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  1. macrocarpa

    Do you always wear your helmet?

    I think I bought one of the lightest helmets available. It’s a petzl Strato.
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    Do you always wear your helmet?

    I’ve always taken pride in wearing PPE. I think most of us do it, as we drive by a tree service thats not wearing helmets it’s easy to label them as hacks/unprofessional. And for the most part, we’re probably right. But at age 45 and currently doing municipal Street tree contracts pruning...
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    Deciding between soil injectors?

    I would say you don’t need the $3-$5 K set up (sold mine and never once regretted it). But to each their own. In my opinion, it’s just more appearance to roll up with a big rig than it is anything else.
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    Deciding between soil injectors?

    I would have to experiment with it more but I’ve had decent results treating river birch and red maples with mild chlorosis with the soil injections, but I’m using arborjet for anything significant. The 18-3-6 + beneficials in the spring, i’ve seen really good results fertilizing young trees...
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    Chlorosis treatments?

    That’s definitely the best long-term solution! Do you have any before and after pictures? Unfortunately, customers wait until trees are in this sort of condition in the attached photo which is a phone call I got a couple weeks ago. In this case it needs the western medicine approach…..to begin...
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    Deciding between soil injectors?

    Here’s an example of a fertilizer program using the 1 gallon handheld injector that Banner Sales put together. As long as there’s adequate soil moisture or the customer can water, there’s no difference in my opinion between this and using a big spray rig lugging around thousands of gallons of...
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    Deciding between soil injectors?

    With the PHC program I offer, the only thing I can’t do without a large spray rig is foliar sprays of large trees. And I’m OK with that. I don’t want the exposure to myself or the surrounding environment, especially with nesting birds and pollinators. The only foliar spray I offered when I had...
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    Chlorosis treatments?

    Just a follow up on this post. I’ve tried mulch rings & compost, growth regulators, mauget capsules & liquid soil injections. Started using Arborjet Mn Jet fe this year and so far it’s the most effective treatment I’ve tried. Even with the old style quickjet, I was able to easily get 10 mL in...
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    Stihl Clone Saws???

    Does sound sketchy. I think if it doesn’t get delivered and it was purchased from Amazon, its easy to get a refund. I’ve looked at used and it seems like people are asking a fortune to where I would almost prefer to just buy new. And really, this is more out of curiosity than necessity. I sold...
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    Stihl Clone Saws???

    The parts are interchangeable. I think metaspencer bought a mini loader like your talking about. I’ve seen his YouTube videos about it.
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    Stihl Clone Saws???

    For someone who does almost all pruning, consults & phc, I rarely need a big saw. I have several midsize saws like the 346 XP and 550 XP. Only a couple times a year would it be nice to have a bigger saw if I do a big dead spruce removal or something like that. That’s said, would it be a good...
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    stihl battery tools

    How did you get an 80% off state funded voucher? What state? I want more battery tools at 80% off :-)
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    Pole saw and usage

    Yesterday I finished pruning a condo development with 90 some units to elevate maples, pears, river birch and little leaf linden with the dpas 2600 pole saw attachment + extension for big cuts and it worked perfectly. Also had some hemlocks that needed sheared where I swapped out to the hedge...
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    Free Educational Resources

    That’s a good video. Probably the most helpful topic for homeowners and if they catch it early, they can correct it themselves. I’ve been sending this video out for years but now I’ll keep your link to send out. I’d like to make my own YouTube video and keep it under one minute on this topic.
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    Best Summer Work Pants?

    I’ve got a couple of the canopy pants I’ve had for years, but I need double cargo pockets these days :-) They are definitely durable! First arborwear pants I ever bought were the old style canvas climbers (hot and no stretch) and then the tech pants. That was before the stretchy material was...
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    Best Summer Work Pants?

    I think I’ve posted these before on TreeBuzz. I wear these all day every day. They also have a fleece lined one for winter. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Wrangler-Men-s-and-Big-Men-s-Outdoor-Stretch-Zip-Cargo-Pant/324934715
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    What was your humble beginnings like?

    I was working for a big tree company when I first started doing side work. My first few jobs I piled the brush on ladder racks on top of a jeep Cherokee. Ended up buying an oddly welded together trailer for $300 from an old man with one eye who said he doesn’t wear eye protection because looking...
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    Pole saw and usage

    I bought the echo battery dpas 2600 and find myself using the pole saw and hedge trimmer attachment fairly often. Especially when just elevating numerous trees. The battery powerhead itself is super light, but the attachments seem a little heavy/heavy duty. Here’s a video I made. I had to...
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    Cabling.... what do you use?

    Using dynamic cabling for me was a mistake. When I was first introduced to dynamic cabling, I thought I was using a more advanced and less invasive system. But they will girdle. It’s nice to use on small ornamentals that can easily be adjusted and monitored (sweetbay magnolia etc), but they can...
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    Burr oak crack in trunk

    Also, when I did the soil injection it was not nearly as compacted under the tree as I thought it would be. He also said the type of tilling they do to plant the crops only goes down a couple inches so that was good to hear that the lateral roots are not getting severed by a tilling machine that...

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