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    Training via Mishap Videos

    You need only look at some of the videos posted here and the ensuing comments to see that different views of right and wrong arise about the same video. A video has to be pretty stark and the viewers have to be able to see the mistakes if you are to use the video effectively. A really great...
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    Getting into Training

    Yes a very good example of experience versus expertise. I see in the AR competition portion of TCC rescue randy being brought to the ground bent over backwards, his head bouncing off branches and limbs, with no protection of the neck or spine. I realize that TCC is often about speed (and...
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    Getting into Training

    If you want to be a trainer you need to take lots of courses in the skills etc. you want to train but much more important is the training in basic health and safety and instructor techniques. We all know the brainics who can't instruct and we know instructors who know nothing beyond the content...
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    Number Six :(

    I was about 20 miles away in December, beautiful north country that area. Too bad your friend cannot live to see more of it.
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    Number Six :(

    Maybe Daniel can come and tell us how felling skills would have saved his life. Daniel believes anybody who thinks space should be left between workers is an idiot. Again two times the height of the trees between workers while felling would have saved the life and would have had very little...
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    Text Book Suggestions

    One of the questions I ask my student is the name of the book(s) or the author(s) that we have been using. Shows attention to detail. It is sad that people consider the knowledge in places like the compendiums pretty pricey. I just checked and the Compendium of Conifer Diseases is $79 for...
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    Text Book Suggestions

    Michael Raupp's book? Do you mean Davidson and Raupp? Also from U of Mass Total Plant Management of Herbaceous Perennials. All the Compendiums from the American Phytopathological Society THe PHC books from ISA
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    Sycamore tree major bark loss

    NOt sure what you mean, another way. The only way you can examine a cross section is tomography and resistograph. Mallets and probes do not give you this information
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    Sycamore tree major bark loss

    You need somebody with advanced skills not somebody that considers owning a chainsaw as qualification to inspect trees.
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    Sycamore tree major bark loss

    YOu need to find a person with advanced testing equipment to look at the amount of cross-sectional decay and holding wood. You need somebody with a tomograph and a resistograph to do this. Do not believe anybody who says that tapping with a mallet will give them all the information they need.
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    Australian pine removal 80 and 100ton cranes

    Not a pine. They are Casuarina or perhaps Allocasuarina.
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    Cowboy. ( Left a little to much hinge on this one )

    That is not a monkey puzzle Araucaria araucana. I think is might be A. heterophylla (especially if Clearwater is in Florida)
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    Cowboy. ( Left a little to much hinge on this one )

    Palms? That is an Araucaria.
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    Electric hand pruner options/ advice/ experiences

    I have the Electrocoup F3010 with the largest set of "jaws" available. These are made for pruning fruit trees (and with various heads other tasks) in production not to meat arborists standards. They are ideal for pruning one and two year old wood on fruit trees, once you reach this size they...
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    Electric hand pruner options/ advice/ experiences

    I have a set and will write more when at computer
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    Professional reference resources

    I guess that everybody knows that because Boddy's work is pretty basic stuff for everybody calling themselves an arborist.
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    Professional reference resources

    It is 1983, Boddy and others have done a lot of work since then.
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    Trees from a distance

    Sargentii
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    Work Photos

    But it is still better than listening to Ian Chappell.
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    Professional reference resources

    NO!!! I cannot find it anywhere. I have even spoken with Lynne Boddy, she does not have a spare copy, does not know where a spare is, and does not know where an E copy exists. I think the easiest solution is to go to a university library system, borrow it and photocopy it.

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