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  1. Nish

    Life at Bartlett, employee perspectives

    I've got an excellent young employee looking to gain some more experience working for other companies. He's not interested in PHC. He's got a lot of promise so I would hate to see him lose his edge and get used to working the system as you describe.
  2. Nish

    Life at Bartlett, employee perspectives

    Thanks for the feedback. I tend to encourage employees to do side work, to the point of occasionally sending them clients and letting them borrow equipment. We're also fairly generous, I think, with gear and training. But I do envy what I imagine to be Bartlett's internal resources--info...
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    Life at Bartlett, employee perspectives

    Thanks Stan. I expect there'll be quite a lot of variation from office to office. Still hoping anyone with experiences or familiarity with the company might weigh in.
  4. Nish

    Life at Bartlett, employee perspectives

    Hoping to get some feedback for what it's like, from an employee's perspective, to work for Bartlett. Will a young groundworker, with about a year of solid tree work experience, but who still wants and needs a lot of mentoring and hands-on-training, likely get it working at Bartlett? Does...
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    Quoting Bush and Hedge Trimming

    I generally tell clients that if the work can be done by a landscaper, go with the landscaper.
  6. Nish

    Runner, HHx, RE Totem SOLD

    Zeeter and jeremyr80: one of my guys just returned a rope runner I loaned him, as it wasn't for him. That means I'm all good on rope runners for now. Still a good deal on this one. Hopefully an opportunity now for jeremyr80.
  7. Nish

    Call to regulation pros/cons...

    On occupational licensing, Russ Roberts of Econtalk has a couple of good interviews, from opposing perspectives: http://www.econtalk.org/dick-carpenter-on-bottleneckers/ http://www.econtalk.org/beth-redbird-on-licensing/ More regulation is coming, and, although it will knock out many of our...
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    Tower climber here dealing with hornets

    When an aerial rescue will only prolong a climber's suffering: scramble the flame thrower drone! There's dignity in incinerating all evidence of the your employee's errors and ANSI violations. Hoping to see an uptick in casualties by spontaneous combustion in the TCIA accident briefs.
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    Tower climber here dealing with hornets

    I think I'd want a speedy escape option down a long rope, and then send up a fancy drone with hornet spray.
  10. Nish

    Tower climber here dealing with hornets

    Yikes! I've got no answer. The latest Climbing Arborist podcast interviews a climber with a horrific tale of hornet attack. Here's a previous Treebuzz thread on the subject.
  11. Nish

    Bactericides and Fungicides

    JD, would it not work to mix the propiconizale with the emamectin benzoate solution and inject both at once? Some of our clients have ash trees that defoliate once from ash anthracnose ever year, and so if we're planning to inject for EAB, should/could we suggest the simultaneous fungicide...
  12. Nish

    Can someone tell me what tree this wood is from?

    If I saw that around here, I would think it's mulberry heartwood--judging mainly by the color and the way it seems to reflect light. I'm sure they have mulberry trees in France. Nice photos. Mulberries ordinarily do grow fast though.
  13. Nish

    Bandit 15XP price?

    Hey Flying Squirrel, we were just about to order the PSI software, cable, and adapter for $398. Have you found that these tools give you a worthwhile resource beyond the method that Evan mentions of blinking out the engine codes without any software or cords?
  14. Nish

    Kretzschmaria...death sentence...?

    Please pass on any good articles too. I'd love to learn more about the options, especially when all we see is a little spot of K. deusta on a large tree. I'm also curious to know of anyone using Trichoderma or RootShield Plus.
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    Kretzschmaria...death sentence...?

    Any good results from phosphorous acid on K. deusta? (I just read an article mentioning, in passing, that it wasn't effective. Any results with trichoderma?
  16. Nish

    Mosquito applications

    I've eliminated mosquitos around my house with permethrin/bifenthrin spot spraying. The labels are restrictive about where you can spray this stuff for given its toxicity to aquatic critters. I'd also be curious to know what the professional mosquito abatement folks use. I love doing what I can...
  17. Nish

    Guy drops chainsaw from 60ft, zero damage???

    Our saws used to regularly crack and break apart, spontaneously, according to the employees.
  18. Nish

    "One handing" a chainsaw??!!

    Probably not too many strong opinions about this. For safety reasons the industry needs to move on from chainsaws and bucket trucks altogether, towards high explosives.
  19. Nish

    Two seperate lanyards

    I'm jazzed with the long double lanyard that @DavidRicks just spliced and assembled for me. Just got it last night, but David and some of the other innovative climbing pros are apparently rocking these to great effect. Should be great for passing branches or extending into one long lanyard. The...
  20. Nish

    White Oak Leaf problem

    ATH--super helpful! I just discovered the zoom on my iphone camera. So here's a close-up of the black stuff on the petiole (not crumbly), along with some kind of brown inchworm.

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