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    Well that sucked

    Glad you ended up okay. I hate climbing white pine for pruning. Whenever I do I just try to isolate my line, if its too thick I hope there is another tree nearby that I can set a high line in and then redirect it through white pine to avoid putting too much pressure on those brittle bastard...
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    Business Competition In The North East of The States

    That won't keep your clients coming back, personally I let my chips fall at the dump.
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    Business Competition In The North East of The States

    In my area there sure are a lot of "tree guys" and I attribute that to the ash tree epidemic. Once all of these ash trees are gone people are going to be scrambling for work like crazy. I started contract climbing and doing my own work this spring. Working safer, more efficient, and not being...
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    Busted open head ( cell phone)

    My protos saves my head from more shit like that than from trees trying to kill me.
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    Giant River Birch

    I have removed a 5' stump three lead river birch before. Thing was awesome, silly condominium people hate trees though. Each lead was 2'. I would think that a complete removal would be in order because of the cabling as others have mentioned.
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    Finding contract climbers?

    Across the border here in Ohio there are a few guys including myself who contract climb. I got a wife and kids so I would probably not be the best candidate for you unless you wanted to pay me a bunch of money to get up at 4am and drive there and then to get home at 8 or 9 pm. You can PM me...
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    Crane down

    I wish they showed the size of the piece that tipped the crane. That tree doesn't look that big.
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    Simple SRT for Amateur Limbing of Fir and Cedar

    Are you only removing lower limbs or the whole tree?
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    Pfanner Man rides on

    Were you listening when RMG did the race to the top of the mountain challenge with the auto blow 2? Funniest radio I have heard in a while. Even funnier on RMGTV.
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    Never gets old...

    There are people around these parts that do that stuff... And then the real tree dudes go out to do bids and the potential customer is like "you're gonna charge me, but you're getting alllllllllllllllll that wood for freeee!!???"
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    Why should I go SRT (rope wrench)

    I still do some removals DdRT but as soon as I get to chunking down wood I switch to SRT. I just pull a good bit of line out whip it around the spar through an alpine butterfly and a singing tree quickie in there and you're choked on the spar. Descend to the end of the tail coming from the...
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    Tree Jobs and Job Adds

    I was making pretty decent money at my last company, but working for someone is a single mans game. I got a wife and two kids with another on the way a mortgage. I make more money in less time contract climbing and doing my own work. My point is that companies lose good people because those...
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    Hi Viz Workwear

    I haven't worn polyester in the tree only because I can't see how it would stand up for very long getting snagged and all in the tree. I am not the most graceful of climbers and I see a lot of friggin pin oaks. But I would be interested to hear from Steve on the manner since you seem like the...
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    Fu*%face Von Clownstick

    I voted for Trump.... jk I wrote in my crane guy.
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    Contract climber diaries

    I made the move about a week ago and the guy who is using me the most used to use a lot of lifts, and now he uses a me. Which is faster, and cheaper for him. So instead of hiring lacky ground men he can do the ground work and let me destroy trees, or prune them nicely whatever the job entails.
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    Topsaw Pocket Tool repair

    I have had a gorilla over tighten a bar nut of mine and the result was the stud coming out of the saw. Super awesome move by the gorilla.
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    Gecko spurs, spike length question

    I wonder if @bonner1040 or anyone at treestuff would know how we should go about sharpening these bad boys. Also the euro style ones looks totally different, so I wouldn't even know where to start sharpening those.
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    Gecko spurs, spike length question

    I have the american long spurs on my carbon fiber geckos but I am thinking about trying out those euro style. Has anyone ever sharpened their gaffs for the carbon fiber geckos? I have tried looking it up online but didn't find much, I am just wondering if it is different than the standard...
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    ash top explosion

    Gotta get er dun, am I right? But really the tree didn't have any defects or decay that worried me, aside from it being stone dead. It was pretty much a pole with a small top so I wasn't worried about the integrity of any major unions failing. After stripping that one I rigged a whole tree...
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    ash top explosion

    not the most exciting video but I just wanted to show how crispy these things are

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