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  1. CjM

    Today....

    Had two throwballs clipped together yesterday isolating a line, ended up with only one and no mini biner. Found my missing gear this morning taking the top. I was so stoked, until later when I realized I forgot my rain jacket
  2. CjM

    Oak wilt & vascular system

    True, I'm just rethinking your question. If a large removal cut at the trunk is avoided, it might not matter so much how fast infection spreads or the best time to make the cut. I'm wondering if the tree has written this limb off entirely. Shedding parts of big limbs is just part of the mature...
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    Oak wilt & vascular system

    What's the plan for the tree long term? Would the client be into some wait and see regarding new sprouts on the broken limb? When I hear 16" cut, regardless of species, I'm thinking lots of soil work and close attention to the whole tree are also in order. We don't really have a problem with...
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    Oak wilt & vascular system

    I would cut back to the best lateral or even a sprout regardless of aspect ratio to help draw energy out to the wound as long as you can before the removal cut. A 16" wound is going to expose a lot of heartwood. I would try to retrench and retain that limb. A tree risk seminar I attended last...
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    Uplifting Spirits

    Brandon, glad you at least have a diagnosis now. Seems to me that you don't need to leave arboriculture outright. If I were you I'd be looking to see what of my tree care abilities I can keep, you know, pollard yourself here so to speak. Good way to keep growing forever.
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    What's your idea of the best chainsaw pant and chainsaw chap?

    Durability!! Personally, I would rather be hot than walk around with all kinds of patches and stitch jobs in my pants. The average worker in the field does not have 5 pair of saw pants, and most only have one pair for the week. Saw pants need to be able to withstand the insanely abrasive...
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    Shorted on rope

    Earlier in this thread someone mentioned buying rope at the mountaineering store. Almost universally, manufacturers of dynamic rock climbing rope sell cut lengths (usually 50, 60, or 70 meters) with an extra two full feet of rope in the hank to account for length discrepancies, and changes in...
  8. CjM

    What Grinds Your Gears?

    All species of Pinus grind my gears
  9. CjM

    What Grinds Your Gears?

    "There's not that much brush, leave the chipper"
  10. CjM

    What Grinds Your Gears?

    Tell me this is a HOA dealio. Throw HOAs on the gear grinder list too I guess.
  11. CjM

    What Grinds Your Gears?

    Doing this work without SENAs really ground my gears. How did we do it?
  12. CjM

    What Grinds Your Gears?

    A single, 1/32" diamater epicormic sprout 96 feet up, 200 yards from the deck down a 70 degree slope of jungle hell absolutely ruining a 270 degree panoramic vista.
  13. CjM

    What Grinds Your Gears?

    12" log going through chipper, neighbor materializes at your elbow: "When yall are done here can you come cut down my tree?"
  14. CjM

    If you could only have one??????

  15. CjM

    If you could only have one??????

    Well I've never had to lay on my stomach inside a mini skid cutting stuck rounds off the anvil.
  16. CjM

    Uplifting Spirits

    Cool! I worked with some of the folks from the Tucker office cleaning up after Florence. I came to Bartlett in a acquisition over here in NC, interesting company. Worked for them a little over a year. Did you get to go to the lab? Some cool folks there, and the biggest sourwood I've ever seen...
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    Uplifting Spirits

    Here's some throw backs: Rufus on break When I worked for Bartlett That's me on the left, getting psyched to unstrap this dirty old possum of a pick. This is Alex. Not sure he does tree work any more, but he's way psyched just here. When I was young and impressionable My parents...
  18. CjM

    Uplifting Spirits

    Glad you're feeling better! A totally triangular trunk on this massive birch in the Great Smokey Mt. Natl. Park. The good work with uncle TJ We'll need some oversize hats to fit all that This oak was well over 200 years old, same family had it for most of its life. Hypoxylon got it. Hard...
  19. CjM

    Slimmest chainsaw pants?

    Been wearing the Arbortech breathflex pro's for a year now. Holding up pretty well, and tight enough to feel like a skater punk. Here's Holt on the left with gen2 Cloggers, and me on the right with the Arbortechs.
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    CODIT in large diameter wood

    I worry more about pruning high aspect ratio limbs. I've seen fairly large wounds completely calloused over on old white oaks, often far out along an old limb. Gilman says high aspect limbs have limited collar formation, similar to true co-dominate stems, which have no branch collar or branch...

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