While understanding the concern over potentially faulty hardware, or instillation practices, am I the only one that hasn't worked for someone that "guarantees" cabeling/brace rods? The company I work for now as well as the two I started with, both advise that it's to help, but is certainly not...
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    Buckingham Climbers with Cadillac Pads

    Sent
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    Buckingham Climbers with Cadillac Pads

    I'll take the pinto.
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    Your future in arboriculture?

    I may catch grief for this, but I do believe a larger % of the tree industry workers are in it these days with a higher level of education (not that it makes them better at anything, only matters on paper to the powers at be) to carry them on into something else, as well as having a genuine...
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    Another homeowner doozie ...

    Tell them wood is everywhere. Almost like it grows on trees. I ain't paying you! Could give em the option to leave it there, same price just to prove you didn't go low because the wood was padding you :D
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    Cloggers Zeros

    Mine are ordered! Went with the WesSpur deal! My crew leader is a New Zealander, while he hasn't used Clogger products, he says his friends "back home" have and like them. We'll see what happens. I'm not a stickler for the hooks but maybe the run I receive will have them since they're back...
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    Your future in arboriculture?

    @Wesley Full im surprised you haven't tried getting on with one of the smaller TC companies that seem to be more in tune with the science rather than the production. Miss you guys up there!
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    Your future in arboriculture?

    I wish I could say. Depends on the day. Right now I'm a #2 guy on the crew, generally with 1st choice of what I want to do (great crew leader right now) on a given day out of the work we're assigned. When we have large white oaks, open willow oaks, open red oaks and such toI want to practice...
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    Flint Knapping

    Thanks!
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    Flint Knapping

    Not as impressive as Treebreezy but here are a few I've made. If these upload in the right order the first small black point in a piece of dacite. Formed in the same ways obsidian is, same areas found, it just isn't translucent like obsidian. The next is my first point ever. It's like trying...
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    OSHA bans body belts & lanyards in buckets

    I've read quite a few "catapult" scenarios in regards to the bucket. My only guess is that a high dorsal attachment with shoulder restraints vs a ventrical (bridge) with no shoulders helps keep the worker in their fall restraint device vs being launched out of it when everything comes tight. I...
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    Rope Wrench - Hitch/Rope compendium.

    Feel so strongly about it you had to tell us twice did ya? I need to switch mine up. I like the consistency that my current set up is giving me, doesn't bind, ever, but it's not quite loose enough to pay out freely enough to reliably make a big jump. Still can't say enough about the 9.3...
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    Cloggers Zeros

    That does it. I'm buying a pair based on his post alone. I was wanting a new pair of pants and looking at these, but he seems like a stand up guy trying to do right. I have no issues with sizes or lack of hooks, as I don't even use the hooks on my SIP pants. Payroll deductions shall...
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    What's the weirdest stuff you've found in trees?

    Liriodendron bagoshiti
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    What's the weirdest stuff you've found in trees?

    Doing city of Charlotte trees today and found a bag of fecal excrement about 20ft up a poplar.
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    Canada's version of a flawed election system

    The loon is also a damn good radio station up Brainerd way ya know (in my best Minnesota accent an NC boy that did two years in the TC can do)

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