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    Unusual lift of nurse log near Seattle

    This one shows it loose and moving to the truck.
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    Unusual lift of nurse log near Seattle

    Another picture ... you can see we had trouble getting it loose.
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    Unusual lift of nurse log near Seattle

    Another picture
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    Unusual lift of nurse log near Seattle

    Hey I thought that this job might be interesting to others. Second generation tree mover Todd Holmes was the mind that planned this move. The 62Klb log was located in the Green River Watershed that supply's the City of Tacoma. The system is unfiltered except for the filtering provided by the...
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    Fall from ladder injures Seattle arborist

    Another accident for us all to ponder. This excerpted from emails sent to a buch of local arborists who are freindly with the injured climber: "Kurt Fickeisen of Symbiosis Tree Care was injured , June 20th, when he fell off a ladder. His ground man, Alex, was working nearby and noticed that he...
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    Proper Pollarding or ?????????

    For some excellent examples of proper and improper pollarding see Shigo's book "Tree Pruning" and Harris Clark $ Matheny "Arboriculture", also Cass Turnbulls "Guide to Pruning" - this book has great information that many pruners are blissfully unaware of. IMO pollarding is not topping and is a...
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    Treehouse

    Yes that school is on Mercer Island and i have been watching the trees for years now. The kids like this part of the playground best. When we first saw the site the trees had all been buried and had 18" wood chips around them. I had a friend come in and fix this and the trees came around great...
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    Climbing in the rain

    I finally had to post on this. I'm sure that there are other NW climbers besides RBtree that are also chuckling over this thread. Out here in the PNW we occasionally quit early in really heavy storm rain... once we get too soggy and cold, but generally, we complain about the sunny hot days out...
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    Treehouse

    Roger and all, These are all shots of attempts at a tree freindly tree house using the Garnier limb. The bit shown is used in a jig to cut the channel for the threaded piece and remove the bark for the fitting. In oak and fir the GL's hold ~8000-10000lbs in shear. The trees in these pictures...
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    Treehouse

    LAst one...for now!
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    Treehouse

    Again.
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    Treehouse

    And another.
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    Treehouse

    Another picture.
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    Treehouse

    I am so bad with the picture thing. Here are some pictures.This one of old and new fittings known as "Garnier Limbs" Scott
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    Treehouse

    How does that one in my pic not qulaify as a tree house? It is supported entirely by 26 trees...no ground attachments. The main section with the cabin is 24'up. For those of you wanting to build check out www.treehouses.com and see the fittings that Garnier and Greenwood with a little help...
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    Treehouse

    Whoops here is the picuture.
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    Treehouse

    That is one cool tree house but I will second the comment about non invasive. It may not require any penetrations but there are likely to be some problems includng cambium damaqe. I am also interested if any engineering was done for the structure? It will create a very big wind load that was...
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    Rubbing branches...any decay?

    Year ago the late John Britton convinced me that "tree pruning is for people, not for trees". He said at the time that Alex Shigo had got him thinking this way. If you think about it you can't find a pruning action that doesn't fit this generalization. I use this quote often with clients. And...
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    Rec Climb Help

    I have some friends that have been setting up Tyrolean traverses for fun for years up to 500'they have a piece of 'crab pot line" that has almost no stretch. I don't know what it was but it looked kinda like tenex. I would try to get the lowest stretch rope you can for this length. Does anyone...
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    Twisted tree

    In my experience this twisyterd shape is not uncommon in mulberry. When you see it in other trees I have been told that it occurs in two ways one is genetic the other is repeated loading from wind...usually a one sided shape contributes.

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