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  1. Matias

    trees and spirits and stuff

    I'm sure it is, often enough, but some people really mean it. I grow more cynical every day, so I get you, I think.
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    trees and spirits and stuff

    Karma is just an old name for "cause and effect". It's not really that fanciful, but many people add extra meaning to things.
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    Struggling with IDing a likely fungus

    I mean, I'd like to think that these trees were planted correctly. They don't have dramatic flares, but enough that I don't suspect girdling. Compaction is a near certainty though. I will definitely be monitoring these trees very regularly, as they are at the campus of one of the company's...
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    Struggling with IDing a likely fungus

    @moss I am fairly certain that soil compaction from foot traffic, and of course climate issues are significant contributing factors. The area that looks like an old injury is assuredly not. All that light beige to brown area is soft, as if rotten, and that discoloration is present on the rest of...
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    New device from ISC

    I've seen those at Costco, and for the price, I know I'll get lots of value out of them for plenty of other things. I am curious now to try this out.
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    The Wildly Infectious Banana Plague

    ...again. I've heard that the Gros Michel (sp?) was way better than the Cavendish, but it succumbed to a fungal plague. They are actively breeding a replacement because the demise of the Cavendish seems all but inevitable
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    New device from ISC

    Great question!
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    Struggling with IDing a likely fungus

    hopefully these load
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    Struggling with IDing a likely fungus

    I am trying to diagnose what I believe to be a fungal infection on a group of Q.suber (cork oak). The black staining is all the way up and down the trunk/stems, and seems to correlate with the sides that get the least airflow. Trees with buildings immediately west of them have the symptoms on...
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    New device from ISC

    There's always somebody, right?
  11. Matias

    trees and spirits and stuff

    All living things have a sentience. Some organisms are harder to understand than others, but as far as I can tell, life is life. Karma is simply action and it's subsequent consequences. Cause and effect. There is no "good" or "bad" Karma per se. I sometimes get into this a bit aggressively when...
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    New device from ISC

    Come again?! WTF are they thinking?!?! I can't even fathom trying to climb in leather roping gloves, and there's no way that anyone would ever think it reasonable for a climber to keep a set on them for descents. The entire reason that we use a different system than most rope access techs is the...
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    Industry related Spanish language podcasts

    Oh...wow... that's quite a shitshow. The guy's basically talking about how insane this all was when he just showed up, and that these jackasses were putting their lives and the clients property in grave danger, and that obviously nobody knew what they were doing here, not the cutters and...
  14. Matias

    Love tree work. Not the tree business.

    I found my sometimes guy at a plant swap. He was building a one man landscaping business, and we clicked. Been friends for years now.
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    Where's the terrified emoji?
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    Yea, I saw the video. Those cops must be so embarrassed. He wasn't fighting with them, but he certainly didn't just lay down and take it.
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    Tell me about cottonwoods

    Holy shit dude, I have never seen a cottonwood like that around here. Craigs is super epic too. Ours are rarely so pretty. I'll get some pictures of our local ones in the wild.
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    I should rewatch The Fog of War, I forgot that the music was written by Philip Glass.
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    Stihl MSA190t battery top handle

    Nice, then it should be easy to come up with a bypass solution. Just be diligent with the chain break.
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    I'd really rather not. Do we have to?

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