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    Passed my exam

    Sweet. I am excited to learn more.
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    Don't take Certifications for Granted

    Sounds like a few companies I contract for, owners are certified and they don't own hard hats or chaps. I have to teach their crew how to do everything, its odd. I think one of them is a drunk though. He shows up points at the trees and then disappears until the job is done.
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    Passed my exam

    I still haven't finished reading everything you told me to check out last time! Children put a damper on adult reading time. If I could learn more about arboriculture from the little critter, barenstein bears and tractor mac books I would be a BCMA already.
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    Passed my exam

    I passed my ISA certified arborist exam this morning. Woot woot. Thanks to everyone on here and all of the knowledge they share that helped me a long the way!
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    Contract climber diaries

    That seems odd, all of the owner operators I know are covered under the same workers comp their crew is. I MAY BE WRONG as I said before. That doesn't sound right though... You have to have it on employees and you are an employee of the corporation and they won't give you workman's comp when...
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    Contract climber diaries

    In some states I believe you can file to not carry workers comp for yourself if self employed, which then means the primary contractors workers comp would not kick in since you opted out of it. It only works if you are a sole proprietor deal though, which you should be anyways but if you were a...
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    Edelrid Talon climbing gaff

    The foot straps looks sexy, do they even exist for other spurs?
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    Eye opening fall

    He said at some point in the video he should have just set his anchor lower and then reset it higher after entering the tree, which I agree with. He appeared to be base tied as well. So theoretically doubling his weight on an PSP he couldn't see in a tree full of dead wood. This is...
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    Contract climber diaries

    I can definitely sympathize with disappointing people. I went from being scheduled two weeks out to being scheduled two months out in a blink of an eye. But, I have a family to feed so I would rather be two months out and be a shoulder to cry on for companies who can't find a climber with a...
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    Rural legends

    Town I grew up in had a bunch of old houses with secret rooms from the underground railroad.
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    Rural legends

    YES I didn't even remember them until I just googled it. I remember friends older brothers always trying to scare the little ones with stories about them. One of them always "saw one once." I have yet to see one. There are some pretty weird looking people in rural Ohio though... wal-mart...
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    Rural legends

    Yah I live on a road where we are one of twelve yankee homes. Every night a buggy will come creeping down the road shaking the windows in my house. My buddy Marty did a weekend in the slammer when he was a kid for whipping beer cans out of the buggy with his friends at people.
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    Rural legends

    There aren't slime eels, but they have their own set of issues. Every time I open up the news there is a shooting, or they have uncovered multiple bodies in some guys house in East Cleveland.
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    Am I the only one who gets this scared?

    Certain things you just can't change. It seems like this is something that is happening without you really noticing it. By that I mean you aren't afraid but your body is telling you to get the flock out of there.(correct me if I am wrong) I worked with a few guys that were like that, they...
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    MunterWrench

    I see how this could be a tool in the tool box, but if you already have the srt gear you can just choke your line on the spar with a retrieval leg. I usually just tie in with an alpine butterfly and quickie to cinch onto the spar, tie a bowline on the tail of the retrieval leg pop a biner in...
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    Help Hiring First Employee

    Look into subbing out the clean up, or at least the chipping. Just stage all the brush in neat piles to be chipped quickly, as long as you are personable enough with your customers and explain to them that their yard will have some brush in it for a day it shouldn't be a problem. I contract for...
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    TX governor wants to stop tree protection ordinances

    YUP! Driving through newer neighborhoods is sad, the only trees they leave standing are dead within years and the first row of trees in the woods behind each new house is dead too!
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    New some ash tree help

    I want your brain.
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    First bid help

    Looks like a fair amount of work to do solo, hard to really see what is going on from the pictures. But if you're confident you can get them down safely by yourself I would say bid each tree for how much money you want to make doing them. I don't know what the market is like out there or the...
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    Forum statistics

    I have learned more and been steered in the right direction from more people here than any other source on the internet. Not that the other forums and social media outlets don't have value just my experience and it only pertains to me. There does seem to be a core group of people here who...

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