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    Another TOH groaner

    have any of you ever flipped a stumpgrinder, lost one down a hill or had it leap into anything..ie. somebody's foundation or a walkway?
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    salary v. hourly pay

    hey...let's all whine for a while. man, the cold sure makes my nose red, I want more money, I want salary and hourly pay. I want a company car and a cell phone, no...a laptop so I can whine, I mean post messages from the treetops.
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    COLD ASS WEATHER

    first winter for me here in Pennsylvania. I am from the North coast of California, Humboldt county. All we have to worry about is rain. The nice thing about rain is that you don't have to shovel it.
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    COLD ASS WEATHER

    I wonder if anyone else has had an easier time climbing in the cold. I know that I have. It is strange, I know, but it seems like with the cold, I don't think so much about falling and am able to concentrate more on my moves. things just seem to click. For instance, I have been messing...
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    ISA cert exam

    I will be taking my ISA cert arborist exam on 2/02/03 in Lancaster PA. I wonder if any who have taken this exam have anything to offer. I have been studying the ISa study guide almost exclusively and wonder if (hope that)this will be enough. I also wonder if anyone could explain the makeup of...
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    Anybody going to Lancaster?

    Our crew Spanner tree and shrub care, is going down on Sunday, most of us anyways. I have never been before, and wonder what to expect.... I have heard that there will be vendors and such. I am looking for a new saddle. will there be anyway to test things before I buy? In Portland Oregon, at...
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    Old School

    My thoughts are with Babberney, Tree Climber's Companion is just as the title states, a companion. Me and Jeff Jepsen(the author), have climbed many trees together (figuratively). There are hundreds of tips and tricks printed only to make your job more fun and easier on your mind and body. They...
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    revoked ISA cert?

    i could be wrong, but I think that all you need to do to display the logo is to buy a membership. I worked for a company out in Seattle for like two years, and nobody was certified, but we got the magazine and proudly displayed the logo in our yellow page ad. Much of the work we did was hack...
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    You guys surprise me

    hey that link, the forestry forum, takes a really long time to load, I sat for like three or four minutes and only got the top of the page with nothing to read about. of course, I am still running with a dial up modem as eastern PA is still in the stone age. maybe I'll try again. but that could...
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    Spectra for throwline

    no double BS, but what a good idea...what's the range on that thing? the reason for the 1000' of spectra is that many on our crew need new lines, things seem cheaper when you buy in bulk. and hey, what about this Euc post Mr.B is talking about?
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    Utilizing municipal wood waste

    hey thanks for the tip on the home-made alaskan mill. I think I will have to rig one up, Even if I could just get a couple of boards from each unique log, it would surely be worth it. again, thanks
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    Largest Pondarosa

    that's some big wood. is that on Vallambrosia, near Mangrove? Lower Bidwell Park
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    Largest Pondarosa

    is that out 36? by lassen park? or more out towards quincy? That's a really big ponderosa. I have seen them all of my life and that's frickin' huge...are there many near that size? what other trees grow around them? I guess probably fir trees, a couple western redcedar..some smaller oaks...
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    What in the Hell??

    Seattle, Ballard actually, 2 years ago, me and some the crew where driving back from dumping chips at Greenlake, when we saw this homeowner three stories up on an extension ladder against a seventy foot tall Doug fir with a chainsaw, he had stripped all of the limbs to that point, and was making...
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    El Companero del Trepador

    the tree climbers companion....what a good book. I bought that book from a Robert Phillips Seminar in Issaquah, Washington August 2001. There is a lot of good stuff in that little book.
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    Marks heading West to Phoenix Arizona December 13

    mr. robert phillips, good guy will Long-haired Joe be with him?. Is he still doing tree seminars for Tree Tools out of Lake Oswego Oregon? They have some nice gear, not too bad for prices either.
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    replacement rubbers for the big shot

    so where do I get the replacements, is there a kit? when I was a kid we used big fat surgical tubing(like on a wrist rocket) and we tied a knot in one end, the bottom half of the old clickable ball point pen in the other, stuck them into water faucets to fill them and they would shoot just as...
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    Spectra for throwline

    is the zing it strong, does it kink? what size ball do you use? I have been using the same bit of this spectra for a little over a year and it's been great, it is supple, strong, lighter than the slick-line I used to use. about half of the pull cords on our crew have been replaced with the stuff...
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    replacement rubbers for the big shot

    there is a big shot in our shop that somebody won in a climbing competition. I am horrible with a throwline on a good day, so I am considering using this popular crutch (if it saves time, is it really a crutch?). The problem is that when I pull back on the rubbers, there are visible cracks...
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    Spectra for throwline

    does anybody know of a good place to get a 1000' spool of the spectra throwline now that sherrill doesn't have it in their catalog anymore? and what are the advantages of "zing-it" or any other high strength throw lines?

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