Rick is the man! Underspoken and experienced. Closest I ever get to that is receiving pieces with the rigid grapple from my bud’s saw truck when we don’t have an ideal LZ.
Right! Neil rearranged the location of everything in his kit and dropped matched grip for a jazz grip. It must have been literally like starting all over.
I also watched a doc on a guy that built a bicycle with handlebars that went the opposite direction of the front tire. He forced himself to...
I talked to a guy out there who said he has 50 crews. I asked him what that was like and his reply was, “you have to sell your soul 100 times over and then at the end ask yourself if it was worth it.”
It was after hearing his statement that I became fully cemented in my owner/operator stance...
I’m stressing over the schedule, trying to make sense of it. Luckily, having enough work isn’t the issue right now, it’s just how to keep all the wheels greased and ducks in a row. Two analogies that aren’t great but they came to mind. It’s my own fault for saying “yes” to doing so many...
I got into some Sugar Maples recently. I gave these trees their first dose of structural pruning about 3 ago and I’m pretty happy with how straightforward the work was this go round.
I think that considering the overall growth potential of a tree can help inform how aggressive to be with acute...