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    Cats of Treebuzz…prrrrr

    Old Hickory
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    service lines

    Curious about how different location's power companies treat service drops. Around here the line maintenance used to stop at the service drop. Homeowners were required to maintain their own service-i.e. hire a contractor to do it. Lately the Power company here has taken to doing service drop...
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    Tree work in movies/television

    I don't know how to post link but.... Harvesting beer ingredients 150ft up a tree on you tube. This "reality tv" show contacted me out of the blue. Pretty contrived but kind of fun.
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    Omme lift support

    I believe in giving credit when due... Reading a lot about disjointed tech support for the CMC brand lift. I got an Omme from tracked lifts end of last summer. There have been a few glitches. Tech support has been able to zero in on the issues immediately and talk my mechanic through it. I had...
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    CMC SPIDER LIFT MANDATORY REMOVE FROM SERVICE

    Agreed- Occom's razor
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    Time

    To further elaborate: Using my time tested techniques I have been able to : Take three month long trips to New Zealand 5 week trip to France 5 weeks on Big Island 2 100 day ski seasons in Telluride. Multiple 100 day ski means here at home. Started a family at 50 and now I prioritize my family...
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    Tracked Lift 72' ... thoughts?

    I just bought an OMME 2750. I have put about ten hours on it so far and I'm pretty impressed. I decided to go with a 90' height because from what I've seen it is more difficult to set up a 70 footer out of drop zone. As well as it just open's a host of st ups that might not be doable with a...
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    Time

    This is a subject I have experience with. Buy new equipment. It is easier to finance. When I started my biz in 92 my idea was to keep overhead low. Climbing big trees and cleaning them up takes a lot of time. If you want to balance your time go ahead and drop in on stuff that will save you...
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    Trenching through blue spruce

    bore
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    Air Curtain Burner

    I have a friend who bought one new= over 50k! and it turned out to be just junk. He managed to pawn it off on a local hoa. A construction company has one here also that they were charging haulers to dump loads- around 30 for a dump trailer- until they realized how slow and inefficient the thing...
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    Hello. Not to hate on this dude in particular but.... The video I was watching when this...

    Hello. Not to hate on this dude in particular but.... The video I was watching when this occurred to me was on youtube. It is Reon Rounds taking down aLocust. I've noticed this on a couple of his videos. Reon if this is you- sorry but that's what i see!
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    balance points for basic rigging

    not accurate estimations of amounts of swing. More about the piece violently swinginging back to vertical and beyond.
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    balance points for basic rigging

    I consider the most basic rigging operation to be tying on a limb with a rope through a crotch or block pretty much directly above to limb. When cutting the limb, logic dictates that the cut is made so the piece falls away from the cutter. when the piece being rigged is tied off near the cut the...
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    Reclaimed Logs

    It's great in theory- There are a lot of things to consider. You need a place to store and and dry the product before it becomes usable. I've milled stuff that I was in love with before only to find it checked and warped due to improper curing.
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    Kids in the Arb industry

    I believe it was Bo Jackson that said-" I thought my name was "Split wood boy" " until I went to college."
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    Kids in the Arb industry

    Funny- the other day I could hear the sound off in the distance of some anemic dull old homelite saw running off in the distance and it made me feel nostalgic about the first time my dad let me run a chainsaw at about 10 years old sawing up a punky yellow pine in the woods behind our house
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    First responders dropping trees

    I was doing some equipment maintenance today at my yard. It is located catty corner to a fire house that is undergoing expansion/remodel. Some dude- presumably a firefighter and not a contractor on the job- starts wrecking a multistem Elm with about 6 trunks about 10"-12" diameters. He was...
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    TRAQ

    If you failed it reflects poorly on the instructor. In my opinion. Having taken the course a couple of years ago(passed!) I have found it useful only in the sense of how I view risk scenarios. I've not used it in any official capacity yet. Ask your instructor why you failed.
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    Municipal VS Self Employment

    Great thread! After 28 years of self employment I am having these thoughts that maybe a muni job would be a good way to segway into retirement. The only money I have socked away is in equity. I used to own some rental property with my ex but it got liquidated when we split. I took the bulk of...
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    Near Miss Today

    Thanks for sharing Steve. I had a similar pick recently. Mine didn't split but it was a bolbus piece down low-similar weight- That was tough to make it butt heavy. I had a good operator , albeit inexperenced with trees. He didn't react the way a more experienced tree operator would have. Ended...

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