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    Bandit 12x vs Morbark 1215 chipper

    Currently running a Vermeer BC900XL, looking to upgrade since we find we are waiting on the chipper to process material more and more. Talked to both salesman and got quotes on both machines, only a couple hundred difference in price. If you have experience with either of these I’d love to hear...
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    Maple

    What’s going on with this maple? They want me to do some house clearance trimming, every leaf looks like this. Thanks
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    2018 Vermeer S925TX mini skid

    Selling my 2018 Vermeer 925TX mini skid, comes with a Vermeer grapple, 42" bucket, 55 hours give or take a few. 50 hour service performed last month. I bought this new last May. $26,000 cash sale, located in Pine Grove, Pa. 17963. The unit is being traded in on Monday of next week, so a deal...
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    Outdoor wood boilers

    I've been heating my house for the last 30 years with an indoor woodstove. In this business its a no brainer. I sell my nice saw logs to the local circle sawmill, I mill all my crotches and logs that make good slabs on my own bandsawmill, I process the rest into firewood for myself and to sell...
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    Climbing a tower

    Had an interesting job offer the other day. A friend, who works for the company that is doing the job, asked if I wanted to climb a light tower in a stadium to swap out an old light with a new light. There are 30 lights on each tower and they plan to replace all the lights. They want me to...
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    Topping trees

    I'm not a certified arborist, and do mostly removals, but quite often I show up to a job that they say they want trimmed, but in reality they want it topped. I say, so you want it to look like a stick figure when I'm done?, they say yep. I politely give them a few reasons why I wont do that and...
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    Dogwood trimming

    I have a repeat customer that I've done work for in the past, a removal and clearance trims. He wants his dogwood trimmed back about 2' all the way around. Its about 15-20' tall. Its encroaching over the neighbors fence, his clothesline, walkway and porch. I know its a good time of the year to...
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    Hitch Hiker II plastic teather $10

    Semi hard plastic teather for the HHII, never used it. Switched to a Rope Runner before I got to try this. $10 includes shipping
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    Notch Rapid rig **SOLD**

    Used on one small job for a few limbs, as new. It works as they say and my groundie liked it, but I prefer old school knots. $25, includes shipping in the US https://www.treestuff.com/store/catalog.asp?item=17262
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    Wrist rocket

    For sale a climbing innovations wrist rocket ascender. Used a few times. I thought it would be something I use more, but I don’t. $55 includes shipping.
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    Chipper body vs landscape body

    Time to upgrade my current truck. Using a 2500 double cab with a dump insert. Have the rear seat removed for gear storage and a dump insert which holds about 4-4.5 yards of chips. We have a problem with chip containment as we are always trying to get in more than it can hold and spend way too...
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    Infected trees

    just looked at a job to remove 11 small ornamental trees that are all infected with this stuff. They said they are some sort of plum. The leaves are all reddish now and all have small holes in them. I'm mostly wondering as far as running this stuff through my chipper and then dumping it in my...
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    Mini vs GRCS

    So I have a job coming up where a good size cherry tree twisted at the trunk and blew over into an adjacent oak. It is caught buy one of the large oaks limbs and extends a good 30' above the limb. Its a fairly tall lanky woods tree, not a lot of branches. It is leaning over a garage. There is...
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    Vermeer Mini skid steer

    I was thinking I was going to get a grapple trailer to use to fetch the wood and logs. The last two days I've been thinking about this realistically while on 4 different jobs. I realized that I'm still going to have a lot of heavy lifting because of access with a big trailer. This mornings...
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    Contract climber wanted, Central Pa.

    Small two man outfit, could sometimes use a third person on bigger jobs. Having your own liability insurance is a must. Mostly local work to the 17963 area code.
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    Health insurance

    Small Sole proprietorship, no employees as of yet. My wife is my groundie but has a fulltime job. We currently get our health insurance through her employer. Hers is a benefit and I pay for mine. We have grown quicker than we had expected and currently cant keep up with the work we have with...
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    Small Grapple trailer

    I'm looking into getting a small grapple trailer, interested in the AM Machinery RFR05 trailer with the 19' grapple, 3000# lift at mid boom. I'm a small tree service and also run a portable bandsaw mill. I do mostly removals and am looking to take the back work of loading logs and larger limbs...
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    Topping trees

    Well I lost another job today. I am not a certified Arborist and never sell my self as one, I am always upfront about that to the customer. I do removals, dead wooding, hazard trims and clearance trims. I also run a stump grinder and a portable sawmill, so I keep plenty busy that I don't need...
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    Loop vs prussic

    I often use a maasdam rope puller to help with back leaners and side leaners and wherever else I need a mechanical advantage. I have my rope puller set up with 30' of rope rather than using it directly on the rigging lines. When setting up a pull line or a safety line with tension I sometimes...
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    Tree-o-Cache

    Anyone mess around with the TreeStuff Tree-o-cache? I set one out last spring, pulled it during hunting this winter, since I knew if a hunter seen it, it would have been shot down. Finally had a chance to get it set yesterday. This is Cache #46, its about a mile hike in, but is an easy climb...

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